Kay's slogan needs a little work (link). Excerpt follows...
Last week, the Dallas Republican said she planned to resign her Senate seat in October or November to challenge Gov. Rick Perry in the 2010 Republican primary. Here's Nick's take on the senator's latest statement.
Rick's peeps are passing this cartoon around like wildfire... Rick is usually the target of these toons with his big hair and black boots, so having an opponent lampooned probably feels strange and new. Kay is usually such the darling of the msm, but she looks like Camilla Parker Bowles in this caricature...
The Prairie Pundit blogs (link)...
She has gotten off to a poor start and has yet to make a case for her candidacy. The issue on the stimulus funds is unlikely to be one that an election turns on unless she can tie it to some other problems Perry may have. She also needs to have a campaign about what she wants to do as governor and not that she isn't Rick Perry.
She has a lot to do to articulate a winning message, but she has time to come up with one and she now knows that Perry is going to run a tough race against her. Texas is better off than most states right now and he is going to take some of the credit for creating the conditions that made that possible. Her message has to define what more can be done to make Texas more prosperous.
Kay is going to have a hard time unless she finds a positive message about her own vision, not just a negative message about Rick... Prairie Pundit, spot on as usual... his comments were based on an article about the decline of Kay's inevitability campaign by R.G. Ratcliffe (link)...
AUSTIN — U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison began this year as “Kay the Invincible.” But as she prepares to officially launch her bid for governor later this month, that aura is gone.
Hutchison entered the year with the ability to make other politicians quake. She had two re-election victories under her belt with more than 60 percent of the vote in each. Her popularity ratings in polls put her at the top among Texas politicians. And public polls showed her leading Gov. Rick Perry by anywhere from 6 to 27 percentage points.
A solid read by R.G. I think a lot of us were on the fence in this race until sometime around March, when Rick really upped his game and Kay started making blunder after blunder. She picked a fight with Palin on her website, she criticized Rick for what is perceived by many as standing up to Obama, and she did so in a way that sounded like something a liberal mainstream media pundit would say... she didn't attend tea parties. She had a lot of bad votes... she did not participate online with the new websites the way Rick has been participating... she did not raise as much money as she probably should have to make a big statement...
Kay has lots of time to get it back on track, but her coronation campaign is no longer a possibility.
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