Kay Bailey Hutchison Will Face Tea Party Challenge If She Runs For Reelection In 2012

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram:

Only Kay Bailey Hutchison knows whether she'll seek another six-year term in the U.S. Senate.

But Texas' senior senator -- once the most popular Republican in the state in terms of voter support -- has a target on her back if she does run, put there by the increasingly influential and conservative Tea Party grassroots movement.

Read the whole story: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Comments

[mongus]

10:36 PM on 12/06/2010

Come on, Kay. Stand up and fight those pesky Teanderthals.

Or, maybe to save face, you will choose not to run.

Either way, the GOP drifts farther RIGHT.

[Enigma2008]

05:01 PM on 12/06/2010

It should be no mystery why the U S has become ungovernable. There is no time that our representatives are restricted to working on the business of the nations and foresworn from campaigning or soliciting donations. It is all campaigning all the time. Unless political campaigns are restricted as in other countries we are doomed to this endless cycle with no way out.

[lexingtonKY]

04:02 PM on 12/06/2010

You are an old, old, old woman and you need to retire.

[BushIsAWarCriminal]

06:44 PM on 12/06/2010

She's much more capable than Palin. I disagree. Let's keep intelligent Republicans around rather than suffer the existence of Repunks like Madame Fish Guts.

[Jim8]

01:50 PM on 12/06/2010

I'm waiting for the Tea Party to come forward with an opinion on WikiLeaks and tax cuts that raise the deficit they (used to) protest against.

Their silence tells me that are not to be taken as seriously as this article implies. Just Republicans waiting for their orders from Fox News.

[ibsteve2u]

12:17 PM on 12/06/2010

Wish we could exempt folks from taxes...and in return, ban then from using any public services and infrastructure and also prohibit their protection by the police, fire and military.

About five years of having to eat uninspected foods and fend off robbers, rapists, and terrorists all by themselves (from inside their houses, seeing as they wouldn't be permitted to set foot on the public's roads and highways nor travel through the public's airspace) I reckon they'd begin to see sufficient value in government to be willing to pay taxes again.

Those that were still alive, anyway.

[AZIndigo]

12:01 PM on 12/06/2010

If McCain had picked Hutchison as his VP instead of Falin Palin he may have won the 2008 election.

[RoofinReality]

12:24 PM on 12/06/2010

Palin was good looking first and foremost.
She was telegenic not only in her looks but because of her background in journalism. Plus, her big head allowed her to play up her strength - her looks.
Finally, she was a staunch conservative, especially with abortion.

So, he went with a wildcard pick in hopes of getting more woman voters (especially those who didn't like the fact that Hillary didn't win). He could've gotten that from another women. But he could only get a good looking, bona-fide social conservative woman in Palin.

[MovingtoNorway]

01:43 PM on 12/06/2010

He likes his women dumb. The current Mrs. McCain's late intellectual awakenings must be giving him a fit.

[CPAwADD]

12:43 PM on 12/06/2010

His pick of a Palin was a slap in the face to qualified GOP women.

[BookmanIIII]

11:10 AM on 12/06/2010

By the time she runs again the Tea Party will be assimalated into the Reuglican Party or visa versa.

[DK in MS]

11:01 AM on 12/06/2010

Its been a long time coming but we finally made it.

Perpetual Campaign Mode.

The elections were a month ago. Give it a break for at least a year, people. Please....

[Emmanuel Hall]

10:53 AM on 12/06/2010

Bill Maher is a funny guy and right to keep the President's feet to the "fire". However, I think he may be getting the message that his supporters want him to show some backbone aganist this Republican non-sense.
President Obama has to draw a line in the sand and take a stand aganist these right wingers. I hope he realizes that his "base" is being swamped with negative analysis of his actions and the Republicans are loving it. Mr. President, before its too late, you must get out your get tough policy and let you core supporters know that you are strong....ask Bill Clinton how its done.

[Knowbetter]

10:48 AM on 12/06/2010

We haven't had a decent senator since Bentsen.

[Mike169]

10:43 AM on 12/06/2010

It could only be for all her liberalism and communistic/socialistic leanings.

[CPAwADD]

12:44 PM on 12/06/2010

And her relative sanity.

[Mike169]

02:13 PM on 12/06/2010

I never liked her even with her "relative" sanity. These people are absolutists.

[stagebandman]

10:35 AM on 12/06/2010

Say the teabaggers wind up in control of the Foxicans. What then? There's no plan. All they want is power. It's like the cashier that shmoozes his way into management, then doesn't know how to run the store. You know what happens next? THE STORE CLOSES!

I say, let the circular firing squad continue.

[blueplano]

11:53 AM on 12/06/2010

I'm with you. I hope that all moderate rethugs are primaried by baggerz. The farther off the deep end they go, the better it will be for Democrats.

[rillem]

10:28 AM on 12/06/2010

Reasonable Republicans, if there are any, are finding out that courting the teabaggers is like dating a crazy girl: it's fun for a night or two, but not so much when you wake up with her the next day.

[stgir]

10:47 AM on 12/06/2010

I didn't know KBH was considered reasonable. I thought of her as wacked out as all the rest of the ultra conservative.

[red wolfe]

11:30 AM on 12/06/2010

Kind of scary, isn't it?

[rillem]

01:06 PM on 12/06/2010

She is somewhat less wack than Rick Perry. I was speaking comparatively of Hutchison, but you are correct.

I am right with you.

[SuperEd]

10:21 AM on 12/06/2010

The "Breck Girl" not re-elected? What's the world coming to? Good golly Miss Molly!

[Dan Stewart]

10:19 AM on 12/06/2010

Good riddance.

[captainspirou]

05:00 PM on 12/06/2010

She'll get replaced with something worse. Unlike Delaware, Texas would actually vote for a more extreme candidate over a Democrat any day. The only exception is when Ann Richards became governor.