Posted on 06/18/2011 12:50:30 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
NEW ORLEANS — Four years after George W. Bush left the White House, some US Republicans are pinning their hopes on his successor as Texas governor to triumph over President Barack Obama in the 2012 election.
Governor Rick Perry, who has openly flirted with running and said he will decide soon whether to throw his hat in the ring, was due Saturday to address delegates to an influential Republican Party gathering in this party city.
Perry isn't on the Southern Republican Leadership Conference straw poll ballot, but some of the delegates here say they like what they have seen so far from the nation's longest-serving governor.
"I'm hoping that Rick Perry makes a bid," said Regina Wilson, a Louisiana resident. "He can be strong when he needs to be strong, I think he has good thoughts, and I think he has the strength we need."
Former Republican vice presidential candidate and archconservative "Tea Party" movement darling Sarah Palin grins from a button on O. P. Ditch's shirt, but the 22-year US Air Force veteran says he likes what he sees in Perry.
"I want to hear what he has to say, and see if he jumps in," said Ditch, 73, adding "I think recently he's done a real good job with the state of Texas."
"I was enthused about him, about the potential for him jumping in because I know he's a good friend of the governor's (Palin), so if she thinks he's a good guy, I think he's a good guy," said Ditch. "If she doesn't run."
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Texas has created 265,300 jobs since July 2009, more than double New York and Pennslyvania, which are second and third in job creation since the supposed economic recovery began in July 2009. In fact, 37% of all jobs created since this “recovery” began have been created in Texas. Amazingly, Texas actually has more jobs now than before the recession began – 30,800 more. His name is never metioned in this report, but this is a record that Rick Perry can run on.
I’ve voted for Rick Perry for governor three times. I swore, in the middle of his 2nd term, that I would not vote for him again. But I held my nose and voted for him over that benighted Democrat from Houston.
I don’t know how you people from outside the state can criticize us who have lived with his “leadership” since Bush left for Washington D.C. He began grooming himself to run for POTUS the minute Bush left the building. He’s a POLITICIAN.
Rick Perry was all about taking people’s land for his TransTexas Corridor. He stuck his hand, unknowingly, into a buzzsaw and pulled back a bloody nub. You think he’d use his presidential power/authority more wisely? I sure hope so. I’ll have to hold my nose AGAIN and vote for him if he’s Obama’s opposition.
Rick Perry had little to do with that. As governor of Texas, he’s a talking head with a bully pulpit.
Just like having insurance upsets a lot of women, so I take it you support Obamacare too.
Nanny-state socialism makes a lot of people happy. But Conservatives prefer Freedom.
If he was a conservative you would not have all the Texans that have been around here on FR saying otherwise.Wow. There's proof. Hey, I have a bridge for you (I don't live that far from Brooklyn), and also a tip: on the internet no one KNOWS whether your a Texan or not.
Considering the millions of low wage illegals in the state, you can bet most of them got the jobs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Texas_Corridor
The Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) was a transportation network that was discontinued in the planning and early construction stages in the U.S. State of Texas. The network, as originally envisioned, would be composed of a 4,000-mile (6,400 km) network of supercorridors up to 1,200 feet (370 m) wide to carry parallel links of tollways, rails, and utility lines.[1] It is intended to route long-distance traffic around population centers
This is the sort of thing that has been necessary and done multiple times in US history. I wouldn't brand him liberal for suggesting it. He's not taking land to protect the three-toed salamander. There are pros and cons to that proposal.
Great post #55.
The presence of illegals makes the job growth all that more impressive.
Clearly, the cons out-weighed the pros. He angered a lot of people who had previously supported him. [Wikipedia is not reliable as a source of information for serious discussion. Its accuracy varies according to the author’s political slant and interest in the topic.]
Hey, your moniker is great...Got a good laugh here!
I think you would have branded Ronald Reagan a RINO if he running today.
Meant to type these instead of the...
You're fooling yourself if you think there is a perfect politician out there.
I've heard this exact same BS before slick.
Some things never change.
That right there tells you everything you need to know. It's a rhinoceros convention, and Rick is their new mascot.
Rick Perry, the new brass idol of the RiNOceri.
There. How's that? Better? More conservative, more real, more honest. There you go.
Let's try that.
Who is the perfect candidate?
Jesus? But, He wasn't born in the US.
.
As much as I love them, they are not electable. Need someone with cross-over appeal to win against the muzzie.
Perry switched parties as, like many Democrats including Ronald Reagan and Phil Gramm, he saw that party moving farther and farther to the left.
Under Perry’s decade as governor, hundreds of Texas Democrats have followed his lead and become Republicans. As a former Democrat, Perry can speak to that swath of his former party that has become disenchanted with their party as President Obama has taken it even farther to the left, in a way that few Republicans can. He can also speak well and credibly to all wings of the national GOP, from the fiscal cons to the social cons to the libertarian set.
Perry/West
Hear West speak out about the enemy being Islamists- ALL Islamists here: (Start about 1:40)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k&feature=player_embedded
He GETS it. We NEED this man.
.
Who is the perfect candidate?
This country is in deep sheeet.
For the benefit of people who aren't familiar with that fiasco ..... and AFAIK it's still there bubbling away on a back burner, with the same NWO types pushing it in background.
The SPP/NASCO project was a multinational, intergovernmental showcase -- but stealth -- project cooked up on "Poppy" Bush's watch.
The concept was, the US, Canada, and Mexico would collaborate on an infrastructural supercorridor up through he middle of the United States. Chinese merchandise would land at Mexican Pacific seaports and be transported by container up through Mexico and the US to big-box loading docks all over the Midwest, Northeast, and Canada, having never been touched by US workers' hands until they landed on someone's receiving-door loading dock.
Whatever US Customs or other regulator control there was, would be exercised at inland "superport" warehouse complexes located at strategic junctions.
I saw one of these a-building near Alliance Airport (a general-aviation airport between Forth Worth and Denton, Texas, on I-35 West), and another was/is planned for Kansas City, Kansas. Reportedly the KC one would have a Mexican customs and revenue office on the grounds, and there was a question of Mexican sovereignty being granted (as if for a consulate or embassy) for that office. While it was being built, to give you an idea of the politics, Sen. Ryan of Kansas was denying to a public meeting that any such thing as the SPP/NASCO project was being built, calling it "an Internet rumor". Yeah, well, I saw the bulldozers and the raw dirt, and there was thousands of acres of raw dirt. That was fall, 2007, as I recall.
Oh, and a Congressional committee (or two committees, one for each house?) was constituted to oversee the NASCO/SPP budget; there were co-chairmen, one Dem and one Pubbie, one of the recent Dem ones being Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas. But this was all an "Internet rumor". Their budgets go all the way back to Bush 41 and were fully funded by both Slick and Shrub.
But it's all a "rumor" if you inquire.
The "Trans-Texas Corridor" was the Texas portion of this megaproject (rail, truck, and electricity right-of-way). Why it was marketed as a Texas project I don't know -- to conceal its true dimensions? I don't know. But Rick Perry was/is the point man, it involved transferring huge acreages by eminent domain from private owners to the new private owners, which included CINTRA, a Spanish investment firm, and a Texas developer, the "junior partner"/local contractor/contact.
King Juan Carlos of Spain was/is one of CINTRA's private, "top-out-of-sight" (to borrow a term from author Paul Fussell) investors.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.