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Perry will be POTUS
Kevin Dunnigan | 8/15/2011 | Kevin Dunnigan

Posted on 08/15/2011 7:38:31 AM PDT by kdun

On Saturday,Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his intentions to be the next President of the United States. I will go on record and predict he will indeed.

Mr. Obama will not win another term unless we have some economic fairy waive her magic wand and change the world in a short 16 months. He is weak and worn out. Behind the scenes, his presidency is in chaos and in a few short months, he has another budget cutting battle that will cause him to lose all around. He will try to act like he knows what he is doing, but the majority of America for the first time is not buying.

Think back of the people you have met who said they voted for Obama. After your initial shock of why would they be so dense, you can see they fell for the empty rhetoric and empty promises. Now, have some of those shared with you they would never vote for him again? There are many that go burned the first time and will never again. On top of that, the Tea Party and Republican base is fired up. They were not in 2008 as they were tired and worn out after 8 years of a big spending RINO. Add to this that the Democratic base is also disappointed in their savior and the path to re-election for the soup kitchen organizer from Chicago looks very difficult. Saying Mr. Obama is the least qualifed person to ever hold the office of the President is the biggest understatement of the century.

The rest of the Republican field really only involves two, Michelle Bachman and Mitt Romney. The others will be gone by February.

I met Mrs. Bachman last summer and had lunch with her. What an amazing woman and fighter. She stands for exactly what I stand for and most on the far right. And she is not afraid to mix it up. The problem will be once she gets outside her home state area, it is going to be tough for her. And sad also to say that it is still hard for woman to be elected POTUS, especially at a time like this. She would make a great President, but it is a challenge that will prove to be insurmountable.

Mr. Romney is another story. I feel if Rick Perry was not in the race, Romney would be the next President. But those are now just dreams of his. Mr. Romney is a fine man and stands for much of what we stand for, BUT sometimes you just do not know. His flop-flopping through the years has created doubt. If he was the only game in town, one could plug your nose and look past that doubt if the only other choice was Mr. Obama

Romney-care is something Mr. Romney will never get over, no matter how he spins it. It looks like Obamacare will be front and center at the Supreme Court during the height of the presidential campaign, and that is not good for Mr. Romney. And during a time where the Tea Party holds great influence, Mr. Romney is too far left of all of that and when he tacks right, he is hard to believe.

The only other wild-card is Sarah Palin. Mrs. Palin is a force to be reckoned with and would make a great President. But I feel if she ran, the campaign would not be about issues and Mr. Obama would win. Hopefully she continues to just be thorn in Obamas side and keeps everyone honest. I do not feel she will run. In fact, I will go so far as to assume her and Mr. Perry have had a few phone conversations over the last few months. But I do believe Sarah Palin will have her day, just not over the next 4-8 years.

That leaves Mr. Perry. Unless there are some huge skeletons in the closet, he will be the next POTUS. Jobs and the economy is the real game in town and he can talk it and back it up. Obama can talk it, but has never had a real one. Mr. Perry is also not afraid of a fight, just ask Kay Baily!

I have two suggestions for Mr. Perry.

1. Bring back Ronald Reagans line, "Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" and repeat and repeat.

2. Say the pledge of allegience before every campaign event. Bring back some pride of country and try to bring folks together. And say the pledge in Spanish and English. I understand Mr. Perry speaks Spanish and that population needs to hear him loud and clear.

In closing, if John McCain would have been elected, America would have continued to die a slow death. Mr. Obama has woke the sleeping giant and his polices, as painful as they are, in the end will be the death of liberalism for many generations. And Mr. Perry will be riding in shortly to make sure of that.


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: perry; perryforpresident; potus; rinoperry; rovianpuppet
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To: Mifflin

Thanks!


41 posted on 08/15/2011 8:23:16 AM PDT by Comparative Advantage
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To: Mifflin

In Perry’s own words he said he supports Mexico’s president Fox’s position on open US borders.

That my FRiend does it for me, F Perry he is just another New World order democrat, I mean republican. And his sycophants coming on here pronouncing his victory the day he announces is laughable at best.

He is GWB II big time. And we all know Bush mislead conservatives until he got our money and our votes then we saw who he really is, a RINO.


42 posted on 08/15/2011 8:23:37 AM PDT by stockpirate (Is Perry an establishment Republican, New World Order Socialist, NWOS...let's verify)
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To: beandog
OK, this should be good - tell me, "beandog", why it was not merely stupid but "incredibly stupid"?
Let's see, was it stupid on account of being false? No, every word was irrefutably factual.
Where you offended for any reason, beanie?
43 posted on 08/15/2011 8:27:59 AM PDT by jla
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To: kdun
This is exactly how I fell almost to the word. Perry is not afraid to debate hard. We need the essence from Chris Cristy to verbal level the competitention. We need to go after the left the way the demonize us.
44 posted on 08/15/2011 8:29:16 AM PDT by Plumres
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To: thefactor

“The pledge in Spanish? That’s called pandering.....”
Maybe, if its not clear how or why it’s being offered, but
there’s one way of looking at it that looks like a very sharp move: it’s a direct invitation to Pledge Allegiance
to THIS country and its interests above all others, and all other “causes”, like La Raza’s, that might shake up the still- growing constituency of Hispanics and make them realize that they haven’t really gotten very far with Obama at the helm. But only when it becomes clear what Perry’s overall plan is and how it will benefit them to dial back the alienation will this make sense to them. How many candidates have EVER proposed this idea of allegiance, RATHER than merely suggesting that they’ll get what they want as a special-interest group?


45 posted on 08/15/2011 8:30:55 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (No need for a tagline, but here it is anyway..........)
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To: kdun
Pretty good analysis.

I like Bachmann. I just don't think that she'll make it out of the primaries. She's honest, and frankly, most people just don't want to know what the truth is.

And I agree with the author on Palin. I like her, too, but I think that she's doing better as a lightning rod. I hate the hatchet job that the MSM did on her back in 2008, but I recognize that it made her unelectable to a national office any time soon. She (and her family) would do better with staying the heck off reality TV - and - Palin serving as a cabinet member somewhere in the 2012 winner's administration and building back up her credentials. That is, IF she wants to hold the top spot one day.

Cain wasn't metioned. Of all the candidates, I think that he's likely the best and probably the most qualified. So, that means that he'll get the boot early in the promaries. :-) Much like Pawlenty. Good credentials, just not charismatic enough to be prez.

As much as the Paulistas on the forum will flame me, the rest of the pack are a bunch of 3rd raters.

So, that leaves Perry and Romney. Either are slick and good-looking enough to be electable. I don't trust Romney. Anyone who is liberal enough to get elected in MA as a Republican makes me pretty nervous. Doubt I'm alone on that opinion.

46 posted on 08/15/2011 8:38:59 AM PDT by wbill
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To: supremedoctrine

Allow me to “bless” your assertion that voter fraud doesn’t stand a chance. My, how I hope that you’re right.


47 posted on 08/15/2011 8:43:11 AM PDT by davisfh (Islam is a mental illness with global social consequences)
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To: 9YearLurker

Perry is a Moderate at best. He is all talk. He just wants to be president. He will not do what we all think needs to be done. Why then would I ever want him to be president? Palin is no GOD but she will IMHO try to get the job done with re-election not in mind. I just don’t get this Perry love because the press has tried to “pick us a conservative”.


48 posted on 08/15/2011 8:43:11 AM PDT by carjic (I've always been taught to respect my elders.... but it's getting harder to find any!)
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To: Mifflin

Palin’s position on amnesty and controlling our borders has always been a problem for me. She appears to be avoiding the issue in order to mislead voters. I like her and will vote for the republican regardless, but Sarah needs to be more forthcoming concerning illegal immigration and what to do with those who are here now.


49 posted on 08/15/2011 8:43:42 AM PDT by stockpirate (Is Perry an establishment Republican, New World Order Socialist, NWOS...let's verify)
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To: kdun
Never mind how or when ...Perry is in the race. GOOD! It is all OK with me and I think those lame news types made entirely too much out of the announcement coming as it did during the Iowa event.

And, the whole thing is a wholesome process working the way it is designed to work.

The Conservatives present and assess candidates, openly debating and challenging one another keeping the process honest ...it is all transparent.

I have no complaint to make about any of this.

The Liberal approach on the other hand???.... not so much.

PS- I CANNOT figure Paul. That guy opens his mouth and after about one minute I wonder what the he^% he is on. He's WAY too extreme and just the kind of Conservative who gives all the rest a bad name. He becomes hysterical and illogical in a heartbeat. There is some kind of unhinged quality to him that is creepy!

50 posted on 08/15/2011 8:44:32 AM PDT by SMARTY (A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.)
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To: stockpirate

Yet another ‘concern troll’


51 posted on 08/15/2011 8:46:26 AM PDT by BillM
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To: Mifflin

So you’re going to vote for Hussein Obama? Or stay home, or vote 3rd party, which is just as good as a vote for Obama. Grow up. No candidate is going to be perfect. Not even the great Ronald Reagan, the gold standard by which all others are measured, was perfect. Rick Perry would make a fine president, and will be billions of times better than the Kenyan Muslim Marxist.


52 posted on 08/15/2011 8:46:26 AM PDT by Astronaut
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To: kdun

Not with my vote.


53 posted on 08/15/2011 8:46:36 AM PDT by bgill (just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
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To: Mifflin

Yes, and Obama is sooooo much better on illegal immigration...........Your non-vote for Perry (should he be the nominee) is a vote for Obama. Pure and simple.


54 posted on 08/15/2011 8:46:44 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: kdun; All

I’d have to say Bachmann, Cain or Santorum are the best bet for actually cutting the size of government by 1/2. They are the only ones in the field who might - might - go against the wishes of big-business lobbyists at all or even in the least way.

Other than that, deficits will continue, the bubble of government spending will grow.

It can’t continue growing at this pace much longer.

IMHO, the only reason why radicals - and I include those inside government and business, like say, a Paul Krugman, as well as rioters - do not want to collapse our economy now is because it would happen on Obama’s watch. They merely want to keep growing the debt pile.

In the same way a nation employs a “scorched-earth” policy of retreat during a war, left-wingers want to leave record numbers of government employees and dependents when Obama leaves office, and the government borrowing 50% or more of it’s spending. In essence, they want to hand off a U.S. Feral government that is exactly at the tipping point of collapse to the next President in January 2013.

How will an establishment Republican like Romney or Perry respond in that situation ? By making deals. Puddy in the hands of lobbyists, whether from the left or the right.

With government debt collapse teetering on a knife edge, they would open the floodgates and give everything and anything to everyone as long as everyone continues to put on a nice face and carry on, somehow, even in the face of crippling inflation. If they don’t have an inherent wisdom in business and ecnomic principles and don’t have the spine to stick to them, they’ll attempt price controls a la Nixon.

It’s difficult to predict when and how the Treasury debt bubble will actually burst. One must keep in mind that the very notion of $15 trillion owed by a government that takes in $2 trillion in total per year is nonsensical from a perspective of creditworthiness. So the entire planet earth, save a few sane people, are willfully or unknowingly ignorant of the whole situation or are whistling past the graveyard.

We absolutely must trend towards growing small business and in various key parts of our economy.

Those in the capital markets world simply are blind.

If only a few would finance a few simple ideas.

I highly recommend, again, the following read:

Popular Science Sep 1897

Search and find it. You’ll find the first page:
__________________________________________

APPLETONS’

POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY

September, 1897

SPANISH EXPERIMENTS IN COINAGE.

By Henry Charles Lea.
__________________________________________

Read on, you’ll find the horrific inflation problems of the Spanish Empire over decades.

They did not produce manufactured items, they exported raw materials: wool, flax, hemp, silk, iron, steel, timber and wine. All exported as raw materials. And they minted coins by the boatload, and they devalued their coins as they needed more and more of them. And the more they needed, the more they devalued and that made them need even more.


55 posted on 08/15/2011 8:47:36 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We need to fix things ourselves)
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To: jla

Can you explain to me how “a return to traditional values” will happen by virtue of ELECTING A PRESIDENT who seems to embrace and be guided by those values? Just what mechanisms will be put in place to suddenly, or even gradually, return us to those values? Will the net effect or result just be a vague “feeling” that we now all share “traditional values”?
And what advantage would someone like Perry have over someone like Palin, since you seem to think he would?
It’s interesting to note as you did, that Palin has some support among groups and individuals who DON’T perceive her as maybe a little “scary”, like they might perceive Perry, let alone Bachmann, who is quicker to flash the sleeve on which she wears her social conservativism. Palin seems a bit more “worldly” than either of them, even if her record as Governor couldn’t be exploited to her advantage as easily as Perry’s. I knew it would take time, but Palin has managed to keep showing up, standing up, popping back up with good humor and resilience every time she’s been pushed and kicked-—the perception of her has changed just as I knew it would.Now it’s the wild-eyed Bachmann, as depicted on the Newsweek cover, who’s promoted as the “crazy” and “scary” one.


56 posted on 08/15/2011 8:48:13 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (No need for a tagline, but here it is anyway..........)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I'm not against Perry, but a lot of people seem to be rushing the coronation.

I agree.

This thing hasn't even really gotten started yet.

It's far too early to be calling an election that won't take place for almost fifteen months.

57 posted on 08/15/2011 8:49:26 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: kdun

Speaking of people I won’t be supporting or voting for......


58 posted on 08/15/2011 8:50:38 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: SW6906

We do not need a RINO, moderate like Perry. That is GWB number II.

Perry if he becomes President, will destroy the Republican Party.

I am not for Obama, I just don’t want a loser on Illegal Immigration like Perry, to be our President.

Bachmann is better, maybe Palin. We will have to wait and see.

It is not Perry vs. Obama right. You are gettting ahead of yourself


59 posted on 08/15/2011 8:51:44 AM PDT by Mifflin
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To: SMARTY
Here's what Jack Wheeler thinks of Ron Paul:

Once again, in the Ames, Iowa debate last night (8/11), he exposed himself as a Blame America Firster who has no desire whatever to defend our national security.

He's done this with complete consistency in Congress, never once voting for a single defense authorization bill. But last night, he went total wacko. Not only did he blame the US for Iran being a state sponsor of terrorism, not only did he excuse Iran's quest for nuclear weapons, he actually wants Iran to have nukes. It's "natural" for the mullahs to have nukes, and "what's so terribly bad about this?"

I've gotten a number of pro-Paul TTPers mad at me for saying this before, but this seals the deal that he has a Hate America foreign policy as bad as Noam Chomsky's. At least in Ames it's out on full undeniable display. And by defending Mullah nukes, it also shows he's a Hate Israel Anti-Semite. No wonder he was booed.

60 posted on 08/15/2011 8:52:19 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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