Posted on 12/22/2011 2:19:45 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I think I’ll have to go with Newt and Rick. Mitt is definitely last ditch territory.
Good for you. I wish it looked brighter for Perry...we’ll see.
And the reason he (and we) can trust Perry the most with the conservative cause?
Romney is a used car salesman and Gingrich is a gabby professor, but long-time Texas legislator, Ag Commissioner, Lt. Governor and Governor Rick Perry is a doer who has fought big spenders and big regulators and big litigators and all powerful federal government for many years.
And his values and social issue positions do not change.
Perry will be the only candidate who gets any of my money also.
It won’t be much. Because I don’t have much.
Anyone with a brain prefers Newt over Willard.
I trust Perry to drop out when he finshes 4th or worse in Iowa. That’s my TRUST in Rick.
Thanks shield.
Well this forum and its founder once named 3 candidates as accepable - Bachmann, Cain and Perry.
Well, guess what? All that has changed. Cain dropped out and this once conservative site went head-over-heels for Newt Gingrich. He was not acceptable in the beginning so who knows what happened to now make people thnk he is a true conservative?
Bachmann and Perry are still in the race but the powers that be ignore them even though they are the real conservatives.
If this is a cuttng edge conservative forum, supporting an insider over conservatives is a mystery to me.
If in March or April, we have to choose between Newt or Mitt because they are the last men standing, then we should make a choice between the lesser of the two evils.
But that choice should not be made at this point. We should still be in the mindset to pick the most conservative we can that can win.
For me, that choice has always been Rick Perry. His record as a governor is so good in job creation and in fighting Obama and I can’t understand why he is ignored by so many here.
Go Perry!!!
Perry has the money to stay in. I expect him to drop out after Florida if he’s still gathering few votes compared to Gingrich and Romney. I don’t bear him any ill will, but can’t support him for president. He cannot beat Obama with his poor speaking skills. He can’t deal with foreign leaders and screw up his words. Every word means something when dealing with foreign powers. He would be the laughing stock all over this world.
About the debates - every single candidate has made mistakes in the debates not just Perry. He was just the only one who said oops and didnt try to spin his way out of a hole.
No, he is not skilled in debating but has improved by leaps and bounds. He has gotten under Mitt’s skin twice during the debates and knocked him off his game. He can do the same with Obama.
He speaks just fine so I guess you haven’t been paying any attention to him lately. In the beginning, he was shaky, I admit but that has changed significantly.
Why don’ you stop and pay attention to Rick Perry again and see if your opinion of him no longer applies.
I’ve known Perry since he first ran for Texas Ag. Comm. Worked for him every time he ran for governor. The last time he ran for governor, there was a debate and he wouldn’t go. I know him.
But you don't know what his 2010 Dem. challenge Bill White's tax returns say, do you (Gov. Perry's stipulation to appear and debate)? White refused to produce the tax returns in question. Perry has ALWAYS opened his tax returns to the public. ALWAYS.
Well, he won, didn’t he? I guess a lot of folks understand him just fine.
Lots of influential people asked him to run including Bobby Jindal. They had no problems with his speech.
No he is not an accomplished debater but he has been getting his points across extremely well in the last 3 or 4 debates.
Who do you support?
I really would like it if we had all the primaries either on the same day or in the same month at least.
Nor sure how one works in a campaign for a candidate 3 times but doesn’t understand his words.
And what does it say about the one saying it?
Pat Paulsen would have been the perfect candidate to represent this party! :)
Brilliant.
Especially coming from a party whose “front-runners” are Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich.
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