Posted on 07/03/2011 3:15:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Perry's first stop should he announce is almost sure to be Iowa, where voters in its Republican caucuses are nearly all white and roughly 60 percent describe themselves as born-again or evangelical Christians, according to entrance polls from the 2008 GOP caucuses. In Texas, Perry has enjoyed "astronomical support" from protestant Christian conservatives and evangelical white Christians, Henson said. [Jim Henson, a pollster and director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin]
"You have to count religious conservatives in Texas as among the components of Perry's base," he said. "People that go to church a lot are disproportionately Perry people."
Past entrance polls also found nearly 90 percent of GOP caucus goers considered themselves conservative, including 45 percent who say they are "very conservative." While Perry would not be alone among candidates on the right in the Republican field, joining Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and others, few in the race could claim deeper conservative bona fides.
Daron Shaw, a Texas-based pollster who worked for former President George W. Bush's 2000 campaign, cautions against a belief the conservative base in the two states are identical.
Texas social conservatives tend to be from the state's rural areas and are voters who have an "intense mistrust of government." They are, he said, "more libertarian, tea party, anti-government, pull-yourself-up-by-your bootstraps."
Iowa's conservative Republicans are more "small town" than purely rural, Shaw said. They're "true, classic social conservatives interested in questions of religion and morality. They think the current occupants of government offices have lost faith, lost their way," he said.
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Lord! The nanny state can have that!
Iowa's conservative Republicans are more "small town" than purely rural, Shaw said. They're "true, classic social conservatives interested in questions of religion and morality. They think the current occupants of government offices have lost faith, lost their way," he said.
These must be the "social conservatives" liberals believe they can work with (bowl over).
It's divide and conquer time in the MSM!
You have NEVER answered if Perry still supports
Garadasil and other BIG PHARMA forces upon people, still?
DO YOU HAVE QUOTES FROM HIM THAT HE WAS WRONG?
“intense mistrust of government” vs. “snall town”. That expains a lot. I am the former.
FR has a quote from him saying ‘it was not mandatory.’ Look it up if you’re curious.
The HPV vaccine was always Opt-Out.
90 days after the EO, Gov Perry let stand legislation repealing the EO.
I don’t want to be a minority in my own country. Perry won’t stop the influx in a state, doubt he’ll stop it in the country. If Palin isn’t elected get used to being a second-class citizen in your own country.
So Perry was OVERRULED by the people.
Has the tyrant LEARNED? What his HIS position?
Or is he just another Mitt Romney demanding
the government force its control down our throats?
If Perry is for OPEN BORDERS and FORCED MEDICINES
he is a RINO. NO SALE.
Illegals will dig and tunnel, climb, swim, drive and fly to get to the out of control social services that Perry and other conservatives want to roll back.
We need a secure border and we will only get that with conservative ascendancy.
June 29, 2011: Roger Hedgecock interview with Rick Perry (starts 1/2 way into audio file)
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"......When Obama continued to refuse even five minutes for the Governor, Perry took matters into this own hands and was standing on the tarmac at Austin’s airport when President Obama stepped off of Air Force One. Obama looked confused, Perry looked determined. Obama still ignored the pleas for help.
Perry again took matters into his own hands, and established an elite unit of Texas Rangers to bolster border security..." Source
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[excerpt] "Perry, in Mexico with a Texan trade mission seeking opportunities in areas like renewable energy, said the federal government’s plan to build a wall along much of the border to keep out illegal immigrants was “idiocy.”
“We need those individuals to continue to grow our economy,” Perry told a briefing with reporters.
“If you show up illegally, without your card or you’re here as a criminal element, I’m for throwing the book at those folks, but the issue of people who want to legally, thoughtfully and appropriately come to America to work and help us build our economy — we should quickly come up with a program and an identification card to do that.” [end excerpt] Source
Oops!
Correction!
Lord! The nanny state can't have that!
You are one of the most intelligent posters on this forum, imho. As far as I can tell he’s really done nothing to stop illegal immigration. This is the number one threat to this country. Unless he can convince me that my children won’t be minorities then he won’t have my vote.
Correction!
Lord! The nanny state can’t have that!
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Thanks for clarifying that. I was about to start worrying about you. LOL!!!
I’m sure Perry will have the opportunity to answer your questions.
And thank you for the “intelligent” compliment.
I do know I’m persistent (some say stubborn).
Must be the red hair (rapidly turning white).
LOL
The delay in answers confirms that Gov. Perry
is PRO-ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION, OPEN BORDERS,
and the USE OF THE DOCILE POPULATION FOR HIS BIG-PHARMA
MASS DOSINGS with GOVERNMENTAL KICKBACKS AS DONATIONS.
RINO. NO SALE.
Well, we are mad as hell here in Texas. Tired of our elected politicians only giving lip service to what we the people want. This goes for both local and federal. It seems like most of them are nothing but crooks and thugs. One of the dumbest things they did was elect Strauss who could care less what the voter wants. Do they tackle the real problems? No, they wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole. Instead they give us a watered down version of tort reform that I am not sure changes anything; except perhaps continuing what was happening in the first place.
With all due respect to McCotter, he seems like he is our 2012 Duncan Hunter.
It is not about Gardasil, it is about FREEDOM.
It is about INFORMED CONSENT.
YOU, obviously, disagree with both.
And your “joke” about cancer, and people afflicted with
it, is nothing short of disgusting.
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