Saturday, October 2, 2010

Democrats Take Liking to Texas Tea

I'll bet it taste terrible.

"A decent showing by Libertarian Kathie Glass, courting many of the same Tea Party conservatives Perry has charmed, could also help White if she draws enough votes away from the governor."

Oh, they are not an INSURGENT when they might help Democrats!

"Democrats see opportunity in Texas governor’s race; Tight polls fuel challenger’s hope" by Jay Root, Associated Press  |  September 26, 2010

TYLER, Texas — People tell Bill White he picked the wrong election to stage a rescue of the troubled Texas Democratic Party. It’s a Republican year in a Republican state.

But the former Houston mayor, a lawyerly man who speaks so slowly and deliberately that reporters hardly need tape recorders, has not yet faded into the familiar doom Democrats have come to expect from their gubernatorial candidates every four years.

A Democratic shocker in conservative Texas remains about as likely as a blizzard in Houston.

That isn't very unlikely these days. Agenda-pushing media always acts like you forgot. 

Still, a series of recent polls shows a stubbornly tight race, in the single digits, leaving White within striking distance of longtime Republican Governor Rick Perry, who is seeking reelection to an unprecedented third term in November.

A decent showing by Libertarian Kathie Glass, courting many of the same Tea Party conservatives Perry has charmed, could also help White if she draws enough votes away from the governor.

“White has made some inroads in what is a very bad national environment for Democrats,’’ said University of Texas pollster and political scientist Jim Henson. “But it’s a very hard slog for him.’’

Texas hasn’t had a Democratic governor since Ann Richards was defeated by George W. Bush in 1994, and it’s been just as long since any Democrat won statewide office. But Democrats insist Perry is vulnerable.  

Same old delusional Democrats.

The same anti-incumbent fervor that threatens to upend the Democratic-controlled Congress is turning voters against Perry, they say....

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Also see: A Republican Ransom: Just Say No!

How strange it is that he needs Democrats down there and I need Republicans up here.