Posted on 08/16/2011 1:39:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
JMHO...
Credit where credit is due.
He is not mimicking Sarah Palin....... Perry is merely enunciating fundamental conservative doctrine.
Perhaps one should consider that his enunciation as one who is actually on the playing field trumps similar words from one who is merely watching from the sidelines.
I am strongly in favor of Krugman being abducted by “Invading space aliens.”
>>These people are dangerous fools.
You are far too kind.
Mrs. Palin is remaining quiet....she is waiting....she knows her battle plan....she knows her timing.....she is learning....studying the opposition....guarding the "cubs"....waiting quietly with an occasional "roar" (like the comments at the Iowa State Fair).....reconnoitering the challengers from within and the enemy from without.....studying weaknesses....building and conserving her strength....endlessly practicing....reading...honing her skills.....waiting.....waiting.....
This war has not yet begun. What has been seen of the other candidates to date has been nothing but minor and irrelevant skirmishing.
It is a very very long way to next November. She's been through this before. There is no need to rush. In her mind's eye, Mrs. Palin smiles knowingly and remembers the words of Napolean, "Never interupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." and General Patton, "Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!"
Patience.....patience....
Not our hoped for timeline....but hers.
Wait for it!
And keep the faith....
Refer to Post #46, this thread.
He's DOING rather than positioning or strategizing. It'll be interesting to see how the 0bozo team tries to nullify him (rather than actually take him on).
This is a much more precise way of putting it. Romney's a good, obedient foot soldier who raises a lot of money. Conceptually, no doubt the RNC high command likes him just fine. I think that you're exactly right, though. Their lukewarm relationship seems to stem from his overall lack of appeal to something they need, the, ah... wait, ... oh, yeah. Voters.
They realize that Romey isn't a good candidate, but with his level of fundraising skills and solid C- appeal, they figure they may as well keep him in the wings in the event everyone else peters out. Romney's only real chance to the White House, including his chance to defeat Obama, is based off of all of his other opponents self destructing or running out of money. Not likely, but theoretically possible, I guess.
I think the difference between Palin and Perry support wise is potential. Perry's got nothing in the way of broad fan base right now, which is why he's throwing firebombs at Obama's up-armored, 100 yards per gallon Greyhounds. He's going to be the 'guy who takes it to Obama like he's waiting for him at the bike racks after school, looking for his allowance money'. Crude way to get fans, but it works for me.
Palin's support base is much larger and more committed. I think at some point, (and I'm obviously specuating here) she realized that even with tens of millions of devoted supporters, she's still risking hitting a hard cap several millions of votes short of general election victory.
I might be wrong. She may have an easier time inching those numbers up than it looks. Possibly by finding a running mate with strong crossover appeal to the center and left. Or she might concede that Perry is less polarizing than she is to independents, more or less philosophically acceptable, and more viable as a candidate. I dunno. I'm just a guy running his mouth on a website. Sounds reasonable enough to me, though.
To your final point, I agree fully. As a conservative powerhouse, Palin has no equal, and certainly not in Perry. I hate to be cynical, but the only thing that holds me back from straight Palinistaism is her negatives. Unfair or not, I just don't think the damage has been undone yet. Otherwise, it wouldn't even be close who to support.
Sarah Palin is my 1st choice, but it is not up to me.
I just try to stay focused on:
1) Beating Obama, and
2) preferably with the least RINO-freindly candidate as possible, and
3) refraining from bashing other Republicans (not that I don't, but I sure try not to....)
>>>>Perry’s comments were immediately condemned by a longtime aide to former President George W. Bush, the man who first appointed Bernanke to his job.
“Gov. Perry’s comments about Chairman Bernanke are inappropriate and unpresidential,” Tony Fratto declared tonight in a tweet.
Fratto, a former Treasury Department and White House official in George W. Bush’s administration, Managing Partner Hamilton Place Strategies and founder of RooseveltRoom.net, a web site for Bush alumni.
Perry was speaking at a stop during the second day of a three-day campaign swing through Iowa — home to the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses.
“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas,” Perry said. “Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous or treasonous in my opinion.”
The audience applauded his tough words.
As Perry continued, he echoed the longtime critique of the Fed often articulated by Ron Paul, the chair of the House Fed oversight panel and a 2012 GOP presidential rival.
“We’ve already tried this. All it’s going to be doing is devaluing the dollar in your pocket and we cannot afford that,” Perry said. “We have to learn the lessons of the past three years that they’ve been devastating. The President of the United States has conducted an experiment on the American economy for almost the last three years, and it has gone tragically wrong and we need to send him a clear message in November of 2012 that new leadership is coming.”
Bush selected Bernanke to replace Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve. President Obama renominated the Republican economist.
Asked by reporters today about former President Bush, Perry demurred.
“George Bush is not my opponent,” Perry said. “He’s a former president.”.....<<<<
Absolutely! Haste makes waste. I am not wasting my vote in ‘12.
The best is yet to come.
I’m thinking that Perry’s refreshing bravado has a real chance of catching him in a Dean/Trump/Allen ‘macaca’ moment.
I’m also thinking how soon this moment comes could influence whether Palin joins the race.
And yes, education has been one of Perry’s signature issues.
Name the damage, name the negatives.
Telling the truth isn’t bashing.
Perry is not outside the beltway - he is a career politician and very much in it.
Perry is a Texas politician. He has taken on DC numerous times, to great effect, including the cheers of many a FReeper. “Outside the Beltway” refers to being outside of the cozy DC club; it does NOT mean “isn’t a politician”.
What is Palin, if not a career politician? PTA, politically-oriented state commissions, Mayor, Governor, VP candidate and putative candidate for POTUS: these are all political jobs. Except for FNC-commentator, her public career has all been political, and even that was a political decision on both parts. I do give her credit for her experience in her family fishing business.
What will you do/say if 1) Palin does not declare? 2)Palin throws her support to Perry? 3) Palin accepts a VP slot from Perry?
It is very American to back a candidate passionately, but Palin is still not even a declared candidate. Conservatives have had their hearts broken before, backing *True Conservatives* who ended up compromising “for the good of the country”.
I know the Palin supporters are convinced she will pull off a miracle, but out here in the real world, she doesn’t even have the support of the majority of conservative women active in their local politics. To go further, many are embarrassed by her and totally allergic to risking a tabloid-fueled campaign at such an important time in our history.
“In Iowa Sarah spoke about the Education Dept and now here is Perry mimicking Sarah, once again.”
Actually, I think that his stance on the Department of Education is one of the reasons that Sarah backed him for governor.
;-))
It seems to me that every thread about any candidate, becomes more about Sarah Palin than the candidate the thread started with.
Maybe just my imagination but it does make me wonder.
They’re running scared because, by the hour, Rick Perry is pulling supporters away from other candidates.
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