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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Fast forward to November 2013 - jla receives a Freepmail from IndyLindy:
Hey there, jla,
First of all, I wanted to thank you for being so gracious to me before and after the election last year when I incessantly slammed Rick, er, I mean President Perry.
I have to hand it to you for never giving up on him. And I'll admit, I never would have believed he could move this country in such a positive way as he has this past year. The economy is booming, jobs are abundant, and (I'm happy to state), President Perry's plan to use our nation's unmatched technology to combat illegal immigrants has had astounding success! DON'T REPEAT THIS but because I've saved so much money as a result of President Perry's flat tax I now can afford a housekeeper. I've hired a very sweet young Catholic lady. Her name is Estrella Fernandez, and we've become best of friends. She's teaching me the Jarabe Tapatio, better known as the Mexican Hat Dance.
That's all for now. Keep on rockin', Rick!
Olé,
IndyLindy
I started out Liking Bachmann, but I think she is finished.
Michelle is a hero to me and a true conservative. She is getting the same support numbers as Perry. Why should she be finished and he is not. They both are pretty much done. I would be happy to see Perry get out of his pathetic campaign. One of the biggest amature runs in history. Some say but he has been running campaigns for years.....huh? Impossible. The reason he wins is because he has VERY weak opponents. KBH was not a strong candidate at all.
Good heavens, you better hope that would be the truth.
But I like over the top pie in the sky optimism.
I doubt it though. He has pretty much knocked out himself.
Sometimes a person who aspires to higher office, does something or says something that is quite fatal to their chances. Any attempt to fix it fails.
I have seen that before in the race for the 2012 nomination.
His old team required his opponents to be Kinky Freidman, Bill White, and Debra Medina. Against a tougher line up he and they are toast.
If Bush, who was certainly not an eloquent speaker, can be elected president not once , but twice, Perry can certainly be elected. Perry just has a laid back style. Nothing dumb about him. He’s great one on one and on the stump. When you look at Perry, you see someone who believes what he’s saying and who the common man can identify with. Someone who you could have a beer with and talk about hunting and fishing. Unlike robot Romney, who comes across as a corporation mascarading as a human. And, if Barry Soreto can be elected, without being able to tell you his name without reading it off a teleprompter, anyone can be elected president. It’s turned into an American Idol contest anyway.
Perry also went up against the Karl Rove machine when running against Hutchinson for governor. Rove backed the pro-abort Bailey over Perry. That tells you alot about Rove’s “conservatism”.
I am not fond of Perry or Romney.
I don’t care about having a beer with the president.
I just care about a President who has compassion for Americans, looking out for their interests, rather than compassion for lawbreakers feeding off US citizen taxpayers.
Perry is the only conservative governor running for president. Either him or Romney will run against Obama. It won’t be Cain. He has no money. So if republicans want a small government conservative, with some real convictions, they’ll vote for Perry. Or if they want to nominate another flip-flopping liberal they’ll vote for Romney. It’s pretty simple. I think Obama beats liberal Romney. I think he loses to a real conserative who can get conservatives to the polls. Nominating Romney will be a repeat of 2008. Anyway, that’s the way I see it.
Perry is not a real conservative. So far his poll numbers keep drooping.
It is all self inflicted. The reason for it is that he is another compassionate conservative in the Bush vein. He sure isn’t what I am looking for. In fact, I know of nobody who mentions him.
He has a lot of baggage and looks as though he has no problem climbing into the sack with special interests.
He has no way to the top. He chopped off his own chances in the first two debates. All he has is money, but money can’t buy you love. Those were fatal mistakes. Any attempt to walk them back will not be seen as genuine.
Willard Romney
His parents must have been really different.
I wonder if Willard had 2 dads.
“All he has is money, but money can’t buy you love”
If the liberal Romney gets the nomination, indeed money has bought love.
I differ with you on Perry not being real conservative. Other than the tuition for kids of illegals in Texas, which overwhelmingly passed the Texas legislature (It was not exactly an executive order from Perry), he has governed as a conservative should govern. He is a States rights governor. Pro-2nd amendment, pro-life, marriage between one man, one woman. He has never flip-flopped all over the map like Romney on these social issues. And Texans have put him in office three times as their governor. There is absolutely no comparision in his conservative record as gov of Texas and that of the liberal Romney when he bankrupted his state with RomneyCare. Romney was a dismal failure as governor. And if you can remember how bad George W. Bush was in every debate he ever had in his life, you wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss Perry’s chances. It’s the media that is trying to destroy Perry, while at the same time pimping for Romney and Cain, who will lose to Obama. That’s why the liberals tell you how great Romney and Cain do in the debates. Cain hardly says anything of substance, and Romney is an arrogant blowhard. But sure as the sun coming up the next day the media will tell you they did the best in the debates. Gingrich “won” that last debate, but to hear the media, he didn’t participate.
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