Mar
5
Written by:
William Lutz
3/5/2010 12:59 PM
LSR Managing Editor William Lutz recently published an opinion column in The Washington Examiner discussing this week's primary for governor. My basic point is that in most Republican primaries, it's the social issues that dominate. But this year was different: fiscal conservatives made their voices heard, and Gov. Rick Perry got renominated by appealing to fiscally conservative values. Click here to read the column.
Here is a key excerpt:
Immediately after Gov. Rick Perry's victory in the Texas GOP primary, the press in began trying to discount the Tea Party movement. It had not met the artificially high expectations set for it, neither in the governor's race nor in down-ballot challenges to sitting Republican members of Congress.
But this misses the larger point. After years of playing second fiddle to Texan values voters, fiscal conservatives made their voices heard in Tuesday's Texas Republican primary. Although social issues like abortion, guns, and prayer in school still mattered in this race, taxes and government spending took center stage, up and down the ballot.
Read more at the Washington Examiner:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/OpEd-Contributor/Medina-lost-but-Tea-Party-set-the-tone-for-Texas-Primary-86418652.html#ixzz0hKYNMkmU