But, can conservatives coalesce around Perry in the early stages to prevent Christie from walking into the nomination just as Romney did?I hope so. Governor Perry is fantastic, Texas is the best economy in U.S., he tells people where to put it if that's what's needed, and he's everything I love, pro 2nd amendment, anti-amnesty, pro-business and the list goes on.
I know the gaffes took front seat last time but the rest of his debates were stellar. He never used the pain killers he was on due to his recent surgery as an excuse but there's no getting around their influence. Anyway, hope he gets a second chance.
Unless Ben Carson runs in which case I'll drop Perry like a hot potato. :-)
I hope so. Governor Perry is fantastic, Texas is the best economy in U.S., he tells people where to put it if that's what's needed, and he's everything I love, pro 2nd amendment, anti-amnesty, pro-business and the list goes on.
Texas's economy has nothing to do with Rick Perry and has everything to do with cheap land, cheap resources, a solid power grid (separate from the rest of the US), cheap oil and gas, proximity to Mexico (cheap labor) and with that the busiest port in the United States as far as foreign tonnage, a great high-tech industry, great universities, ranching and agricultural industries (contributing to a diverse economy), and the list goes on. None of which has anything to do with Rick Perry as it all existed before he took over from Bush, and most of which was developing well before Perry was even born.
That's cute about anti-amnesty - Perry has supported a guest worker program since shortly after he took office (
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/editorial/10326/), and he was pushing hard for it in 2005-2006 along with Bush, McCain, Kennedy, etc. In your world, guest worker programs may be anti-amnesty, but they aren't in mine.
Rick Perry loves him some La Raza as well - he addressed their national convention in 2010 and was feeling the love they had for him and the love he has for them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgjFXCcz2g4
It was just a coincidence that his two richest donors (home builder and grocer) happened to benefit from illegal immigration as well.
He's pro-business all right. He was trying hard for the biggest land grab in the history of Texas, even bigger than when the feds created Fort Hood, in order to get his precious transportation corridor from Mexico to Oklahoma - it would have taken land from private citizens and turned it over to all kinds of businesses, from the European company that was going to build it, Cintra, all the way down to gas stations and hotel chains.
He loves businesses, yes he does. It was just a coincidence that Cintra was hiring Perry's good friends, just like it was a coincidence that the HPV vaccine he tried to force on the girls of Texas was made by a company that was paying Perry's friends a nice salary to lobby Perry for them.
He even loves
Chinese companies, even if the US Congress
raises warning flags about their ties to the Chinese government, and even if a former head of the CIA and NSA also
raises warning flags.
Speaking of the Chinese, I give Perry credit - he went over to China 2 or 3 years ago and convinced the Chinese government-run national oil company to
buy up $2 billion worth of oil and gas resources in South Texas, which led to the employment of tens of thousands of Texans.
Christie makes Perry look like a Conservative, but hell, Obama makes Bill Clinton look like a Conservative.