Palin endorses Perry in governor's race

Christian Science Monitor:

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Her first outing since the PAC was formed? Texas. She didn’t travel down there for a big hoo-hah, but she did endorse Texas Governor Rick Perry for re-election yesterday.

No big deal, right? After all, she endorsed an incumbent.

That would normally be the case, but there’s someone else in the party who’s interested in the position. Not a Texas version of Joe the Plumber either – this candidate’s for real.

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison wants the governor’s chair. She announced her bid back in December (we told you about it here).

The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Palin sent a letter to 10,500 members of the Texas Federation of Republican Women endorsing the current governor.

“He walks the walk of a true conservative,” she said of Perry. “And he sticks by his guns – and you know how I feel about guns.”

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Another reason for the endorsement is abortion rights. Perry is opposed. Hutchison favors legal, but restricted, abortion.

“Not every child is born into ideal circumstances, but every life is sacred,” Palin wrote. “Rick Perry knows this – it is at the core of his being.”

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I think abortion was probably the key issue for her and it will probably be Kay's biggest problem in getting the nomination. I suspect that Perry and Palin have also struct up a friendship at national gatherings of governors. That proved to be a good club for George Bush when he ran for higher office. Gallup recently found that only 33 percent of Obama's decision to allow abortion funding. It is an issue that has been moving toward opposition recently.