Posted on 09/10/2011 2:36:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Rick Perry entered the Republican presidential race like a jackrabbit bounding out of the West Texas prairie. He quickly hopped past longtime leader Mitt Romney, who was deliberately, step by step, inching his way toward the nomination he felt was his to win.
Now, Romney's strategists are hoping that the former Massachusetts governor plays the tortoise to Rick Perry's hare, slowly and steadily working to win the long race, and that Perry fades in the stretch.
But presidential contests are not fables, and it'll take a lot more than hope to make Romney finish first....
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Some of the contrasts are direct - Romney has chosen to make the future of Social Security a key issue in the primary by declaring his strong support for the retirement program while Perry calls it a "monstrous lie" and a "Ponzi scheme."
Some are indirect - Romney says the nation needs a hard-headed businessman (him) rather than a career politician (Perry) to guide it through economic hard times.
Some are tactical - Romney has intensified his efforts to court Tea Party Republicans in an attempt to compensate for Perry's early successes among establishment conservatives.
...Romney needs to "show some life and fight" when challenging Perry.
"The whole point is to try to show himself as an adult at a very serious time," [Thomas] Mann said. "And with Perry being more reckless, being a cowboy, Romney's going to convey these times are too perilous to take a chance with that.".....
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Perry Campaign: Remember When Romney Compared Social Security to a Criminal Enterprise? [quote from Romney's book] " What would happen to the bankers responsible for misusing the money? They would go to jail. But what has happened to the people responsible for the looming bankruptcy of Social Security? They keep returning to Congress every two years.” [end quote]
There is another kind of Republican who sees the election of 2012 as a tipping point for the nation — a do-or-die moment when we will either pull back from the precipice of debt and national decline or fall off the edge. This second brand of Republican is hoping that a candidate will emerge who can lay before the American people the nature of the challenge we face in a direct and forthright way. If a campaign is run and won on the need to reform our obese government, the new president will have a mandate to take the necessary steps once in office.
After Wednesday’s Republican debate, it seems that Mitt Romney represents the first group, and Rick Perry stands for the second. ………………”
Rick Perry’s Air War (with the EPA)...........>>>Texas alone opted for the unfriendly approach. It’s the only state that did not issue a plan for compliance—and Perry has made it clear that Texas has no intention of complying. The move was a blatant slap to the Obama administration—and once again gave Perry the national spotlight. Defying the climate rules offered him the perfect opportunity to loudly decry the science of global warming—which in his book Fed Up! he calls a “contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight”—and to slam EPA as a “rogue agency” with an “activist mind-set” that has “targeted Texas.” Such rhetoric is viral catnip to the tea party voters who could help catapult Perry to the 2012 presidential nomination.<<<..............
Metro - Carolyn and Ron Agnew, center, of Pflugerville, wait for Governor Rick Perry's arrival during the Rick Perry Welcome Home Rally at Abel's on the Lake in Austin on Saturday, August 20, 2011. LISA KRANTZ/lkrantz@express-news.net
In Texas Schools, Perry Shuns Federal Influence ………>>>When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan jabbed Mr. Perry on public schools in mid-August, it was only the latest skirmish between the governor and the Obama administration since late 2009, when Mr. Perry announced that the state would not sign on to common core-curriculum standards.<<<...
The Left is signaling that they hope a President Perry will fix education and get the inner cities out from under the impossible mess they've created.
Will Rick Perry Unravel the Strange Consensus on Public Education?
Trial lawyers prep for war on Perry America’s trial lawyers are getting ready to make the case against one of their biggest targets in years: Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Among litigators, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred – and fear – as Perry, an avowed opponent of the plaintiffs’ bar who has presided over several rounds of tort reform as governor.
And if Perry ends up as the Republican nominee for president, deep-pocketed trial lawyers intend to play a central role in the campaign to defeat him.
That’s a potential financial boon to a president who has unsettled trial lawyers with his own rhetorical gestures in the direction of tort reform. A general election pitting Barack Obama and Perry could turn otherwise apathetic trial lawyers into a phalanx of pro-Obama bundlers and super PAC donors. …..”
Rick Perry and Marcus Luttrell
Rick Perry's Medal of Honor Motorcycle auctioned for Freedom Angels
It’s our turn!
Sarah Palin is a once-in-a-lifetime LEADER.
The freepers who are excited about Perry are exactly like the Conservatives in 1979 who were all excited about George Herbert Walker Bush, and couldn't see they had greatness before them in Ronald Reagan.
Perry changed parties in 1989, joining Phil Gramm and other conservative Texas Democrats, who now had a true ideological party with a burgeoning Texas GOP.
When Perry campaigned for Lt. Gov. [1998], he and his campaign staff were in it to win and his hard-nosed style was against the "friendly" advice and request of GWB [in re-election bid for Texas Gov] and Rove to run easy against Sharp, a popular democrat (and Aggie friend of Perry's from their A&M years together). Rove wanted to broaden Bush's base for his upcoming White House run. Perry told them where to stick their advice, because he knew the voters would vote for Bush for Gov. and then cross back over and vote for Sharp (D) for Lt. Gov, if he just walked through the motions like the Bush-Rove team asked him to do.
Perry won the seat for Lt. Gov. -- the first Republican elected to that office since Reconstruction. Now 13 years later and into his 3rd term as Texas governor, the GOP holds a super majority. So Perry has earned his conservative spurs -- fighting both parties!
[The Bushes and Rove supported Kay Bailey Hutchison's primary challenge against Gov. Perry in the 2010 election too]
Why did you have to take a gratuitous slap at Palin on THIS thread?
I was reading the articles with interest and even the pics were interesting...until I came to that. Now, I’m out of here becuse YOU are a jerk.
Perry is supply for some demand.
We Palin supporters need to let the Perry supporters have their threads and stop interjecting what WE want as compared to what THEY want. It doesn’t do a bit of good and only causes animosity on everyone’s part. Serious questions can be framed without the “my dad can beat your dad” rhetoric. I am sick of it.
She may be a leader, but she’s currently not a Presidential candidate. If she gets in the race, then we’ve got a debate.
Otherwise, it’s about a useful as shouting “Vote for Mickey Mouse!” in a polling station during election day.
But honestly ask yourself, has Palin started to stump for the campaign funds needed to run? Has she sent teams out to all US territories to gather the required number of signatures to get her entered on their primary ballots? Has she even selected those teams? Has she filed - or prepared - the paperwork required notify the Republican party that she wants to be on their primary ballot?
I don’t see it, and there is precious little time left to start.
Being Mayor of Houston is a harder job than being governor of Alaska!...and that's the truth!!!!
Another inexperienced speaker is not what the country needs now!!!!
-——Sarah Palin is a once-in-a-lifetime LEADER-——
While that may be true, her time is not now. She has one thing going for her the others do not...... youth. She has allowed current events to gain momentum for the 2012 race that will not be over come.
She needs seasoning
Cain for President
If Sarah doesn’t run I will vote for Perry.
If Perry win the nomination I will vote for Perry, If Romney wins the nomination I would as soon have Obama as a mini-Obama.
Romney thinks it’s his turn, It was McCains term and Doles term too,we cannot pick a Romneycare turd because it is his turn. Our highest priority is to stop Obamacare, after that jobs will come back.
Perry. Romney. Two Rovian RINOs.
PerryCARE. RomneyCARE. Two BAD RINO ideas.
That Rick Perry has not gotten Romney to resign
shows his weakness.
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