Posted on 08/11/2015 2:54:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Rick Perry campaign took another blow it absolutely did not need.
Late Monday, National Journal reported that the former Texas governor's campaign has stopped paying its South Carolina staff. By Monday night, there were reports that all paid Perry staff had been taken off the payroll, and that the campaign's top brass gave staff the green light to apply for other jobs.
"Pay is only one reason people do this," Katon Dawson, the governor's South Carolina state director, told the National Journal. He told The Washington Post that "money is extremely tight" and that everyone "moved to volunteer status," but the team "is working as hard as it was last week." There is no way to spin this as positive news for Perry, and that fact is made worse by the news that Ted Cruz is surging in polls.
First, let's breakdown what this says about Perry:
South Carolina has a special place in the narrative of Perry's presidential ambitions. His GOP rivals trounced him in the early 2012 New Hampshire primary. At the time, he brushed off the defeat, saying that his road to the GOP nomination didn't require him winning the Granite State: "Tonight's results in New Hampshire show the race for a 'conservative alternative' to Mitt Romney remains wide open," he said in a statement....
(Excerpt) Read more at houstonchronicle.com ...
I wonder why some of these candidates are running in the first place. Ego? Flattery? They must be morons if they don’t know people are fed up with political hacks like them. People are fed up. They want a change and these guys aren’t it.
exactly— I bet Carly drops like a stone now in the polls.. It takes a week or two but it happens with all of them.. phony outrage is not appreciated with intellectually honest people...
Well Fox is trying to bury Cruz. He politely tried to say something (anything) but they shut him up with the lie, We will get to you..
He should come out and (politely) blast them with a cogent statement on all of the issues he was NOT ALLOWED to say anything about. “If asked..I would say this about Illegal immigration...if asked...I’d say this about the deficit...etc.
yea another ridiculous question which was maybe worse than Trump’s... “Tell me what God says to you about your political positions ?”
Paul, Santorum and others have few supporters to shift to survivors.
Almost certainly Fiorina’s bump came from voters leaving Jeb. They will stick with her til the CNN debate. Then they might go back to Jeb, or go to Kasich, or stay with Fiorina, depending on what happens between now and then.
The same holds true for Carson-Rubio-Cruz ... and to some extent Walker. They draw from the same constituency. Many who choose one of them in a poll might just as likely choose the other. The survivor of this group will not be Walker. He did poorly in the debate. So picking up Walker’s supporters by one of the other three will give that person a bump and make him look like the horse to get on.
Local supporters of Carson-Rubio-Cruz-Walker would be smart to make friends with each other and build a winning coalition.
Cruz is as “evangelical” as Huckabee. Huckabee will get Santorum voters before Huck folds. So far, Cruz is not positioned to get the Huckabee-Santorum voters. But he should not take their switch to him for granted, even though Carson-Rubio-Walker might have less attraction for the single issue voters.
The Trump voters will never go to Jeb. But mad-as-hell anti-PC, anti-establishment voters can go to Carson-Rubio-Cruz.
A campaign that started at Liberty University, has been to hundreds of churches and related meetings and has a well-known evangelical preacher as a surrogate? Really?
Rubio isn’t in that-he’s a lib and an establishment guy.
Take the Huckabee and Santorum supporters at Charles Stanley’s First Baptist Church of Atlanta, or Andy Stanley’s Buckhead and Alpharetta Churches, or the Synagogue on the west side of Hwy 400, Atlanta. Those three have large congregatons and are extremely pro-Israel, an issue in which Cruz should be winning. But Cruz supporters in those churches are not much more numerous than in the general population. And the Huckabee and Santorum supporters in those churches have a higher percentage than among general R primary voters.
Why? I don’t know. I have’nt done a scientific poll. But that is sure the vibes I get anecdotally. I might be wrong.
Rafael Cruz is speaking Aug 19 in Buford GA. My daughter is the #1 organizer trying to get Christians (Evangelicals and Catholics) to the Rafael event. How many will she produce? I don’t know. How many will show up by hearing about it from other sources? I don’t know.
I’m the only one posting anything in GA on FR. And I’m relatively new to GA and don’t know the people or customs well. The only other person evangelizing GA is Conrad Quadrigli, a Walker supporter who believes in building the movement. So he effectively publicizes Cruz and other conservative events and appears to be the only person doing so.
Hi “neighbors! Thanks for letting us know about this. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend. Would love an after action report and pictures! Tell him he has some supporters in lib Seattle! :-)
Best,
SC
Graham.. how long can Lindsey hang on for?
I ask myself everytime i hear McCain’s puppet boy make a comment. I think he will stick around for WAY longer than he should. He isn’t in it to win it. He can’t have much money and even less ground forces.
He has Fox, and other willing Networks, to express his negative views about other candidates.
It is commical, if you don’t take him serious. And who is he is at 0%. AH HA HA HA.
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