Debra Medina, new star of America's right, is firing up the race for Texas governor

[Faygo Kid]

. . . Medina has become a political phenomenon in Texas. Emerging as a genuine star of the rightwing populist Tea Party movement, she delivers a fiery message of slashing taxes and the abolition of almost all forms of federal government, and issues dire warnings that President Obama is taking America down a slippery slope to Soviet-style communism.

It's working. Previously unheard of by the vast majority of Texans, Medina has set the race for governor on fire, upsetting the primary contest between the incumbent, Rick Perry, and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. . .

. . . She said she wanted to get rid of property taxes and allow Texans to do whatever they wanted with anything they owned, whether that was dig for oil or build an extension. There was, she said, no constitutional basis for a federal Department of Education or an Environmental Protection Agency or the Federal Reserve. Texas should assert its rights almost as a nation-state, controlling over its own National Guard units. The disdain for government was visceral. The American way, she said, was simple. "There are two rights essential to freedom: private property and gun ownership." . . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/28/tea-party-debra-medina-texas

Be careful what you wish for (and have unleashed), GOP establishment.

[peekaloo]

1. Wow. Even her shadow is controversial.

Wants to do away with the opposable thumb, I guess it impedes one's trigger finger.

I figured it would be a battle of the hair-dos, KB vs Goodhair but the crazy is strong in this race.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. I thought she was already fading in the polls

The last I saw, Perry was edging closer to outright victory in the primary. And even if there is a runoff, Medina won't be in it.

[Turbineguy]

3. Uhhhhh..... let's see

Soviet style communism left an environmental disaster as one of its legacies. She wants to do away with the EPA.

OK, got it.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Well, the Texas governor can't do shit, so it almost makes no...

difference.

Gives her a really big stage to make a fool of herself, though, and take down the whole Libertarian/Teabagger thing.