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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You must have missed the many threads with a few hundred posts all celebrating the win. I didn’t.
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?
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.
Again, point out the ‘smear’ and ‘attacks’ not centered in provable fact.
Still waiting for you to back a single accusation.
... and the bashing of Perry for defending Texas and Texans.
I've accomplished my objective. You're pissed off. Good enough of me. LOL
And I do like Palin, just not ALL her supporters.
Herman’s fine, but he has the luxury of never having held an elected office. He’s a debate society candidate.
So you post to piss off posters and make up names for candidates, not discuss issues. Classic trolling.
If Perry would just parrot Cain, he could still win the nomination
Parrot? You mean mouth out the words and go through the motions?
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.
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.
BINGO
Yep, in 1999 & 2000 we had the Keyesters and Buchananites. I was a lurker then. I remember “Arator” well.
You took the bait. LOL
Stop your whining already!
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.
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?
I remember it well.
Tell me, please tell me about the ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS of any of the other candidates or the current Commander in Thief?
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.
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.
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