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Obama team scouts for anti-Perry Texans
Dallas Morning News ^ | August 21, 2011 | Todd J. Gillman/Reporter

Posted on 08/24/2011 10:59:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

The Obama campaign team is asking Texans to share complaints about Gov. Rick Perry, and compiling the critiques for possible use in Perry-bashing ads and other material - a sure sign the president's advisers are taking no chances.

"Your feedback will help hold him accountable on the campaign trail, inspire fellow Texans to get involved, and introduce his record -- his actual record -- to voters across the country," Hector Nieto, the campaign's Texas director, told Texas supporters by email blast today. "Your words will remind him that even as he runs, he won't be able to hide -- a lesson he apparently hadn't learned as recently as last week. That's when his campaign explained that the positions he took in the book he wrote just nine months ago, like saying that Social Security is unconstitutional and `a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal,' no longer represent his views.

"But what other Americans are just starting to learn about -- and, frankly, reject -- Texans have dealt with for more than a decade. It's up to us to make sure he doesn't get to run away from the truth."

Nieto's email says hundreds of Texans have already shared their dim views on Perry, directing critics to an online form where they can suggest their own favorite "failed policies" for which he should be held accountable.

Submitting a suggestion grants the Obama campaign perpetual rights to use the comments in any form of political advertising.

Last week, Nieto sent an email blast seeking donations as small as $5 to help counter Perry's "tall tale" of a Texas economic miracle.

(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; campaign; democrats; election; nobama2012; obama; oppositionresearch; perry2012; rickperry; texas
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Here are two people who will gladly help Obama.

Carl A. Parker: Why Perry Won't Run for President

Jim Hightower: Perry Is Peddling Texas Snake Oil

1 posted on 08/24/2011 10:59:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Try Austin. Shouldn’t be hard to find some there.


2 posted on 08/24/2011 11:01:36 AM PDT by Huck (I don't believe there is just one God--humanity seems like the work of a committee to me.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I can see it now:

“Ahm a Texan and an amurcan and Rick Perry is the devil!”


3 posted on 08/24/2011 11:03:10 AM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: Huck

Trial lawyers and teacher unions are gearing up their push against Perry.


4 posted on 08/24/2011 11:03:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Ubama WISHES Perry would be his opponent.

Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.

ineluctable

5 posted on 08/24/2011 11:04:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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Gee. I wonder how hard it'll be for Perry to find some anti-Obama Texans. Who will, you know, keep him honest on the campaign trail and remind Texas voters about his real record.
6 posted on 08/24/2011 11:04:19 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Don’t know who Carl Parker is but Hightower is a dem so big whoopee.

There are some here that would be glad to help I’m sure.


7 posted on 08/24/2011 11:05:40 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Rabid democRATS and 0bama the dictator own it all now.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
True, but trial lawyers and teacher's unions gear up their push against ANY Republican.
8 posted on 08/24/2011 11:06:29 AM PDT by Jane Long (2 Chron 7:14)
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Here are two people who will gladly help Obama.

LOL, I thought you were going to post some Freeper's names, and was ready to say, "they're not from Texas".

9 posted on 08/24/2011 11:06:38 AM PDT by sockmonkey (I thought Jim Hightower was dead..)
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Obama team scouts for anti-Perry Texans

HEY!!! ...OVER HERE!!!
This thread will be crawling with them in no time.

10 posted on 08/24/2011 11:06:46 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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Obama team scouts for anti-Perry Texans

Shocking... and a$$ hats like Rove and Jeb Bush are saying we can’t attack the skid mark for being the marxist POS he is.


11 posted on 08/24/2011 11:07:38 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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Bill Burkett probably still has an account at Kinko’s. I’m guessing it will take only some slight editing to change those fake ANG documents to fake Perry documents. Quick, call Mary Mapes!


12 posted on 08/24/2011 11:07:58 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
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To: Winstons Julia
The Obama White House is watching Perry's "intensity" numbers [The people who know of him who LIKE him]. Those numbers have held solid while....

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is now recognized by 67% of Republicans and Republican leaners nationwide, an increase of 13 percentage points from two weeks ago.


13 posted on 08/24/2011 11:09:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: OrangeHoof

Maples died [but the Left loves to quote her].

Burkett will want to get in on the action.

And then there’s always Ron Paul supporter Robert Morrow.


14 posted on 08/24/2011 11:11:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

In other news, the RNC has asked Kenyans who have ever had sex with Owebowmao to step forward.


15 posted on 08/24/2011 11:11:18 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (HEY UNION MEMBER: INVEST IN YOUR OWN DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CHANGE!)
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To: Huck

Where’s Dan Rather when the Dems need him.....


16 posted on 08/24/2011 11:11:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Tex-Con-Man

=^D


17 posted on 08/24/2011 11:11:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Obummers crew will find plenty of anti-Perry types. 10% or so hate any Repub, and thats a lot of people.

They'd have a better chance though, finding those who don't support him, like Paulistas, Romneybots, etc. That's another 10%.

NOw if you ask most Palinistas, they would most all think Rick would make a good POTUS and an even better VPOTUS!

18 posted on 08/24/2011 11:12:58 AM PDT by fantail 1952 (They don't make 'em like Reagan any more. Now it takes a woman to do a mans job!)
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To: Steely Tom

I’m betting there are tons of anti-Obama Illinis, but do you think the media would have had ANY interest at all in that? Texas has a large democrat population, so of course a lot of people will be anti-Perry. But the media will lap it up.

Of course, Obama could just come here to Free Republic. Plenty of people, even a few Texans, willing to help him out with criticism of Perry.


19 posted on 08/24/2011 11:13:07 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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Did they call Karl Rove yet? I’m sure he’ll be very helpful in cutting down Perry, so long as the Fox News cameras aren’t rolling. That paper thin ‘Perry and I are pals’ routine must just kill him inside.


20 posted on 08/24/2011 11:13:24 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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