KBH sees roadblocks on way to governor's mansion

I have not heard anything concrete -- just rumors -- but the word is floating around out there that Kay Bailey Hutchison has decided not to resign her U.S. Senate seat to run for governor of Texas next year. Not that she won't run -- she probably will -- but she now sees her chances of defeating incumbent Rick Perry in the primary more remote and she doesn't want to gamble her seat in the Senate on it.

Not only that, fellow Republicans are telling her not to resign either, fearing Texas just might elect a Democrat to replace her.

Perry is going to make the issue of the race as one between a real Texan (himself, of course) against a Washington insider meddling in the affairs of Texas (Hutchison). This will play well to the ideologues that vote in the Republican primary. That is why he rejected the federal stimulus unemployment funds.

I also think this is good news for Democrats, who would have had a tough time defeating KBH in a general election but stand a far better shot against Perry, who stands squarely on the side of the wealthy. That is a vulnerable place to be in these economic times.