Posted on 09/24/2011 10:20:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The conventional wisdom is dumping hard on Rick Perry. Politico blared Friday, in the wake of his fumbling debate performance, that he might already be Texas toast. This tells me now is exactly the time to buy Perry stock.......
....The conventional counterargument, of course, is that the establishment will circle the wagons around Romney. ..... But I can mount a highly plausible counter-counterargument for why it may not.....All we've seen these past two years is establishment Republicans accepting one extreme demand after another.
My case then extends to the question of who will make up the GOP primary electorate.... Henry Olsen of the American Enterprise Institute......divides GOP primary voters into two campsdispositional conservatives and ideological conservatives.....Olsen writes that the GOP has always chosen the next in line candidate because most primary voters have been dispositionals, and he thinks that will hold this time. I'm not as sure. The number of ideologicals has surely grown. If Olsen's right, then Romney, a next-in-liner if ever there was one, is probably the guy. But if he's wrong, then there's every reason to think this logic won't necessarily hold.
Lastly, my case hingesand here's the second reason I'm buying Perry stock todayon the plainly observable fact....
....Who can possibly really like Romney? He's like your boss, or the regional supervisor who comes by the office a few times a year. You tolerate him and suck up to him, but the experience is completely phony and awkward. ...........Perry? Well, I find him repugnant, of course, but I'm an East Coast liberal. I'm trying to look at this through others' eyes. And I think he's the kind of person Southerners in particular but conservatives everywhere, except maybe in the Northeast, can take a shine to. At least he seems to have some shards of personality.
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(Excerpt) Read more at powerwall.msnbc.msn.com ...
Illegals, Dream Act, “heartless”.... it’s over for Perry.
As I see it, barring any rising star, our only hope is if Palin gets in and knocks out Romney.
If that doesn’t happen and considering the present lineup, the next candidate that I will look at will be Cain. I like something about most of our candidates, but so far, Cain hasn’t pi$$ed me off.
MSNBC is where you are going for your Pro Perry stories. Thats getting desperate. He should quit the race and endorse Palin. It would be the most conservative thing he has ever done.
A vote for Romney is a vote to save the present directive to promote socialism .
I’ll only allow any candidate to poke his sanctimonious finger in my eye ONCE. I don’t care if he did it during a debate, a fundraiser, a FOX News interview or on a game show.
Illegal immigration is a major chunk of our nation’s financial woes, and he’s coddling them for votes while calling the conservative base names for recognizing the need for a real solution to the problem. FURP!
Thanks for this. It’s pretty good.
There were never more than 2 all-around social and economic conservatives in the race: Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann, plus anti-establishment conservative Sarah Palin waiting offstage. Yet hordes of fools diverted conservative support to this sleazy careerist from Texas. Damn.
The immigration is the only issue he’s somewhat soft on and I think he’d be willing to work with conservatives on that. He’s conservative on everything else. He’s solid pro-life, Second Amendment and is not embarrassed to show his Christian faith. He’s anti-EPA, anti obamacare and pro tort reform. Texas was overrun with illegals long before Perry became governor. Romney, on the other hand is a Massachusetts liberal and a great used car salesman.
Romney is a lying bastard.
Romneycare = Obamacare.
FUMR!
MSNBC Power Wall ^
So MSNBC is, for some reason, pushing Rick Perry?
That isn't a very good promotion for Rick Perry at a Conservative site.
Poor Rick Perry.
Shot himself in the foot with PerryCARE II
(RomneyCARE with Mexico) and daring to call
conservative Americans “heartless”
[to be used by Rove and the DNC, later].
we heartless racists, according to Perry, should not be voting for the guy ever.
the in-state tuition wasn’t for anchor babies, those are US citizens. The in-state tuition for the illegal kids of illegals.
“heartless” was just an addendum to saying we are against it because their name sounds different.... in other words he also called us racists.
#19...
sarcasm? reverse psychology?
I will never vote for a guy who calls me a heartless racist because I don’t want to subsidize the higher education of illegal aliens.
It doesnt matter what the sound of your last name is.
"Those opposed to subsidies and rewards for illegal aliens are heartless".
He is not conservative on “everything else”... eminant domain with the TTC and parents rights with guardasil should explain a bit more of that.
When he says “states rights” he means the state, not the individual will have rights.
The analogy is just STUPID! or just plain ANAL!
After the Perry statement on subsidizing $100,000 for each illegal alien college student in Texas, I will never vote for Perry in primaries. In general, it is anybody but Obama for me.
I think it goes beyond Perry’s lack of oratorical eloquence. He came to the debates, apparently, un-prepared and oblivious, as if he’d been consecrated. I haven’t any animus toward the man but if he hasn’t the good sense to back-off of an issue as inflammatory as illegal immigration and all of its trappings; then he hasn’t the temperament to be my president. Iknow, I know...that’s “heartless” of me but so be it!
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