It’s been far too long since I’ve posted. As I am sitting in a hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky, and have a profound desire to avoid working on the checkbook, this is the perfect time to amend that.
Primary election day today back home in Texas:
* We should know within an hour or two that Rick Perry has crushed Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican governor’s primary and avoided a run-off. Gov. Perry can, in small part, thank the inexplicable, inexcusable faux pas by Debra Medina, the sort-of Tea Party candidate. Three weeks ago, when asked by Glen Beck whether she agreed with the 9/11 Truthers, “I don't have all of the evidence there” ... “so I have not taken a position on that.” An act of war and the most significant geopolitical event since the fall of the Berlin wall and she can’t instinctively denounce those that deny the very nature of what happened? Too bad, I sympathize with most (okay, all) of her positions. But her lack of resolve and wit on that single question makes her judgement suspect. Perry has been a good governor, hardly perfect, but he’s a known quantity and not a loose cannon.
* KBH? I don’t share the animosity many conservatives do towards her. She is what she is. I had no expectations for her and she has lived up to them. The only reasonable explanation as to her motivation is desire for relocation. Not good enough.
* Ballot question on requiring sonograms as a prerequisite for abortion. It is nigh on impossible to claim to be pro-choice if you oppose this proposal. Unfortunately it is a non-binding initiative urging the legislature to act. It will save many lives, and more importantly, many souls if they do so.