Posted on 09/18/2011 1:55:44 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
......One was born into a privileged family in a tony Michigan suburb; the other, onto a flat expanse of West Texas dirt with no indoor plumbing. One spent his youth tooling around his father’s car factory; the other, selling Bibles door-to-door so he could afford to buy a car. One excelled at Harvard University, simultaneously earning law and business degrees and swiftly climbing the corporate ladder; the other, his hope of becoming a veterinarian dashed when he flunked organic chemistry at Texas A&M University, joined the Air Force. [Perry graduated from A&M]
Where Mitt Romney is obedient and cautious, Rick Perry is bombastic and spontaneous. If they had attended the same high school, they probably would have hung out at opposite ends of the hallway. Their relationship today is said to be frosty, if there is one at all.
“In every single possible way, they come from different worlds,” said Republican strategist Alex Castellanos, who advised Romney in his 2008 race but is neutral this time. “You can see the playbook pretty clearly here: it’s populist against patrician; it’s rural Texas steel against unflappable Romney coolness; conservative versus center-right establishment; Texas strength versus Romney’s imperturbability; Perry’s simplicity versus Romney’s flexibility.”
.... Romney is campaigning as a steady, capable grown-up who can fix anything that needs fixing; Perry, as a passionate, principled leader who can channel the ire of a frustrated electorate.
The twin forces within the Republican Party are neatly manifested in the two candidates. Romney represents both the party’s upper-crust establishment and the state — Massachusetts — that for so long has been the GOP’s boogeyman. Perry represents the angry grassroots that are giving the party new energy and he personifies the state — Texas — that for a generation has been the GOP’s soul.........
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I’m not looking at who they fear most as much as who they want to be the Republican nominee. They want Perry. His liberal record will prevent him from getting conservative support (similar to McCain who only got conservative votes because of Palin) and his similarities to Bush will be the leftist mantra as they try to foist 4-more years of Obama on us.
You're nuts. Do you even know any Democrats? I have a lot of liberal Dem relatives, and they are FREAKING OUT over the idea of a President Perry.
As a Niner fan that’s one I can favor. ;~)
The biggest dem in my family called the other week to tell me she was terrified of Rick Perry becoming president.
Bastard! LoL!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
PDS has a new meaning.
Ah...I am just telling you the truth. You don’t know my governor like I do. Consider it a public service just for you.
This Gal is an Uber Lib!
I don’t think we’ll see ant PDS with the independents.
What an asinine question. My entire family, my neighbors and many of my coworkers are democRATs. No one is "FREAKING OUT" over the idea of a president Perry. They're hoping he gets the nomination because they know that with his similarities to Bush it will be an easy win for the Won. You do remember Obama using the comparison of McCain to Bush when he ran against McCain, don't you? Perry is so similar to Bush it's frightening and they will wear that out.
Yes, we know. We can tell by the way you post and by who you support. But thanks for confirming it anyway.
I had negative views on him until I took all the negatives out there and did my own research and found almost all of them to be completely unfounded. His he perfect...good grief no...but he is the only one running that has a chance of beating obama.
Why the personal attack from nowhere?
What I've seen on this thread is what "we" used to call disruptors.
They don't like Perry so they do multiple posts, ping their little disruptor buddies, and continue to disrupt the flow of the thread.
It's childish and they may be providing some unintended insight into their character. Of course, that's just my opinion.
I don't include you in that group necessarily, but I'd say Diogenesis and South40 through their actions, could fit my definition. Disruptors may be marvelously wonderful people otherwise, but for whatever reasons, they tend to hide those qualities here.
It seems like the term disruptor evolved into troll quite a while ago and may no longer resemble disruptor.
Now as far as troll goes, how would you define one?
Almost all the Dems I know HATED GWB, and considerd him a “right winger”, if not an “extreme right winger”. If they compare Perry to Bush it’s not because they want him to replace Obama, any more than Obama’s comparison was meant to be positive. He was comparing McCain to Bush because Bush was unpopular, period.
FYI---they don't "vet" candidates in places like China.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtxB3K_l8Uc
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