Posted on 09/21/2011 2:07:46 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
SAN ANTONIO -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry remains one of the front-runners for the Republican Presidential Nomination, and depending on who you ask, many think he'll get it.
John Sharp, the recently confirmed Chancellor of Texas A&M University who ran against Perry in the 1998 general election for Lieutenant Governor, gave his take on the race while visiting Texas A&M- San Antonio on Tuesday.
"It's a full time deal running against Rick Perry, and anybody who sells him short is an idiot, because it will be a tough campaign," Sharp said.
Sharp has known Perry since his college days, where the two served in the same outfit in the Corp Cadets. "We were really good friends until we ran against each other," Sharp said.
Sharp, a Democrat, lost to Perry with 48% of the vote, during the 1998 election. During that race, the polls were tied as voters got ready to cast their ballots. Then came the flood of 1998.
"In October of 1998 or late September, this huge flood came through the area, from San Marcos and down to Victoria," Sharp said. "That was my old senate district, (I'm from Victoria) and so I'm trying to get people to get out and vote, and they're out in boat, trying to rescue their furniture and things like that."
Sharp says his loss was partly due to Perry's good timing and good luck, and believes Perry will win the Republican nomination, but stopped short of saying he will be the next president.
Well put. But to the Perry haters, 85% of Republicans are RINOs.
Do you always parrot the liberal hate ? That’s not good for your soul.
Elect Palin. Got a problem with that ?
There was something fishy about the Allison flood. It was like it hit a wall north of Houston and was driven back to the Houston area and it wouldn’t move.
That is what it seems you are saying about CW. She simply posts articles about Perry.
Sarah! insinuated on Greta the same thing Bachmann said in the debate. Sarah! also said, as she gushed over Greta's note taking, that Newt was the only one to bring up fraud and waste because others on stage had participated in fraud and waste and therefore didn't have a leg to stand on. That was untrue and insulting to the Republican field and it was unnecessary. Perry brought up cutting fraud and waste first and mentioned what they had done here in Texas, Newt joined in and Romney continued saying that cutting those things were not the only way to balance the budget.
I thought it was a great exchange between Perry,Newt and Romney.
Palin was either lying or Greta and Sarah had already planned this little part of the script pre debate and when Perry brought it up they either purposely ignored it or didn't care enough to change the script.
Palin is only running if she sees a weakness. She is using Fox to trash Obama and the Republican field especially those who she would have to compete with. As a Republican, I see it as low budget.
I was here. It came, it moved north and then it slid back down over us again. Never experienced anything like it. Hope to never again. We were okay but so many weren’t. I still have the paper showing photos of semis floating and knowing how many cars were submerged. It was so unexpected and so relentless.
Tell her to get off her rear and declare she's in the race. I'm a fan of Sarah, but her teasing is losing its allure.
Is she waiting until all the debates are over?
>>> Forgive me, I noticed you’ve only been here since 2010.>>>
Last refuge of the defeated: time on FR. ZZZZZZZ. Puh - leeze.
Forgive me, but I’ve been writing for publication since 1992 and ghost writing for a major (and I mean MAJOR) figure since 08 on radio and another prominent conservative leader in print as well. In other words, time on FR is merely one measurement of how long someone has been in the fight or how strong one’s bona fides are.
It’s interesting that I never questioned your bona fides, only your reasoning. You, on the other hand........
Keep up the good work. (I checked your profile)
Aw Jeez. What's next, posting his high school classmates predictions?
At that time, I lived in Katy, TX. So it didn’t bother us out there...we didn’t have any flooding at all. I watched it’s movement and radar...like I said I always thought something was fishy about that storm. Once it came back over Houston it was like it was held in place and of course, dumping huge amounts of rain.
So. What’s your plan?
Hope and change...... or maybe it should be wishing. Currently there is a declared field of candidates that have made the effort to present themselves to the electorate. There maybe another or two that will jump in but the clock is ticking towards the drop dead dates for entering some of the state primaries. Like it or not it’s very possible the GOP candidate will come the current announced candidates.
The purge of 2012 will be interesting to watch no matter where the axe falls. Malcontents and self agrandizers aren’t worth the time spent on them, imo.
That made me SOL (Snort Out Loud).
I like Sarah Palin. It's her supporters like you who are having unintended consequences...turning people off.
Palin supporters are the worst of the lot sounding like liberals and doing their work for them. You're like a cult!
If you don't have an announced candidate you should give up attacking the announced!
It isn't the fault of other candidate's supporters that your would be choice plays cat and mouse games and won't commit!
They're the same worship threads we saw with Slick Willard. No dissent and no truth-telling on the candidate is allowed.
You tell her, I ain’t working for her campaign. She works on her own schedule, not anyone else’s.
For all we know, you could be one of the scores of n00b trolls that manage to appear in swarms just in time to shill and flack for their candidate and just as swiftly disappear. I’ve been here for 13 years and have seen the trolls come and go.
>>> You don’t agree with my arguments, what can I tell you ? Those arguments for which I remain strident are the bedrock as to why he must be opposed. >>>
Actually, it’s not agreement or disagreement on the arguments. You are not hearing me. It’s simply that you and I do not look at the entirety of a person’s record in the same perspective, and you simply ratchet up your language and vitriol with each post with the same few arguments and act like you are bringing new information to the battle. You are not.
Bedrock principles are important, but only in how they actually impact how our country is governed. In the GOP field, Perry, Romney, Huntsman and Cain are the only ones with a long executive record. As such, they will have made the most mistakes. Period. Paul and Santorum and Bachmann have zero time as the man in charge (or woman). Palin is not yet in the race, but even at her age she does not have the lengthy record good or bad. Facts are facts. I am only talking about chronology here.
Some mistakes should be put in perspective given what state or what company they were running at the time and what realities they faced. What someone did as a governor of a particular state or as exec of a particular company cannot always be super imposed on how they will or will not act as President. Sometimes it can.
The great thing about these discussions and the primary / debate process is that it paints people into corners. I am quite sure that given his spanking, Perrry will never again pull a guardicil and he will toughen up on his immigration stances. You say he is disappointing as governor, and you may be right, but the net net of Perry and his conservative legislature is a helluva lot better governance than we’ve had from Washington in a long time.
It’s all about perspective, and I don’t think you properly apply perspective to some arguments you have that are otherwise valid.
Here comes the projections.
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