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Rick Perry Making Case to Be Taken Seriously in '16
Real Clear Politics ^ | March 14, 2014 | Scott Conroy

Posted on 03/14/2014 8:38:07 AM PDT by Kenny

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Though not widely reported at the time, complications from back surgery in 2011 left him physically debilitated and in nagging pain, which proved to be yet another perilous ingredient in the toxic potion that was his 2012 campaign.

This is like Quayle and potato. Hope we can look at the candidate this time and not his '"oops" moment. He's passionate about smaller government and the 2nd Amendment and has a fiscal record that can't be beat. Go ahead, flame away.

1 posted on 03/14/2014 8:38:07 AM PDT by Kenny
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This is like Quayle and potato. Hope we can look at the candidate this time and not his '"oops" moment. He's passionate about smaller government and the 2nd Amendment and has a fiscal record that can't be beat. Go ahead, flame away.

He's another GWB where Illegal Immigration and the Border is concerned.

No Thanks.
2 posted on 03/14/2014 8:39:31 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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My thoughts exactly. I don't see a lot of difference between Perry and having yet another Bush in the White House.

Neither is likely to win, though either would be a vast improvement on what we have now.

3 posted on 03/14/2014 8:41:35 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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Love the guy. I think he's an honest broker and can get things done.

FR has gotten into the habit of demeaning every available candidate. When will it stop.

No candidate can be all things nor will they be in agreement on all things. I think Perry is the best of the best despite any differences we may have.

4 posted on 03/14/2014 8:41:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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The difference was that Quayle was handed a card with that spelling to use as the official answer, and that potatoe is an alternative spelling.


5 posted on 03/14/2014 8:42:20 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: SoConPubbie

Basically, all the candidates have the same stand on immigration. And don’t forget that the Federal Government says “by law” we are to provide an education to illegals from kindergarten to grade 12.


6 posted on 03/14/2014 8:47:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Ingtar

Scott Walker looks pretty good to me…I like Ted Cruz but maybe he could lead the senate…Senators usually fail as presidents..Sarah at EPA…We need conservatives heading the departments and cutting them down to size.


7 posted on 03/14/2014 8:48:15 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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I think its time for an election without past candidates.


8 posted on 03/14/2014 8:48:30 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Sacajaweau

I agree. If you listen to some FReepers, every candidate is horrible.
We have to remember that they are all 1000% better than the Current Occupant of the White House, and they deserve some respect for considering putting their hat in the ring in the interest of serving the American people.

I like Paul Ryan, Rubio, Perry, Santorum, etc., a heckuva lot better than the Democratic alternative.


9 posted on 03/14/2014 8:49:55 AM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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Gardasil.

GARDASIL

GARDASIL

GARDASIL!!!

 

How many more reasons do we need to reject Perry?

/s

10 posted on 03/14/2014 8:49:56 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: cripplecreek

http://www.ncsl.org/research/immigration/in-state-tuition-and-unauthorized-immigrants.aspx


11 posted on 03/14/2014 8:50:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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The big money donors that helped Perry raise that eye-popping $17,000,000 in the third quarter in 2011 are not going to flush their money down this particular commode again. Sorry, but Perry had his chance, and he embarrassed himself.


12 posted on 03/14/2014 8:50:31 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
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To: Responsibility2nd

The media lied. It was not mandatory and Perry based his decision on medical advice.


13 posted on 03/14/2014 8:51:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SoConPubbie

Same here. No invasion supporters.


14 posted on 03/14/2014 8:51:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: Sacajaweau

I think its time for an election without past candidates.


15 posted on 03/14/2014 8:51:48 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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The difference was that Quayle was handed a card with that spelling to use as the official answer, and that potatoe is an alternative spelling.

And yet they killed him, destroyed his career. Perry had a brain fart, something we all do at one time or another just in front of the whole country. I seriously do not think that moment should define the man forever.

It might be helpful to Perry and others if we didn't have a bunch of communists moderating the debates as well. They absolutely cheated with O and the Benghazi question when Candy 'just happened' to have the transcript from the Rose Garden with her.

Can't we look at the candidate, their beliefs, and their records instead of a single 'gotcha' on tv?

16 posted on 03/14/2014 8:52:14 AM PDT by Kenny
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Two words: franchise tax. No thanks.


17 posted on 03/14/2014 8:55:04 AM PDT by manic4organic (It was nice knowing you, America.)
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Rick Perry Making Case to Be Taken Seriously in '16

You don't get a second chance to make a good impression.

Right or wrong, in 2012 the whole nation outside of Texas got a first impression of Rick Perry as the white-male version of Sheila Jackson Lee, only less articulate.

18 posted on 03/14/2014 8:57:06 AM PDT by meadsjn
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It's just not possible for someone to be governor of a state for 10+ years and for him to have taken only actions which you agree with 100.0000 percent of the time.

Not, repeat not, possible.

Look, I like Ted Cruz, but so far in his national career he has made speeches, not decisions like Perry. Walker and Jindal have had to. It's a lot easier to take potshots at a governing record than it is at the pages of the Congressional Record.

19 posted on 03/14/2014 9:01:26 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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No thanks?

Not even if you knew Gov. Perry rolled back 1.6 billion dollars in franchise tax cuts?

http://www.texastribune.org/2013/04/15/perry-calls-16-billion-business-tax-cuts/


20 posted on 03/14/2014 9:09:13 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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