Posted on 06/10/2011 7:08:21 AM PDT by freespirited
Sources close to Texas Gov. Rick Perry say that the events of the last week have brought America’s longest-serving governor to the cusp of an announcement.
The implosion of Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign frees up Perry’s political wingmen, Dave Carney and Rob Johnson, now said to be headed to Austin to prepare a Perry run. Also this week, sources say Perry got the thumbs up from the Texas moneymen whose support he sought before launching a campaign. A big piece in the Wall Street Journal also helped convince the team that there was East Coast interest in the Texan’s candidacy.
Gingrich’s collapse also leaves a major hole in the field: There is no viable Southerner seeking the nomination of the party of the South.
But Perry is getting ready to launch a campaign that will fill that gap and draw the sharpest contrast with Massachusetts’ Mitt Romney. The Romney campaign served chicken and white bean chili at the candidate’s announcement speech. Perry will be all spicy Texas red.
While establishment Republicans have been pining for a candidate who is ready to have a detailed policy debate about entitlement reform and regulatory uncertainty (a la Mitch Daniels) the rank and file wants someone who is ready for a throwdown. Perry has a reputation as a policy lightweight, but he knows how to fire up a crowd and give the kind of straight talk Republicans are itching for.
Those who doubt the condition of the electorate should examine the rise of Herman Cain. He’s in for some rough weather after veering into social issues -- defending his assertion that he would not include Muslims in his administration and declaring homosexuality to be a “sin” and “a choice” – but Cain’s appeal is as a straight-talking Southerner with a libertarian flair.
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Because of Newt? What planet do these people live on?
If this does happen, we’re screwed. We may beat Obama, but we’re screwed long term. Start looking for property in Asia somewhere.
I always believed that either Perry or Palin would run, but not both....we’ll see.
I agree. She was mentioning that she liked him a lot on a stop on her bus tour.
He’s from Texas, he talks a good pro life game, he has a drawl, and cowboy boots, he MUST be conservative.
Uh, not so much. We’ve seen this movie before.
I heard he is an environmentalist? Can anyone confirm this?
BTW, any politician that believes this, in my book, is instant disqualification.
But what about the HAIR?
Well there goes all hope for the GOP, another Bush like RINO, how did that work out for you?
Reporters have spied him loading up on cans of hairspray.
“There is no viable Southerner seeking the nomination of the party of the South.”
Up yours Fox News. Herman Cain ‘12.
He’ll be a whole heck of a lot better than Obama, and if he can fire up a crowd and thinks at all conservatively, I’ll be watching him.
oh you’re right, the hair. That means he’s an “electable” conservative....ahem..
He’s from Texas, he talks a good pro life game, he has a drawl, and cowboy boots, he MUST be conservative.
Uh, not so much. We’ve seen this movie before.
I was thinking the same damned thing. We will be paying for THAT particular fiasco for decades to come.
There are better conservatives that are running. I can’t deal with another fake conservative like Bush.
There is NO place for her except as a Presidential nominee or as PRESIDENT, in the end. THESE things are thinkable and possible.
Politically...accepting the VP spot with any GOP or other Conservative hopeful is suicide. It will get MUCH more interesting in the near future.
>> I was thinking the same damned thing. We will be paying for THAT particular fiasco for decades to come. >>
Yes, it’s amazing how much weenie liberalism can sneak into a package that is a combo of drawl + boots + pro life talk and come back and bite you on the arse. Yes, the GWB disaster gave us Obama and an electorate totally confused on the difference between “conservatism” and “Republicanism” - which haunts us to this day and for the immediate future.
Not sure why he would attend a Bilderberg meeting.
TX Gov. Rick Perry Attends Bilderberg in Istanbul, 2007
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=14c_1181174511&comments=1
Why I like Perry:
A few months ago there was a CSPAN broadcast of a panel discussion by various lib opinionators held in Austin, TX. The audience appeared to be self selected lefty types from the area. The focus was on post-2010 election analysis.
The discussion turned to potential Republican 2012 opponets to the beloved Obama (umm, umm, umm).
I belelve it was David Corn (The Nation, MSNBC, etc.) who said that Rick Perry would be the R. nominee.
This was met by a loud sustained outburst of boos, hisses and assorted ‘Oh NO’s’ from the audience.
I thought - with enemies like that Perry has one check mark in my book.
I’ll poke thru the CSPAN archives to see if I can find the clip.
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