Posted on 10/26/2011 7:27:45 PM PDT by Brookhaven
I still support Rick Perry.
I met Rudy Giuliani, shook his hand and talked with him. He seemed like a real nice man. But that doesn't mean I want him to be my president -- I don't.
Perry is painfully ill-equipped to run a national campaign. Texans, and some of the more liberal/moderate FReepers, may be receptive of his liberal style of conservatism but conservatives from all around the country are not. Thus, he is polling in single digits in many states.
Diogenesis, are you still supporting Romney's Texas twin, Slick Rick?
I’m not basing it on logic. I base it on having watched presidential debates going back to the 1960s. They rarely change the outcome. At that point in the campaign, both sides are going after the 10 - 15 percent undecided vote, and both candidates are usually very tightly scripted.
Sorry I don’t follow, maybe if you brought a few rounds and explained it again.
I’m talking about presidential debates, not primary debates. Did you pay close attention to the McCain-Obama, Bush-Kerry, and Bush-Gore debates?
Make mine a double please.
Dio, I don’t think you meant to attack Billy. He doesn’t support Slick Willard.
You’ll have to do better than that if you want a double. You’re lagging.
Well I don’t want to get so sloshed I vote for Perry even by accident.
Good point. You should stay sober so you will vote for Rick Perry knowingly.
Sorry won’t happen. I will not vote again for anyone I don’t believe in. If that means Obama wins so be it, but there are somethings that stick in a man’s craw worse than dieing and voting for someone I truly in my heart do not believe in is one of them.
To be honest and not as an insult Rick Perry reminds me of a Christian version of Lyndon Johnson they both have the same swagger. I lived in Texas for four years meet a lot of good people and Texans are Texans the brag comes with them and you learn to live with it, but then every once in a great while you meet someone that is a Texan to tenth degree and you just can stand to be around them.
That’s as honest as I can be about it and me no disrespect to anyone.
That is as it should be, IMO. You should vote for the candidate that’s right for you.
Texans are tough minded people, I greatly admire them.
And you still married him? /rim-shot>
Cheers!
Perry, just like me, has no idea what the hell a casserole committee is.
Yeah, we Minnesotans know it's really called a "hot-dish."
Hold the lutefisk.
Cheers!
Well, if it makes you feel any better.
But only because you insisted...
Cheers!
My very first impression of Perry was that he was a complete phony and most likely, not a nice person. Nothing I’ve seen since that time has changed my opinion.
LOL! My husband will love your ‘gothca’!
Yes that's nice. But Gore was already liberal in 1988. This has been proven by myself and others, don't bother arguing with it, his voting record bares it out. So he can't claim the excuse that Gore was conservative or even moderate (it's irrelevant if he wasn't quite as liberal as Dukakis he was still a liberal and pro-choice) unless he's admitting to being stupid enough to believe any right-of-center rhetoric Gore may have been spewing. I don't think he was stupid, I think he was just going along with his party, Gore was the choice of his rat party bosses. He and his supporters should have just come out and said "I/He was wrong" instead of making the excuses. There are no excuses.
Perry's democrat beginnings and switch in 1989 when it became crystal clear that the rat party was gonna die in Texas makes clear to me what Perry primarily cares about, his own power.
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