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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: mylife

You must have missed the many threads with a few hundred posts all celebrating the win. I didn’t.


221 posted on 09/24/2011 9:31:11 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: mylife

Voter ID? Everybody knows where to go to buy ID for $200. And that cute attempt to erase his embarrassing record by suing for crowded prisons was priceless. How about E-verify?
Got lipstick?


222 posted on 09/24/2011 9:32:02 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight
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What is Herman’s take on a border fence in Texas?
What is his take on a border fence in Israel?

What is his take on Palestine?

I like Herman, I really do, but he has had the luxury of not being questioned.


223 posted on 09/24/2011 9:32:02 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Reagan Man

Again, point out the ‘smear’ and ‘attacks’ not centered in provable fact.

Still waiting for you to back a single accusation.


224 posted on 09/24/2011 9:33:08 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: TexMom7

... and the bashing of Perry for defending Texas and Texans.


225 posted on 09/24/2011 9:33:24 PM PDT by Quicksilver (Defeat Obama - zero-sum games will get us Zero, again.)
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To: Norm Lenhart
>>>>>>You claim you’re a big Palin fan anf call her “Saint Sarah and “The savior from Wasllia”.

I've accomplished my objective. You're pissed off. Good enough of me. LOL

And I do like Palin, just not ALL her supporters.

226 posted on 09/24/2011 9:34:13 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: mylife

Herman’s fine, but he has the luxury of never having held an elected office. He’s a debate society candidate.


227 posted on 09/24/2011 9:34:32 PM PDT by magritte
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To: Reagan Man

So you post to piss off posters and make up names for candidates, not discuss issues. Classic trolling.


228 posted on 09/24/2011 9:36:21 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: Theodore R.

If Perry would just parrot Cain, he could still win the nomination


Parrot? You mean mouth out the words and go through the motions?


229 posted on 09/24/2011 9:38:27 PM PDT by ak267
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To: Norm Lenhart

It passed by a veto proof margin. Did you READ or comprehend any of what I wrote?

I didn’t let Perry off the hook for the “heartless” gaff, but you choose ignore the crux of my post.


230 posted on 09/24/2011 9:38:57 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Norm Lenhart
When a good Republican is called a rino and when a good conservative is called a liberal, I'd call those smears, bucko.

Review this thread and the hundreds of threads posted in the just the last month that have attacked Perry for being a rino and a liberal.

The ignorance that some posters show about politics is breathtaking.

231 posted on 09/24/2011 9:40:11 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Victoria Delsoul

BINGO


232 posted on 09/24/2011 9:41:09 PM PDT by ak267
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To: Reagan Man

Yep, in 1999 & 2000 we had the Keyesters and Buchananites. I was a lurker then. I remember “Arator” well.


233 posted on 09/24/2011 9:42:49 PM PDT by Quicksilver (Defeat Obama - zero-sum games will get us Zero, again.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

You took the bait. LOL

Stop your whining already!


234 posted on 09/24/2011 9:43:34 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: stilloftyhenight

What are you yammering about lipstick?

6 states have had the fortitude to pass Voter ID

Rick Perry is one of the guys that made that happen.


235 posted on 09/24/2011 9:43:42 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Are illegals being educated in Texas thanks to help from Perry in any capacity or not? Yes/no? The TL isn’t running for president.

Did the TL get up there and push for it like Perry? Y/N?


236 posted on 09/24/2011 9:45:56 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: Quicksilver
>>>>>.. Keyesters and Buchananites... and "Arator" too.

I remember it well.

237 posted on 09/24/2011 9:45:56 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: stilloftyhenight

Tell me, please tell me about the ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS of any of the other candidates or the current Commander in Thief?


238 posted on 09/24/2011 9:46:00 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

I really like Herman Cain.

I saw that interview and had to do a major head slap.

If I know what “right of return” is..so should he.

But he can be educated.

He did well in the last debate..but so did others. I haven’t signed onto a candidate. It’s early.


239 posted on 09/24/2011 9:46:33 PM PDT by berdie
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To: mylife

Yes, voter ID is good to cut down on Democrats doing multiple voting, but it does nothing to prevent illegals from voting in our elections.


240 posted on 09/24/2011 9:47:37 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight
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