Rick versus the world...

There is a great blog called Rick Perry versus the world (link).... but that is not what this blog is about...

Being the incumbent Rick is being attacked from all angles... Obama bashed Rick this week for rejecting U.S. government dollars for education... Medina bashes Rick mostly on the radio... sometimes Bill White and Kay sound very similar (link). Excerpt follows...

Bill White said Tuesday that he agrees with Republican rival Kay Bailey Hutchison: Texas needs new leadership.

In Dallas to meet with local Democrats, White said he was especially troubled that Texas was either "treading water or going backward" in public and higher education under Gov. Rick Perry's leadership.

"This state needs to be a state of opportunity and innovation," said White, the former Houston mayor considered the Democratic front-runner for governor. "We can't be that if we have some of the highest dropout rates in the country and if we have skyrocketing tuition rates."

He said that Perry, in his 10th year in office, has "been in there too long. There's a sort of smugness about that."

Perry spokesman Mark Miner said White was spreading "misinformation" about the state and Perry.

"Texas is leading the country economically and in creating jobs," Miner said. "It's not surprising that Bill White and Senator Hutchison are sharing talking points and have the same policies. They both are liberal."

Rick's spokesman makes a good point but it is really more of a shot at Rick's current opponent than his general election opponent... Kay does sound like a Democrat a lot of the time when she makes criticism of Texas and the drop out rate or uninsured rate...

Rick and his peeps have been somewhat skillful at using that to their advantage... wrapping Rick in the Texas flag, and if you attack him, you are attacking Texas... if you are attacking Texas then you can't be trusted...

As for Bill White... he is bragging about how he was always liberal... how he started out a liberal... (link). Excerpt follows...

The progressive roots that he said prompted him to register voters while in high school show in his push to improve education. White cites the influence of family and of friends including former state Sen. Joe Bernal of San Antonio, who coached and was in a bowling league with his dad. White, as a legislative page, commuted to the Capitol with him. “I would be going back and forth with Joe every week from Austin when I was 13 years old and a page, and we would talk about the future of this state,” White said, adding that Bernal, like his parents, “believed that the future of our state was ... educating and bringing into leadership our growing Hispanic population.”

Campaigning through buzz words... and outflanking the newcomer Farouk Shami on the left... Bill White trying to prove he has street credibility... unlike the interloper Shami. A good primary strategy... but in this political atmosphere I think it is a mistake...

Hat tip to the Rick Perry vs The World blog (link).