And at the same time they were lining up the 2012 presidential campaign for Rick Perry, Texas Republicans also dealt a sharp setback to their party’s religious conservatives with the defeat of two key members of the State Board of Education in favor of globalist-oriented neo-conservatives.
Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison both dropped more than $8 million on the governor’s race, far in excess of the amount raised by challenger Debra Medina — although Medina had more than six times the number of individual contributions. Combined with a virtual blackout by the major news media on coverage of Medina in the final days of the campaign, following the now-famous ambush of Medina by entertainer Glenn Beck, and the hopes by reformers for major change in the GOP in Texas crashed.
“Now back to your regularly-scheduled landgrabbing and pimping for Gardasil and the NAFTA superhighway,” dead-panned Medina supporter Jeff Johnson.
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