Posted on 09/23/2011 4:42:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Politics: Despite the "gotcha" sniping at Thursday's debate, Republicans need to keep their eyes on the prize. The target for 2012 is not Santorum, Cain, Bachmann, Romney or Perry. It's the current White House occupant.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry must have felt a bit like Gen. Custer at Little Big Horn at the Orlando debate, a made-for-TV contrivance in which those who have a real chance to be president must take pokes and jabs from those who don't.
We appreciate this may be a necessary evil in which front-runners without stamina — the Ed Muskies and Rudy Giulianis, for example — are weeded out.
Still, we must understand that while the goal is the nomination, the prize is the White House. Lost in the brouhaha over tuition for illegal aliens and mandated vaccines is the fact we simply can't afford four more years of President Obama.
Perry has given awkward responses. How can he debate the president, the whispers ask. Sound-bite debates in which you thrust and parry (no pun intended) with eight other candidates, as well as the pundits, are one thing. Comparing your job-creating pro-growth record in a booming state to the record of the arguably worst president in American history is something else.
Those former and nongovernors without a 1,200-mile border with Mexico may criticize, and perhaps justifiably, Perry's embrace of a college tuition break for illegal aliens. We've opposed it too in the past.
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Reread the statement I replied to. Paul and his bots were only a small part of the accusations. It was meant for any FReeper whatsoever who doesn’t bow at Perry’s feet. We were called liberals and liars. I stand behind what I said that FReeper is disgusting.
Thanks for your responses. And yes, I suspect we have a lot in common in our beliefs. America first! Americans first! And that includes all who have been born here or who have immigrated and become Americans...legally. We are one family.
You heartless racist!
/Perrybot
Perry should apply for this job. Although he may be underqualified.
One can only do what one can only do, eh? I actually play golf on an 18 hole course that is in the “no man’s land”.
Gov. Perry can take the heat from now on. It's Perry's fault!
Think that your boy just got his azz kicked in Florida. You need to grow up and smell the coffee. It’s not about debate style.....it’s about giving tuition discounts to illegals among other things. Perry is toast.
Good point and thank you for saying what you did.
If Perry gets elected the foe will be Perry. He is already showing his true red white and green colors.
Imagine finding dead bodies on your property and maybe wondering if the next one will be you or your loved ones. This is why—though I live far away in the northeast—I am very passionate about stopping illegal immigration and I will not tolerate any double-talking, illegal alien enablers like Rick Perry. Here comes the hook Rick—bye bye.
Aren’t there other candidates besides Rick and Mitt? It’s so funny how Perry supporters keep using Romney as the boogie man as if you will be stuck with Romney if you do not vote for Perry. I hear it so much that it is begining to sound like talking points. Perry supporters are sounding like cheerleaders. You all have your cheers memorized—rah, rah, sis boom ba— go Perry!
We know what Obama’s flaws are, now we need to know what the Republicans’ flaws are.
Heck, come January 2013, they’ll be screaming that the elections were stolen because she didn’t yet declare... and that without her, no elections could’ve happened.
How does an inanimate object known as a fence catch anything or anyone?
I will not vote for Romney. If he is our candidate, I will not vote in the presidential election.
Now, considering that you’re doing everything posible to get rid of his only other significant opposition...
I don’t like Romney.
But if you’re saying that you’d only vote for a Republican if Perry is the nominee, then screw you: you’re the one aiding and abetting Imam Obama, not me. The murdered babies and destroyed economy will be on your head.
I could go for that. I don’t think it’ll happen, though.
I'll vote for any Republican on the ballot come November, as long as he/she's not Romney(or Ron Paul).
It sounds like *you* are admitting that the only other viable candidate is Perry. Yet you're working SO hard to get rid of him. Why are you working so hard to get rid of the opposition to Romney, who you've said you don't like?
What do you do with all those straw men you construct?
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