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Rick Perry Beats Kay Bailey Hutchison

Posted on | March 3, 2010 | 7 Comments

Don’t mess with Texas:

Gov. Rick Perry won a decisive victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Texas GOP primary for governor Tuesday night, bringing a bruising fight between two of the state’s most popular Republicans to an anticlimactic conclusion.
Perry said his win should send a message to Washington.
“Quit spending all the money, stop trying to take over our lives and our businesses,” he said in a speech that seemed aimed as much as the Obama White House as his Democratic opponent Bill White. . . .
With 73 percent of all precincts reporting, Perry had a 51 percent to 31 percent lead over the three-term senior senator. Debra Medina, a favorite of Tea Party activists, was holding steady at 18 percent.
A Hutchison aide conceded that in the unlikely event Perry’s vote share dropped below the 50 percent threshold necessary to avoid a runoff, there was “no realistic path to victory.”

Via Memeorandum. Anybody think Perry will have trouble beating Houston’s mayor in November? No? I didn’t think so.

Category: Election, Texas

Comments

7 Responses to “Rick Perry Beats Kay Bailey Hutchison”

  1. proof
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 3:10 pm

    Sounds like good news for Texans!

  2. proof
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 10:10 am

    Sounds like good news for Texans!

  3. chuck cross
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 10:31 am

    I just can’t get too excited about the Apache Chief, but he’s far better than Kay Bailout Hutchinson.

    I would have moved to Texas if Medina would have won.

  4. chuck cross
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 3:31 pm

    I just can’t get too excited about the Apache Chief, but he’s far better than Kay Bailout Hutchinson.

    I would have moved to Texas if Medina would have won.

  5. Texas Primary Results
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 10:57 am

    […] Rick Perry Beats Kay Bailey Hutchison Anybody think Perry will have trouble beating Houston’s mayor in November? No? I didn’t think so. […]

  6. pH
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 10:39 pm

    “I would have moved to Texas if Medina would have won.”

    Then, thank God you aren’t here already. The last thing Texas needs replacing its wildly-successful, conservative-minded governor (the only bad things people can ever say about him are now-defunct TTC and “toll roads sux”) with a fringe-friendly, lunatic obamacon type who, like obama, thinks so highly of herself that she claimed she would immediately and single-handedly rehabilitate the state fiscal structure to completely eliminate property taxes while not introducing income tax or more-than-marginal increases in sales tax.

    Pair this with her desperate misunderstanding of “fairness” as only pertaining to what is most politically expedient for her personal goals and her maladroitly articulated support of ambiguous “questioning” of the gov’t re: 9/11, and you’ve got the right-wing equivalent of a maniacally self-obsessed nutroot. A right-wing Kucinich Texas does not need.

  7. pH
    March 3rd, 2010 @ 5:39 pm

    “I would have moved to Texas if Medina would have won.”

    Then, thank God you aren’t here already. The last thing Texas needs replacing its wildly-successful, conservative-minded governor (the only bad things people can ever say about him are now-defunct TTC and “toll roads sux”) with a fringe-friendly, lunatic obamacon type who, like obama, thinks so highly of herself that she claimed she would immediately and single-handedly rehabilitate the state fiscal structure to completely eliminate property taxes while not introducing income tax or more-than-marginal increases in sales tax.

    Pair this with her desperate misunderstanding of “fairness” as only pertaining to what is most politically expedient for her personal goals and her maladroitly articulated support of ambiguous “questioning” of the gov’t re: 9/11, and you’ve got the right-wing equivalent of a maniacally self-obsessed nutroot. A right-wing Kucinich Texas does not need.