More Polling Confirms Kay's Diminished Support

The latest Wall Street Journal poll continues to document Kay's decline in support.

Kay's Not The Popular Cheerleader She Once Was

The latest Zogby/Wall Street Journal poll has Kay Bailey Hutchison's lead diminished to 15%, which means that her lead has slipped by half since March.

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Tom DeLay, and Perjury

On Meet the Press, Kay Bailey Hutchison was asked about Tom DeLay's crimes. Kay's response was shameful:

"I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality ...."

So, in Kay's world, perjury is not a crime?

Well, not so fast. When the subject is President Clinton and not DeLay, Kay says "the crimes of perjury and obstruction of justice are 'high crimes'...Perjury is a lie told under oath that is legally wrong."

Kay Bailey Hutchison's Broken Promise to Texas

Kay Bailey Hutchison promised Texans that she would seek only two terms in the Senate and even went so far as to co-sponsor legislation to create a constitutional amendment mandating term limits for senators and congressmen on two separate occasions.

In 1993, Kay promised she would only serve two terms if Texans elected her to the Senate. Here is what The Dallas Morning News reported on May 22, 1993:

Ms. Hutchison said senators should be restricted to two six-year terms.... Ms. Hutchison said, "I believe our founding fathers were right in maintaining that we should have citizen legislators, people who work for a living, who live with the taxes, who live with the mandates, who go to Washington and do service and come back to live with the laws that they passed."

This was not a one-time statement. Here is what Hotline’s January 14, 1993 issue reported:

Treas. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) and Rep. Jack Fields (R-08) “barn-stormed” across TX “preaching fiscal conservatism and declaring their candidacies” for the special election to replace Bentsen. Both made stops “in the state’s major media markets of Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.” Fields “pledged, and asked his opponents to do the same, to limit future government service to two terms.”
Hutchison agreed to sign such a pledge.

Again, here is what the April 15, 1993 edition of the Houston Chronicle reported:

Fields, Hutchison and Krueger said they will voluntarily limit themselves to two terms in the Senate. But Fisher, a Dallas financier who was an adviser to Ross Perot’s presidential campaign, said Fields was confusing “hypocrisy with democracy'’ in his term-limit pledge because he already has served 13 years in Congress.

One more time, here’s what the November 9, 1994 edition of the Austin American Statesman reported:

Hutchison said her re-election was a mandate for her to return to Washington to fight for a balanced budget amendment, tax breaks for homemakers, fewer regulations for small business owners, a strong national defense, and "term limitations.

“I’ve always said that I would serve no more than two full terms. This may be my last term or I could run for one more. But no more after that. I firmly believe in term limitations and I plan to adhere to that,” Hutchison said.

In 1995, Kay co-sponsored a term-limits constitutional amendment bill, and again in 1997, she she co-spoonsored another bill which would have amended the Constitution by limiting the terms of senators and members of the U.S. House.