Posted on 07/14/2011 7:28:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Dont expect any Mitch Daniels-like concerns to keep Rick Perry out of the presidential race. In an interview with Janet Mefferd on the Salem Radio Network (owned by Salem Communications, also Hot Airs parent company), Perry told the audience that his wife is not only enthusiastically supporting the idea of a presidential bid, shes inspiring it. A former nurse, Anita Perry is disheartened about ObamaCare and the government intrusions into health care that have accelerated in this administration. While Perry says that being governor of Texas is one of the great jobs in the world, hes feeling the call to get out of his comfort zone:
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Delicious ambiguity
Would Perry have mandated Gardasil by his Executive Order
for the entire USA?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Perry needs to put up or shut up in my opinion. We have primaries in January and we need to know who is a serious candidate.
Good grief, I really like Perry and think it would be great if he ran for President - but it’s long past time for these waffling potential candidates to either get in the race or announce that they aren’t running this time around. All this dropping endless trial balloons, hinting they might run, teasing about future decisions, etc, is just tiring and annoying. This country is near bankrupt and spiraling down the crapper - we don’t have time for a bunch of political games. Get in the race or shut up about it.
You really need to learn another tune - we are getting tired of the same old song...
We all know you don’t like Perry, that you are supremely offended by the Gardasil fiasco, and that you don’t think he’s done enough about illegal immigration. Duly noted. Move on. If you don’t have something new to say, don’t waste our time.
Competitive people don’t like to lose, so they choose carefully when and if to compete.
Perry has NEVER lost an election, so you can bet dollars to donuts he is making sure he can win, before he decides to play.
I really can't understand that viewpoint. It is still 6 months before the first primary. I can remember when they never started campaigning before Labor Day. These 2-year long campaigns get really tiresome.
I like Perry. Very much.
Not his behavior with open borders or Gardasil by EO mandate.
I don’t like governmental control of medicine.
Apparently YOU DO.
NO MORE RINOs.
No more Trojan Horses for Romney and RomneyCARE.
No - that is why I refer to it as the "Gardasil FIASCO". I think that was a bad decision on his part, and it is certainly something I will consider in deciding whether I support him if he runs. I just do not obsess about it. It is one decision in a long public career, to be considered in the context of the whole.
If Perry gets in, he’ll be running for 2nd. He’s been in office a long time. Maybe the campaign donations are his retirement plan?
Pretty much the same for Ron Paul, I think.
“Good grief, I really like Perry and think it would be great if he ran for President - but its long past time for these waffling potential candidates to either get in the race or announce that they arent running this time around. All this dropping endless trial balloons, hinting they might run, teasing about future decisions, etc, is just tiring and annoying. This country is near bankrupt and spiraling down the crapper - we dont have time for a bunch of political games. Get in the race or shut up about it.”
Why?
I don’t think Perry is waffling here. And its not that easy to simply jump into the presidential race. Perry is doing everything he needs to do to lay the ground work. If he just jumped in, he’d be a one man band or have a limited, regional organization. He is going across the country to make sure people would be willing to set up an organization and donate in states where he doesn’t have an organization. He isn’t going back and forth on whether he wants to run—he’s simply determining if he’d have the tools to run.
agreed. We are still very early in this process. There is at least one or two people still to enter the race. This Huntsman guy, unknown to the voters, just jumped in a couple weeks ago, so surely the better known candidates don’t need to waste their time yet. Jump in early in the fall when people are paying attention. Perry is either going to take off like wildfire and become the favorite, or make a lackluster intro and be middle of the pack once he enters. Same with Palin, if she chooses to do it.
Thanks!
I was just looking back through my threads for that.
I’m going to save it.
Is Palin telling the truth, or is she lying?
Who do you think will be running for 1st?
A Perry Administration would look EXACTLY like a Bush Administration.
I don't know. From his record in Texas, Perry seems to be more fiscally conservative than Bush.
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