Posted on 01/06/2012 2:46:39 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Three days after cancelling appearances in South Carolina and returning to Texas to “reassess” his presidential campaign, Texas Gov. Rick Perry released a statement Friday saying he will compete nationwide.
"As my campaign for president moves forward, our superior organization and resources allow me to compete nationwide, where I’m confident our unmatched jobs record, conservative fiscal and social policies, and status as the only Washington outsider can win over Republican voters," Perry said in a news release announcing he had filed paperwork to be listed on primary election ballots in Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Vermont and Washington, D.C.
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I’d like Newt, Rick and Rick to stay in until at least March... no reason to get out, if people are funding your campaign.
The single worst thing for us is to have a candidate [read RINOmney] just glide through the process. There is lots of time for
these three to win.
If santorum falls by the wayside, and newt doesn’t make a comeback, then perry WILL make a comeback. its too early for perry to quit.
I would add that the only truly “bad” candidates at this point are Romney, Paul, and Huntsman. I want Huntsman to stay in it though, he’s bleeding off one or two points from Romney. As for Paul, his people are not Republicans. They are just tired of being left out. If they weren’t voting for Paul in the primaries, they’d be sitting at home posting on libertarian forums.
Wow, you really do forget quickly. THERE HAS ONLY BEEN ONE PRIMARY, OH GREAT CARNAC THE NOT-MAGNIFICENT! So don’t start reading your crystal ball just yet...you aren’t very good at it anyway.
Well all right!
If Newt Gingrich can’t rebound back to the top where I truly believe he belongs, then I’m all in for Perry!!!
What rules did you break and why would Jim Robinson throw you off? I must have lost something in the shuffle.
Perry is waiting to see how he does in SC. If he doesn’t come close there he’ll fold, IMO.
He was by far our best option for derailing Mitt. Unfortunately, a large portion of the base chose to attack him, and his debates were nothing short of horrendous.
I would love for Perry to be able to make a comeback, but it is increasing looking to me like the GOP is going to be stuck with Willard. Sure hoping I am wrong.
All this ends up doing is extending the pain of vote splitting and musical chairs.
Okay, I want Newt to get the nomination and go on to kick Obama out of the White House..... and then turn our country around.
Between Perry and Santorum, I’d pick Perry any day of the week.
So here I am with my Voodoo dolls of Santorum and Perry. Which one of these two should I stick with most of the needles?
Perhaps we should all support Obama and get this over with. Then we can move on with the funeral and proper burial for our once great country.
Well, he saves/creates jobs, across the country, with his "resources" the longer he stays in the race.
RIck, Rick, or Newt is all I will accept! No to Romney and crazy uncle Ron Paul. Huntsman is just that, huntsman. lol.
Slight correction, there have been zero primaries and one caucus.
It looks like you do have to be wild-ass worldwide war supporter to be considered a conservative these days.
There has not even been a primary yet. The Iowa Caucus is merely a glorified straw poll with no delegates having been committed.
My personal rule of thumb has always been to vote for the most conservative candidate running.
Right now there are several people more conservative than Mitt in the race, so I am trying to do all I can to see him defeated.
If he does prevail in the primaries, then I will do a re-assessment and see who is the most conservative person running in the general. If, God forbid, that person is Mitt . . . well, let's just say sitting out an entire election is not an option for me.
The window is closing for an effective, public shake up of the Perry campaign. What should have happened in the last 48 hours stretches on to the weekend news cycle.
I’m a firm believer that the shake up needs to be public and fill the campaign with new blood at the top of the campaign. I have no doubt the campaign hesitates because it only has two weeks. But in that two weeks it must convince South Carolina that there has been a true turnover recommitting Perry to victory.
One of the issues that I keep running into is my suggestion that the Perry campaign let Joe Allbaugh go. Joe is, objectively, credited with turning the campaign around. Lots of people both inside and outside the campaign say Joe is the man who saved it from being even worse.
I don’t disagree with that at all. But I also know there are as many people internally and externally who disagree. And I am afraid that because the campaign broke into factions if one faction is removed completely and the other left to stay, we’ll spend the next two weeks not having “Perry reboot” stories, but insider accounts of what went wrong.
I hate to suggest throwing a guy under the bus who many people cite as the savior of the campaign, but something needs to happen. A few weeks ago I questioned whether Allbaugh was being purposed right in the campaign. He is a genius when it comes to crisis management and response. He puts out fires better than anyone. He excels at reacting to events and dealing with them decisively.
But the Perry camp needs someone proactive, not just reactive and it is unfair to ask Allbaugh to do both. I don’t think he can. And the criticisms of Allbaugh may very well stem from him having to be both the reactive crisis manager and the proactive political director of sorts. If Allbaugh stays, the Perry campaign needs to rapidly supplement him with a proactive political director who can call the shots moving forward and rely on Joe to make sure the crises that will crop up get responded to while the political director keeps moving the campaign forward.
The Perry campaign missed the Virginia ballot.
It underperformed polling in Iowa. A good campaign can come in higher than polling based on ground game. A mediocre campaign stays even with polling. A bad campaign’s ground game underperforms polling and Perry’s campaign was a bad campaign.
There needs to be a real and visible shake up if anyone in South Carolina is going to be expected to take him seriously. With or without Joe Allbaugh it is possible, but only if it is really visible with some more concretely defined roles between the proactive and the reactive sides of the campaign.
There are two weeks and the campaign needs itself fixed before the news cycle turns over Monday morning, which means there needs to be a plan in place today.
CW, you are a great example for someone who supports a candidate with passion without resorting to bashing the other candidates. While I was not a Perry fan at the beginning of his entry, he’s kind of worn on me. I get the feeling when I at least hear him speak I’m not being fed a bunch of BS. Still, at the moment, I’ve moved onto Santorum. But if Perry ever gained steam again, I wouldn’t have any issues with him.
Nevertheless, I’m not sure this is the best idea for Perry. People have tried this before (Rudy, Huntsman, Forbes) and it doesn’t work out all too well, because the momentum from the early contests seems to take all the steam out. Rudy camped out in FL, but everything that happened before FL ruined him by the time of the votes. Huntsman has camped out in NH, but Santorum has come in and captured near the same percentage as him.
I know what his people are thinking. Try and survive these early contests, and if it turns out bad or that Romney is moving toward the nomination, make once last stand in the March 6 primaries, which are loaded with Southern states. Too bad Texas didn’t keep it’s primary on March 6 for Perry, but strategically they made the best decision by scheduling it around what would have been several straight solid Romney blue contests.
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