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Rick Perry's campaign stuggles to explain straw poll loss
latimes.com ^ | September 24, 2011, 6:06 p.m | By Paul West

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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; heartless; nomorerinos; norinos; perry; perry4mexico; perrytanks
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To: McGavin999
Hermann Cain is an Associate Minister in the second largest Baptist group in the world.

If'n bein' a Baptist ain't enough Evangelical for ye, then ye should tek' op ye serpents, eh!

101 posted on 09/24/2011 8:03:27 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: McGavin999

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.


102 posted on 09/24/2011 8:04:18 PM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: McGavin999

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.


103 posted on 09/24/2011 8:04:28 PM PDT by nhwingut (Palin '12... Accept No Other)
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To: mylife
Why is this P5 straw poll so important?

According to the Perry campaign this morning it was a make or break test of the campaign.

104 posted on 09/24/2011 8:05:52 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Yes, well that’s 2 of you, guess that’s it then. LOL


105 posted on 09/24/2011 8:06:50 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Norm Lenhart; All

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?


106 posted on 09/24/2011 8:07:11 PM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: nhwingut

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.


107 posted on 09/24/2011 8:08:35 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight
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To: no dems

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...


108 posted on 09/24/2011 8:09:03 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("Cut the Crap and Balance!" -- Governor Sarah Palin , Friday August 12 2011, Iowa State Fair)
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To: Meet the New Boss
Actually, Perry is morally inferior. The major component of the illegal alien cohort comes from Mexico. That's one of this world's BETTER places. Compared to EVERYONE in AFRICA, and most EVERYONE South of Mexico's Southern border, they've got it good.

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.

109 posted on 09/24/2011 8:09:11 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: no dems

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.


110 posted on 09/24/2011 8:09:25 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: stilloftyhenight

He can apologize a typical DemLib fake apology. His actions proved what he really believes on the matter.


111 posted on 09/24/2011 8:10:55 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: South40

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.


112 posted on 09/24/2011 8:11:13 PM PDT by ROTB (Christian sin breeds enemies for the USA. If you're a Christian, stop sinning, and spread the Word..)
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To: no dems
The guy doesn’t have it McGavin......he doesn’t have it..... He’s dumb as a coal bucket.

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.

113 posted on 09/24/2011 8:11:16 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“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.


114 posted on 09/24/2011 8:11:25 PM PDT by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Last week? If so, all the regulars I know were around and posting normally.


115 posted on 09/24/2011 8:12:27 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: MNJohnnie

Got a source? I find that very hard to believe.


116 posted on 09/24/2011 8:12:37 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: McGavin999
However, he’s (Perry) got to be the only conservative I have ever watched be destroyed by conservatives.

HE DESTROYED HIMSELF SIR. Did you not watch his 3 Debate performances? My 10 y.o. grandson could have done better.
117 posted on 09/24/2011 8:12:49 PM PDT by no dems (No matter who it might be, when I find out a person is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
There's a few genital warts studies on the net that involved tens of thousands of respondents ~ and sex wasn't the ONLY vector for infection.

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.

118 posted on 09/24/2011 8:13:52 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: McGavin999

And gave illegals more jobs to boot!


119 posted on 09/24/2011 8:14:00 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: Norm Lenhart

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


120 posted on 09/24/2011 8:16:15 PM PDT by McGavin999
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