OK, so I’m a conservative Republican that happens to really like his Senator. Kay Bailey Hutchinson has been a great leader for the state of Texas and is THE MOST POPULAR politician in the state today. In contrast with John Cornyn, our other senator, she has fundamentals worth 20+ points.
So here is my case on why John McCain should choose KBH. She is strong conservative (http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison.htm) who can deliver a percentage of Hillary voters. She also places the GOP in a leadership position to capture the majority of the female vote. She is also popular among Mexican Americans in her home state. She won by a landslide last time around and was the favorite to win the governatorial race in the state, to beat the sitting governor, if she would have wanted it.
The ideal would be to have McCain name KBH as his VP right before Hillary speaks at the Dems convention next week. This would be SWEET!!! Are you listing John?
This is from the Telegraph in the UK from some time ago (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2607505/Joe-Biden-plagiarised-Neil-Kinnock-speech.html). Apparently, the change that Obama wants to give us is for an inexperienced orator that does not know the world and a cheating senator that is full of himself. I guess we will be welcoming President McCain to the Oval Office in January!
The speech by Mr Kinnock, as he desperately tried to remodel and rebuild the Labour Party, was widely judged to be a dramatic and powerful piece of political rhetoric – making it particularly tempting, but also unusually unwise, for Mr Biden to borrow its most significant passage without attribution to the British politician.
NEIL KINNOCK at Welsh Labour Party conference May 1987:
“Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what we had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand”
JOE BIDEN IN Sept 1987 during his first presidential campaign:
“Why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go a university? Why is it that my wife… is the first in her family to ever go to college? Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? …Is it because they didn’t work hard? My ancestors who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come after 12 hours and play football for four hours? It’s because they didn’t have a platform on which to stand.”