Texas Photo Finish: Why Bill White Will Lose on Tuesday
When Gov. Rick Perry (an Aggie) defeats Democratic nominee Bill White (who may have had questionable help from struggling UT) on Tuesday to win his third full term at the top of Texas’ government, postmortems on the Great White Hope campaign will begin. The Democrats pinned their hopes on White as their best chance to win since the last time they won the slot, 20 years ago when Ann Richards defeated Clayton Williams. Big name Democrats have been coming to Texas for the past few years to meet with White and prime him to be their savior here, as the Perry camp lampooned in this web ad that hit the streets this week:
Those meetings and his policies show Bill White to be the liberal that he has claimed not to be, for the purposes of having a chance to win in Texas. And that liberal record is a major part of why White will lose. But when the deeper postmortems begin, they should begin with this photo, which appeared today in the El Paso Times.
Note the headline — the candidate is “jogging.” Now take a good look at his footwear. Granted this is Texas, and granted we have interesting wildlife-like rattlesnakes and copperheads in these parts, but who in their right mind jogs in cowboy boots? Rick Perry is an agile campaigner, arguably the most talented campaigner Texas has ever produced (Texas’ Wiliest Politician Award will always belong to the crooked as a snake LBJ). Perry is also an avid jogger. You’re not going to catch up to Rick Perry by jogging in boots. And if you do, well, he’s packing heat.
Well,when you begin with the fact that White has been wetting his panties a long time over “global warming” and is blind queer for Dr James Hansen and makes no secret of the fact,it’s pretty hard for him to paint himself as anything other than an out and out lefty/lib,no matter what else me might say about any other issues…We’re not going to stand for that “cap & trade” nonsense here
Hope springs eternal in the liberal oasis’ of Austin,Houston and Dallas, however the rest of Texas lives, eats and breathes…………Freedom! Texans are an ‘ornery lot, they don’t like to be told how they should do things, they’d rather do it wrong their way than have some “outsider” tell them how they should be doing it. Add to that ‘orneriness, a disdain for anything or anyone that even remotely resembles a “Yankee” and you have a real problem. Northeast liberals and anyone from the Beltway are viewed with healthy sceptisism. Texans are an ‘ornery bunch. Thank God for Texans! Oh, in the interest of full disclosure, I am a Texan, just spending time at my winter residence in Arizona. And yes, I am ‘ornery.
Not all of Dallasites are Liberal…:)
Every time I hear an ad for Bill White calling him a “Fiscal Conservative” I laugh out loud. Then adding the “Rick Perry is bad for Texas” tag is even more snort worthy.
I’m kinda charmed by Gov. Goodhair – who is every bit as wily an operator as Mr. Preston indicates – as he had the sense to see the Tea Party tsunami coming, a long, long, way out and far ahead of most of the rest. But alas, Bill White looks … oh, kind of like the referee that Tom Hanks’ character abused in “A League of Their Own.”
Given the way that politicians usually treat the electorate after the elections – with all other things being more or less equal, you might as well go for the one that offers a better aesthetic aspect on the tee-vee news.
Instead of focusing on a candidate’s footwear and whether or not he is “jogging”, maybe you should focus on the issues. Bill White is in no way a liberal, and anyone who looks at his history as mayor in Houston as well as his stances on important issues would know that. Anyone who doesn’t do their research and listens to the biased ads trying to link him to the current administration to make him appear more “liberal” is ignorantly believing a mere campaign strategy to get votes. Yes, Rick Perry is an “agile campaigner”, but campaigning is just about all he can do. He’s a career politician that’s in it for himself, and anyone who votes for him is hurting Texas. Just look at the current dropout rate, and Perry’s brilliant “new” plan to fix it, requiring people getting their driver’s license to show proof of enrollment. Hmm..that’s been a law since 1989 and Perry has been in charge of enforcing it for the past 10 years. Brilliant. Bill White is Harvard educated, has strong plans for education, did an outstanding job as Houston’s mayor, and will do an incredible job as governor if the people of Texas are smart enough to vote for him.
Be careful Sarah, you could choke on that kool-aide you are gulping down. I think you have overdosed on it!
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way to stay classy texas…
You’re kidding,right? Bill White is yet another long line of democrat hacks pretending to be conservative. Let’s see… who do the labor unions, the teacher’s unions, La Raza, the NAACP support for governor this year? Which candidate does the Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News support? Just ask all the districts who thought their “conservative democrat” representatives wouldn’t vote for Obama Care. At some point, the mask comes off.
My sincerest condolences in your belief of Bill White. He is what he is…a liberal bufoon.
Actually, I did research the candidates…1. The auditors’ report on Houston showed that while mayor, White used the pension funds of firemen and police to avoid cutting city expenses. (The firemen and police of Houston support the governor.) 2. White refuses to make his finances public while he was a part of the Clinton regime, while Perry has been open. His income is his salary as governor. (If he has nothing to hide, why keep his financial record a secret?) 3. When he proposed policies that met with voter resistance, Perry backed off…the inoculations against venereal disease and the Trans-Texas Corridor…..4. While White adheres to the global warming scam which would devastate our Texas economy, the governor is battling the EPA’s insane war on energy…5. The governor and atty general have joined the lawsuit against Obamacare on the basis that the feds don’t have constitutional authority to force citizens to buy insurance and don’t have the authority to force states to double their share of Medicare costs. 6. Faced with lower tax revenues due to the recession, the governor issued mandates to cut the costs of government across the board. 7. The Harvard degree means to many true Texans ‘elitist snob with no common sense’. Give us an Aggie any day because they at least are taught discipline and logic.
That “Harvard education” thing is wearing a little thin.
key words: HARVARD EDUCATED. That immediately disqualifies him as an unsuitable idiot. Everyone in a technical field knows that HARVARD EDUCATED means totally confused about fractions and basic science. If you said MIT or Stanford educated, then that is a meaningful accomplishment. All HARVARD EDUCATED means is that they can team paddle a worthless skinny canoe while their lockjawed blue blood wiccans cheer from the riverside. What has HARVARD EDUCATED brought us other than Bill White? Obama and Kagan to name a few. Our government is top heavy with HARVARD EDUCATED attorneys and pseudo-managers who believe that adding value means milking a cash rich corporation or the US economy into terminal debt, then spending it on houses in Aspen and vacations in Monaco.
- and Bill White isn’t a career politician? Puh-lease.
The fact that he’s “Harvard educated” just means that White has been fully indoctrinated into East-coast liberalism. We’ve got an Ivy-league educated dunce for a President right now, so we don’t need to compound our problems by electing another one Governor of Texas. As far as White’s vaunted fiscal conservatism goes, he left Houston running in the red when he was term-limited out of office. Even the Democrat mayor who replaced him has publicly made note of the fiscal mess she inherited.
No, let’s send Bill out to pasture. That’s the wise thing to do.
Sarah, why do you think liberal is somehow a bad thing? Don’t you think we should care?
I am laughing my butt off as I read your comment….
You must work fr Bill White because no Texan believes Bill White will do jack for TX! He’s terrible and we all know it. Rick Perry on the other hand as built a strong TX that NO ONE can argue that he hasn’t. No one, not even Bill White or his supporters. Oh make no mistake, they can lie all they want. And they are all lying to themselves if they think Bill White has a chance.
See you on Tuesday!!!
Just two words about Bill White’s tenure as mayor of Houston: sanctuary city. Enough said.
Enough of liberal kindness that can literally kill.
“… Bill White is Harvard educated…”
Credentialed, not educated!
And, as we see Inside the Beltway, a Harvard education just ensures that we’re in the best of hands.
Bill’Elmer Fudd’ White: Shhh…be vewy, vewy quiet-I’m hunting Wick Pewwy’.
Looking forward to the victory party here in Austin Tuesday night! Unfortunately for Texas, Lloyd Doggett will probably win though.
I don’t even live in Texas, and even I’ve got sense enough not to trust a Harvard-educated candidate to run a state that size. Isn’t that where they train the next generation of socialists? Good luck with that.
Sarah:
Bill White turned Houston into a sanctuary city, thinking that it would endear him to the Hispanic vote. Bill White has run Houston into bankruptcy, even though the recession didn’t hit Texas as hard as it did elsewhere. Bill White is a democrat. Yet you insist he’s NOT a lib? If that’s your position on the political spectrum, then you must be somewhere to the left of Joe Stalin.
David McQueen
Katy, TX
I clicked your link to the Coyote Special and the first thing I want to know about any gun was never mentioned in that piece: the caliber. I finally found it by searching (not Googling) “Ruger coyote special.”
Who the @#$!! writes about a gun and doesn’t mention the caliber?
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key words: HARVARD EDUCATED. That immediately disqualifies him as an unsuitable idiot. Everyone in a technical field knows that HARVARD EDUCATED means totally confused about fractions and basic science. If you said MIT or Stanford educated, then that is a meaningful accomplishment. All HARVARD EDUCATED means is that they can team paddle a worthless skinny canoe while their lockjawed blue blood wiccans cheer from the riverside. What has HARVARD EDUCATED brought us other than Bill White? Obama and Kagan to name a few. Our government is top heavy with HARVARD EDUCATED attorneys and pseudo-managers who believe that adding value means milking a cash rich corporation or the US economy into terminal debt, then spending it on houses in Aspen and vacations in Monaco.
I felt that White’s tag line, “White’s in it for Texas” simply lacked the laser beam precision of “hope and change.”
I am surprised that Perry has not issued ads attacking White’s gun confiscation activities on the Bloomberg Mayors committee.
Harvard, you say? Isn’t that enough by itself for a Texan to vote for someone else?
And, for the ultra-liberals in Austin and Houston and those in the inner-city communities, voting for a white is not a good thing.
The race for Governor of Texas was over on the day of the Primary races. When Kay Bailey lost the Dem’s lost their candidate. White was and will always be a crook from planet Houston.
It has been nice to watch the Dem’s wasting yet more money when they know it won’t pay off. Sort of how they run things at the Washington level.
white is not jogging in that photo, he’s running like a thief, hoping that no one will catch him.
The photo of Bill White jogging through an El Paso neighborhood is alarming. The worst part of his jogging costume isn’t his cowboy boots but his Guayabera running shirt. I think the Guayabera probably is White’s subtle promise to progressive supporters that–if elected governor–he will force Texas schoolkids to wear Cuban athletic uniforms.
A Democrat trolling for votes on the west side of El Paso? Just goes to show what an idiot White is. I grew up in that part of town, and it’s historically been solid Republican. Of course, jogging through Sunset Heights, the Lower Valley or anywhere else near the border — all heavily Mexican, therefore heavily Democrat — would have required a substantial security entourage, lest he get mugged. Not to mention the risk of stray bullets from the drug wars in Juarez.