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Texan objections to Perry may not carry outside state
USA Today | August 15, 2011 | Alan Gomez

Posted on 08/15/2011 4:17:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-08-15-perry-tea-party_n.htm?csp=34news


TOPICS: Texas; Campaign News; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: bachmann; palin; perry; teaparty
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1 posted on 08/15/2011 4:17:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Link to article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-08-15-perry-tea-party_n.htm?csp=34news


2 posted on 08/15/2011 4:18:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think they will and are.


3 posted on 08/15/2011 4:20:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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4 posted on 08/15/2011 4:21:44 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m currently not a Texan, but grew up there. Went to A&M. I do not like Perry. He’s a slimy politician. I would probably pick Romney over Perry, and I’m not a big Romney fan.

Don’t know who I’ll be for this time around. I’m liking Michelle Bachmann and Herman Cain.


5 posted on 08/15/2011 4:23:51 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sadly, Perry probably has the best chance of anyone now running to unseat Obama.

Perry is deeply flawed, but if he can Barry out of the WH, so be it.

The Lord sometimes uses scoundrels to accomplish His purposes, so who am I?


6 posted on 08/15/2011 4:25:40 PM PDT by Jedidah (I'll vote for an earthworm before I'll vote for Obama. So wiggle on in, Rick Perry.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have a relative in Texas who knows Perry, but doesn’t like him.

He is supporting Romney.


7 posted on 08/15/2011 4:27:47 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: luckystarmom

“I’m currently not a Texan, but grew up there.”

Never heard anyone call themselves an ex-Texan before. Wow.


8 posted on 08/15/2011 4:30:27 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

I guess it goes both ways in that I’m in Massachusetts and know Romney, and will be voting for Perry.

Every time I go to file my tax returns, I have to wait for a form from my health insurance company to prove I have insurance so I don’t get a tax penalty. Ticks me off every year as I curse the state of Massachusetts and I still have no idea what made Romney do such a stupid thing if he had any presidential aspirations.


9 posted on 08/15/2011 4:33:00 PM PDT by MissyMa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I like Texans. They are good people and I even like them when they are boasting about Texas, especially when you can see in their eyes they don’t realy believe what they are saying either, but it’s fun! Its when Texans believe their own ‘Tall’ Tales to be true that I get to were I can’t stand them. Texas has produced only one really good President and that was Sam Houston and he was just President of Texas not the Union. And then what did they do to him? Forced him out as Governor when he refused to take Texas out of the Union. How did that work out?


10 posted on 08/15/2011 4:35:52 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: luckystarmom

Actually as far as “establishment” candidates I concerned, I like Santorum best. At least he doesn’t find any exceptions to his pro life stance.

I’m a Bachmannite myself. (She’s leading the Tea Party Patriot straw poll now)


11 posted on 08/15/2011 4:37:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: Jedidah

Don’t be too sad. Sarah Palin will soon change the dynamics.


12 posted on 08/15/2011 4:38:52 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("The movie's rolled down to the last reel. It's got an ending you never planned. Harry Chapin)
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To: Retired Greyhound

He is supporting Romney.

So if Romney gets beat and Perry is the pick he’ll vote for Obama or not vote?


13 posted on 08/15/2011 4:42:30 PM PDT by Recon Dad ("Don't shoot fast, unless you also shoot good..")
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To: cripplecreek

I like Cain, but whomever is the candidate up against Zero I’m voting for them. I see no McCain in this bunch and that’s all I can ask.......Beat Obama.


14 posted on 08/15/2011 4:45:05 PM PDT by Recon Dad ("Don't shoot fast, unless you also shoot good..")
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To: Recon Dad

No, he will vote for a ham sandwich over Obama, but he really doesn’t like Perry.


15 posted on 08/15/2011 4:45:13 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have lived in Texas for most of my life. I even went to Perry's first inaugural ball, it was great.

Perry beat Sanchez by 18 points

He beat Bell by 10 points (in a four way race with Rino Strayhorn and quirky libertarian Kinky Friedman)

He beat White by 12 points

He also beat Rino Kay Baily Hutchison by 22 points in the Republican Primary

These are just facts of how the people of Texas voted

16 posted on 08/15/2011 4:45:42 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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I have worked with Governor Perry and his staff as a government employee and as a member of my county’s ad hoc commissions on several issues as well as local Tea Party efforts. I have found him to be the genuine article.

I can understand how a lot of people who were not raised among the sons of the soil, the salt of the earth, can perceive him as phony. They’ve only seen cowboy types presented by fakes on tv and at the movies trying to play pretend. And they don’t realize he’s speaking from the heart.

I am amused by this statement:

“He blows in whichever way the political wind blows,” said Tammy Blair”

Some folks don’t realize that the ‘political’ winds change when the polition actually listens to his constituents. I’ve been in the room and seen him swayed. And back when he was a democrat I stood in the Texas gallery and watched him stand firm on Tort Reform as the Texas Trial Lawyers stood in the gallery and tried to stare him him and others down. After that they crucified him, and that’s when he switched parties because of his conservative stances.


17 posted on 08/15/2011 4:56:03 PM PDT by RowdyFFC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve got friends in Texas and they Detest this faux conservative.

Mr. Good-Hair’s attempt at papering over his checked past where conservative issues are concerned and creating a false-image of a Tea-Party conservative is going to fail miserably.,


18 posted on 08/15/2011 4:56:32 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: normy
These are just facts of how the people of Texas voted

You are correct but we voted for Perry because he was the big douche running against the turd sandwiches you listed. Perry really has never had a challenger.

If it came down to Perry vs Obama we would have the same situation but more aggravated. And just like when he ran against these other losers myself and others would hold our noses and vote for Perry against Obama.

19 posted on 08/15/2011 4:56:54 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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To: MissyMa
Do I see a pattern here??

Those that know Perry are supporting Romney. Those that know Romney are supporting Perry!

Those that know Obama would support Porky Pig if that was their only choice!

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made politicians.” - - - Mark Twain

20 posted on 08/15/2011 4:57:06 PM PDT by CharlyFord (t)
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