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October 12, 2006Texas Governors' DebateI watched the Governors' debate last Friday, and was pretty unhappy. They all suck! Well, OK, Strayhorn only sucked mildly, but she got a little lazy with handling her deGOPifaction, and I don't know whom she expects to convince she's an outsider. It was an embarassing night to be a Democrat. Chris Bell seems to think he deserves to win simply for being a Democrat and not being Perry. Otherwise I'm at a loss to understand why he thought he could get away with being as rude as Kinky and as unfunny. Nor why he thinks showing even a minimal amount of leadership is optional to win a leadership post. We've found out the (D) base %age - low 20s, nothing like enough to win. I wish maybe Strayhorn had swapped back to the (D) side and hided Bell's rear instead of going it alone. Not sure the timing worked, though. Posted by Jon Kay at October 12, 2006 01:59 PMComments
I agree, as a Texan I was sad to see what my choices were, and as a Kinky supporter I thought he was woefully unprepared. His staff should have done a much better job preparing him for this, especially given that none of the questions should have come as a surprise to him. His campaign has made a few mistakes, and just seem to be stuck in neutral for the final weeks. I posted on this already, so I won't repeat. Kinky did see a bit of a bump in some of the polls, but it's not because of his debate performance. Rather, it's the fact that he's finally starting to run campaign ads on TV, and he comes across really well in the spots. I disagree with Jon about Bell and Strayhorn. I'm not a Democrat, but my opinion of Bell went up a bit. Sure, he's boring as can be, but he held his own. Strayhorn was overly nervous and never adequately answered the big questions, those surrounding the massive campaign contributions from companies that deal with her office. Perry was smug and his attempt to claim some sort of success in education was stunning. And I'm still waiting on someone to call Strayhorn to task for her repeated claims of being an outsider when she's held public office now for more than 20 years. Independent? Hardly. Posted by: WeekendPundit at October 13, 2006 01:32 AM |
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