Debra “The Truther” Medina still causing trouble to promote herself

If you’re an activist type like me, you get lots of email, most of which expresses outrageous outrage at whatever’s going on in the world.  Most of the outrage, in the age of Obama and Pelosi, is more than justified.  But some of it is just nonsense being generated by self-promoting charlatans with axes to gring, grudges to pursue, and selves to promote.  They claim to be about some higher cause, but in the end, it’s always about themselves.

With that in mind, let’s discuss Debra Medina. 

Remember her?  She was last seen flaming out in the Texas GOP governor primary once it turned out that she’s a 9-11 Truther.  Let that sink in a minute.  If you care at all about national security, the idea of supporting a full blown 9-11 Truther – and that’s what Debra Medina is, or at least was until she got caught and realized it was a problem – ought to be anathema to you.

So she lost the primary, but to this day hasn’t endorsed her party’s candidate for governor, which just happens to be Gov. Rick Perry.  The incumbent.  The governor who, whatever his faults may be, has presided over a pretty good run for Texas.  He’s a million miles better than the Democrat running against him.  But Medina won’t endorse him.  Why not?  Is she in politics to further the cause of small government, a cause on which she and Perry agree more than disagree, or is she in politics for herself?  Well, Medina flirted with making an independent run after the primary, until she ran smack into the law and learned that having lost a primary, she’s not allowed by state law to run in the same year on the independent (or any other) banner.  Yet she’s continued to raise money the whole time.  For what, is anyone’s guess.  Maybe so she can use the money to buy herself some more clothes, even though that was against state law too.

Now, she’s taken to beating up the state GOP for not allowing her a booth at their state convention.  Here’s one of the emails going around on the subject.  And note – she never writes press releases attacking Democrats.  She always attacks her own party, which again begs the question, what is she really all about?

RPT REFUSES DEBRA MEDINA SPACE IN VENDOR HALL AT UPCOMING CONVENTION

Medina says RPT claims rejection based on “long time policy”,but says Party can not provide any documentation of such a policy
Former Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Debra Medina has apparently been refused space in the exhibit hall at the upcoming convention for her group We Texans.

According to an email Medina has just circulated, the debt ridden Republican Party of Texas has rejected her application.  Medina says that only one other “pavilion exhibit space” has been sold at the $5,000 cost.  Medina reports that executive director Jesse Lewis says that accepting the group’s application would “violate long standing party policy rejecting space to any who have brought legal action against the party.”  Medina says the claim is false because, “no policy statement has been produced in response to request and long-time party activists deny the existence of any such policy”

Well, here’s the thing.  Medina filed a pointless and expensive lawsuit against the party – her own party – in 2008 over some nonsense, and she lost.  From what I hear, she was trying to get a judge to tell the party how to run its own convention.  Since when does a conservative think it’s a good idea to haul their own party into court to have a judge tell that party how to conduct its business?  No real conservative I know does this.  But Debra Medina did, and she’s been out there threatening to do it again if the party doesn’t bend to her will, even though the party’s governing body soundly rejected her nonsense claims a few months back.  Again – is she about the cause, or about herself?

So back to the convention thing.  She’s out there spreading malicious emails like the one above, beating up the “debt ridden” party, talking about how we need to be united, etc etc.  Talk of unity from someone who does nothing but toss poison at her own party ought to raise up a whole bunch of red flags.

She has no standing to make any of these charges.  Her fool lawsuit probably cost the party a lot of money.  Every time she bashes the party in public – and she does that pretty much 24/7 – she costs the party in potential donations.  She certainly hurts its reputation.  But the thing is, go talk to anyone who’s familiar with her time as chairman of her own county’s Republican party and you’ll find that she was a divisive figure who was a total flop at running that party.  I don’t live in Wharton County, but I know folks who do, and from what they say Debra Medina couldn’t get elected to any post there now.  They know that while she talks a good political game, she’s really in it all for herself and her own ego, and that when it comes to real leadership qualities, she doesn’t have any.  She’s just good at stirring up gossip and trouble and making people mad at each other for no good reason.  And then telling others to “play nice.”  Riiiight.  The word you’re looking for to describe a person like that is “hypocrite.”

So here’s the score, if you’re playing along at home.  Debra Medina wants judges to tell the Republican Party how to operate.  Debra Medina constantly attacks her own party, and she usually picks moments that help Democrats the most when she does it.  Her attack about the convention has the potential to hurt the party’s unity right as it goes into convention, and is much ado about nothing, unless you think the party should let in people who a) have already frivolously sued it and b) are threatening to sue it again, at great potential cost to the party.  And Debra Medina is a fringe 9-11 Truther who won’t even endorse her own party’s candidate for governor.

So I ask once again, is this a person that anyone should consider worthy of carrying any banner for any cause?  Is Debra Medina about the cause, or about herself?

Well, lately, in the emails that are circulating around she and her allies are claiming that the Republican party is insulting the Tea Parties by denying her a booth.  That’s a lie.  The Republican party here from the gov on down has been very friendly to the Tea Parties from the very beginning, because the Republicans and the Tea Parties agree on so much, probably everything.  Everybody in the Tea Parties knows that.  Medina is trying to wrap herself in the Tea Party flag to claim some legitimacy which she hasn’t earned.  The fact is, she’s failed at everything – running a county party, running for gov, everything.  So I think that those of us who are in the Tea Parties or who agree with the Tea Parties should be very careful about taking anything Debra Medina says at face value.  And that goes for her allies, too.  The party apparently denied her exhibit or whatever because she sued them and is threatening to sue them again over how the party conducts its own business, not because of any association with the Tea Parties.  That denial isn’t unreasonable.  Heck, Medina may have filed to get the space knowing that she’d be turned down, so she could use that to attack the party again.  I wouldn’t put it past her.  Ever since she lost her run for state vice chair a few years back, she’s done nothing but devise ways to attack and hurt the party.

Debra Medina is once again hurting both her party and in fact the state with all this childish noise she’s generating.  She ought to just knock it off.