Thanks goes to the organizers of the gop Governors debate for allowing Candidate Medina to participate. At least she provided some interesting comments, although not much else.This debate was more about who was more right wing and less wing nut. If this was used to rate the candidates, Medina wins hands down. What was missing from this debate was very telling. Our state isn't exactly doing very well in almost every category measurements are taken. Even unemployment is creeping up on us. So what do the candidates focus on? Rick Perry's Trans Texas Corridor (uh....we killed it no thanks to Hutchinson). Gun control? In Texas? Bailouts and more budget cutting like we really need more to be cut in Texas.
What was missing was discussion on issue affecting the average citizen of Texas. The high cost of homeowners insurance, electricity, and college tuition would have been good to talk about. Our dropout rate. Our pregnancy rates among high school kids. Lack of health care for the poor in the state. The lack of insurance for those who need it. Unfortunately, Perry caused many of these problems, Hutchison has old ideas how to solve them, and Medina just has no idea. At least Medina knows one thing that we can agree upon, the republicans have lost their heart and soul and their bread and butter talking points.
UPDATE: The Texas Democratic Party had the same comments:
“The most notable thing about last night’s Republican Gubernatorial debate was what the candidates didn’t talk about – educating our kids, getting traffic moving again, lowering homeowners insurance and utility rates and making college tuition affordable for working families."They are no longer the less government, strong on defense, fiscally conservative, party of family values. Instead they have to rely on wedge issues such as gun control and immigration (something they failed to do anything about over the last 10 years. They are only strong on defense spending, as well as spending us into a $11 Trillion debt and they have family values of a hooker at the republican convention.
At least Medina knows why these issues shouldn't be brought up. Instead focus on how right wing you can be without looking like a nut job. (although that might be late)
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Our state isn't exactly doing very well in almost every category measurements are taken.
I noticed you left out economic measurements. Unemployment is significantly lower than the national average.
Hell, even you have a job for the time being.
They are only strong on defense spending, as well as spending us into a $11 Trillion debt
Bush increased the debt by $4.9 trillion in eight years. That's an increase of about $51 billion a month.
It's now more than $12.5 trillion. That's an increase of about $150 billion a month, three times the rate of U.S. borrowing during the Bush administration.
The 1.whatever deficit is due to bushes bailout of the banks due to the republicans screwing up the economy.
So far the bailout to the auto industry seem to be paying off.
And the economic recovery package also.
The bottom line is that the republicans can balance a checkbook like a loan shark.
republicans really do suck.
Yeah, John, how about that economic recovery package! Unemployment two points higher than Obama claimed it would be without a "recovery package", a shrinking job market and workers so discouraged by the Obama economy that they are not even looking for work.
A little bit more of the Obama economic recovery formula and we will have achieved the sort of economic distress reached in 1937 & 1938 after 4 years of the New Deal!
Republicans are really really good at talking, but suck at producing. Their results prove that.
Friend, that is the Change You've Been Hoping For from barack Obama. He and the democrats produced it, not the GOP.
Friend, you ain't got no schoolin do you?
This debate is about Texas, not the US. And the issues I brought up are Texas related, again not the US.
Texas has been under republican rule for 10 years now and we rank last in many areas. Don't blame this on anyone but your party.
Time to take some responsibility for once.
You Dems ought to be afraid of what is going to happen this Tuesday in that liberal Dem bastion, Massachusetts. If a Republican can win a state-wide election in a place like Massachusetts, what message is being sent to the Democratic party? You talk about the Repubs blowing it; it has taken the Dems only a year to blow their chance to govern responsibly. As the noted philosopher Jeremiah Wright says, "The chickens are coming home to roost!"
John, aren't you the guy who brought up the size of the national debt in the your post?
Is it not appropriate for commenters to comment on your assertions regarding that debt, especially when you yourself engage in debate over it in the comments?
If RESPONDING TO WHAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN IN THIS POST AND THESE COMMENTS makes me uneducated, then what does that say about you for including the issue in the original post?
Seems to me that you are engaged in a bit of "Aggie logic" in making that claim.
Not at all.
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