Trouble brewing for Republicans?

Right Wing Sparkle has a blog up about how this whole Rick vs. Kay thing could spell trouble for Republicans (link). Excerpt follows...

This situation is also brewing in our Governor's race. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is endorsing Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in her bid to unseat incumbent Gov. Rick Perry. Sarah Palin has endorsed Gov. Rick Perry.

Now, a lot of people might say that Rick Perry is old school GOP as well, but I think Perry wisely saw the writing on the wall, and did things we liked. He rejected the strings attached federal stimulus funds. This was big and it was important to us. Then the icing on that cake was when he argued the 10th Amendment for state rights, and that he might resist the federal health mandate should Obamacaresucceed. He rightly claimed that a government run healthcare system is financially unstable and that states must find solutions to their problems. Then in April, Perry announced his support for a non-binding resolution in the Texas House that says the federal government has overstepped the authority granted to it by the Constitution.

That roar you hear in the background is millions of people shouting, "It's about time!!!"

So Perry kind of won his street cred with the tea party protesters there.

The reaction to Cheney's endorsement of Kay has been fascinating. I expected Kay to get a huge positive bump from it, but most of the blogs I have read and most of the comments out there on social networking sites like Twitter fall into two categories...

Liberals and independents saying Cheney is endorsing Kay is bad and they will definitely not vote for her now...

or....

Conservatives saying the move is puzzling because she is a "RINO," or that it fits because the old guard like to stick together.

I am fascinated how Rick simply by not being from Washington, D.C. can escape the baggage. It is almost like Kay is the incumbent in the bad ways... she can't run as an outsider. To a lot of bloggers, Rick is the outsider...