Posted on 08/18/2014 9:17:09 PM PDT by DRey
Less than a week after Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) was indicted by a grand jury on two felony counts, he may be in an even stronger political position than he was before the charges hit. Several prominent Republicans have spoken out on Perry's behalf. Conservative activists in Iowa and New Hampshire aren't shying away. Even a well-known Democratic strategist has suggested the case against him may be flimsy. For a politician who is openly weighing another run for president, it's a welcome turn of events: While politicians embroiled in legal fights of this magnitude typically find few public allies, Perry has been quickly backed by a small army of conservative supporters. "Kind of ironically, it's helped him," said Craig Robinson, founder of the Iowa Republican, a conservative news Web site. "I think people kind of see this as an overreach, and he's kind of the victim." David Kochel, who was Mitt Romney's top Iowa advisor, said the particulars of the Perry case -- he vetoed funding to an anti-corruption unit after a district attorney who pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated refused to step down -- will endear him to conservatives in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. "I think he comes out of this looking like a champion for ethical government," said Kochel.
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Ping.
Ping.
should they be indicting Harry Reid instead? didn’t he bride congress millions for votes in 2010?
May this backfire, big time...and may he wear it as a badge of honor.
Amen, Sister.
Thanks for the ping AAC...
Now pinging my list....
The label probably won’t hurt him any more than “impeached” has hurt Bill Clinton.
Go Gov Perry! Run like the wind with this!
Exactly. And those that didn’t know him before and are ethically inclined may be newly curious. Those conservatives that didn’t consider him viable may give him a second look. It’s not going to hurt.
Read my profile.
the lib Rats accused me of throwing kids in the street to block an abortion clinic.
Pure BS.
they made me a martyr and I milked it for all I could get.
(And I won in court too)
I don’t know what this will do for Perry in the long run, but I know the game Democrats play with the leftist courts makes me despise them even more than I already did. When they can’t beat someone politically, despite having the media to do their dirty work, they turn to unethical, corrupt leftist courts, prosecutors, and jurors to keep conservatives under a constant threat of bogus indictments. Meanwhile, Democrats can get away with anything, and laugh about it.
Awww Jeez I do not understand the hatred of Rick Perry.
He gets hit from the left.. He gets hit from the right and he rolls through the punches, kisses his wife puts the hammer down, and stays pretty solid as a conservative.
So their logic is: it’s okay to act, but not okay to threaten to act. Typical thin liberal gruel. burn in hell deems.
It’s hard to say how this will turn out for the governor (corruption being what it is), but somebody needs to make the vids of this drunk go viral. As Kramer (from Seinfeld) would say “They’re OUT there, Jerry! They’re OUT!”
And they ain’t lookin’ too good. Deelicious!
Not according to good old El Rushbo. On today’s show, he basically said the damage to Perry has already been done.
Rush has already given the win to the Democrats and loss to the GOP...like everything else.
I do not care what anyone on FR says and I sure don’t give a **** what libs say, Rick Perry is a good and honorable man.
He fights the good fight.
Don’t always win, but he shows up in the arena.
I think it’s fear-laced hatred, MY. He is strong and patriotic.....just what we need.....and the lefties are wetting themselves because of this. Thus they lash out. The eGOP just fears that he’ll mess up “their turn at bat”.
Well The GOPE sure don’t like him and the right wingers here are sniping at him too.
That tells me he is right over the target
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