Posted on 10/24/2011 11:50:17 AM PDT by CaroleL
There's more news than just a new tax plan coming out of Rick Perry's presidential campaign this week. In addition to his highly anticipated flat tax proposal to be announced tomorrow, the Texas governor and former front runner in the GOP presidential sweepstakes is shaking up his campaign staff big time.
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The staff is not Rick Perry’s problem, Rick Perry’s problem is Rick Perry.
Sounds to me like having those experienced in national campaigns will help.
Hope he takes off the gloves next time with Mitt. Romney looked silly last time with his whining to moderators and getting all flustered and red-faced.
“IF you wanna be pwesident, Mr talk to much Pehwy, you better learn to take turns like good boys do.”
Oh, that was a mistake.
You should post your whole piece right here, in total.
Otherwise folks might think you are just trying to get blog hits for yourself.
Perry knows how to win elections in spite of himself. He has never been a very good candidate, even in TX, but he has a powerful organization that knows how to win.
He is also a good retail politician.
Both of these factors play into Iowa’s hands.
Well that does it! Now if they can just find a candidate without enough baggage to load a cruise ship.
It's possible the old Perry staff members were giving him bad advice and implementing a strategy that didn't show national voters the real Rick Perry. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a different one.
As opposed to his OLD team which knew how to... ????
My question is: Why not START with people who "know how to win"?
Perry probably needs people who know how to do cosmetic reconstruction.
They have to be able to paper over all the holes in the wall and make the smelly laundry palatable. LOL
Perry better have a plan on how many jobs a flat tax will create.
“It’s possible the old Perry staff members were giving him bad advice and implementing a strategy that didn’t show national voters the real Rick Perry.”
If that is the case, Rick Perry is not fit to be president, as a president should be able to plan his own strategies and quickly determine what advice is counter productive.
Perry just looks clueless as a candidate but I am open to believing that he can improve on his ability to continue to self destruct during a debate while taking Mittens down a peg or two in the process.
As for his support of the DREAM Act in Texas, I think he should stick to his guns on it so Cain and the other candidates can continue to kick his arse.
Just as long as Perry and Mittens destroy each other is all that counts. Here is an exchange I would love to see: Mittens comes out in his calm and soothing voice and criticizes Perry for the DREAM Act, Perry responds, by expressing bewilderment as to why Mittens would care, afterall, attracting all those illegals to come here just means more people to mow Mittens lawn while taking advantage of the free health care in Massachussetts. If only, if only.
Maybe Perry started with them out of loyalty. Or maybe he didn't realize the huge difference in areas like media relations and image perception between a state-wide campaign and a national one.
Unlike Romney who's been running a presidential campaign for 5 years, Perry's only been in for a few months and is still learning how to do it right. These new hires should go a long way toward that.
Romney looked silly last time with his whining to moderators and getting all flustered and red-faced."Anderson! Anderson!"... in his best gay-boy lisp!
Play it again, Willard!
Perry has the perfect narrative for this race. That’s why he started out with that huge lead. He has a success story based almost entirely on conservative governance. He has much more to brag about than hide, but he ended up stumbling terribly on his weak issues so much that those items ballooned to shadow the rest of his record. On top of that he has shown no ability to be able to campaign on the big stage, both in debates and in quick response answers.
A seasoned team can coach him on these items. As he has released his economic agenda the past two weeks, he has an opportunity to recover in this race. We’ll see if he is a quick learner or not in the next couple weeks, or if his campaign is DOA. If he recovers and does well in Iowa, this race takes on whole different direction. Perry can easily do very well in both South Carolina and Florida, too, in the early states.
I would mostly agree with you. However, you forgot his ability to alienate and insult nearly three quarters of his base in one heartless statement.
If you live in Texas, you undoubtedly realize that we have a legislature, courts, a Lt. Governor with more power in many ways than the Governor, and mandates from the federal government. There are many things I would like changed in Texas, but I also realize that Perry can’t do much without the cooperation of people who don’t “report” to him - Joe Straus (Rino extraordinaire), for example.
I could be reasonably happy with anyone but Mittens or Huntsman. Does it really make sense to villify other candidates because they are considered insufficiently “perfect”, often for reasons that are shallow or bogus - but sometimes merited.
I started out Liking Bachmann, but I think she is finished. I would have suppoorted Palin, but she isn’t running. I’d be very happy with Cain, but he may lack the political discipline to go the distance (I hope he figures out that he has to think harder about how and what he says). If Cain fades (and I hope he doesn’t), Perry would be a far better President than Obamalini or Mittens, and probably a better President than Governor, in part because of his views on federalism.
People on FR ought to save the vitriol for Obamalini and Mittens.
Not necessarily. It really could be a bunch of people, Perry included, who had no national experience.
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