"Rick Perry walks the walk of a true conservative!"
Posted on 07/07/2011 7:36:19 PM PDT by Clairity
I’ll bet Rick Perry and his people are talking to the big money people (donors) right now. Feeling them out. Seeing what kind of support Rick can expect.
Right or wrong, these days people want a young and dynamic looking president. This is part of the reason ol man McCain lost to a bizarre Kenyan w three Muslim names. Rick Perry has a youthful and dynamic image on TV. He is very presentable. They called him Governor Goodhair and not for nothing. Put Rick Perry’s photo side by side with Hussein Obama’s and guess who most Americans are going to vote for?
I have to agree. Sarah knows and knew Perry. She was at the RGA with him I believe and she wouldn’t have campaigned for him if she didn’t think he was the best choice for Governor of Texas. He was a way better choice than KBH.
That doesn’t make him the best choice for POTUS though.I’m sure Sarah would agree with me on that.
So Perry is from the same state as Bush. So What! They are totally different. The hateful comments of “another cowboy with his bible from Texas”. A religious conservative is what a lot of voters are looking for. A Governor of TX that was elected 3 times has a lot of experience governing. Certainly not like that radical Obama. Perry sure won’t need a telepromter to talk to a grade school class.
Bachmann is no sale. She'll be easily dismissed as an unaccomplished extremist even relative to her own party, with spooky theocratic notions, a flake with a truth problem, with an unlicensed therapist husband who tries to cure homosexuals and a whisper campaign he does so out of self-hated. She would provide Obama a target rich environment.
Sarah endorsed McCain. There are some who were mad at the time.
But it doesn’t mean that McCain is suddenly Sarah.
She endorsed McCain - doesn’t mean McCain is any good
She endorsed Perry - doesn’t mean Perry is any good
Logically, Palin helped Palin out, and now Perry is helping Palin out, exactly how, I’m not sure. But when Palin gets in (and it looks like she will - she said there had to be a good conservative in there for her to stay out, and Bachmann isn’t viable, and Perry is just awful, so, Palin is really needed), Perry won’t get in.
Bachmann’s background is disqualifying. Not an acceptable substitute for Palin. 2 weeks ago I thought differently. But 2 weeks ago I hadn’t really stared at that wikipedia bio, tried to figure out a timeline, hadn’t searched for Marcus Bachmann on youtube.
And Perry is just awful. If I had to choose between Bachmann and a sure loss, with a huge dose of humiliation, and Perry. I take Bachmann in a second. I don’t think Bachmann would be bad for America. I’d worry Perry would sell half of the US to the Chinese because the Fed said it was the only way. If Merck pitches a microchip scheme to Perry, well he has a nasty track record. Michele is facepalm (not yet, of course), but I’d vote for her without hesitation if the only choices were her and Perry.
The more I hear about Perry, the more I see how his minions act, the more I like every single other candidate, and with Michele’s unviability, I’m looking at people like Santorum more closely. If Perry can fake tea party, so can Santorum, and there’s nothing on Santorum’s solid (but not true tea party) record that’s disqualifying. It’s pretty impressive.
college degree, mba, jd (Romneys degrees more elite, but Santorums schools were all plenty solid). Then a good law firm, then a US Rep, then a US Senator. Solid. And proven on social issues. Santorum says “10th Amendment” a couple of times, “limited constitutional goverment”, and he’ll get a look. There’s really nothing bad there.
So, I’m looking at Santorum as someone who could put on a fresh coat of tea party paint. Santorum does have the clear advantage over Perry on education. Perry over Santorum on military. Ron Paul is the only one with Military and elite education. Air Force and Duke Medical.
I haven’t researched Pawlenty, Huntsman, Gingrich
Yep - if things stay like they are then I may end up supporting him if he runs and assuming palin does not run. Bachmann is the only other possibility. I like her positions better but I think Perry would be a better candidate to trounce Obama and I can live with Perry. Bachmann puts her foot in her mouth too often and gives her enemies too many unncessary openings. Actually the two of them together would make a nice combo
So you really don't like Perry, who's better?
No Perry. No way.
If I wanted to vote for a pandering RINO, I’d have backed McCain.
Santorum is reliable but Pennsylvania politics and RINO’s kind of put him in a box to support Specter over Toomey. He did. There are enough of those who find that error permanently disqualifying. They will give you as big a headache as those whining against the Perry-this and Perry-that crowd.
How revealing for you to be quoting a most Yeller Dog liberal in the State of Texas, Jim Hightower. Then again your either have no clue who ol Jim is or you agree with Jim Hightower on more than simply suffering from Perry Derangemnet Syndrome.
I don’t trust Rick Perry..
He has the stink of John McLaim on im..
It’s Palin Derangement Syndrome.
It doesn’t mean Anyone who doesn’t like my candidate.
You’re insulting Palin by using that.
you have to have been attacked by the media - Perry hasn’t.
and more importantly, the arguments used against you are often emotional outbursts. The derangement part. Often people can’t explain why they hate Palin.
I can explain why I hate Perry.
Perry is a Globalist
Globalists are worse than RINOs
Perry shows Globalism by
1) Bilderberg
2) Trans Texas Corridor
3) Gardasil
No other candidate (off the top of my head) has anything as bad as any one of those 3. And he has the nerve to try to present himself as tea party. And now the nerve to claim valid criticism as derangement.
Does anyone remember from 4 years ago any group of supporters more obnoxious than Perry supporters?
Perry supported Giuliani in 08.
Perry’s list of terrible is very very long.
And simply supporting the incumbent, well, it just me
We all wanted Hayworth. But Palin picked McCain. We understood. Sometimes you just have to do it. But Santorum is singled out, ruled out, just for that?
I would argue that we might have to bite the bullet on Santorum if that’s all you have on him. Of course, the only thing we hear about Santorum is toomey race, count him out. and yes, it was bad. but not gardasil bad. Perry was al gores campaign manager in texas. Perry was switched to Republican and managed by Karl Rove. And Santorum, with a better education, solid solid dc experience, and excellent record on war on gay. Even though he did use “man on dog”, that should get him socons. His record is stronger than Bachmanns, because her war on gay creds only include “pray the gay away” and very little medical science cure. I think he recognizes the science.
Rick Perry was brought to the Republican Party by Karl Rove, who managed his first campaign. Perry was a Democrat who managed Al Gores texas campaign.
Yes, he has mccain on him i suppose, but it’s really more Rove than anything.
And I don’t remember McCain going on tv and trashing Christine O’Donnell.
You are criticizing links to Free Republic Threads.
Old Free Republic Threads are perfect examples of how Freepers thought at the time.
There is no better evidence. And you slur Free Republic itself.
Most if not all of the Republican candidates are better.
I haven’t examined McCotters resume. Does it have Gardasil, Trans-Texas Corridor, Bilderberg on it? Also haven’t looked at Buddy Roemer. Perry is the worse of the ones I’ve looked at. I heard a rumor that the “rent is too damn high” guy is running as a Republican. I’ll check to see if he was ever managed by Karl Rove, and make my decision based on that.
And don’t forget his buddying up to muslims.
"Rick Perry walks the walk of a true conservative!"
Downright eerie how Perry’s people talked about Merck product on same day Merck gave Perry money
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790722/posts
Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor plan is a hard sell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961128/posts
Senators: Perry evading law with expired appointments
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889198/posts
Texas Eminent Domain Bill Vetoed By Govenor Perry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852635/posts
Campaign to impeach Gov. Perry launched online
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884086/posts
Tempers Flare At Trans-Texas Corridor Hearing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969878/posts
Secretive Bilderberg meeting set for Turkey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1842676/posts
what I’m beginning to believe is that old free republic threads have superpowers. when you’re looking for info on a candidate, free republic threads are better than any info. Just a link to a website - fine. A 4 year old FR thread with a link to that same website, completely bonus, because we know what we thought about that thing at that time.
I’m going to look very closely at perry on free republic.
I am not actually convinced that America has a problem with a Bible toter from TX at this point.
I am neither a Perry supporter nor a detractor.
I’m just saying, maybe a handsome Christian man from Texas will be more appealing to the USA that it was back in the days of Bush’s negative ratings. We were far better off then; and we’ve seen the contrast between a decent patriot in office and the man we are enduring at present.
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