Posted on 08/31/2011 1:59:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Republican Party has apparently found itself a new messiah in Rick Perry.
The conservative Christian governor of Texas has come out of nowhere and has already lapped the Republican field for President.
In the two short weeks since he's entered the race, Perry has shot to the top of the polls and leads his nearest competitor by double digits.
The latest CNN/ORC International Poll shows 27% of Republicans supporting him, followed by Mitt Romney at 14%, Sarah Palin – who's not a candidate – at 10%, and Michele Bachmann and Rudy Giuliani – also not a candidate – at 9%. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul come in at 6%.
Perry's supporters tend to be older, white and rich, and his strongest backing comes from tea party supporters. He holds a whopping 23-point lead over Michele Bachmann among tea party members in one CNN poll.
It's an astonishing impact in so short a time, especially when Perry has managed to jump to the top of the pack without laying out a single plan or idea for solving America's problems.....
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Right now because he isn’t Romney or Huntsman and Palin hasn’t declared (or withdrawn).
I guess Jack was too busy choking chickens to see Perry’s announcement speech and follow up addresses where he has repeatedly laid out his plan for economic recovery.
Perry has jumped to the top of the GOP polls for the same reason he has jumped to the top of the liberal media wrath, he can win.
Bullseye.
Perry 2012! A Conservative who can win!
I think it’d a hard sell to say that the sitting Govenor of the third largest population State “came out of nowhere”. I also think it’s way over the top to say he is the Republicans’ new “messiah”.
But Jack Cafferty is all about trying to influence people to worship his own messiah, President Obama.
Idol worship.
Corporate funding.
That’s easy: After watching the press rape candidate after candidate, there are some in the GOP who think maybe this will be the guy the press allows to win the nomination.
(snicker) True.
Talks as plain and tough as Trump,
holds major elective executive office as an R.
The media needs to STOP using the word *messiah* in describing ANY candidate. Period. It is blasphemous and vulgar.
Your tag line cracks me up! Very clever! {^)
Because he makes a mean glass of Kool-Aid?
Because he actually had the balls to jump in.
I don’t know if he is a “darling” but he is the only Republican candidate that at least appears competent hence interesting, hence electable! Time will tell.
I don't think the left really minds if Perry is the Republican nominee. By some polling, the majority of Americans still blame Bush for the economy (If you say, "I inherited it" enough times people will start to believe you. So the electorate may not be in the mood for another plain-spoken Texas governor, especially after the media makes the cowboy label stick.
Being painted as Bush 2.0 could be Perry's downfall.
One small correction. Texas is the 2nd largest state, both in population and in land mass.
Thanks.
In this case "rich" is probably defined as having a job good enough to be able to pay taxes (or to be able to get back to working if they've lost their job).
[ (How Conservative) X (yrs. as top exec owning consequences) ]
- [(number of mistakes) X (magnitude of mistakes)]
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Popularity with GOP Electorate
[( Popularity with GOP Electorate) X (% eager to vote for GOP)]
+ [(% non-GOP but hating DEM) X (% eager for effective exec)]
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% of poplar vote
Perry isn't the most conservative, and he has made mistakes, but that ten years in office while Texas has doing better than liberal states makes him hard to beat.
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