Posted on 09/06/2011 2:13:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A thousand homes and 100,000 acres have burned in just a week. A friend of mine who lives just outside Austin was forced to flee with her family last night as the flames encroached, and not until this afternoon did she learn whether her home had survived. (It had.) Go figure that this guy thinks he should do his job rather than gladhand people on the trail for a few days.
Presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he does not yet know whether he will attend Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate…
“I don’t know. That’s a fluid situation at the moment. Again I go back to we’re going to be taking care of the folks here … We’re really focused on the events at hand and the other side of that is we’re pretty good at multitasking,” said Perry on CBS’s “The Early Show” Tuesday…
“This is not the time to be talking about politics. There’s another 14 months ahead to talk politics. Right now I’m substantially more focused on making sure that these people … folks all across this state are being taken care of. Getting out of harms way, saving lives is the big issue for me right now,” Perry told CBS.
Serious question: Is there a single person whining at him for missing DeMint’s forum who wouldn’t also be whining if he had attended the forum that he had shirked his duties as governor?
“It’s obvious that Rick Perry is skipping the DeMint forum because he knew he was going to be asked tough questions about his previous support for gay marriage in New York, as well as his policies in Texas in favor of illegal immigration,” says one representative of a rival camp. “He’s looking for a reason to not actually be compared to the other candidates,” says an official in another camp. “He was grasping for a reason not to show.”
There are eight more debates scheduled before the Iowa caucuses, three of which will be held within the next 15 days. Plenty of opportunities left to quiz him about immigration, an issue on which he is in fact very vulnerable, and on gay marriage and the Tenth Amendment, which won’t hurt him at all given his appeal to evangelical leaders. Ultimately he’s the only one who suffers from having to miss these things since every absence gives Romney and Bachmann a chance to shine unhindered and to attack him without fear of retort. They may have no choice tomorrow night: According to NBC’s new poll, Perry leads Romney by fully 15 points, 38/23, with Bachmann a distant fourth (behind Ron Paul) at eight percent.
Your long post and links are stunningly irrelevant to anything I have said about the fires. And everything I have said about the fires is correct, and I used a quote from Perry as the basis for my statement that they have run for months. I thought they'd been going most of the summer, but I learned from Governor Perry's words in the link in #43 that they've been a problem since December of last year.
Try not to put so much effort in irrelevant posts.
That is about it! If he goes to the debate he is callous, if not chicken.
You're one of those people prognosticates the next election four years ahead of time, aren't you?
How's that working out for you?
BS! This debate is 14 months out from the election. The fires are NOW. The candidates ain’t going aaay, but people are losing their lives and their livlihoods in Texas RIGHT NOW. He doesn’t need to debate this time. There are more debates scheduled. Get a grip. DC was wayyyyy better off with obama on vacation but we still bitched because we thought he should have been in DC even symbolically. Do NOT employ a double standard like that where it comes to Rick Perry. It is beneath us. PERIOD!
I fully agree with you, but honest disagreement seems to have fallen by the wayside and namecalling has become too common.
I don’t go to other candidate’s threads and rant against them, just wish others could do the same.
there is no fire in washington that perry answering 4 or 5 questions in 30 second soundbites tomorrow night is going to change
the entire group “meet the press” conference is a joke anyway.
Will he be hosing the fire himself? Will he be coordinating the firefighting teams?
Who did he have to check with?
When the political winds changes, he'll change his mind, again and again.
After tomorrow, the next debate is Monday the 12th with another the 22nd.
On to the article... None of those questions would've come up at the DeMint forum. They all got like questions; read the live thread.
If anyone was going to be challenged in that way, it would've been Romney whether on abortion or gay marriage. It didn't happen. The claim is bogus on its face and the unnamed campaign is shameful.
It's a pity Hot Air chose not to name the despicable camp behind those remarks but I think it smells of desperation and Ed Rollins.
Disturbingly I notice the same ones here trashing Perry for putting his elected job over a political forum are many of the same defending the chronically absentee Sarah Palin. Some have no shame.
Will Politico & MSNBC ask, in light of Bachmann's earthquake and hurricane remarks, are the wildfires God's way of telling Perry not to run for the presidency?
Excellent point.
There is no need for him to be there. We use electronic conferencing technology all the time, he can too.
There's a bit of difference between your online meetings and vying for POTUS. Perry would be giving up a lot to appear remotely. No candidate would ever do such a thing.
Pray for Texas, please!
There's a bit of difference between your online meetings and vying for POTUS. Perry would be giving up a lot to appear remotely. No candidate would ever do such a thing.
Wait a minute here, 99.999 percent of the audience is watching this remotely electronically on the tube.
When questions are asked of Perry, they could just switch to his live feed.
What's the problem with that??
Durn furrner, why doncha go back to wherever it'n is you come from.
I believe one can't run for president and perform their job as governor at the same time.
Perry should resign since he is now running for president.
So, if something happens to your family while you are away from home on business and you want to get back home to take charge of the situation and take care of it, can I just say, "Don't you have a wife/husband, a son/daughter (whoever can be the second in command), to take care of it?" and you will be okay with that?
"it'n"?
That ain't Amurrikin.
Any candidate, Perry, Romney, Santorum - whoever - who is not physically present with the rest gets a perception as “less than” the others who are there.
I’m not sure how to put my “feeling” into words; but I bet a dollar that every political geek worth his salt would never allow such a thing for his candidate.
But, I could be wrong.
We have been in a drought for almost 2 years. What you seem to be missing is that this weekend, due to the effects of the tropical storm in the Gulf, extreme drought, and cold front, winds have been whipped up and fires are breaking out all across the state.
I live in a suburb of Houston. When I step outside my house, there is smoke in the air. You can smell the burning/ash all over my part of town. This did not happen until Sunday/Monday/today. While we may have had a small grass fire here and there, it is the scope of the fires—literally across the state—which has us Texans praying for rain.
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