Posted on 09/04/2011 11:12:58 AM PDT by Clairity
Texas governor Rick Perry's previous support of Democrats was dismissed as irrelevant by aTea Party leader, in a sign that the rapidly rising Republican frontrunner for president is gaining allies despite questions about his record.
"We know people change. Reagan was a Democrat," said Mr DeMint on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour". "I want to give ... [all of the candidates] a little room to change. I know I've changed some positions I had 10 years ago, because the country's in a very different situation. So I'm going to listen and look and do my homework. And I'm not counting any of them out at this point."
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She’s a populist politician who will say what will get her the votes. It’s her shtick. Calling her plan the “Working-Man’s plan” is straight up populism.
She does have a pattern of quitting. I just read about her raising taxes on the oil industry now she’s promising to cut corporate taxes to 0%.
Calling out others as permanent political class while working very hard at staying in politics really is hypocritical.
She’s got that populist stump speechifying down pat.
You are going to see all the conservative power brokers eventually start lining up behind him. DeMint appears to be positioning himself for just such a move
I honestly don't think Sarah is running, and I can't see her endorsing Bachmann. My guess is that she will eventually endorse Perry as well.
Reagan not only became a republican, he also became a conservative.
Perry, not so much.
I want to click like so badly. Best post of the thread!
Reagan was an anti-communist union leader, and a man who’s military service stretched from 1937 to 1945, and who voted with the rest of America for FDR, and then Truman in 1948.
Reagan was no “RED”, I don’t know what you think his “work” was as a “Red”, but we do know that he was publically campaigning for Republicans in every presidential election after 1948 until 1962 when he formally switched registration to enter politics himself.
Perry was the anti-Reagan, post 1960s, post RoevWade, Jimmy Carter democrat, entering elective office in the same years as Reagan’s 64% sweep of Texas, and fighting to replace President Reagan with Al Gore at the height of the Cold War.
LOL, yep, we’re trolls and Cheney and DeMint are RINOS, it’s like topsy turvey world.
If Palin is really courageous, she will stop this cat and mouse game and formally declare herself a candidate.
I corrected your error, but you keep ignoring it.
We can still correct your lack of knowledge about the length of her political career and her 20 year opportunity to join the good old boys of the political establishment if she had been inclined to.
Perry is better than most but he is too polished,too processed,too much of a career political insider and thus has more skeletons in his closet. He is very vulnerable to DNC opposition research and could lose the election from an October surprise (remember the last Tex Prez and the DUI?)--And as you say,we need a winner.
He is not a REAL conservative like Palin Bachman or Cain who can not only win but win AS conservatives.
So you are not just wrong but appallingly wrong because you disagree with me;)
“we need a winner”
Neither Palin, Bachmann or Cain have any chance of beating Obama.
And before you play the broken record about polls, The Real Clear Politics poll average was very close to the final results of the 2008 election.
Sticking your head in the sand is not a winning strategy.
Election 2008.
Final results: McCain: 45.6% Obama: 52.9%
RCP Avg prior: McCain: 44.5% Obama: 52.1%
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html
What laws would they use to bring false ethics charges against the president?
I wouldn’t say he’s immune, but I don’t believe he has. Keep in mind that what a third party interprets him as saying is not necessarily what he has said.
Palin’s record is the opposite of someone who says whatever it takes to get votes.
She didn’t raise taxes on the oil industry.
The reason some politicians demagogue populism is because populism appeals to the voters. But a demagogue is different from a politician who really means it.
Which would be worse, trusting a fake populist or failing to trust the real thing?
The Dems are very creative — they can use their same creativity they used to file frivolous lawsuits against Palin when she was governor. She could have fought them and prevailed, but she didn’t. What makes you think she will act any differently, when the attacks and charges would be much more serious, to get her to resign the presidency?
It is not a good history to have quit, when the going got tough.
But what he has said, and what he has done, cannot be changed.
I don’t think she’s the real thing. I also don’t think that she is up to the task of being the President of the United States.
If Palin was unattractive and frumpy we would not be discussing her due to her thin resume.
“If Palin was unattractive and frumpy we would not be discussing her due to her thin resume”
This tells me you’re not really thinking. In fact, I think you’re one of those who thinks Sarah Palin is Tina Fey.
All we have from DeMint in this story is one quite-ambiguous quote that commits him to no position. This is a non-story and the content definitely does not support the headline.
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