Posted on 09/24/2011 7:07:02 PM PDT by free me
Reporting from Tampa, Fla. -- A black, threatening cloud hung low over the Orange County Convention Center on Saturday evening as top members of Gov. Rick Perry’s brain trust left a place their candidate would love to forget.
At best half showed up, leaving tables groaning with uneaten bagels, scrambled eggs, bacon and fruit cocktail. At the end of the governor’s rather perfunctory eight-minute speech, the breakfast crowd offered a rather perfunctory round of applause, the first public clue that all might not be going well in Perryville.
The Texan’s campaign fielded the largest cadre of volunteers and paid staff at the event. His staffers, wires dangling from their ears (a touch, and expense, that no other campaign matched), were very much in evidence Saturday inside the convention hall, as they distributed signs and buttonholed delegates. Another visible sign of the considerable investment Perry made in Florida: signage that included a huge banner, hanging in the foyer of the convention hall, which greeted the 3,000 delegates, starting on debate night; Perry’s campaign paid an undisclosed sum to the state party for the privilege.
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If'n bein' a Baptist ain't enough Evangelical for ye, then ye should tek' op ye serpents, eh!
Get in some good people to work with him...and he’ll be fine.
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As a child, didn’t your mama ever tell you that “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”? The guy doesn’t have it McGavin......he doesn’t have it..... He’s dumb as a coal bucket.
The best thing he could is apologize for the “heartless” statement. I can’t believe he hasn’t already. He’s got some bad advisers.
According to the Perry campaign this morning it was a make or break test of the campaign.
Yes, well that’s 2 of you, guess that’s it then. LOL
I’m still struggling to explain the scarcity of hardcore Perry supporters that told the rest of us to “shut up” and get on board with their candidate or we were guaranteed 4 more of Obama or even Romney.
Anyone seen one?
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YES!!! I love it!!! You are so right, Norm. Where are all the Perry-winkles tonight?
I don’t think an apology will work. It was a hard stinging slap across the face of his base and we have the red mark on our cheeks to prove it. It is now infamous. It will not be forgotten nor forgiven.
Well to be fair.
There weren’t a lot of us Palin supporters on the board, after that Alaska radio show call-in fiasco, either...
Suggesting that people who have it good should stay where they are to make it better is not sinful. Shipping them back to help them do that is not sinful. Encouraging them to break our laws IS sinful.
Pretty scarce yesterday too. Found a few on one thread after looking to over 10!!! Normally they are out in force.
Saw a whole lot of “I’m done with him” comments though. and even more today.
He can apologize a typical DemLib fake apology. His actions proved what he really believes on the matter.
f I didn’t know he was a pro-ILLEGAL alien, crony-capitalist dirtbag I might could feel sorry for him.
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I come for the news, and I stay for the color commentary.
Yeah, that dumb old coal bucket that handed out preprogrammed phones to California businessmen with a note that said "If I can help you with anything just give me a call". That was really dumb. Oh wait, a lot of those businessmen did call and got directions to Texas.
“I do think, Perry *needs* to communicate and stop the mis-perception (if that’s what it is) that he’s just another open-borders globalist”
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It’s no “mis-perception”. Perry has a thinly veiled open borders policy to serve his big Texas $$$$ donors who love cheap labor.
Oh ya. He beats his chest about ALL he’s done for border security and he deserves an Oscar, because he did just
as much to “slow walk” very tough anti illegal immigration bills that were proposed in the last Texas Leg session.
That “Voter ID” bill that was passed was just all part of the make-believe Kabuki Theater that Perry is so good at.
I don’t give a crap about some stupid voter ID bill. Illegals come to Texas to work, steal, rape, drive drunk and get their spawn free educations and medical care..... all paid for by me. NOT to vote!
Perry’s done. Good riddance to him.
Perry’s a master of political Kabuki Theater.
Last week? If so, all the regulars I know were around and posting normally.
Got a source? I find that very hard to believe.
The WHO researchers actually admitted that there were vectors that they simply could not identify.
It's probably a good idea to get vaccinated against the HPV viruses.
And gave illegals more jobs to boot!
Yep, he just tossed those Texas Americans right out of their jobs so he could give them to illegals. That must be the reason Texas is so successful. They have low unemployment because.....well.....hmmmmm
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