Poll Watch: Rasmussen 2010 Texas GOP Gubernatorial Primary

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1. OHIO JOE Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

   Yahoo, the Palin endorsed candidate is winning!

2. Richard Murray Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

   I don’t know that I like either one enough to hope they win. Both are career politicians, and I generally don’t like that. I just hope we keep this seat with the GOP.

3. anonymous Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 12:23 pm

   Hutchison is a sore loser. She is another Rino’s. Hutchison is hurting the Republican Party. And she is not a true conservative. I just can’t imagine the Bush family, Karl Rove, Cheney supported her. Look what happened to Mitt Romney. They supported him and he lost the 2008 primary election. Romney won’t get the nominee in 2012. He is done! The conservatives don’t want Romney and these other Rino’s. They need to go. I would like to see some new faces of the Republican Party.

4. JRogers Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

   Didn’t Kavon mention that he’d permaban anonymous if he didn’t stop his barely readable crap?

5. MIKE & MARCO for '12-'20 Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

   Kavon, Please ban “anonymous”.

   Enough is enough.

6. Aron Goldman Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

   The Perils of Palinism
   http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/kim_reed/print

   Sarah Palin in ‘Going Rogue’: John McCain camp set me up for disaster in Katie Couric interviews
   Palin confirms lingering hard feelings with many McCain aides, and the feeling is mutual. One ex-campaign official predicted the book will kill off whatever presidential dreams she may harbor for 2012. “This will reinforce the fact that 25% of the country loves her and everybody else thinks she’s not up to it,” the source said.
   http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/11/13/2009-11-13_thought_katie_was_her_fan_you_betcha_i_was_surprised_by_teams_goof_palin_sez_in_.html#ixzz0WlSVjOHC

   Leaks launch Palin’s ‘Going Rogue’ with that ol’ campaign fervor
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111209502.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009111209850
   http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/sarah-palin-blasts-media-mccain-camp-book/story?id=9070940

   In the book, “Going Rogue: An American Life,” Palin contends that the McCain campaign stuck her with a $50,000 bill for the cost of her own vetting.

   Regarding the $50,000, several high-ranking McCain aides said Palin was most likely conflating the cost of her vetting, which the McCain aides counter was actually minimal, with the fees she spent to defend herself from various accusations of ethical wrongdoing in her home state.

   Trevor Potter, general counsel for the McCain campaign, told the AP that Palin was never asked to pay a legal bill.

   “To my knowledge, the campaign never billed Gov. Palin for any legal expenses related to her vetting and I am not aware of her ever asking the campaign to pay legal expenses that her own lawyers incurred for the vetting process,” Potter said.

   Speaking with Winfrey, Palin also argues that the McCain campaign approved of her performance in her disastrous interview with Couric of CBS.

   “Do you think that was a seminal, defining moment for you, that interview?” Winfrey asks.

   “I did not,” Palin responds. “And neither did the campaign. In fact, that is why Segment 2 and 3 and 4 and maybe 5 were scheduled. The campaign said, right on. Good. You’re showing your independence.”

   “No sentient person would look at that and say that,” assessed one former senior McCain campaign official.

   “John McCain offered her the opportunity of a lifetime, and during the campaign it seems that, for all of her mistakes, she is searching for people to blame,” said one former senior official in the McCain campaign. “We don’t need to go through this again.”

   Palin’s blame game
   http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/11/palins_blame_game.html

   So portions of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s memoir have leaked, and the juiciest parts so far are those in which she attacks CBS news anchor Katie Couric. Palin, apparently, calls Couric “badgering” and biased, and mentions speculations that the anchor has “low self-esteem.” Couric’s spokesman declined to comment to The Post. Katie, allow me.

   If Couric’s interlocution was badgering, then the late Tim Russert was verbally abusive of his guests. You’ll recall that the most damaging portions of the interviews came when Couric asked Palin about her dubious claims that Alaska’s proximity to Russia gave her relevant foreign policy experience. During the back-and-forth, Couric drops a series of unsubtle hints about what might be an appropriate response, almost begging the candidate not to mess up. Instead, we got this.

   And if there are parts of the interview the rest of us haven’t seen in which Couric was more aggressive, is it the anchor’s fault if Palin couldn’t keep her cool through the rest of it? Apparently, in her book Palin also tries to blame the McCain campaign for encouraging her to do the interviews, telling her that they went well when she knew they had not. What does any of this say about her abilities as a decision maker?

   Ever since the election Palin has been seeking to blame others for the campaign’s failure. Other than elements of the McCain campaign, the press has been her favorite whipping boy. We journalists deserve and need criticism. But it was obvious in the watching that Palin flubbed the Couric interview all on her own, and the longer the former governor so publicly nurses an unjustified sense of grievance, the more Americans will have to question how someone with such thin skin could possibly succeed in Washington.

   If she’s running for president in 2012, this is yet another mistake. Of course, it’s looking increasingly more plausible that she’s just in it for the money and the fame — and whatever influence she can wield.

7. OHIO JOE Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

   “The Perils of Palinism” Haha, I knew it would be a matter of before somebody would find this. Funny how the anti-Palinites need to hi-jack even term ‘Palinism.’ One week to go and the book tour will be coming!

8. Huntsman McRINO Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

   KBH is such a huge RINO. Rick Perry is a real conservative. No wonder Rick Perry is winning by dozens of points among conservative Republicans, the ones who actually vote in Texas primaries.

9. Aron Goldman Says:
   November 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

   Washington Post staff writer Jason Horowitz will be online Friday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m. ET to discuss “Going Rogue,” the Sarah Palin book which comes out Tuesday.

   Submit your questions and comments before or during today’s discussion.
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/11/13/DI2009111301748.html?hpid=topnews
   http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/content/submit_world161.htm

10. Chris Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    Pityy really. I’d sue like to see KBH run away with it.

11. Chris Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Can someone please define what a ‘RINO’ is? I’m at a total loss.
    We banter the name calling about like the GOP is a close tent
    or something. We need all voices, not just one shrill one.

12. marK Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    Chris:“Can someone please define what a ‘RINO’ is?”

    It’s really easy. If you don’t agree with a given Republican, then they are a RINO. If you agree with them, then they are a “True Republican”. Other than that, the terms have little meaning.

    Understand now?

13. MIKE & MARCO for '12-'20 Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    

    R epublicans
    I ndependents
    N ullify
    O bama

14. Jonathan Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    I wouldn’t be disappointed if either of them won. Both are good Republicans. The big questions are over Hutchison’s Senate seat. When is KBH resigning from the Senate and who is Gov. Perry going to select to replace her. My money is on State Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams. Having an African-American Republican in the Senate would look really good for the GOP and the Texas GOP in particular.

15. MWS Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    marK,

    If you ever have a question about whether a particular Republican is a RINO, or a true conservative, just ask me. That way you can cut through the clutter and avoid confusion.

16. Matthew E. Miller Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    I’m a Hutch supporter, but I can’t say this race excites me much either way.

17. marK Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    MWS.#15,

    That sounds great to me. It is nice to finally have an absolute authority on such matters. It does away with all the confusion that has surrounded the issue.

18. MWS Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    marK,

    I’m there for ya’ man. If you have any questions about anyone, just let me know.

19. MPC Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    If I actually lived in Texas, or if the Democrats were actually a threat I’d probably care more myself. KBH is probably the better candidate for the job though, from my vague impressions of both of them.

20. Aron Goldman Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    Palin stirs controversy ahead of book release
    http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USTRE5AC55F20091113

    Sarah Palin is stirring controversy with her new book even before it is on shelves, complaining she was “all bottled up” by advisers to Republican presidential candidate John McCain last year.

    But several former campaign advisers to McCain on Friday disputed his running mate’s charge that she was mishandled, with one calling it another instance of her resorting to “exaggerations or fiction.”

    The extended review of last year’s loss to Barack Obama and Joe Biden threatens to become a distraction from Republican Party efforts to stay focused and make inroads on Democratic majorities in the U.S. Congress in next year’s elections.

    According to the excerpts, Palin writes that within weeks of becoming the vice presidential nominee, “a ‘Free Sarah’ campaign was underway and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp’s decision to keep me, my family and friends back home, and my governor’s staff all bottled up.”

    A former senior McCain campaign adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, took issue with her accusation that she was fenced off from the news media.

    “Apparently the excerpts from the book are a continuation of a well-established and documented pattern where she makes representations that are exaggerations or fiction,” the official said.

    Separately, long-time McCain aide Mark Salter said the campaign decided to use more message discipline by arranging interviews in advance with her and McCain instead of allowing them to conduct unscripted sessions with reporters, which had often knocked McCain off-message.

    “Approximately one week elapsed from Governor Palin’s nomination to her first major press interview, the first in a series of major interviews Governor Palin did. Those interviews were discussed and agreed to by senior members of the campaign staff in consultation with the candidates,” Salter said.

    Palin writes in the excerpt of being persuaded to speak with Couric by McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace. This was denied by the McCain camp.

    “She (Wallace) did not decide which interview requests the candidates would accept. Nor was she tasked with securing the candidates’ agreement. Those decisions were made by campaign management in consultation with the candidates,” Salter said.

    McCain himself was concentrating on his Senate business. “Senator McCain has moved on from the campaign,” a former campaign adviser said.

21. Heath Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    Sometimes I look at ex gov Palin (R-Facebook) and honestly wonder if she is serious? FOR GOD’S SAKE THE COURIC INTERVIEWS ARE STILL ALIVE ON YOUTUBE ANYONE CAN SEE IF COURIC WAS UNFAIR AND BADGERING.

    Clearly she wasn’t and it was well known AT THE TIME that the McCain camp thought (der) that she sucked. Contractually they couldn’t get out of segments 2-5 (although interesting I note that Sarah wanted to break the contract and her word) so of course they may have encouraged her like the scared deer in headlights girl that she was.

    You know for a second there I thought this book tour might help her but it’s just bringing back these excruiciatingly embarrasing memories. Funny to watch .

22. OHIO JOE Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    “Kay Bailey Hutchison is not going to resign from the Senate. Suggests she knows she cannot win the Governor’s race.”

23. Aron Goldman Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 4:53 am

    Palin Book: McCain Aides Had Me ‘bottled Up’
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVtyTrPUu6Q

    ‘Going Rogue’ is Sarah Palin’s shot at redemption and revenge
    She aims to reclaim the narrative of her political career.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVtyTrPUu6Q

    Is Sarah Palin a secret socialist?
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100016825/is-sarah-palin-a-secret-socialist/

    A She Said, She Said Story
    Sarah Palin gives the GOP an early start on its Thanksgiving family fight.
    For sheer disruptive value, no uncle who hogs the gravy can match Palin. She is wildly popular among conservatives, but her book—which will explode in full flower next week—will re-open old wounds. After being attacked anonymously by former McCain aides for months, she is pushing back. Charges and counter-charges will fly, and the bickering is likely to occasion a new round in the GOP debate among moderates, conservatives, insiders, outsiders, and self-styled outsiders over how the Republican Party should proceed.
    http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2235465

24. Heath Says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 7:24 am

    So is Palin giving us an accurate portrait of an aide with whom she had disagreements, or is she embroidering her account to portray Wallace in an unfavorable light? It may be possible that Wallace showed Palin a dark side she showed no one else. It may also be possible to know Putin’s intentions by looking at Russia. But it’s not very likely.

    OUCH!