Posted on 07/04/2011 3:32:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
WASHINGTON — Rick Perry is the 100 million dollar man of Texas politics.
Over the past decade, he has been a political money machine, raising more than $100 million for three gubernatorial campaigns and another $50 million for GOP candidates as chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 2007-2008.
But the Texas governor's fundraising prowess will be tested as never before if he runs for president in 2012. While he's raised more campaign cash than anybody not named Bush in Texas history, Perry faces different rules and greater demands should he set his sights on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
"In order to have a realistic chance of winning the Republican primary, Perry will need at least $200 to $250 million in the form of direct contributions or independent expenditures on his behalf," said Mark P. Jones, a political science professor at Rice University.
Perry has a host of assets that could make him a strong candidate for the GOP nomination: An enviable record of Texas job creation during a roiling recession, a consistent conservative record on economic and social issues alike, and an undefeated record as a political candidate.
But one longtime Perry supporter and donor says the governor has to answer "yes" to two questions before he says "yes" to a presidential candidacy: Is he willing to undergo the grueling demands of a campaign, from the nearly 24/7 schedule to the media scrutiny of every aspect of your life? And is he willing and able to raise the money to compete first with Republican Mitt Romney, a wealthy businessman with a nationwide fundraising machine, then with President Barack Obama, who broke every record for presidential fundraising in 2008 and is aiming to top the $1 billion mark in 2012?...........
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OK OK we get it, you don’t like Perry! Who DO you like?
The benefit I’m looking for in this election is to get rid of Obama and Perry just might be the guy who can do it. Would you rather have Perry or Romney?
It’s a secret.
Whatever, it’s not all that relevant when we’re trying to find someone to dislodge Obama. Hey, I’m with you. I do not like government mandating much of anything and if the Gardisil issue is as you’ve said, it’s definitely a blight on his record but it does NOTHING to change the fact we are looking for the best person we can find who is likely to defeat Obama.
My issue with Perry will always be regarding illegals. Sorry, but I see pandering, smoke and mirrors and a lack of courage on his part vis-a-vis invaders to our country. Maybe he would be better as president but I still don't trust him on this.
You got called out on your lie and so you resort to name-calling, proving only that you are a liar and a child.
“CRAP” (Moriarity).
You should watch (and wash) your big mouth, RomneyBOT.
Gov. Perry MANDATED Gardasil.
It was the Legislature that gave an opt out which
in my judgment it is wrong. It should not exist, at all.
Knowledge and choice is the way.
You apparently disagree.
Gov. Romney MANDATED RomneyCARE.
It continues to grow and has become ObamaCARE.
In my judgment it is wrong. It should not exist, at all.
You apparently disagree.
Now, diogenesis, You can repeat and SHOUT the lie all you want...it won't make it true.
I posted the exact language of the EO that you selectively and deceitfully excerpted...I'll do it again...
""Parents’ Rights.The Department of State Health Services will, in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care, modify the current process in order to allow parents to submit a request for a conscientious objection affidavit form via the Internet while maintaining privacy safeguards under current law."
A thing cannot be a mandate if it contains an opt-opt clause that is available to all.
If you had any honor you would stop posting the lie.
We’ve all tried to reason with, kid around with and be nice to the poster Diogenesis.
But he will not engage in conversation or an exchange of ideas or even say that his candidate (?—never given one that I’m aware of) has qualities that are better because.....
It has frustrated so many. I’m at a loss. All I see left to do, is ignore him.
Are there any rules on FR about “hit and run” spamming on threads? About stalking?
Listen, Ms. Perry,
You have not rebutted a single posted fact.
Perry MANDATED a material which frankly
is not a vitamin or a food.
YOU think it is A-OK for his Chief of Staff to
have been the local pharmaceutical rep, too.
Sorry, Ms. Perry, but Gardasil is GorillaGlue for you.
"Submit a request" does not guarantee it will be given. Had it been worded, "Parents will be allowed to decline the vaccine" I would agree. Or, better yet, "Parents will be required to sign an assent form for this vaccine".
In the EO Perry gives the ultimate power to the state as opposed to the parents. The parents are, in the way it's worded, secondary to the state.
Think U.S. Constitution and the way it was written to LIMIT govt not explicitly give govt right of way.
You have not posted facts.
You have posted links.
You have posted insults.
You have posted lies.
You have posted nonsense.
Posters have repeatedly answered you.
You have dug a hole and you like there.
Fine.
Stay put.
((door shut))
Just posts #9, 17, 19, 39, 46, 60, 76, 88, and 92, Ms. Perry.
And the falsehoods that were exposed will be apparent
to the FReepers.
One doubts they will interpret attempts to expose
RINO or DNC governmental-controlled medicine as "nonsense".
THANK YOU!!!!
Have you ever noticed the repetitive pattern with Diogenesis?
It’s like the wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Your lie about Perry’s EO was exposed so you try to paint me with the romney-bot brush.....pathetic...predictable but pathetic.
Fine. Correcting factual errors. Listen, Karl Rove has worked for, and groomed, so many RINOs in Texas that sometimes they run against each other and he has to pick a side.
Fact: In 1988 Rick Perry was a Democrat state legislator in Texas.
Fact: Karl Rove encouraged Rick Perry to switch from Democrat to Republican
Fact: Karl Rove ran Rick Perry’s Campaign for Agriculture Commissioner in 1990.
If it wasn’t for Karl Rove, Rick Perry would still be a Democrat.
Karl Rove is very full of tricks like this. Fake Conservative is his specialty.
and heres my links again on Rove and Perry, buds from the beginning.
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Karl in a Corner
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_scott_ho_080408_karl_in_a_corner.htm
Second, Rove’s opponents would regularly find that they had suddenly become the target
of a criminal investigation, and details concerning the investigation would be
aggressively fanned to the press. Rove mastered this technique in a contest
for the Texas Agriculture Commissioner’s post that he managed for now-Governor Rick Perry.
It Started in Texas: Karl Rove’s Political Prosecutions
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000569
1. Rove was hired to run the campaign of Rick Perry, the current governor,
for the powerful Texas office of Commissioner of Agriculture, then held by
Democrat Jim Hightower. Shortly thereafter, it was clear that a major
FBI investigation had been launched into the workings of the Texas Agriculture
Department (TDA), focusing on Hightower and his senior lieutenants, who had been
pursuing a populist, anti-corporate agriculture and pro-small-farmer agenda.
Jim Hightower talks about his new book, “Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and it’s Time to Take it Back”
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/08/21_hightower.html
HIGHTOWER: Rick Perry, back then (currently Texas Governor), was his client, so to speak,
and Perry had been recruited. He was sort of a nothing Texas legislator who had been brought
in — again as an affable fellow without any brain muscle. Perry was essentially sent to
wander around out in West Texas during the campaign so he would be out of the way,
while Rove worked this FBI agent and raised money from the chemical industry
and other corporate interests that opposed me. Rove had George Bush go on
television against me. Then Rove ran a series of television ads that
established a new low in negative advertising.
For example, they showed a long-haired guy setting a flag on fire,
and throwing it on the ground. And then my picture came up out of the fire, and said
“Hightower supports flag burning,” which, of course, I don t. But it doesn t matter,
you know. I had to go around answering: “Why do you support flag burning?”
Rove had another ad of me campaigning with Jesse Jackson, who I supported in 1988
in the Presidential campaign. And Rove ran this ad that essentially was a smear
on Jackson and then tying me to him. The ad so angered the Black Caucus in the State Legislature
that they convened their own press conferences in Houston and Dallas to assail it. But again it was too late.
All this was happening in the last three weeks of the election. So, I mean, that s just who the guy is.
You might enjoy battling with them, but I think these links speak for themselves.
You give them 100 links, all clearly containing accurate and extremely damaging information to Rick Perry, and all they do is come up with weird lies.
Eventually, they’ll realize that by posting yet another article about Rick Perry here on FR, all they’re doing is exposing everyone merely curious about Perry to the endless endless true stories of all the horrible stuff he did.
They should just lay low here and concentrate on TV ads or whatever that can’t be so easily refuted.
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