Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a possible Republican presidential candidate someday, wouldn't miss welcoming the president of the United States to the Lone Star state Monday. He showed up at the airport to shake hands and chat briefly and hand-deliver a letter seeking more federal troops to secure the border with Mexico. (A wary Obama gestured for the letter to go to an aide instead.)
While former Houston mayor Bill White, the Democrat who's unsuccessfully seeking to end Perry's GOP tenure as Texas' longest-serving governor ever, just could not fit an appearance with Obama into his impossible summertime schedule.
The Democrat who's unsuccessfully seeking to end Perry's GOP tenure... that sort of just sums it up doesn't it? Yesterday was a disaster for Bill White PR wise... and terrific for Rick...
One day doesn't make a campaign, but you can't have days like that if you expect to alter the space time continuum and defeat gravity and make it rain upside down... which is all what Bill White would have to do to overcome the strong Republican surge we are seeing right now...
Face it... Bill White is boring... he is shrill and angry sounding when he speaks about Rick... his attacks are all rehashed personal attacks that don't really work... he has not issued any interesting policy proposals... he has mostly attacked and is now being perceived as tearing down Texas...
Most importantly Bill White agrees with Obama on 90% or more of the issues which makes him unelectable in Texas in any year but especially this year... no Democrat has won state wide since the early 1990s... get real... Texans want to repeal Obamacare... Texans do not want higher taxes even on the table... and Texans know that Texas is doing well economically compared to other places...
Whether the L.A. Times meant it or not, they were right... Bill White's campaign is struggling right now with its own base having alienated environmentalists (link), black voters (link), and more... frankly I don't see how Bill White cracks 40% if the political climate continues this course and Rick's team has the resources to put television ads up calling him a hurricane profiteer and a disenfranchiser of military voters and all of that...
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