A nice article analyzing the reasons for Kay Bay's butt-kicking in the GOP primary. I can boil it down and simplify it even further: Kay Bay is one of a vanishing species, a Republican who occasionally behaves sensibly, acts like she's willing to explore alternatives, doesn't parrot the usual Republican bilge ad nauseum, and is generally tolerable to some degree to non-Republicans. She has the (R) after her name, meaning she's a lock in her Senate elections against any Democrat.
Kay's biggest problem is that this is Texas, where Republican activists are the grossest bunch of bottom-feeding dipshits imaginable. Among Texas Republicans, being a teaperson, a secessionist, or an evangelunical is considered prestigious. There's no way Kay Bay could appeal to most Texas GOP primary voters, even with Dick Cheney's endorsement: She has far too much breeding and class. Rick Perry, on the other hand, fits right in with them when it comes to lowest common denominator tendencies. What he doesn't come by naturally, he can fake really well.
It would have been life-affirming to see Kay Bay win the election yesterday, but it should've been obvious it was never gonna happen.
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