Is Kay too boring to be governor?

Kay is running against two fairly exciting candidates... Rick can fire up a tea party crowd or a church congregation with a fiery speech... Debra Medina despite her grating speaking voice can fire up certain segments out there with her ideas on auditing the fed, nullification, and globalism...

Kay is just so boring to listen to... someone sent me an email with a video clip of someone at one of Kay's speeches allegedly falling asleep... but I can't make heads or tails of the format so I have not actually seen it yet... nor can I upload it... but I am sure it is funny.

A Dallas Morning News columnist also thinks Kay is boring (link). Excerpt follows...

After all those years of easy re-election, did Kay Bailey Hutchison just forget how to campaign?

This governor's match-up that was supposed to be such a barnburner has turned into a snoozefest.

Just take this campaign-speech quote by the senator in today's story:

"I feel strongly in my heart that we do need change."

Yeah, that must have had the crowd whipped into somewhat of a frenzy.

I think Kay didn't necessarily forget how to campaign... but it does make me think back to the early 1990s and wonder how she was ever able to win those first couple of elections in the first place... I guess in 1990 candidate recruitment for Republicans to run for statewide office was still difficult... so she breezed into the general election against a really weak Democrat with major issues...

Then when the senate race popped up Kay was basically the last woman standing in a field where several Republicans beat up on each other... sounds a little bit like how John McCain got the GOP nomination in 2008...

Then in 2000 and 2006... Kay's mythology as the strongest Republican candidate and the most popular politician in all of Texas kept any serious challenge from coming her way in any primary or general election battle...

She skated by fairly easily... had very small amounts of money spent against her... never had to actively campaign and build a base and fire people up... she relied on old style campaign strategies of delivering projects to various parts of the state and then going to visit and take credit for them...

Rick meanwhile had several difficult elections and had many many millions spent against him. The competition... a conservative principle... made him a stronger candidate today. It probably forced him to hone his base building and outreach skills... as well as his ability to fire up a big crowd of people...

Yes Rick can drone on when I have heard him on the radio... yes sometimes he does seem to love the sound of his own voice... but Kay in comparison is one of the most boring politicians in Texas today. To the person who sent me that clip of the person falling asleep at Kay's speech... please try again in a more normal format... thanks....