Another moderate (sane) republican waves bye bye.

[sufrommich]

Kay Bailey Hutchison Won't Seek Reelection In 2012


Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican, will not seek reelection in 2012, the Dallas Morning News reports.

"I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for re-election in 2012," wrote the three-term senator to supporters on Thursday. "That should give the people of Texas ample time to consider who my successor will be."

The Fort-Worth Star Telegram reported last month that the GOP lawmaker would have a Tea Party target on her back if she decided to run.

"She personifies everything that the Tea Party is fighting," said one member of a local Texas Tea Party steering committee. "She is a Republican, but when you check her votes on many issues, they are not ones that conservatives are happy with."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/13/kay-bailey-hutchison-wont_n_808651.html


I can only imagine what kind of nutball teabagger will replace her.

[Wickerman]

1. Wow, I knew Hutchinson was leaving, but I sure don't think of her as sane or moderate

Living in Texas during her ascendance I believed her too RW even for Dallas. My mistake, of course. Surprised things have slipped so badly that Huff would call her moderate.

[gratuitous]

11. She's what passes for moderate in the GOP nowadays

Will the Democrats come up with credible candidates to run against the reactionary neanderthals that will be acceptable to the Tea Baggers? Or will we get more "third way" "centrist" "triangulators" like Martha Coakley, who can't campaign their way out of a wet paper bag?

[kwolf68]

2. LMAO

KBH is a very solid Conservative. WHAT votes has the Tea Party up in arms about her?

I don't get it.

[AlinPA]

3. I never saw her as moderate- she always seemed far right to me. On TV interviews,

she often sounded very hateful.

[kwolf68]

6. She isnt moderate

Not even close. I want to know what votes she made the Tea Party hates so much.

[sufrommich]

9. For a Texas republican, she is the modrate wing of their party. nt

[emulatorloo]

21. Very hateful in tv appearences. Similar to Lyn and Liz Cheney. n/t

[Ian David]

4. I guess she insists on not making gold the only legal tender? n/t

[Cleita]

5. Really?

She always sounded a little wacko to me because her talking points never differed from the ones handed to her from the right wing think tanks who are running her Party.

[charlie]

7. Not sane. Not moderate

Happy to see her go.

[devilgrrl]

8. Sane?

I beg to differ. Then again, compared to what the GOP is giving us now - she is sane.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Oh Nazi Germany circa 1934 comes to mind

Yes the PARTY did this.

[MagickMuffin]

12. KBH is my senator and she is not sane or moderate

:shrug:

I suppose she isn't as batshit insane as the teabaggers though.

[sufrommich]

13. I'll bet you soon find out next election. nt

[Cerridwen]

14. I'll add my chime to the sane? list.

"The last two years have been particularly difficult, especially for my family, but I felt it would be wrong to leave the Senate during such a critical period," she said. "Instead of putting my seat into a special election, I felt it was my duty to use my experience to fight the massive spending that has increased our national debt; the government takeover of the our health care system; and the growth of the federal bureaucracy, which threatens our economy. I will continue that fight until the end of my term in 2012."

<snip to link>

Here, let me translate.

OMG!!!!! There's a black man in the oval office!!!! Quick!!!! Stop the socialists!!!!!

I think I have a different definition of sane.

[Taverner]

15. Probably some crambone who thinks the number pi is the work of the debbil

...will replace her

[d_r]

16. they just want to be against anybody

its like a college football fan - the team's best quarterback is always the redshirt freshman 2nd stringer who has never played before. They want the next one that will out crazy the last one. Remember how bad they wanted that guy in Mass., they sent in all that money and so on, now they don't want him.

I thought this whole "tea party" thing was supposed to be grass roots cross section of concerned Americans - not the "the republicans are not conservative enough for me" fundamentalist cave people. Guess that identity thing isn't working out.

[WinkyDink]

17. "Moderate"?! Yeah, okay. (Rolling eyes emoticon.)

[Solly Mack]

18. Just because the people she once pandered to for votes no longer like her

doesn't make her the new baseline for 'sane' republican.

It's a bit like conservatives trying to distance themselves from Shrub. Sorry..no.

[rurallib]

19. Lord they must have a guage that is about 1mm wide

My recollection is Hutchinson is extreme. Tried to become guv by out whacking Guv Goodhair.

[Vickers]

20. The teabagger purity test sounds even more stringent than DU's. n/t

[Dokkie]

22. I know who its going to be

Debra Medina, shes the tea party queen who almost caused a run-off in the gubernatorial races