Hutchison Receives Huge Endorsement, Cheney’s

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison received a huge endorsement for governor of Texas last week.

 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison received a huge endorsement for governor of Texas last week.

The endorsement came from former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Hutchison’s Republican primary rival for Texas state governor immediately blasted Hutchison and her endorser.

“I don’t have any comment on it,” said Republican Gov. Rick Perry. “You gonna have to ask Texas voters about it.”

Perry was recently endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the nominee for vice president on the Repulican ticket in 2008.

Of Palin, Perry said, “That’s the type of leadership and the type of proven conservative values that Texas Republican primary voters are going to be pretty excited about.”

Perry’s comments were given during a news conference where the Texas Association of Builders HOMEPAC backed his candidacy.

President George W. Bush has yet to officially endorse a candidate, though it is known that Perry threw Bush under the bus while campaigning in Iowa last election cycle for Rudy Guiliani for U.S. president.

Perry referred to Bush then as a “big spender.”

So far, most of the Republican Washington establishment from Texas has backed Hutchison, including Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, Margaret Spellings, and Rod Paige, as well as Dick Armey, Kay Granger, Michael Burgess, and Kenny Marchant.

The Republican primary is scheduled for March 2010.