Posted on 07/18/2011 10:48:30 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Press Release-July 18, 2011
Raleigh, N.C. Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry leads Barack Obama 45 percent to 42 percent among North Carolina voters in a potential presidential matchup, according to a new poll released by the Civitas Institute.
Forty-five percent of voters said they are leaning towards or would vote for Gov. Rick Perry if the election for President of the United States was being held today and the candidates were Perry, the Republican, and Barack Obama, the Democrat. Forty-two percent said they are leaning towards or would vote for Obama, and 9 percent said they are undecided.
For the President to be trailing an unannounced candidate in a state he barely won in 2012 has to be concerning for the Obama team, said Civitas Institute President Francis De Luca. If Obama is hoping to catch lightning again and win North Carolina, he is going to have to hope for a weaker opponent than Gov. Perry or a big bounce from having the Democratic National Convention here next year.
Republican (81 percent Perry 8 percent Obama) and Democratic voter (17 percent Perry 69 percent Obama) support falls along party lines between the potential candidates. Unaffiliated voters, the fastest growing voter segment in the state, would choose Perry over Obama by a 53 percent to 32 percent margin...
(Full results and crosstabs available at link)
(Excerpt) Read more at nccivitas.org ...
[Lack of border security for one.]
Better try another one. That one isn’t working for you.
You of course have proof right?
The State of Texas does not have the authority to handle Border security. That is the failed responsibility of the Federal Government.
Perry has tried repeatedly to get them to do their Constitutional duty. In case you missed this;
I have no doubt that Perry will act on the BORDER problem...nobody can ignore that. He is bought and paid for by the cheap labor lobby...PERIOD. That will continue should he make it to the White House. If you are not interested in internal enforcement and are OK with wading through illegals standing on street corners or taking your kid to school...look no further than Perry. He will not turn up the volume on ICE internal enforcement or workplace enforcement. He will guard the ruling-class as they finance him. I am currently working on a vid project although not going after Perry in my vid. if you are not worried about transforming the political culture of the USA, financing the indentured servitude labor system. Look no further than Perry...he’s your man.
I do not see leadership or passion in Perry for workplace enforcement. That is not an unfair charge. I drove to Austin about 6 times to track enforcement bills...it was pure theatre...they had no intention of passing any thing. I can list the powerbrokers that blocked our enforcement bills and the amount of money that was donated to the GOP. It really is obvious what is going on. Do you wish to read the newspaper links to the Texas Tribune and the Houston Chronicle?
Like it or not, cheap labor is vital to all healthy economies.
You sound like one of those Populist Union types who believe that all business and industry owes you a comfortable living no matter what kind of bad decisions you have made in your life. Or that all workers deserve to start out at the top.
Well, guess what, America was not built that way and it will never work that way.
I would vote for bettle-juice, wee man, Steve-O. charlie sheen, madoff, vandersloot, and pee herman over obama is allowed to .
Nope...it sounds like you are having a temper tantrum because you are afraid to put a woman in the WH.
Perry will disappoint on internal enforcement. Any business that writes a business plan that includes labor outside the perimeters of law is an illegitimate business much like a drug cartel.
This labor system is not working out and the GOP is going to have to step up and face it. I have children and will fight like a tiger to protect the long-term environment being created by this unlawful and illegitimate business model.
Here is a link to the kind of folks Perry advocates for:
http://www.fontanaheraldnews.com/articles/2011/07/17/news/doc4e1f195cf2da4053553021.txt
LOL I think you better take another look. Perry as usual yacking away.
Nope. State matter. Fed just keep getting in the way.
Electing Perry would be like electing Arnold all over again.
While I could see some benefit in workplace enforcement, I personally am more concerned with preventing illegals from getting free benefits. I’d be more curious about his stand on that.
I don’t have that much of a beef with someone who actually wants to work. Someone who wants to sneak in and get on the dole riles me. We have enough domestic freeloaders that we don’t need to import more.
That’s a pretty serious charge that you are doing nothing to substantiate.
Either make a case or I’ll just assume RINO means as much out of your mouth as a promise does out of Obama’s.
International relations and border security are assuredly a matter for the federal government.
I just did; but you don’t listen. Perry is probably a nice guy but he won’t help the country by becoming President. Not conservative.
Anything I say you are going to blast. The bottom line for me is Perry is not the candidate. All he does is throw stuff out there and they never happen.
State
Really?
A nice looking West Texas boy a couple of years from graduation.
Rick Perry 1969 TX A&M Yearbook, Aggieland
Perry attended Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets, a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and one of A&M's five yell leaders (a popular Texas A&M tradition analogous to male cheerleaders). He interned with the Southwestern Company during the summer time as a door-to-door book salesman where he honed his communication skills. Perry graduated in 1972 with a degree in animal science. While at Texas A&M University Perry successfully completed a static line parachute jump at Ags Over Texas (a United States Parachute Association dropzone), the dropzone that was then in operation at Coulter Field (KCFD) in Bryan, Texas, just north of Texas A&M (in College Station, Texas).
Upon graduation, he was commissioned in the United States Air Force, completed pilot training and flew C-130 tactical airlift in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe until 1977. He left the Air Force with the rank of captain, returned to Texas and went into business farming cotton with his father.
In 1982, Perry married Anita Thigpen, his childhood sweetheart whom he had known since elementary school. They have two children, Griffin and Sydney. Source
Anita and Rick Perry dove hunting 2010
Perry Awarding Iraqi Service Medals
Texas Marines
Gov. Rick Perry participates in ceremonies at Camp Mabry to redesignate the 49th Armored Division as the 36th Infantry Division. The former 49th Armored Division, which consists of approximately 12,000 soldiers, makes up almost two-thirds of the Texas National Guard. The division's redesignation as the 36th Infantry Division is part of the Texas Army National Guard's transition from a heavy armored force to a more versatile infantry force.
Texas Gov. Perry receives a warm greeting from Ghazni Provincial Governor Dr. Usman Usmani at the flight line minutes after landing at Forward Operating Base Ghazni by UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Perry led a delegation of four other governors to visit
Lt. Col. Thomas J. Kleis (R) briefs Texas Gov. Rick Perry (C) as Command Sgt. Maj. Peter P.A. Collins (L) listens on the intelligence gathering successes the 636th Military Intelligence Battalion has achieved during their last six months of duty in
Texas Gov. Rick Perry stands with Texas service members from the 636th Military Intelligence Battalion, 71st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade and the 136th Military Police Battalion on July 20th under the Texas flag he presented to the 636th.
Rick Perry served in the U.S. Air Force after graduating from Texas A&M
C-130 Rick Perry: He flew the world before politics
Rank: captain
Hometown: Haskell
Crew job: C-130 aircraft commander
Served in the Air Force: 1972 to 1977
Dyess AFB tour: March 4, 1974, to Feb. 28, 1977
His story: Way back before he was governor of Texas, Rick Perry had two choices as a young member of the Air Force.
He could either follow his dream and work toward becoming an instructor pilot in the sleek T-38, or he could fly the hulking C-130, planes that affectionately were referred to as "trash haulers" by Perry and his cohorts.
"It was one of the great adventures of my life," Perry said. "I had a fairly pedestrian life until I was 23 years old."
Perry could count on one hand the number of trips he had taken out of his home state by the time he graduated from Texas A&M University, but everything changed when he joined the Air Force.
Flying C-130s, Perry lived in Germany and Saudi Arabia. He flew in Central and South America, North Africa and all over Europe.
"I saw all of these different types of governments and I made the connections to how the people acted and looked, and it became abundantly clear to me that, at that particular point in time, that America was this very unique place and that our form of democracy was very rare," Perry said. " ... That was the greatest gift I received from my years of being in the military, and they really shaped my outlook on the rest of my life."
[snip]
Will he repeal obamacare?
Will he push amnesty?
I really don’t know... I’d like to have a frontrunner for sure. Can you tell me where he stands on health care repeal and illegal immigration? If you can’t, I’m sure someone on this thread will...
Yep..but even so there are large ramifications of the kind of numbers we are dealing with on illegal aliens.They have a sorry track record on voting for limited govt. principles, they have babies that are given citizenship (this process will erode Americans of their nation) and then the doc fraud problem enables many of them to vote. They are low-hanging fruit for unions and marxists that are well-funded by powerful forces. Their presence here is a huge threat to the USA as we’ve known it. This is a tsnomi if all the features are examined. We have to have a leader that will encourage them to return to their home countries and FIX THEM.
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