itshappening
03-25-2010, 06:42 AM
Cheney endorsed Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison earlier this year in her primary challenge to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, calling her the true conservative voice in the race.
Cheney's endorsement did next to nothing to help Hutchison and, in fact, might have hurt her at the margins as it played into Perry's central argument -- that the Senator was controlled by Washington elites while he was answerable only to the people of Texas.
Perry won the primary going away, beating Hutchison by 21 points and putting Cheney (and the other members of the George W. Bush team that had endorsed her) in the Fix's loser circle.
Given that recent history, we tend to see Cheney as fitting best into the out-of-state statewide endorsement. That means that while Cheney's endorsement is nice for Grayson to have -- and may well earn him a second look by some Kentucky Republican primary voters -- it's not likely to be determinative come May 18.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/fix-endorsement-hierarchy/dick-cheney-trey-grayson-and-t.html?wprss=thefix
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hoping recent history repeats itself...
Cheney's endorsement did next to nothing to help Hutchison and, in fact, might have hurt her at the margins as it played into Perry's central argument -- that the Senator was controlled by Washington elites while he was answerable only to the people of Texas.
Perry won the primary going away, beating Hutchison by 21 points and putting Cheney (and the other members of the George W. Bush team that had endorsed her) in the Fix's loser circle.
Given that recent history, we tend to see Cheney as fitting best into the out-of-state statewide endorsement. That means that while Cheney's endorsement is nice for Grayson to have -- and may well earn him a second look by some Kentucky Republican primary voters -- it's not likely to be determinative come May 18.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/fix-endorsement-hierarchy/dick-cheney-trey-grayson-and-t.html?wprss=thefix
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hoping recent history repeats itself...