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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: free me
A shame to leave so much good bacon uneaten. I could go for a few strips right now.
21 posted on 09/24/2011 7:18:44 PM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
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To: free me

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?


22 posted on 09/24/2011 7:19:03 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: McGavin999

Poor Perry keeps making the SAME RINO mistakes.


23 posted on 09/24/2011 7:19:57 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: free me

I must say that really is a racist lead.


24 posted on 09/24/2011 7:20:16 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: free me
A black, threatening cloud hung low over the Orange County Convention Center

Didn't someone recently get in trouble for comparing Obama to a black cloud? One that is hung low, too! Maybe this L.A. Times reporter needs to be taken out to the woodshed and taught a lesson. Of course, he might actually enjoy it.

25 posted on 09/24/2011 7:20:35 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Cicero

Silly! it’s perfectly fine when Libs do it! ;)


26 posted on 09/24/2011 7:21:17 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: free me

So according to the article, what happened in Orlando won’t “change what the campaign is doing.”

Perry will continue to tell conservatives we “have no heart”?

Perry will continue to call those opposed to illegal immigration “divisive” and “anti-immigrant”?

Perry will continue to resist using fencing on the border except in some “strategic” parts of some “urban” areas?

Perry will continue to call for legalizing the illegals by waving a magic wand over their heads and calling them “guest workers”?

Perry will continue to support subsidizing the college education of citizens of foreign countries who are in our country illegally?

Tell me again Einstein’s definition of insanity.


27 posted on 09/24/2011 7:21:29 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: free me

crash and burn.


28 posted on 09/24/2011 7:21:51 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: JPG

uhg! I’m off the worlds greatest food, bacon, until the Cholesterol comes down.

The thought of all that uneaten bacon, just sitting there, it makes me shudder.

Heartless


29 posted on 09/24/2011 7:21:59 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Anyone seen one?

Find that pretty odd myself today.
Think they may have been shocked and awed in a bad way.

30 posted on 09/24/2011 7:22:34 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: Diogenesis

Simple truth is Perry is not a RINO. However, he’s got to be the only conservative I have ever watched be destroyed by conservatives.


31 posted on 09/24/2011 7:23:24 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: free me

Not just heartless. In the other debate he said we dislike illegals because their names sound different. That is leftist code for “racist”.

So he called us racist and heartless.


32 posted on 09/24/2011 7:24:03 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: free me; Bender2

RE: A black, threatening cloud...

Talk about a racially-charged and bigoted statement.


33 posted on 09/24/2011 7:24:45 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Indeed. Though many of the less hardcore have had the guts to come here and tell the truth.

It’s over for Perry.

PS- Love the tagline!


34 posted on 09/24/2011 7:26:07 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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To: McGavin999

On the contrary.

George W Bush did almost the same thing to his own support, with almost the same position.

Conservatives are not destroying Perry.

It’s entirely self-inflicted.


35 posted on 09/24/2011 7:27:41 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: free me

The heartless have no heart for the bleeding heart for TX.

Who da thunk it.


36 posted on 09/24/2011 7:27:50 PM PDT by nhwingut (Palin '12... Accept No Other)
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To: Kahuna
The Dukakis tankride was just one of those bad pictures no politician ever wants to have. What nailed him was when he equivocated when asked how he would react to his wife being raped and murdered.

That one item was a disaster ~ at the same time the questioner, and the audience, and Americans at large had no idea his wife had some serious mental issues (clinical depression) ~ and although that was her problem he too shared in the struggle.

We can only imagine the memories that triggered ~ fortunately medical science progressed and she found a serious degree of relief through ECT. Praise God !

37 posted on 09/24/2011 7:29:03 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: The Cajun; Norm Lenhart

They are probably supporting Cain now, lol.


38 posted on 09/24/2011 7:29:31 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Norm Lenhart
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?

They are scarce but they are here. See post 20.

39 posted on 09/24/2011 7:30:37 PM PDT by South40 (2012 matchup.... CAIN vs UNABLE?)
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To: McGavin999

He was destroyed by himself.

Calling your own party base “racists” and “heartless” is not a good strategy, and is definitely not a winning strategy.


40 posted on 09/24/2011 7:30:55 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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