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Hutchison and the current Governor, Rick Perry are both great Republicans. It will make a hard decision which one is better. I wish a liberal Dem was in office now so it would be a no-brainer who to vote for.

There is something fundamentally wrong when our elected officials who we are paying to do a job decide to run for another office while still on that payroll. Senator Hutchinson shoulld follow through with her offer to resign while she runs for governor of Texas. How can she focus on her Senate job while she is campaigning for governer.

During the Presidential campaign three sitting Senators were running. At one point the Senate Majority Leader postponed a vote on legislation because the three were occupied with the Super Tuesday primaries. Those Senators were being paid to perform work as Senators not to run for President.

You and I could not do that. This is an example of how our elected officials have assumed a sense of entitlement that we could never enjoy.

She should run for Senate and then President. I like this woman.

WISE MOVE SEN. HUTCHISON . . .

Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is smart, insightful, discerning, and has a lot more character than Texas Governor Rick Perry.

However, the Senator has the misfortune of running for governor in a state where majority of the voting population are GOP ditto-heads that guzzle down Republican koolaid, even when it is clear Republican policies are bought and pushed by corporate lobbyist that are working against the interest of the American middle-class.

she stands to lose a boat load, no way she gives up that gravy train

she won't resign because conservative Rick Perry will beat her easily!

smart move because she aint gonna be governor. She must realize this so the backtracking

I thought they were pushing for term limits

"government takeover of nearly one-third of our economy" – Complete lie. There is no independent source that backs this up. Even the CBO says this will not happen. Insurance companies compete against non-profit insurance companies right now.

"We are a step closer to huge tax increases" – Again, complete lie. My assumption is this is in reference to cap and trade. The CBO estimates an average increase of $175 per household by 2020. That is not a huge tax increase.

If the above was in reference to healthcare, the huge tax increases are targeted to people making over 500,000 dollars a year. I would feel bad for this group if they haven't been getting richer over the last 20 years while everyone else is getting poorer.

That's GREAT, Kay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We've got to have you in government somewhere. Don't let a skunk like Perry scare you. There are plently of us Texans who wn't to see him tarred and feathered.

Smart move seeing how Perry is going to crush you.

Sorry, KBH, it is called CYA. The cons in Texas will never vote for you and you know it.

My, my which way is the wind blowing. Maybe I will, maybe I won't.

Perry is a true joke as a governor and I would love to see kay leave the senate so we can put a dem in her seat. Ha ha

I think that she should have just kept her mouth shut about resigning. Now that she turned and now is wanting to keep her seat, liberal bloggers will tear her apart on this site. She wants to counter the liberal Democrats and vote against the health care bill. I find that this is a good thing to do as I do not support this $1.1 trillion monstrous bill myself, but to say that you want to resign than change your mind is not a good thing to do. I cannot wait for the things the liberal bloggers (aka kool-aid drinkers) have to say about this one, however.

great now PALIN may want to take notes on how to be a politician and not walk away from the AMERICAN people

So much for her belief in term limits...

A typical day in the lives of the Republicans. They just cannot make up their mind what to do and what not to do.

No reason not to keep her seat. She must have asked John Kerry for some tips.

because her polls are tanking......

I hope that we pass health care reform. If we do pass health care reform people will realize how they were lied to by the party of no and vote democrat. If we do not pass health care reform democrats will lose heavily in the 2010 elections and republicans might regain control of congress. So it is not only important that we pass health care reform because it is the right thing to do, it will cost America in the voting booth if we do not.

Yet another Republican "quitter."

Texas has more uninsured per capita than any other state.
It's a competition between Perry and Hutchinson as to who's the most anti-consumer, pro-insurance who.re.

Gosh if she where a democrat they would call it flip flopping!

only thing she is shy on is the party she should be in (DEMOCRATE) she actualy has the ability to think pass party lines of ideals . but is blinded by the party rules of (NO) being the only answer the republicans know ... she will loose her bid for office and find out to late her party isn't going to support her in the future .and she might get saved by the democrates and build a new future of equal rights for the people over the control of big business ,and the insurance industry for health care .. but for now we will watch her carier fail slowly and sadly......

gary davis
harbor oregon
proud to support our new administration

Does she think she's a little too moderate for the new GOP who is purging anyone and everyone that the extreme right deems as too moderate? Hmmm. I guess Palin will be supporting Perry for the extreme right group and then the moderates may be supporting her. I think I see another NY 23rd in the making.

Now that we've shut down the trans texas corridor does it really matter who wins? I guess, at least with kay bailey, we'll still be part of the united states.

Don't give up your day job Kay, because you'll need it after the election.

What a game changer.

Oh! If your bid for Texas governorship slot fails, you can always run back to WASHINGTON DC. I thought Washington sucks? Then why are you not leaving it. HYPOCRITES!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's very simple. She knows that she will not defeat Perry so she is hanging on to her Senate seat.

make-up your mind already

"She is running for governor because she feels it is important to fight ... against the Democratic health care proposal and cap and trade."

Like most of the Republican party, she doesn't actually want to fight FOR something, just against the Democrats. How do the Republicans plan to solve our health insurance problems and our global climate change problems? They don't. They just intend to stand on the sideline and try to get a political advantage.

so we've heard the last of any GOP whining about who is doing whose job while out campaigning .... its now truly bipartisan ...

I hope she loses, and I hope Texas succeeds, like Rick Perry wants.

Shes nothing but a garden tool for the war profit machine in Texas.

We don't want her here in Texas and they sure don't want her in Washington.