Posted on 09/12/2011 8:42:02 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
As I have said before, it constantly amazes me to watch what the media describes as “experienced” senior campaign advisers fail to follow through and do their research. “Know thy enemy” is the first rule of politics 101 and yet supposed ” unbeatable” campaign influence peddlers have failed to learn this lesson when it comes to Rick Perry. I t is downright amusing to watch the show.
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Perry’s people will either leak something Perry has said that is “damaging” in the past or will leak something written to the media. It is either this or it is said in a debate or press conference. His campaign will give the opponent the time (perhaps a day,perhaps a week) to pontificate,make numerous statements to the media,put out an op-ed or a flier and then BOOM! out of no where comes the carefully researched counter punch from the Perry team. They will usually do it in the most public and splashy way-guaranteed to knock the opponent on his/her knees. He/or she will either have to back up their past actions or restate or renege on the ones just uttered. The opponent will have to have a hinged spine in order to whipsaw back and forth trying to re-cover. The opponent forgot to check for long term consequences before he JUMPED for the bait so temptingly hanging out there. I have witnessed this happen to both Karl Rove and to David Axelrod’s candidates.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Still peddling the Malkin BS too.
Your a dedicated Perry hater !
Thank you for providing the links. All I ask is that documentation be provided when accusations are being made. Has nothing to do with the messenger.
They have no intention of supporting Perry if he wins.
I hope you are right.
It tells us that if we're not careful we're going to end up with another McCain (i.e. Romney), and then another 4 years of Obama.
Yep. As Rush has often pointed out, it's a mistake to play not to lose. Better to play to WIN.
I really wish more people with the "anybody but _____" (insert name of Democrat nightmare du jour) would realize that when they approach selecting candidates that way, they are leaving the GOP wide open to manipulation by the Democrats.
When we start assessing candidates based on OUR terms, instead of the Democrats' terms, that's when we will start playing to win and deflect manipulation.
That's because they are both from Texas, but Bush (and ROVE) hate Perry with a passion. They backed Kay Baily Hutchenson in Perry's last campaign for governor.
He claimed there had been a bill passed aimed at cancers, cervical cancer in particular. I went looking and found that was absolutely true.
In 2005, HB 2475 said, "This bill requires the Department of State Health Services to develop a strategic plan to eliminate mortality from cervical cancer by the year 2015…" "The strategic plan must be developed and delivered to the governor and legislature no later than December 31, 2006."
Was the plan delivered to Perry? Yes it was.
A 47 page report (Acrobat PDF) called "Texas Cervical Cancer Strategic Plan," December 2006, by Texas Department of State Health Services in collaboration with The Texas Cancer Council was delivered.
Page 8, "Executive summary" Armed with this new HPV vaccine, we can achieve the moment when we know our goal — eliminating cervical cancer death and suffering — is in reach.
Page 20, "Access to Care" - "Women must have access to cervical cancer screening to eliminate cervical cancer in Texas. The National Cancer Institute reports that groups of women with high cervical cancer mortality:...
… "Widespread vaccination is a key to reducing cervical cancer incidence in Texas"
He acted in the furtherance of the legislature's public health goals by ensuring the widest dissemination of and coverage for the vaccine.
The three shots included in Gardasil cost $360 (it's less today) which is not cheap for "low income" individuals most in need of it. Opt-out vaccines are covered by insurance, Medicaid and other programs. Opt-in vaccines not.
It's hard to look at that legislative priority going back years, that resulting report, the relative insignificance of the Merck donation to his war chest and not conclude this was an honest error of procedure, rather than corrupt intent.
It's long been a firestorm but from many different angles. There's the anti-vax types who can never be satisfied. There's those feeling the vaccine is somehow a moral judgement on their child's virtue. There's the thought the Texas governorship is a "weak" office and the legislature the strong so his action offended the balance of gov't in Texas. And there's the idea this is a super secret cabal to funnel tax dollars to Merck. It's hard for that last one to stick when the legislature had set the priorities it set and its report concluded what it concluded.
Enough with the baseless innuendo. That might be good for Ed Rollins' run campaigns but I say put up or shut-up. Name names.
Palin is misinformed or just plain wrong. It happens.
Bachmann embarrassed herself by lying. She repeatedly claimed there was "no choice" in the matter of getting the vaccine. That's false on its face. She knows it and lied anyway.
We get enough of that out of Democrats. We don't need it from a supposedly titanium-spined Tea Party candidate.
“Palin is misinformed or just plain wrong. It happens.”
Sacrilege!
(Actually, she’s been wrong a number of times. Like anyone else.)
Bachmann did specify that an Opt-In would have been better than an Opt-Out.
Either way, both fine ladies are right. And RickS was VERY spot on to remind people exactly why we have vaccinations in schools. To prevent school-based transmissions. Unless Texas schools now mandate underage sex in the classroom, then HPV does NOT meet the standard for such intrusion.
nc, thanks for your measured response. I honestly wasn't expecting it, but I'll take it anyway. :)
As for your question, I understand what you're getting at, and I do have a theory. I am failrly new here myself, and I have only just recently learned that some time ago, there was a purge of heavy-duty Romney supporters, a veritable zot-fest of legendary magnitude. JimRob don't put up with no steenkin RINOs, the premise being he wants to avoid having FR get dragged eventually over to the dark side by giving RINOs unfettered access to his considerable bandwidth. Hence the eerie absence of Romney-bashers. There's just no one here with whom to have that argument.
As for why not much activity with the lesser candidates, I suspect it's also a natural phenomenon. They are now so diminished by the top three (Romney, Perry, Palin), that reality has been accepted. No one (to my knowledge) is coming on here anymore with Bachmann threads and drawing anti-Bachmann fire. That's not where the battle rages. Unless someone new emerges, like a Bush or a Christie, I think the battle lines have been drawn right where you're seeing them, simply because that's the natural expression of the FR constituency. No conspiracy need apply.
That would be the Texas taxpayers because the federal government won’t do its job
Hey slick, how come Californians have been told repeatedly by assorted bucket mouths in Texas and elsewhere, illegal aliens in California are Californians fault, and they deserve everything they get?
What kind of twisted cockn'bull hypocrisy is this?
You party groupies are the biggest GD hypocrites I’ve ever seen.
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