Rick Perry is a Moderate Conservative.
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Posted on 06/09/2011 4:23:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
[A] source close to Perry’s political team told RealClearPolitics on Thursday afternoon that the Texas governor is “leaning toward getting in” to the race.
Two of Perry’s longtime political aides, Dave Carney and Rob Johnson, were among the large group of advisers who announced Thursday that they were leaving Gingrich’s team. Carney has been a top political adviser to Perry for 14 years and continues to counsel him, and Johnson managed his most recent gubernatorial campaign…
As a prominent Texan with a longtime political infrastructure, not to mention a key finance perch atop the Republican Governors Association, Perry could gear up for a race more quickly than most of the top Republican politicians eyeing a presidential run…
Perry is said to have a solid relationship with his predecessor at the RGA, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who declined to run for president himself.
I’ve been assuming that Daniels, Barbour, and their well-heeled friends will end up rallying behind an establishment fave like Romney or Pawlenty, but I’m intrigued by the prospect of Barbour swinging around to a grassroots hero like Perry. He’d be formidable under any circumstance but very formidable with that kind of money behind him. Not so formidable that he’d be a lock to win, of course, but enough to give tea partiers pause about how they should vote in the primaries. An evenly split vote among “true conservatives” only benefits Romney; if Perry looks like he’s got the cash and cache to win the nomination, even some grassroots righties who prefer Bachmann, Palin, or Cain might tilt towards him on electability grounds.
Exit question: If Perry jumps in next week, will Palin still run? Bachmann’s committed to getting in, I think, simply because she has home-field advantage in Iowa and is betting that she can raise her national profile considerably by doing well there. It’s not about winning the nomination, in other words, it’s about building stature within the GOP a la Huckabee. Palin’s expectations will be higher, though, and now she’ll have to grapple with a third competitor who’s not only popular with her core constituency but well funded to boot. Worth giving it a go anyway?
Update: Like I said in the other thread, the timing of today’s announcement makes little sense if you think the mutiny is related to Gingrich’s vacation. If you think it’s related to the blossoming “Perry for president” campaign, though, it makes perfect sense:
[A] source close to the Gingrich campaign tells The Blaze that Perry has offered Gingrich’s now-departed campaign manager, Rob Johnson — who used to be the campaign manager for Perry — his old job back.
According to the source, “Rob and Perry spoke last week and Perry told him his old job is waiting for him.”
“I know that for a fact,” the source said.
Follow the link and check out the tweet from Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes claiming that Dave Carney — then Gingrich’s advisor — was pushing “Perry for president” speculation in Texas two weeks ago. I’m amazed that Newt didn’t realize that his team might be ready to bail on him for greener pastures before taking off on vacay. Or maybe he did realize it and figured he might as well go if they’re going to abandon him soon anyway.
Update: Another tremor via Rich Lowry:
“he’s in”: that’s what a TX source who’s always discounted idea that gov perry would run just told me
On the other hand, sources inside Perry’s team tell Bryan Preston that nothing has changed.
The fu**** is going to fall over, he has been leaning for weeks.
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I don’t know what to make of Rick Perry.
Can anyone fill me in on his positions?
How about his character?
Is he worth my attention?
I believe I’ll go with “Perry Is IN”, since we’ve been going with Palin is in for 12 months!
Brace yourself, if Mr. Texas gets in, he can steal your show. Great personality, loves guns, is bitchy about the border and can show the nation how it’s all done on JOBS, JOBS, JOBS—all meat and very little lettuce, short on platitudes and long on performance and action.
I see what the Elitists are doing. Romney is a loser too far left and they hate the group of Conservatives and Tea Party types running. Gingrich self destructed and Pawlenty isn’t gaining traction. Why not pick a stooge who Talks totally Conservative but can drift comfortably into the inside the beltway style of thinking. Wa la. Here comes Gov. Perry out of the blue. How convenient.
I didn’t take any notice to any genuine groundswell for this guy, so who is pumping him up for this run?
I don’t think he has a noteworthy record.
See post 5.
Ignore post #sicks.
Actually, Perry will have the Governor’s Association behind him among all 30 some “conservative” states, where democracy has to be real. The Governor’s Association can sell him to their states and the key is, THEY WILL.
He is Rudy (and campaigned for him) without wearing dresses.
Take any of the Tokyo Rove wing globalists and you will see pretty much the same record as Perry.
Even though it has cost the closings of clinics and hospitals in some regions of Texas, open borders La Raza boy has continued to block all efforts to cut of Government benefits to illegals.
Look up past threads on the trans texas corridor for details of his eminent domain abuse - basically he is the posterboy for where Kelo Vs. New London ultimately goes.
And there was the venerial disease immunizations for school kids thing.
The list goes on.
Fortunately, in Texas the Governor has only limited power.
My current faves..... Palin, Cain, Perry.
I can’t decide which of the Palin/Cain I like best. Perry is a Romney beater. A Texan is infinitely to a Massachusetts Yankee any day.
No Yankees need apply.
Your new flavor of the day???
This really pops out.
70% of all jobs created in the US last year were in Texas. (Jan 2009)
ROTFL!
Rick Perry did not create them. In Texas the Lt. Gov has most of the power.
According to some of the Texas posters here, he has really sucked in those areas in which the governor has real power.
mixed bag. Like 43 he doesn’t care about illegal immigration. On many issues he is conservative. he used to be a dem which explains a lot. Surely we can nominate someone better
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