but he does not hold a candle to Bachmann, Palin, Cain, or McCotter.
and your statement “ he is the only potential GOP candidate who can beat Obama” is like saying “John Anderson” or “Howard Baker” is the only candidate who can beat Jimmy Carter in 1980....that Reagan is tooooo Conservative for America. If there is a time to bring in a hard core Conservative it is NOW!
Palin is not running and Bachmann, Cain, or McCotter have no chance of beating Romney. Romney would lose to Obama (and your other mentioned candidates would too, should they get the GOP nomination by some miracle).
Obama is going to pull out all the stops, he may be beatable, but not easily beatable, we need a strong candidate with a record, which Perry has, none of the others do.
It’s time to wake up and smell reality.
Bachmann coming up on FOX and Friends.
Perry is so divisive here on FR. Palin, for our sake, should just get in. I’m not saying she needs to get in right away for her sake, but to keep people from tearing at each other, especially freepers ripping the Perry people to shreds.
“Perry??? He is the best of the worst....a slightly more conservative RINO but a RINO none the less.”
Yes, he has RINO tendencies, but as a pro-gun pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, fiscal conservative who enacted tort reform, supported conservatives in state education posts, let death penalty go forward in Texas, and just signed voter ID bill, and who twice balanced tough budgets without raising taxes, keeping Texas very pro-business, fought EPA rules and spoke against global warming regs, said no to ‘race to the top’ funding and stood up for the 10th amendment, etc. if you are calling that a RINO, well ....
just about any elected conservative Republican would be a ‘RINO’.
He’s not for union card check like McCotter, and his record is more conservative than Palin’s was as Governor.
Bachmann and Cain are probably more conservative, but dont have the executive governor experience to prove it.