"Is New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah Palin?"

[applegrove]

Is New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah Palin?

Petty. Vindictive. Weak on policy. And yet she's being hailed as the Republican Party's great new hope.

By Andy Kroll at Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/governor-susana-martinez-new-mexico-2016

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These are trying times for Republicans in search of inspiration. Sure, it looks like they have a shot to take back the Senate. But if the escalating civil war between the establishment and the "wacko bird" tea party wing doesn't tear the GOP in two, changing demographics threaten to push it toward extinction. Every four years, the party turns in poor showings with young people and cedes more ground among unmarried women and Latinos—the fastest-growing parts of the country's population. In the 1988 presidential election, minorities made up just 15 percent of voters; by 2012, that number had risen to 28 percent, and they supported Obama by a 62-point margin. "Devastatingly," the party's 2012 post-mortem concluded, "we have lost the ability to be persuasive with, or welcoming to, those who do not agree with us."

No wonder, then, that many see Martinez, who turns 55 in July, as the party's future. Fox News host Greta Van Susteren touts her "great resume": America's first Latina governor. Former district attorney of a border county. Guardian of her mentally disabled sister. Tax cutter, gun owner, daughter of a sheriff's deputy. The Koch brothers invited her to speak at one of their secretive donor enclaves. Karl Rove singled her out in Time's list of last year's 100 most influential people as a "reform-minded conservative Republican." The Washington Post put her at the top of a list of likely 2016 vice presidential candidates; Romney has boosted her as a presidential contender. "She plugs every hole we've got as a party, and she's got a record to match," says Ford O'Connell, an adviser to the 2008 McCain campaign.

In the media, Martinez is often compared to Sarah Palin—"Susana Barracuda" read the title of a recent profile—a sassy small-town politician with national aspirations, an anti-Washington message, and an everywoman appeal (she loves Taco Bell, shops at Ross Dress for Less, and watches Dancing With the Stars). Her dead certain, with-me-or-against-me governing style draws comparisons to another Southwestern governor who made the leap from the statehouse to the White House, George W. Bush.

But perhaps the best comparison is to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Both are former prosecutors and Republican governors in blue states. They serve side by side on the money-raising juggernaut known as the Republican Governors Association (RGA), and they campaigned together during Christie's 2013 reelection campaign; "Is This Your 2016 Republican Ticket?" was a typical headline.




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[madaboutharry]

1. Susana Martinez reacted just like Sarah Palin would have reacted.

Blame the media and attack the messenger. She is just another thin-skinned mean girl with a sense of entitlement.

Read her response here:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/susana-martinez-new-mexico-responds-mother-jones

[Warpy]

2. She also holds a pretty mean grudge

In her first weeks in office, Tejana Susana tried to overturn all environmental laws governing drilling for gas and oil in NM (can there be more obvious payback to the Koch boys?) by gubernatorial fiat. The courts struck it all down in under a week and weren't terribly gentle in doing so.

Today, she vetoed their pay raises.

I do not want this woman to get a second term, but she probably will because until today, she's kept a pretty low profile.

I'm posting this as a warning to the rest of the country, do not let anyone you know vote for her if the Republicans put her up for national office. Make sure they know who and what she is--a puppet with her strings pulled by Koch Industries.

[VanillaRhapsody]

4. Aren't ALL republicans just puppets for the Koch bros at this point?

[Warpy]

6. It's getting to be nearly that bad

but some are more beholden to oil refining and sales and others more beholden to the insurance/investment industry.

But yes, more and more are owned outright by the Kochs.

[Wounded Bear]

3. I don't know...

Is she a beauty pageant contestant with no brains who quits and whines all the time?

[madaboutharry]

5. There is a link to the audio on this link at The Daily Mail.

The worst kind of people often end up in politics.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606886/Secret-recordings-New-Mexico-Governor-Susana-Martinez.html

[UTUSN]

7. So she's a PERFECT Rethug minority member: Traitorous to her home group, to her gender, & TEACHERS

for gudness' sake! (She says teachers don't work 2 1/2 months per year but get paid). She mocked a state commission on women's issues and then line-item vetoed its budget/existence. She's the puppet of her White male handler, who has a desk in her office suite. She says it's all about ISSUES (welfare, guns) that makes her a Rethug. I'd say she has the Rethug rotten to the core values in her imprint, so she's PERFECT!1