Posted on 07/21/2011 7:55:41 PM PDT by smoothsailing
July 21, 2011
Republicans disappointed with their party's current slate of presidential candidates are stepping up the pressure on Texas Gov. Rick Perry to enter the race. And it's looking increasingly likely that Perry will declare his candidacy soon. "I'm getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I've been called to do," Perry told the Des Moines Register recently. "This is what America needs." How would a Perry run reshape the Republican primaries? Here, four theories:
1. Perry would make the early contests closer
The Texas governor has generated buzz aplenty, says John Whitesides at Reuters, largely because he'll challenge frontrunners Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann head on. "If he gets in, he plans to run in each of the states with early nominating contests, directly challenging Bachmann in her top priority of Iowa and Romney in New Hampshire." Perry appeals to social conservatives who hate Romney, and has pro-business credentials Bachmann can only dream of, so he should be able to up the excitement factor in the early primaries.
2. Perry would overshadow Pawlenty and Huntsman
With Perry in the race, says Alex Roarty at National Journal, former governors Tim Pawlenty (of Minnesota) and Jon Huntsman (of Utah) would slide further toward oblivion. Both Pawlenty and Huntsman were "at one time considered among the most likely to win the party's nomination," but in a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal survey, they won the support of just 2 percent of Republicans. Without even declaring his candidacy, Perry earned twice as much support, trailing only Romney and Bachmann.
3. He'd unite the establishment and Tea Party
"Perry is clearly the flavor of the month among Republican insiders," say Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake at The Washington Post. But he has broader appeal than other contenders. Perry is a critic of federal power, has a record of creating jobs in Texas, and boasts party ties that would almost certainly give him the second biggest warchest behind Romney. Add it all up and Perry's "the candidate perhaps best positioned to bridge the gap between the establishment wing and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party."
4. Perry would give disgruntled Republicans someone to root for
"There's a hole in the Republican primary field you could drive a truck through right now," says the Texas Tribune's Evan Smith, as quoted by WNYC.org. He'd be someone evangelicals could get behind, instead of settling for Bachmann despite her broader electability problems. He'd give Southerners a candidate. He'd also be a powerhouse the Tea Party could get behind to build on the momentum they created last year. Big chunks of the GOP base are still looking for a candidate, and Perry "checks a lot of those boxes."
Gov. Goodhair also flirts with conservativism right around election time but always fails to commit.
Well, for one Perry could pass on his Globalist, pro illegal stance, but Palin already got that from MCain ;-)
BUMP
Perry is 100% FRAUD
That's one of his biggest problems.
Reunite with Vixen and sing "Edge of a Broken Heart"?
Karl Rove says he and consultant David Weeks persuaded Rick Perry to switch parties and run for state agriculture commissioner
Texas Gov. Rick Perry draws mention in GOP consultant Karl Rove’s autobiography with attention
focused on Perry’s win for lieutenant governor in 1998 and Rove’s role in his pivotal earlier
switch from the Democratic to Republican party while he was a third-term member of the Texas House.
Rove writes: “Rick Perry had planned to retire from the legislature until his best friend,
David Weeks, and I talked him into switching parties and running for the GOP nomination for
agriculture commissioner.” His book, “Courage and Consequence, My Life as a Conservative
in the Fight,” was published March 9.
Link to Palin’s immigration stance? Thanks
Perry is 100% certified Bilderberg Globalist.
Palin is said to be influenced by this person, or that person, but there’s really nothing in her record at all to suggest that Palin is a Globalist at all.
What you said!
I still love the hair. Rock On. I am stuck in the 80/\s
Why on earth would we want another rino?
5. He’s Bilderberg’s preferred candidate.
With Perry in, the grey-skinned, grey-haired duo of Pawlenty and Huntsman haven’t got a chance.
Perry did not, however, “create” any jobs here in Texas: he wisely got the hell out of the way, and, as anywhere jobs are created, the private sector did the work.
Nor is he much of a true conservative, only having been a Republican for a decade or two.
But I’d vote for him over Romney in a heartbeat.
Perry was in a all girl 80s hair metal band before he was a Democrat State Legislator and a Democrat Campaign Manager for Al Gore in Texas? Did not know that.
Well, there is the fact that her main foreign policy adviser until very recently was Randy Schueneman, a DC lobbyist who is on George Soros' payroll.
And her support for the Law of the Sea Treaty, which would give the UN taxing authority and control over about 70% of the earth's surface, and the resources that go with that.
On jobs, you make an environment friendly to job creation and let the private sector take off and Perry has done that. That's all a President can do. He is pro-life and pro-gun and anti tax and his record proves that. It's crazy to think a guy who has been those 3 things his whole political career is a Rino.
The guy has been spoken about glowingly by everyone from Palin to Michael Reagan to Rush Limbaugh.
"got the hell out of the way" is key. I sure wish more damn politicians would do that, the whole country would be better off.
All hat - absolutely not cattle.
Not pro-life for all. He makes exceptions.
And he supports overt pro-aborts for the highest office in the land.
Those are the facts, and so, I don’t give a rip who has spoken “glowingly” of him.
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