Perry, Punches, & Putin
I guess this piece is more of a critique of the Bill White campaign than it is a critique of Governor Rich Perry.
What I find frustrating about Bill White, and why I think he’s going to lose is that I think he’s peaked too soon.
There was a time when a few polls in the state of Texas made this race look like it was winnable for Bill White, the Democratic Party nominee.
White was originally going to run for Senator and eventually shifted gears to retool his campaign toward a shot at the governor’s mansion.
But after an initial buzz after defeating Farouk Shami, Bill White’s campaign seems to have lost some steam. The bulk of his campaign leadership seems to be a younger group of campaign workers.
Maybe that’s why they appear to have missed a great opportunity to capitalize on the naked stupidity of Governor Perry. The governor made a remark recently in which he gave both Pinocchio of the guy who lies from Saturday Night Live a run for their money. Perry mentioned car bombs going off in El Paso.
Unless he’s talking about someone sitting at a traffic light with bad gas after a big meal at Avila’s, the Governor is lying.
How the hell does the Bill White campaign let the Governor of the State of Texas off the hook for impugning the reputation of one of the largest cities in Texas? How do they let Perry make such a stupid remark about the safest city in the very state in which he governs?
Maybe the young guns over at the Bill White campaign think they can Twitter or Facebook their way to victory.
Warning…here’s one of my boxing analogies again:
The biggest disappointment about the El Paso car bomb remark is the fact that it was exactly what the Bill White campaign appears to be waiting for…a chance at a knock-out punch. The Bill White campaign at this point looks like Mike Tyson at the end of his career, a guy that is past his prime and is willing to eat a lot of leather in order to swing wildly in the desperate hope that he will land that one magic blow.
The Bill White campaign will lose because they haven’t been throwing the jab. The most humble of all punches in boxing, but ask any fighter and they will tell you it’s the most important one.
Rick Perry knocked off Kay Bailey Hutchison essentially by jabbing her to death. He pressed her every day. Press release after press release in a pace that would’ve made even Senator Shapleigh’s offices a little jealous. Even if nothing meaningful landed, he kept Hutchison off her game and on the defensive the entire race, just like a really good jab is supposed to do.
He jabbed his opponent and won on points.
In the case of the fairy-tale car bomb, the Bill White campaign didn’t miss the knock-out punch, they never threw the damn thing!
And thanks to the spoiled opportunites, Governor Perry will go down in Texas history with a unique distinction…he’s been the man in charge in Texas longer than Vladimir Putin was the man in charge of Russia.
Sorry, I know I should’ve finished this piece with an analogy involving Rocky and Ivan Drago, but I guess I missed the punch…
What I find frustrating about Bill White, and why I think he’s going to lose is that I think he’s peaked too soon.
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| From The Lion Star Blog |
There was a time when a few polls in the state of Texas made this race look like it was winnable for Bill White, the Democratic Party nominee.
White was originally going to run for Senator and eventually shifted gears to retool his campaign toward a shot at the governor’s mansion.
But after an initial buzz after defeating Farouk Shami, Bill White’s campaign seems to have lost some steam. The bulk of his campaign leadership seems to be a younger group of campaign workers.
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| From The Lion Star Blog |
Unless he’s talking about someone sitting at a traffic light with bad gas after a big meal at Avila’s, the Governor is lying.
How the hell does the Bill White campaign let the Governor of the State of Texas off the hook for impugning the reputation of one of the largest cities in Texas? How do they let Perry make such a stupid remark about the safest city in the very state in which he governs?
Maybe the young guns over at the Bill White campaign think they can Twitter or Facebook their way to victory.
Warning…here’s one of my boxing analogies again:
The biggest disappointment about the El Paso car bomb remark is the fact that it was exactly what the Bill White campaign appears to be waiting for…a chance at a knock-out punch. The Bill White campaign at this point looks like Mike Tyson at the end of his career, a guy that is past his prime and is willing to eat a lot of leather in order to swing wildly in the desperate hope that he will land that one magic blow.
The Bill White campaign will lose because they haven’t been throwing the jab. The most humble of all punches in boxing, but ask any fighter and they will tell you it’s the most important one.
Rick Perry knocked off Kay Bailey Hutchison essentially by jabbing her to death. He pressed her every day. Press release after press release in a pace that would’ve made even Senator Shapleigh’s offices a little jealous. Even if nothing meaningful landed, he kept Hutchison off her game and on the defensive the entire race, just like a really good jab is supposed to do.
He jabbed his opponent and won on points.
In the case of the fairy-tale car bomb, the Bill White campaign didn’t miss the knock-out punch, they never threw the damn thing!
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| From The Lion Star Blog |
And thanks to the spoiled opportunites, Governor Perry will go down in Texas history with a unique distinction…he’s been the man in charge in Texas longer than Vladimir Putin was the man in charge of Russia.
Sorry, I know I should’ve finished this piece with an analogy involving Rocky and Ivan Drago, but I guess I missed the punch…
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