Replies

I hear you. It really seems that Perry is convinced that he’s bullet-proof. Considering that Obama even wants him to run (aka, that death penalty thing this week), there must be some weaknesses in his armor.

Perry has plenty of baggage. If he enters the primaries, you'll see it exposed by his fellow Republicans. A lot of people outside of Texas have this perception about him because he's been Governor for a decade, but the truth is that his competition has always sucked, and nobody wants to go up against the Rick Perry money machine.

Remember, in Texas there are no limits on how much an individual donor can contribute to somebody, and Rick Perry has billionaires backing him who have given millions of dollars to him and other politicians within the state who support him. When you have that kind of money, with the potential for more as needed, there isn't going to be much serious competition.

This is something that will hurt Perry if he ran in the primaries though, because all of the sudden Perry's money machine would run out of steam due to restrictions on donations at the federal level. Plus he couldn't avoid debating, which he's not really good at, at least when it comes to defending his record.

If I were Obama though, I'd be nervous about Perry. As I said, Perry has a decade-long record of being friendly towards illegal immigrants and trying to help them out, while Obama has just paid them lip service. A Republican that picks up a lot more Hispanic votes is going to be really tough to beat. It's just a matter of Perry's record getting out there to more people. It's a shame that one of the early primaries wasn't in Oklahoma, I'm sure he's got a huge fan base there after he tried to get the TTC built, since he would have helped create a massive transportation corridor from the Mexican border to the Oklahoma border. People in Oklahoma were probably thrilled at the prospect of new jobs that such a massive corridor would have brought.

You didn’t have to ping me — I saw your post to BobL

Rick Perry really has you worried.

For you to take so much time trying to get your “talking points” on these Perry threads — even up to adding something after Post #100...when no one has written a comment to you....is truly telling about how unsure you are of your own candidate — that you feel it’s doing some good to try to cut Perry down.

Good luck with that.