Bachmann just messed up the other day by asking the crowd to celebrate Elvis’ birthday. The crowd remained silently stunned, because it was the date of his death!
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night August 13], finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6%) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5%). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1%) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero.
Texas did fine under Bush, it was the wars that ate up the money. The information given to Bush that Iraq had WMDs, that every top democrat politician also believed at the time.
Reagan was behind Daddy Bush until the second debate. After he got the nomination he was behind Carter until the Sunday before the Tuesday election.
I’m sure that people who base their vote on who knows when Elvis’ birthday is are going to vote for Perry or Romney rather than a conservative.
But Perry hasn’t been fully vetted yet. How many people outside of Texas know that he replaced a conservative Supreme Court justice with a self proclaimed moderate?
How many people know about his support for cross border health care with Mexico? There’s much more but it’s all been posted. As the country finds out these things he will fade.
As far as Bush goes, the war didn’t cause Bush to double the size of the Department of Education, or to gut the farm bill Newt passed, or to increase the number of people who pay no taxes, or to push Bushcare, or to nominate Harriet Miers to the Supreme court.
Nor did the war cause him to push the Bush/Kennedy/McCain amnesty bill, or to try to turn over our ports to Arabs.
Shall I continue?