Debra Medina is Awakening a Giant

Debra Medina, according to a headline in the   Austin Statesman,  “has fundamentally changed the GOP race for governor” in Texas.   

Observe her cool, collected exterior in an interview today with Judge Andrew Napolitano, who is one of the strongest advocates of freedom and allegiance to the Constitution in the country.  She seems to know that she is awaking a giant on the political scene. Beneath this calm exterior, however, one can sense a passionate fire burning that is being fanned by the breath of this awakening giant…this Gulliver…whose slightest movement shakes fear into the hearts of the political Lilliputians who have tried to keep it tied down. 

Medina’s confidence is compelling.  She presents the the contest as a choice between big government and individual freedom, and the message is resonating throughout the state.  She points out that recently her campaign had three times the number of donors of the other candidates. 

Her Rasmussen poll results have quadrupled since last November.   And, it is important to point out that these polls sample likely Republican primary voters.  This does not take into consideration Independents, which we know are a potent force in modern elections.  While currently at 16%, Medina could actually be much higher with the votes of Independents factored in.  It is my understanding that Independents can vote in either primary in Texas.  How high her support has actually grown across the state will only become apparent as the election results come in.  Certainly the texted in votes after both debates show her support to be far greater than either of the other two “business as usual” candidates.  Don’t be surprised if there is a run-off between her and Governor Perry, if she doesn’t actually win the primary outright.  She tells us that she will win, that “We Texans” will win and there is something about how she says it that makes you believe that she already knows the outcome.

Judge Napolitano points out that Medina has taken the idea of limited federal government down to the state level, and he muses that “this must be selling [sic, spreading] like wildfire on a Texas prairie.”  Medina then discusses her effort to get rid of the property tax and to return true ownership of property to Texas residents.  The Judge can only imagine the joy of such economic freedom, living as he does in New Jersey, which he says, has the highest property taxes in the nation.

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