I watched incumbent Governor Rick Perry give his primary election victory speech and to my surprise he didn’t even mention his opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White. I mentioned this to several colleagues and guess what, Rick Perry isn't running against Bill White! He's running against the Obama administration and Washington, D.C. "It is clear that the Obama administration and its allies have Texas in its crosshairs," he told a crowd of supporters that returned shouts of, "Bring it on!" Mr. Perry addressed his supporters in Driftwood as if he was speaking atop a mile high mountain where the last debris of socialism and liberalism, which is odd considering he had just defeated a U.S. Senator with one of the most conservative voting records and a Republican county chairwoman who offered voters an even more conservative alternative to Rick Perry. I must say its great political football, but Perry also risks alienating supporters of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Debra Medina. Hutchison says she will line up and support Governor Perry. She called for unity in the Texas Republican Party during her concession speech. But will her supporters follow him? Perry's continued rant and rave against President Obama and Washington D.C. politics certainly reads like a page out of Medina’s handbook, but he has yet to invite them to join his cause outside of a general call for support from Tea Party. While Senator Hutchison ran a horrible campaign, her supporters felt Austin needed to head in a new direction. That's a possible opening for Bill White. But we don't need to guess how White will attack Perry. He laid that out in his primary victory speech in Houston, didn’t he.
Rick Perry wins big; 2012 run?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33821.html
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment