Perry Avoids Run-Off, Wins in Landslide

Perry based his whole campaign on TV, internet, and social networking. No snail mail. His campaign is the model for the new generation of campaigns. Palin is on TV, Facebook and Twitter. Plus he got Palin's endorsement as well as courting the Tea Party beautifully. This is a new wave of campaigning. Bravo to Perry.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to Perry. I live here and was a delegate from my precinct last election. Perry is a slime ball and has gone back on his word during campaigns several times, most notably on the border issues and the business tax. Perry was co-operating with Dan Patrick and Glenn Beck to get Medina. She was set to be interviewed on the Houston am talk radio station that is owned by Dan Patrick at 4pm the day that Beck interviewed her. Pat Gray was the morning guy on this station. I emailed back and forth with Pat regarding trying to get an interview for Medina since Glenn had just had the Tea Party guy in California on the tv program. They set her up from the very beginning. Within minutes of the interview stopping, Perry had robocalls with Glenn's audio on them going out to hundreds of primary voters.

And yesterday, Dan Patrick and the Perry campaign came out saying that Medina was lying about her prolife stance in regards to a survey put out by a prolife group here in Texas. Medina said she didn't support Dan Patrick's prop 5 because she thinks it's too much government and Texas already has laws on the books outlawing the murder of unborn children–that that's the proper way to stop abortion in Texas, not by making a woman look at a sonogram before having an abortion. She also did not agree with the state issuing license plates with prolife slogans on them as she again stated that it was too much government intrusion. She also further explained that she doesn't believe in abortion for ANY reason which is more prolife than Perry's position…but, both Perry and Dan Patrick, the day before the election, went on their facebook pages and radio and said that Medina wasn't prolife just to muddy the waters further.

Sick, underhanded, and dishonest.

You prop up Perry all you want, but he is a lying, backstabbing jack ass who will go back on his word and ignore conservatives whenever it's expedient for him to do so.

After following this story and reading the reaction of those that would blame Beck for Medina's poor showing, I offer the following. First, if Medina was so naive as to not have any idea of what kind of questions Glenn might ask perhaps she had no business running for office in the first place. I mean anyone who has watched his show or listened to him on the radio would know he has repeatedly stated he does not endorse candidates,so logically if you are going on his show you had better have your ducks in a row. Politics are a hardball sport so if you are going to step up you have to expect everything and prepare for anything. Just a thought.

Medina would've been ten times the Governor that Perry has been…she's not a professional politician, but has been involved on a grassroots level here in the Houston area for 20 years. She knows the Constitution, both federal and state, like the back of her hand and is the epitomy of a citizen candidate. We all complain that politicians are out of touch…well, we had a chance to get a real citizen candidate in the race for Governor here in Texas and the “machine” went on an all out offensive to destroy her. She didn't help herself in the Beck interview, granted, but that's a drop in the bucket compared to the professional attacks by the Perry campaign on her personally and professionally. I could never vote for KBH again because of her finally admitted support for Roe v Wade. She's also waffling on her pledge to retire.

Watch in the next 10 months…Gov. Perry, should he be re-elected and KBH actually retire and keep her word (holding breath-NOT), Perry will appoint Dan Patrick to the Senate seat as a reward for beating Medina in the Houston area where he owns a very successful conservative am radio station. Cronyism and politics on parade. Party before principles.

Actually Mike he had both the Tea party candidate and the Republican candidate in California. Perhaps Medina, like many other politicans, is the one who is not what she claims to be. The only thing I have heard Glenn Beck claim to be was an entertainer. Our own Senator Max Baucaus has turned out to be something other than he claimed.

I am really dreading elections. I don't trust any of them. They lie during the campaigns. They lie when they get in there. They take money hand over fist. Look what happened with Brown in MA. The people were trying to send a message to congress. There was an upset election, the guy turned around joined the opposition. People say throw the bums out but it feel like we would just elect more bums.

It did awhile ago, Medina's staff let her down. They should have known and prepared her for it.