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Why is Perry GOP's darling?
WIBW-TV / CNN ^
| August 31, 2011
| Jack Cafferty
Posted on 08/31/2011 1:59:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I have a question, Jack: Why are there so many substance abusers in the upper ranks of the media?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Right now because he isn’t Romney or Huntsman and Palin hasn’t declared (or withdrawn).
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:02:04 PM PDT
by
svcw
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:03:15 PM PDT
by
Patrick1
("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: Patrick1
"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!
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:05:24 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Perry 2012! A Conservative who can win!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:07:58 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The GOP has been "moderated" into a coma.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Two words:
Corporate funding.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:09:31 PM PDT
by
Tempest
(Google: Rick perry bi-national healthcare)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:11:14 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(I like both Perry and Palin, and will vote for whichever of them wins.)
To: svcw
Right now because he isnt Romney or Huntsman and Palin hasnt declared (or withdrawn). (snicker) True.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:12:01 PM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(Obama takes office, and 2-1/2 years later we are saying downgrade and America together!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Talks as plain and tough as Trump,
holds major elective executive office as an R.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:12:47 PM PDT
by
flowerplough
(Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The media needs to STOP using the word *messiah* in describing ANY candidate. Period. It is blasphemous and vulgar.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:14:09 PM PDT
by
MestaMachine
(Id imperfectum manet dum confectum erit.)
To: Patrick1
Your tag line cracks me up! Very clever! {^)
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:14:25 PM PDT
by
Finny
("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Because he makes a mean glass of Kool-Aid?
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:14:59 PM PDT
by
Tempest
(Google: Rick perry bi-national healthcare)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why is Perry GOP's darling? Because he actually had the balls to jump in.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:16:00 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(The kinder, gentler version...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:17:16 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Instead, Perry has spent the past two weeks making several dumb comments while, in the proud tradition of President George W. Bush, pretending he's a cowboy.
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.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:17:53 PM PDT
by
newheart
(When does policy become treason?)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
I think itd a hard sell to say that the sitting Govenor of the third largest population State came out of nowhere. One small correction. Texas is the 2nd largest state, both in population and in land mass.
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:18:41 PM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
To: Finny
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:19:21 PM PDT
by
Patrick1
("The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Perry's supporters tend to be older, white and rich, and his strongest backing comes from tea party supporters.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).
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posted on
08/31/2011 2:19:32 PM PDT
by
FairWitness
(Everything is easy, once you've done it once)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It's pretty simple:
[ (How Conservative) X (yrs. as top exec owning consequences) ]
- [(number of mistakes) X (magnitude of mistakes)]
_______________________
Popularity with GOP Electorate
[( Popularity with GOP Electorate) X (% eager to vote for GOP)]
+ [(% non-GOP but hating DEM) X (% eager for effective exec)]
_______________________
% 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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posted on
08/31/2011 2:20:26 PM PDT
by
Yossarian
("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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