printShe bears the name of another extraordinary woman, the Prophet Deborah, who was judge and leader of Israel in antiquity. Debra Medina is in the race against the incumbent, Rick Perry, and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison to “capture the government of the second biggest state in America,” Texas.
They, the far-gone establishment, have branded candidates like her “extreme candidates.” JD Hayworth, who is poised to whip McMussolini, is receiving the same treatment.
Medina is no Sarah Palin. She has no need to write on her hand to remember her talking points. Instead her speech was a complex walk through her extreme anti-government philosophy, citing sources as varied as the Austrian school of economics, St Augustine and modern French philosophers. 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.”
What I’d like to know is this: Why would Glenn Beck try to trip up this terrific candidate with a question about her supposed “Truther” proclivities?
Only once has Medina slipped up – in an interview she gave to the conservative radio host Glenn Beck. On his show Medina was asked if she thought the US government might have had a role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She replied: “I don’t.” She then went on to expand disastrously upon that answer. “I don’t have all the evidence there… I think some very good questions have been raised in that regard. There are some very good arguments and I think the American people have not seen all the evidence there, so I have not taken a position on that,” she said.
I heard Beck proudly re-run the interview; he seemed flabbergasted that the woman had dared to doubt the integrity of the American state.
Not being a conspiracy theorist myself, it is my view that such a bent far from disqualifies a candidate. In the context of Medina, a hardcore, life-long advocate for natural liberty—a proclivity for conspiracy simply signifies a deep distrust of the Federal Frankenstein.
And that is a good thing.
Incidentally, in a previous post I alerted you to the theft of Jewish history. I see that the looting of the Hebrew language is proceeding apace too. The word Medina has a Hebrew root. Yet the freedictionary.com gives the word an Arabic origin. False.
“The root of Aramaic-Hebrew medina is din, ‘law,‘ and medina in both languages denotes a place in which a given body of law or legal system is applied, i.e., an area of political jurisdiction.”
In any event, here are 50 facts about Debra Medina. (“She was a high-level volunteer for Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign. She describes her relationship with Paul as “good,” but frames it more as the typical interaction a constituent might have with a congressman.”)
Update (March 3): “Republican Gov. Rick Perry and Democratic former Houston Mayor Bill White clinched their parties’ nominations for governor Tuesday. … Medina declined to concede. Her campaign claimed that if Perry fell below 50 percent in the final vote count that she would be in a runoff with him because Hutchison had conceded. … ” [Houston Chronicle]
The reporting is so shoddy that, other than in Dan’s comment, I have not found a vote count for Medina. If it is 17 percent, Medina did terrifically. I’ve said it before: The fight for liberty is slow. Since the economy will not be getting better, inflated as it is by paper, Medina will win the next elections.
She is the only reason I have to regret not living in Texas.
Glenn Beck likes to compare himself to John Stossel, and use the word ‘libertarian’ but he’s not about to lose his Republican fan club. I’m not a ‘Truther’ either, but if someone asked me if I thought there was any truth to the conspiracy theory, I’d answer the same as she did. The same government that states that we have to invade Iraq because of WMD, Global Warming, Waco, Increasing debt and stimulus plans to improve the economy is being totally honest about 9/11 and I should have blind faith. No thanks, I’d step around the question too.
[Actually, evil is usually banal and pretty straightforward.]
It is really interesting that the Freedom-Liberty-Tea Party-9-12 types had some one who was singing the tune of the Constitution-Limited Govt. that was catching fire in Texas
Then throw it all away following the Neo-Con Libtard line of Value added Tax Glenn Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjMdsIKFPXI
Is it a coincidence that Barry’s new VAT Commission likes the value added tax just like Beckie Boy
Glenn Beck = No Thanks to your half baked agenda of increased Govt. control
Here is the link to the VAT Commission
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703315004575073672266129394.html
Mohammed slaughtered the Jews of MEDINA [this “medina” is a much later usage than the biblical, the subject of my linguistic sidebar]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_and_Jews
… men beheaded, women/children enslaved, property confiscated – the usual “religion of peace” treatment.
Debra looks like a good candidate. That, however, does not mean that she will win – the “extremist” ideas of limited government will take a long time to gain widespread acceptance. One should keep in mind that the Socialists went generations until they slowly got Social Security, Medicare, and other insidious nonsense adopted.
However, opportunities can arise. FDR’s New Deal would never have been swallowed by the booboisie in 1924 but it was an easy sell after the Depression. It may be possible that with an implosion of the welfare-warfare state, that libertarianism/constitutionalism may show up as a viable alternative to the other statist philosophies.
The lesson of Ron Paul is that the Republican party may be the temporary vehicle in which to operate until such time as there is sufficient credible political mass to become a viable party of freedom. Good luck to Debra.
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, she lost. I would not blame Glenn Beck – (a) it was always an uphill battle against the establishment, (b) he gave her a forum, (c) the lesson is to be careful to not fall into “traps” like being identified with so-called “conspiracy theorists”.
Forgive me, but I do not see Ms. Medina’s answer as controversial. The fact that a portion of the population does not believe the Federal Narrative word for word has not caused me to lose any sleep. I also have a very difficult time equating even minor deviations in belief in the narrative with outright conspiracy theorism the way our talking heads do. Further, if this is just a small band of extremist nuts we are talking about, why does the state feel the need to go after them so much.
I sure hope you are right about Hayworth taking out McCain, Ilana. Lord knows I will do all I can to make that happen. McCain is spending big bucks plastering the entire radio dial with attack ads, and has been doing that since before Hayworth even declared. As usual, McCain never has trouble taking out opponents, so long as they are to his right.
Debra was an awesome candidate. I stood in line for an hour so I could cast my vote for her but alas, turns out only about 17% of us are not a part of the idiocracy. 90% of anyone you ask here in Texas will tell you they hate Rick Perry but they keep voting him back in every time. Watching these elections is becoming more and more like watching pro wrestling, it may be an interesting show but in the end, the outcome has been predetermined.
Dan
[Good for you.]
More of an echo here, but I see 17% the first time out as very substantial and quite telling.
A tree starts as a seed. It is planted, watered, nurtured, and protected against diseases and parasites. This process will take time and will not be without much effort.