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GOP Does Not Want A Black Man In The Senate

The title is all sarcasm, but can they shut up about loving diversity now?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

It is starting to get really disgusting.

First, the GOP said it needed diversity and chose the orange Charlie Crist over the Latino, Marco Rubio.

Then the GOP said it needed to do better outreach in the black community, so it ignored Michael Williams in Texas and tried to find a rich white guy to run for the Senate.

Now that Kay Bailey Hutchison has lost the Texas primary to Rick Perry without even making it into a runoff, the Washington, D.C. Republicans are scared to death a black man might actually get appointed to the Senate as a Republican.

Kay Bailey Hutchison has said over and over and over, as recently as a few weeks ago, that she would leave the Senate by November. Now the Senate Republicans are begging her to stay so they don’t have to have Michael Williams.

Why?

Michael Williams is not only black, but he is a Jim DeMint supported conservative.

This is really sick.

*Please note the hefty dose of sarcasm in this post. Geez some of you people get offended easy. The fact remains that the GOP preaches diversity all the time and when presented with an attractive Latino and black candidate, they pass on both because they are too conservative.

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  • JadedByPolitics

    hands the FUTURE of the GOP and it is colorful :)

  • conservative_faction
  • Nick Haynes

    It’s fairly sad, since I’ve always said that we just needed to get better at outreach. I think the actual problem, though, is not the base but the leadership–and other than fear or bigotry, I honestly cannot figure why they wouldn’t want someone who is solidly on their side of the aisle AND who would help expand the base.

  • mbauer

    I don’t know what the article you linked to, or of any other reports that somehow factor in Michael Williams skin color as a negative for some GOP insiders as your headline implies. I don’t know why you think race is a factor.

    I’d love to get him into the senate, but I’d like to think our side of the aisle doesn’t have to make it about race.

  • erp617

    mbauer, I don’t know the details about this, but I refuse to believe that Texas Republicans are racist.

  • RINKER

    The GOP has made some very stupid decisions regarding recruiting and endorsements, but to say that race is a factor in those decisons is not only wrong, but it is stupid. By saying it, you are perpetuating the media myth that Republicans are racists. You are doing much more harm to the conservative cause with that irresponsible headline than anything the liberals could do.

  • JadedByPolitics

    it MOST definitely is about Conservatism and liberalism because both Rubio and Williams are Conservative to the core and the National GOP is liberal to the very being of their sickness so if it is possible to embarrass them with an attack against them because both of those Conservatives are men of color then I say HELL YEAH!

  • bk

    If she resigns, does Perry get to appoint a replacement to serve out her term, or does the timing matter? IOW is there some cutoff point between serving out the term and having to call a special election?

    The ideal thing would be for her to serve a while – even until November – if that’s what it takes to allow Williams to serve until 2012. If she resigned now and Williams would have to face a special election or a Nov ’10 election, then it would be just as well to wait a bit in my opinion.

  • JadedByPolitics

    the National GOP is paying attention BTW that myth is BUSTED except for the leftist media because the true RACE HATERS are Democrats and it has been proven over and over again.

    Erick is trying to MAKE the National GOP WAKE UP so if he must do so by SMACKING them around then I and MILLIONS upon MILLIONS just like me agree with his attempts!

  • jeffreywturner

    If you are defining “Senate Republicans” as every GOP member of the Senate, then it is probably not accurate to say “Senate Republicans” are begging Hutchinson to stay. For instance, I don’t think Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn are leading any charge to retain her.

    If however, you are defining “Senate Republicans” are NRSC chairman John Cornyn, then yes, he probably is begging her to stay, because his ONLY goal is to increase the number of Republicans in the Senate in THIS election cycle, and you can’t possibly lose a Senate race in a state where there isn’t one.

  • marie_a

    in this linked Politico article. As a non Caucasian I read the concern is not about color but about fellow women leaving the Senate.

    I also sense in Sen. Hutchinson a weariness. But for this health care takeover battle the Senator would be ready to yield up her seat.
    In that point she is to be admired. Many in the Capitol marbled mausoleum seem to grip their power seats far too long.

  • Dr. Botkin

    Her voting record is not all that bad. She did, however, make her own bed. She promised to resign her seat if she lost to Perry. Well, she lost. Now she should do the right thing and fulfill her promise. And the GOP elitists should stand aside and give a rousing welcome to Mike Williams. His selection would silence the Demrat bigots once and for all. Hutchison’s time has passed. Texas and America need Mike Williams.

  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    Needs to get out of local issues. Let the primary happen. If the voters of Texas want Mike Williams (which I hope they do), the deserve him.

    Sen Hutchinson has served her state and country well. It is simply time for her to move on.

  • sta46

    a Make it Michael petition to all on his mailing list yesterday which will be submitted to Perry. Perhaps you could put up a link to the petition for all Red State readers so they may sign it as well.

  • RINKER

    Accusing the GOP of racism isn’t helping. Were they racists for favoring liberal Specter over Toomey? Were they sexists for favoring Fiorina over Devore? Ageists for favoring Coats? Garbage like that is the Democrats’ game. They always go the “safe” route in the Senate, and they are often wrong. They’ve worked with KBH for years, and I’m not surprised they would hope she stays. It has NOTHING to do with Michael Williams OR his race. Just because we don’t get our way is no reason to throw a tantrum and post such irresponsible comments.

  • gekster
  • http://www.thehayride.com MacAoidh

    …unless she won the governor’s race over there.

    Anybody can see that.

    I think Erick is probably right in that the Beltway GOP is such a bunch of milksop weaklings as to pull something like he’s alluding to, but the Michael Williams question is beside the point. There has to be an opening for him to be appointed, and there won’t be one.

  • constitutionalconservative

    It is a real sign of the dysfunction of beltway GOP establishment that in a time where the GOP knows it needs to broaden its outreach to minority communities, they are spurning outstandingly qualified conservative candidates like Williams and Rubio. Ironically, of course, these two excellent candidates have been propelled by the Tea Party and DeMint supporters, you know the ones who are supposedly “extremists” and “racists”. Funny how that little narrative has not gotten traction in the media.

  • pilgrim
  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    I agree. A disappointing headline to highlight the dilemma / oppty to get a more conservative senator in there (vs having KBH just ride out her term).

    Michael Williams is a great man, articulate, principled, conservative, funny, and will make a great Senator. I support him wholeheartedly if and when the TX US Senate slot open up.

    However, he doesn’t need ‘help’ with an inflammatory headline. The issue isn’t race at all, but ‘the club’ of incumbents that never imagine the need/use for new blood. As noted, this is about minimizing campaign risk … and/or a KBH walkback plan.

    The fact is this: KBH has her term up in 2012, and it is up to her to decide to leave or not. Her previous statements promising to leave should be viewed as grain o salt level commitments.

  • Dr. Botkin

    If KBH is to retire and Mike Williams replace her, it must be a seamless replacement. Lose a Republican at the wrong moment and voila, cloture and Obamacare.

  • lockedandloaded

    I called my county GOP to inquire about becoming a precinct chairman, and the secretary said she would get back with me the next day to let me know if my precinct had officers in place and what ways I might get involved. She did not do it. I called ten days later and left a reminder message. Now five more days have passed and still no call.

    Now their website has a notice of an upcoming conference with an open call to all precinct officers “and anyone wanting to become more involved in the upcoming GOP elections.” How absurd is this? Imagine my attitude if I have to just let them know I will be there and then I must proceed to get my information.

    I think in both cases, it’s like this: If they won’t answer the door, we must kick it in.

  • Menlo

    Cornyn, Hatch, Gregg, Scott Brown, the Maine Bobbsey Twins, and Murkowski. No surprises there.

    She implied in a radio interview she would leave before the midterms but after the health care “debate.”

  • mbauer

    No matter how many are currently serving in the Senate, cloture requires 60 votes. Us having 1 less vote doesn’t help them get to 60.

  • KeepOhioRed

    It’s just as bad when we do it as when liberals do it.

    I want Williams int he Senate as much as everybody here, but throwing a tantrum and putting out a headline that the GOP doesn’t want blacks in their caucus does not help our cause.

    I don’t buy the “sarcasm” explanation. This is stupid. Michael Williams doesn’t need help like this.

  • Vegas_Rick

    I read the article and I don’t see it. You’re right about Rubio, and we’ll be able to rub that in their faces for a long time. But, this seems more like the country clubbers attempting to keep their little group together.

  • Dr. Botkin

    for clearing that up. That being the case, she could have resigned when she first indicated she might, last fall, and Williams would be senator now, assuming Perry is part of the game plan.

  • louisiana

    Exactly. Cornyn, McCain,et al, are more afraid of conservatives within their own party, than they are of the D’s. To them, Rubio & Williams are a threat to their power structure. Sad.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    A special election would be held no mor ethan 180 days out of resignation.

    KBH got in by special election in 1993 when Lloyd Bentsen resigned.

    John Sharp may be eying the Senate seat. In a bad year for the GOP, it might be at risk … but not in 2010. OTOH, it chews up money and effort.

  • RINKER

    You can make your point without the racism hyperbole. You’re smart enough and eloquent enough, Erick, that you don’t have to stoop to this kind of nonsense.

  • redneck_hippie

    end. We are stuck with the power structure until enough conservatives take the ColdWarrior challenge.

    Erick has 2 prongs to his pointy end of the stick:

    1. Shame the powers that be on their Scozzafava tactics.

    2. Further awaken people’s sense of duty to DO somthing about it.

    We all have pointy sticks, Erick’s is just more visible.

    And another thing, Erick would not need to be inflammatory if he didn’t know what I know. The hacks are busily looking for another self-funder, preferably female who salutes the flag while frenching the marxists.

  • mustango

    I still want to believe KBH is, in the end, an honorable woman. If she resigns in a timely manner she’ll at least retain that much in my book. At the very least I hope we hear confirmation on that point one way or the other soon, so I won’t linger in doubt.

  • mustango

    On Mark Davis’s show this morning, Debra Medina effectively ruled out supporting Perry in his re-election bid. Makes me feel better about not going down that road.

  • bk

    It would be a waste of money to have a statewide special election separate from the November general election.

  • josh_kahn

    It’s not fair, but I understand that Erick is playing to win.

  • fpete13527

    For the GOP, if the candidate is conservative, they will do EVERYTHING possible to stop that candidate from being elected….especially if he is not white. The first biggest sin for the GOP is to have a non-white conservative in office. The GOP would gladly welcome a non-white candidate if he is progressive left.

    Williams is 100% conservative and of the highest quality candidate. He will vote conservative and stand by his vote. Rubio is also 100% conservative and will stand by his vote. This is main reason why the GOP chooses to not support either of these two candidates?..they are conservative.

    The GOP leadership, in my opinion…..IS A DISGRACE. Both Cornyn and McConnell/McCain need to either start shifting their liberal/Huffington mentality?..or be removed from leadership positions?.yesterday. Both are now at the point of causing a detriment to the country by blocking empowerment to conservative candidates?that many of us are fighting very hard for!!

    Cornyn and McConnell/McCain have not gotten the message that the country wants conservative candidates. I plan to remind them constantly that we DO want conservative candidates?and won?t stand for their Huffington candidates.

    Not ONE straw poll in Florida?.NOT ONE?.showed anything other than Rubio as the desired candidate ?and by wide margins!! Yet, for the NRSC/Cornyn/McConnell(McCain), their candidate choice is still the progressive liberal who thinks ObamaCare should be approved http://bit.ly/R77sq

    Texas has multiple factors to consider, however it is clear that NRSC/Cornyn/McConnell/McCain do NOT want conservative candidates. Williams is ABSOLUTELY the conservative choice, yet they stiff arm him, and make up excuses for why they are doing so, instead of finding solutions to EMPOWER him.

    The NRSC needs to endorse both Rubio and Williams and they need to do it yesterday.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Just not conservative blacks. I give you two names. One was heartily supported by the GOP, the other……..not so much.

    Michael Steele

    Ken Blackwell

    Thank you, that is all.

  • http://www.thehayride.com MacAoidh

    …and yeah, KBH seems like a nice lady. But Washington is a crack pipe for politicians once they get there, regardless of what party they’re from and she’s no different.

    Maybe I’m wrong and maybe she’ll quit, but I seriously doubt it.

  • http://www.thehayride.com MacAoidh

    …weenies like Cornyn and Hutchison as its senators is just a damn shame. Almost like Lindsey Graham being in the Senate from South Carolina.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    She was absolutely the Tea Party candidate. Just no resume, and WAY in over her head in a governors race.

    Plus, in the end, there was no compelling reason to fire Perry, unless there was a truly AWESOME alternative. Like Fred Thompson or Jim DeMint.

  • popdaddy

    When Slick Willy named Lloyd Bentsen Sec of Treasury in Jan ?93, Ma Richards appointed Bob Krueger as a replacement a couple of days later. But Bentsen?s resignation set wheels in motion for a special election in June ?93 to fulfill remainder of Bentsen?s term. KBH won the special election and was reelected in ?94 to her first full term.

    I?m of the opinion she stays in Senate until someone beats her in the 2012 GOP primary. If she resigns before then, whoever Gov Perry appoints to serve remainder of her term would have a tremendous advantage in the next full term election 2012.

    Williams is a Railroad Commissioner, an elective office that doesn?t get a lot of attention when folks check off the down ballot or the straight ticket as I do. When KBH first brought up the idea of resigning last fall, I recall talk of a scramble of potential office changes with the 2010 election in mind. If Williams was on Perry?s short list then, seems like he still would be.

  • Tbone

    Terrorists only kill people. Politicians kill nations.

  • hickorystick

    Liberal and moderate out of these two? Steele speaks moderately, but points people in a conservative direction.

  • The_Gadfly

    If Hutchison were truly weary because of the Great HealthCare Fiasco(tm), there would be no better replacement than Williams. We’ve only had one other politician in my lifetime to whom I would compare him: Ronald Wilson Reagan. And that more than anything else scares the elite in DC on both sides of the aisle more than anything else on this earth possibly could.

  • TS Atomic

    Given the current political climate, the emergence of the Tea Party, the public *screaming* for a 180-degree turn in Washington’s direction and your opinion (which I share) that the GOP’s consideration of Williams “…is really sick”, it’s difficult to discern just why the GOP continues to embrace RINOs and unapologetically thumbs it’s nose at the Rubio’s and Williams’.

    Well, I don’t think the GOP gives a hoot about what we think of them and they don’t seem to be interested in mending their ways. It makes no sense… Unless they are secure in their financial backing and political support and are agnostic about our support.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    That title was a general observation which I hold to be true. The text was poorly explained, so let me rerack and start over. What I actually meant in the text:

    Steele = moderate

    Blackwell = conservative

    And the party has elevated Steele, and poo-pooed Blackwell.

  • edintexas

    Would you like to reconsider that statement? It isn’t impossible, but it certainly is improbable.

  • Achance
  • JadedByPolitics

    AMEN TO THAT BROTHER :)

    now make sure you attend the conference and TAKE IT!

  • Leopard1996

    All the race pimps will say is that he is sellout to be a conservative. Terms like Oreo cookie, will be used by MSNBC commentators without being challenged by folks like the NAACP.

  • JadedByPolitics

    those of US who call ourselves Conservatives have been abused and unfortunately silent while the National GOP has ridden roughshod over us with their HATE spewing about those “rednecks” out in Middle America who they have to “put up with” to get elected.

    The STICKS are out and WE are pointing them straight UP THE GUT of the GOP elites and by the time WE are finished they will be gone and probably working for the D’s and the GOP will be the Grand New Party with all comers wanting to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

    Erick is RIGHT ON with his assessment of the National GOP and he has been fighting the good fight for a hell of a lot longer then you have so don’t come in here and take umbrage at his skills, suffice it to say he gets listened to! So I ENCOURAGE him to continue :)

  • hickorystick

    have to say. Blackwell had a ground up approach which seemed similar to what Cold Warrior and Martin Knight are pushing. Steele has been good at emphasizing primaries and matching candidates who best represent the views of the Republican constituents of their District/State. Yes, he bungled NY-23, but it has helped him focus his message.

  • nessa

    Whats another race card on the table? It might as well be tossed in by one of us as the guaranteed one that will be thrown in by the dems. It just highlights the utter and complete lack of honest commentary or debate from their side of the aisle.

  • texasgalt

    I don’t know what is going on with the Rubio mistep and Williams should get a shot. These misfires are of concern. I am hoping Cornyn and team don’t turn to someone like state senator Florence Shapiro.

    But Cornyn is no weenie.

    He is strong on Cap and Crap. He has an “A” rating from the NRA. He gets a ZERO rating from the greenies. He voted to repeal the estate tax. He voted to ban partial birth abortions. He is stout on defense and a stalwart on Iraq. He supports the expansion of U.S. energy exploration. The National Journal rates him as the 17th most conservative Senator. And he has no love for McCain,

    Sorry to say it, but President Bush had a big influence on dragging Cornyn to the middle. Still, Texas could do far worse.

  • redneck_hippie

    a joker. The more the left feigns outrage about everything, the easier it is to get others to laugh at them. It’s crying wolf on steroids, with a laugh track. Too bad we can’t resurrect Swift. He’d have a field day with these clowns.

  • nessa
  • redneck_hippie

    worry about the real racists, La Raza, CAIR, and the CBC race hustlers. But that’s just me. I see similarity in the etymology behind the terms ‘Raaaaacist’ and ‘The Joooooooooos.’

    Where are all the NYT pieces decrying the world-wide uptick in bigotry against Jewish people that is happening in, you know…reality?

  • danasdaddy
  • Third Street

    Supporting RAND PAUL “10000000 percent” for no other reason than that the NRSC supports the other guy; boosting a no-name state senator in Indiana for Senate for no other reason than that the NRSC got a big-name candidate into the race; endless whining about every single thing the NRSC does; endless whining about every single thing the NRSC DOESN’T do; and now this DISGUSTING race-baiting post that will be SCREAMED FROM THE ROOFTOPS by every leftist media outlet from here to Neptune and attributed to the head of one of the Internet’s leading conservative blogs. CONGRATULATIONS, ERICK, YOU JUST DID THE DEMOCRATS’ WORK FOR THEM.

    I read through that Politico article TWICE and could not find a SINGLE DAMN THING that justified this childish swipe from you. You know why the GOP wants Hutchison to stay in the Senate? BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT TO RISK THE SEAT IF THEY DON’T HAVE TO, AND IF SHE DOESN’T RESIGN THEY DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE SEAT THIS CYCLE. There’s a reasonable argument to be had over this calculation, but to come out screaming “GOP DOES NOT WANT A BLACK MAN IN THE SENATE!” is so low-down and hateful that I refuse to waste any more time on any site run by the likes of you. (And yes, I read your stupid asterisked rationale at the bottom — seems like you’re having to do that a lot these days, doesn’t it? — and it doesn’t wash at all.)

    Jesus, you post this directly over a post by TOM PRICE. If I were Congressman Price, or any of the other elected officials who’ve posted here from time to time, I’d be so embarrassed to be associated with this crap that I’d never write a single word for you again.

    Sir, you are a JERK.

    Bye.

  • Beasley Beesmeal

    I’ll go to Subway and get some sammiches…

  • Aaron Gardner

  • Aaron Gardner
  • redneck_hippie

    That is unless he comes back and asks for an account deletion.

    Then it’s waaaaaaaaaar, baby!

  • Leopard1996

    Was to use sarcasm to show the hypocrisy of the established GOP as far as wanting to be more diverse, but they want diversity of moderates to RINOS. So in this vain they are no different than the DNC who expects fealty by black america, and if a black man or woman is not on that plantation they are allowed to be smeared as “Oreoes”, “Uncle Toms”, and “Sellouts”. Hell even you confronted a guy who feels that conservatives have a secret organization of blacks that there just to be trotted out like tokens.

  • redneck_hippie

    I knew it was a reply to Third… LOVE this clip. It makes me laugh harder, each time you post it.

  • Aaron Gardner
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  • usranger

    Congressman Boehner is coming to Alabama District 05 to help fund raise for Congressman Parker Griffith, a Liberal Republican!

    Youre right Erick, something stinks! There is a Conservative Republican named, Les Phillip who has raised more money, has more supporters, and a better ground game than all the challengers combined who is….

    a black man! a veteran! a small business owner! an immigrant! and a true Conservative!

  • redneck_hippie

    I suspect Mr. Griffith rather expected some help after his party switch. That said, may the better man win.

  • Leopard1996

    That maggot race baiting POS.

  • Aaron Gardner

    I can say unequivocally that he has my support and I believe him to be the better man.

    Just in case my opinion has any weight. ;)

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Tbone

    Gee, now I’ll have to show you the same faux respect I show the other Moderators. :-)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
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  • renny

    respected Alan Keyes, tossing him around like a rag doll to various venues where they think a black face will deflect charges of racism.

    More minority candidates and members would help with real immigration reform, rational welfare law, and pro right to work movements. After all, the Reps. were the party of the “Negro” until FDR decided to “help” them so much.

  • JadedByPolitics

    is on the antisemitism that is on the rise? The same damn place they were when 6 million of them were being FRIED during WWII…. hiding the killers because the NYT’s is nothing if not the LEAD HATER of the joooooooos.

  • JadedByPolitics

    That tool had it coming for a long time and I was working when you ACED him :shakes head: rats!

  • eburke

    with the tennis ball showed up?

    ::sniff::

  • redneck_hippie
  • eburke
  • eburke

    and link to his site so that the denizens of RS can donate to him.

    Right now, my “Obama’s gonna get it anyway’ fund is earmarked for primaries in which there is a conservative GOPer whose opponent is 1) a mod/lib; and 2) (this makes it even sweeter and more irresistable) is supported by the Washington Wing of the GOP.

  • redneck_hippie

    The street he was third
    A right sleek young turd
    When Erick he slurred
    His demise was assured

    And so on

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • JadedByPolitics

    absolutely CANNOT do the same, I am not a lyrical kind of chick :)

  • redneck_hippie

    who fought against his Anti-Palin pandering. :)

  • Tbone

    He seems well qualified and fully engaged in the RedState Nation and I have tested him in the past and he convinced me that he’s a good guy and as smart and knowledgeable as seems to be the standard. And, I bet he will work for the prevailing Moderator wage.

    Psst. Aaron, you will remember these kind words in the future when I need them, huh?

  • Aaron Gardner

    But, in order to save you from future wrath I will require cold hard cash. ;)

  • AceInTX

    This has nothing to do with Williams color…it’s about the Liberal Republican club in the Senate opposing a rock ribbed conservative in Williams case…as it was with Rubio…their minority status had nothing to do with it.

    I hate the NRSC and the party establishment for playing this game. What they are doing is laying out a smoke screen for Kay. This will be her excuse for reneging on her promise….she’ll say she can’t resign because her colleagues begged her to stay.

    This has everything to do with the moderates protecting their little club and nothing to do with Skin color and I don’t know what we gain by making it about that with all due respect to Erick who I agree with 99% of the time.

  • Aaron Gardner

    Erick was being sarcastic. He was throwing the squish leadership’s faux diversity back in there face and showing that they could care less about diversity of thought or color in the process.

  • Tbone

    OK?

  • AceInTX

    because we’ve been beat about the head about race issues for years. I know the intent was sarcasm…but it’s not cool none the less

  • nessa
  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    The Republican leadership’s claim to value diversity is a lie because given the choice, they have proven that they will always prefer the white moderate over the non-white conservative.

    In other words, their fundamental value is to prevent conservatives from joining their club.

  • AceInTX

    and he’s very popular. I think he’d do well if Perry appoints him….should Kay resign as promised…(Not holding my breath)…..but I’ve heard rumblings that Perry won’t appoint him but will appoint a crony whom he owes

  • AceInTX

    Won’t happen….

    The Republicans begging Kay to stay are worried about protecting the club and could care less about whether a Democrat might win if Kay Resigns

  • AceInTX

    I can’t think of anything…and I can point to dozens of things that would prove her to be anything but honorable

  • AceInTX

    You are a threat to them…don’t sit on your heels and wait for them to tell you how…

    In Texas you just show up after the polls close. It’s too late now but you can still show up at the district convention and appeal to the credentials committee to seat you as a temporary/alternate delegate….or to fill an empty seat as a delegate.

    The are others from other states at Red State who can tell you what to do if you’re not from Texas….

    just don’t expect anyone at the local party to help you….you have to elbow your way in…or find someone who’s already in to give you a hand up

  • AceInTX

    he’s a member of the club….he’s not one of us any more….

  • Aaron Gardner
  • Bill

    are currently Blue Blood Country Club RINOs who Glenn Beck has so eloquently identified as PROGRESSIVES, like bully ole Teddy Roosevelt, Nelson Rockfeller, etc. Don’t you get it, any of you? Once you get to DC you get in the crowd and if you stick your nose up the right “hole” you get the good seats at the table. Otherwise you are a back bencher and are suppose to sit down and shut up unless they need you to open your mouth. Jim Demint seems to be a good guy, but I didn’t see him standing with Jim Bunning this week? Did you? Give me a break. Cornyn is at the table not up next to the back wall and he wants to stay there.

  • AceInTX

    the main thing I have against it is that It gives the libs a quote line to use against Republicans…and Erick….and it takes away from the real issue and that is the continuing contempt that the Party establishment has put on full display against Conservatives and the base of the party.

  • AceInTX

    it’s the smoke screen being thrown up by the establishment to provide Kay cover to walk back her promise…the RINOs in the Senate will make a big show of begging her to stay…she’ll make an announcement a week or so from now that she’s to hold a press conference a few days hence…the press will be played as if she is about to announce her resignation….and she’ll announce…after being visited at her home by a dozen or so Senate Republicans that she’s been begged to not abandon her Colleagues to an unknown fate and will answer the call to stay in office and do the critical work of stopping the Obama agenda as if she’s the only person with an R by her name from Texas who can stop the Dems….

    in fact…were I a betting man…I bet $100 against a box of donuts that Kay will run for reelection in 2012…she never had any intention of leaving the Senate if she lost….Kay Baily is everything the derisive nature of the term Politician was meant to convey…she’s an opportunist who is devoid of principle who believes in nothing that doesn’t benefit Kay!

  • Bill

    when we could have had Herman Cain. I met and talked with Herman Cain for 20 minutes or more and looked him in the eye. He really impressed more than the rich white guy, Johnny Issacson. I met Johnny Issacson and talked with him about 15 minutes, eye to eye, and asked him the same questions I asked Herman Cain. Johnny squirmed for 10 minutes when he realized I wasn’t there just to get my photo with him. Could not give a complete logical answer to questions that Herman Cain easily answered. Guess what, Johnny is now Senator, running for re-election and you still don’t know what or if to trust about him and Herman Cain is supporting Tea Party folks and has a radio show on WSB at night and there is no doubt where this great American stands! Just another convenient result between a white rich Republican and a black rich Republican? I suspect this can be answered the same way in Texas.

  • texasgalt

    but patience is wearing thin. We are stuck with him for now.

  • vftruth

    Can you see all the Republican Establishment backing Romney for 2012? Romney is totally a country clubber and elitist, and they want him in their club too! Are you going to support Romney like the Establishment want you too?

  • mdd1956

    appear to be too old to think strait.
    They are failing in both strategy and tactics.
    Michael Williams is exactly the kind of guy the GOP needs front and center RIGHT NOW. Placing MW sends the same message that the election of Scott Brown did Mass., makes our message more effective and helps energize the Texas base the way Marco has in Florida.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • iluvit

    Conservatives have to be careful even with sarcasism. To make such an unsubstantiated statement when there is obviously no basis in fact for racism as the etiology only provides headlines for progressives to use in quoting out of context and does not further the cause.

    The action should be to contact our leadership and Hutchinson and push her out or vote her out if she runs. Expose her progressive ideas and vottes and how she has been tied at the hips to liberal women’s issues time and again and fiscal irresponsibility.

    Even discussing the race card only brings to mind the “everything-is-racist” mindset of the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP.

    Articles such as this is only a shot to our own feet and certainly adds nothing positive. We need to fix the GOP and bring it into line with our core conservative principles but this is the vehicle that we have and it is the only vehicle we have to save our Republic from the progressives. Purge the progressives by all means but do not allow our enemies to have an unnecessary and unjustified opening for attack.

    Rick Nelson

  • iluvit

    Now you are sounding like the left attacking Romney on his financial success and not on his stance on the issues. He is certainly not my first choice but is not a bad choice either when I look at his abilities and his track record and stance on the issues that are core to the conservative principles. It makes me sick to hear people criticize other for being rich and successful and it makes me angry when so-called conservatives do the same. Would you prefer abjectct failures in life become your President? We have one of those in the White House now.

    The ad hominem attacks without regard to policy or any basis in fact are out of line.

  • iluvit

    You suggest that Erick has been in the fight longer than others or has more insight that anyone. Well, what fact do you base that upon. I support him most of the time but have serious problems with this broad-brushed attack. Many like me have spent mant years and tons of my own money actually going to washington in addition to relentless phone and email battles with those in DC.

    So your baseless statement the someone has been fighting the fight longer than someone you do not even know is baseless. You seem to be one to paint with a broad brush with facts instead of targeting specific individuals like Lindsay Graham and Olympia snow who are clearly progressives and need to be voted out.

  • http://www.BTWsociety.org racvt

    … it is NOT funny.
    Too many people only read/remember headlines.

  • shadowtax

    Or are we supposed to vote against the liberal guy running to replace him? It’s sooo confusing. Am I supposed to vote against for somebody because of they are supported by the GOP or because of their race? Does establishment trump race? I need a handbook. Voting based upon polemic inspired angst, although emotionally satisfying, is hard!

    I think I’ll cop out and vote, or support, the candidate best qualified. Now where do I register to vote for who Rick Perry will appoint if Kay Bailey Hutcheson resigns?

  • JadedByPolitics

    I base what I say on Erick by having watched him for a few years here BTW do you have a blog? a political seat? Senators & Congressman clammoring for you to let them have the FP of your NON EXISTENT blog? EXACTLY now drop your pitiful explanations and either get in the game of the SMACKING around the National GOP or start your blog where you complain about the “grassroots” either way you will be irrelevant!

  • 1stsgt

    I have read a lot of this mish-mash about the GOP not wanting a black person in the senate. I live in Texas and if Mr. Williams runs for the senate, he has my vote. Who am I? A seventy-five year old who spent 23 years prepared to do what ever I was called on to do in defense of this Great Nation. Some of our alleged leaders should be ashamed of the way they are acting and Lord knows they should thrown out of office. I have a bumper sticker on my vehicle the says I LOVE MY COUNTRY, IT’S THE GOVERNMENT I’M AFRAID OF.

  • 1stsgt

    I have read a lot of this mish-mash about the GOP not wanting a black person in the senate. I live in Texas and if Mr. Williams runs for the senate, he has my vote. Who am I? A seventy-five year old who spent 23 years prepared to do what ever I was called on to do in defense of this Great Nation. Some of our alleged leaders should be ashamed of the way they are acting and Lord knows they should thrown out of office. I have a bumper sticker on my vehicle the says I LOVE MY COUNTRY, IT’S THE GOVERNMENT I’M AFRAID OF.

  • 1stsgt

    In my post I forgot to mention that I am caucasian. My service taught me to work with many different ethnic groups.

  • vftruth

    When Romney ran for the Senate against Ted Kennedy he was pro-choice (lots of videos to prove it), and pro-gay. Even Ted Kennedy said Mitt Romney had NO principles he stood on.

    He was the Gov. of MA when the first state to have gay marriage was enacted. Yes, he verbally said he didn’t approve,but his actions showed differently. BTW, before he ran for Gov. of MA. Mitt Romney told the Log Cabin Republicans (pro gays) that he would be a better friend to them than the Democrat who was running as his opponent. He sure did, didn’t he.

    He was Gov. the Romneycare which was the program Obamacare was based on. It has mandated healthcare which is NOT a Conservative position. It also grew the government which is NOT a Conservative position.

    Mitt Romney is a RINO who is completely being pushed on all of us by the Republican Establishment. The last time they did that was McCain and that didn’t work out too good did it? The Democrats would have a field day with Romney and his flip flops just like the Republicans did with Kerry. The Democrats already mentioned that against Romney with their response to the Values Voter Conf.

    Romney has decided to go after the Independents and the Moderates just like McCain, and this won’t work because he needs to get all the Republicans first. I guess he assumes because he ran as a Social Conserv. in 2008, he will have all their votes. Think again. Now we see him going for the Moderate vote. I wonder if he gets up each morning and decides then who he will be. We want a genuine Conservative candidate, and it isn’t Romney

    Also just pay attention to who he endorses, they are all Moderate candidates. NY23 shows us that the Republicans want Conservative candidates (except in states like MA Scott).

  • jeffreywturner

    The Republican nominee could have a massive scandal break at the last second. ANYTHING can happen.

    The only way it is a guarantee is when there is no election, and that is what Cornyn wants.

    Mind you, I want to see KBH go. I am just saying that Cornyn’s goals as NRSC chair are very narrow and do not always align with ours.

  • cesarfs

    That all people are going to be judged by their character and not the color of their skins

    Obama is diametrically opposed to this idea. He wants to be judged by the color of his skin and not by his character because should anyone had look at his character; the truth of his real intentions and philosophy would have taken all the votes he got.

    Obama is a communist pretending to be not religions, while practicing only one religion, his own, where he is his own god. What this does for him is to present him as a practitioner of every religion. No wonder he claims to be moslem and to be Christian and everything that he finds convenient to pretend to be.

    The problem is his incompetence, because he is so entrenched in the idea of his own superiority that he chooses to ignore everything else that becomes obvious to the rest.

    Democrats are playing with this poor character by utilizing him top push every sinister and corrupted idea they can figure will help them perpetuate control and power.

    Only the people, while possible, can get rid of both, Obama and the Democrats, with the additional benefit that it will be a message for the Republicans that feel identified with this type of ‘democracy’