On tax day last year Gov. Perry was at a tea party. Kay Bailey Hutchison was reportedly at a mattress store. Guess who won the Texas Republican primary? Here's analysis from the Houston Chronicle:Less than a year ago, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was the most popular elected official in Texas and the odds-on favorite to be the next governor of Texas. Some polls showed her leading the incumbent, Rick Perry, by more than 20 points. What Hutchison didn't realize this time a year ago was that her fate may well have been sealed by Tax Day, April 15, 2009, when Perry spoke at tea party rallies in Houston, Dallas and Austin and suggested - merely suggested - that Texas might have reason to secede from the union. He never mentioned the word "secession," but there was no mistaking his drift. Signaling his sympathy with the wave of anti-Washington, anti-Obama animus sweeping Texas and the country - animus fueled by the tea partiers - Perry effectively tagged his fellow Republican as...(Read Full Post)