Comments on: Rick Perry To Be Installed as Governor-For-Life

By: It's the Internet, stupid.

It's the Internet, stupid. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:30:51 +0000

McCain lost because he didn’t use the Internet like Obama did. Obama trailblazed himself a new path to victory. The intertubes.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:30:17 +0000

As the unhinged left was to the late 60’s, so is the unhinged right to the late oughts. It will suffer the same fate.

So true, Brown. So true. The Baby Boomers should be called the unhinged generation. Things will be more “civil” rather than “civil war” when they are gone.

By: Brown Bess

Brown Bess — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:33:16 +0000

Other way around if you look at McCain’s own statements. He was a moderate…until he ran for the Republican Nomination.

When the Prez starts calling Mitch McConnell a fascist. then you can complain. Until then, the scales are pretty lopsided.

As the unhinged left was to the late 60’s, so is the unhinged right to the late oughts. It will suffer the same fate.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:25:09 +0000

McCain didn’t lose the election because he was perceived as too conservative.

McCain lost because: (a) the economy went south; (b) conservatives thought he was not conservative enough; (c) the economy went south; (d) moderates scared to death at the thought of Sarah Palin being one heartbeat away from the presidency; and (e) the economy went south.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:52:25 +0000

Seems odd that it’s always Republicans being accused of pushing out moderates. Here we have Obama and his Democrats attempting a government takeover of 15% of the national economy, but i don’t hear anyone saying they’re not moderate, except for those awful “teabaggers” of course.

Contrast that with Bush 43 attempting to give people a choice on what to do with their own retirement money that they worked their whole lives for, or giving parents the choice of which school to send their kids to, that was labeled as horrible extremism not unlike the taliban. And what about that John McCain person? The media and the left (but i repeat myself) agreed that he was the ultimate Mr. Moderate Bipartisan for eight years, until Republicans nominated him as their Presidential candidate. Then he became just another rabid right winger to those same people.

So you’ll have to excuse me if the cries for Republican moderation ring a little hollow.

By: Curtis Remington

Curtis Remington — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:47:59 +0000

I think the lack of passion and fumbled campaign explains why she’s running. She wants out of Washington, but doesn’t want to be out of power. She is not laying out a clear vision for what she would do as Governor, other than not be Rick Perry. It’s kind of a ‘I guess I’ll run for Governor’ campaign instead of ‘I reallllly want to be Governor because I want to do x,y and z for the state.’

Very sad really.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:05:20 +0000

Kay’s big problem is not how to win the governorship–it’s how to win the Republican nomination. When you have a party that has just installed Ms. Neanderthal as state party chair, when you have a party that celebrates Miss Wasilla as its intellectual and moral leader, you have a party that don’t want anything to do with Kay Bailey Hutchison, much less any other “moderate.” And not even Darth Cheney can change that.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:18:12 +0000

Big Tex: Sorry to burst your big ‘ol bubble, but the state’s top office ain’t on the Pedernales. It’s on the banks of the Colorado.

You city slicker, you.

By: Wes Mantooth

Wes Mantooth — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:25:37 +0000

This is all kind of similar to the GWB presidency. Going into the 2004 elections, Democrats were licking their lips thinking how easy it’s going to be to beat this maroon — and then went out and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by nominating a candidate with even less charisma and fewer skins on the wall. Perry seemed (seems?) like he’s dead in the water, an easy mark, that the bar is so low that you could trip over it and still clear it. But KBH appears that she’s not even going to make it to the bar. How sad.

Maybe Kinky Friedman will at least make things interesting.

By: Big Tex

Big Tex — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:04:37 +0000

Every time Governor Perry speaks, I now think of Willie Stark from All the King’s Men. Earnest beginnings swept up and corrupted by the power of office. I weep for Texas if the Paint Creek Cowboy is the best that our grand state can produce for the top office on the Pedernales. Bob Bullock, where art thou? Oh, sorry. You’re dead.