By Karina Kling News 8 Austin
The current race for Kay Bailey Hutichsons seat in the U.S. Senate is quite crowded on the Republican side. Division within the party itself has become evident between Lt. Gov. David Dewhursts and former solicitor general Ted Cruzs campaigns. However
some Republicans may differ on what conservative actually means.
A belief in the patterns of government that have existed and worked in the past Jim Cardle with
Texas Insider said.
Jonathan Saenz with
the Liberty Institute says a true conservative believes in what some would say are the core values established at Americas birth.
Where do you stand on the issue of the role of government? Where do you stand on religious liberty and Founding Fathers? he said.
Most would say the candidates for U.S. Senate wouldnt differentiate a whole lot on those but what about todays Texas conservative?
It is anymore becoming a personal agenda or something divisive where you have to answer a score card or something like that Cardle said.
Meanwhile Gov. Rick
Perry whos been considered one of the Tea Partys loudest voices is coming to Dewhursts conservative defense in one of the
lieutenant governors latest ads.
The fact of the matter is theyre all conservative. They all believe in less government. They all believe in individual freedoms. They all believe in states rights" Cardle said.
Theyre conservatives but again their problem is differentiating themselves when theyre running in a conservative primary.
The U.S. Senate race will be among the topics during our weekly political show Capital Tonight" this Thursday at 7 p.m.
Karina Kling is an on-air video journalist with News 8 Austin.
