Posted on 09/25/2011 10:10:12 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
Texas Governor Rick Perry's once-surging campaign is on thin ice, after flailing in three debates and suffering defeats in two key-state straw polls.
Once limited to the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal or The Weekly Standard, concerns over Perry's electability are now very much in the mainstream.
In a major upset for the Perry campaign, former Godfather's Pizza executive Herman Cain won the Florida Presidency 5 Straw Poll by a 22-point margin — a race Perry heavily contested. Later Saturday, favorite son and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney blew away Perry in the Michigan Straw Poll by a surprising 34-point margin.
Many of his problems have been self-inflicted. Perry's debate performance has been inconsistent, at best — and surprisingly Perry decided to engage his opponents, rather than focus his criticism on Obama.
The substance of his answers has also drawn criticism — and parody — for his incoherent and controversial responses on foreign policy and immigration, respectively.
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Perry is strong on border security, with a record to show.
Whom do you consider acceptable on illegal immigration?
“The primaries are the time we vote for the candidate that more closely believes what we believe.”
That’s why Republicans keep losing the general elections, and we are ending up with Democrats who are a thousand times worse.
In the primary people are supposed to vote for the most conservative candidate WHO CAN WIN in the general election. Otherwise you end up getting exactly what we got in 2008 — McCain, then Obama.
What the heck are you talking about?
I said it was a waste of time and money to come to Michigan, that crowd are genetically altered Romneybots and always will be.
That said, this may turn out to be a very different election in Michigan for the candidate who understands the need to spend some time with the regular folks.
That may be but Romney will be the nominee.
“Add to Perry’s loss column yesterday’s shellacking he took in Michigan. Romney won that with huge margins. Perry spent a lot of time in the ground in Michigan, and still lost. Perry’s 17 percent to Romney’s 51 percent. Cain had a good showing in 3rd place at 9 percent...”
I don’t like Perry, but Romney’s dad was the Governor of the state, for pete’s sake! Romney ought to do well there, just on personal contacts with a lot of the party hierarchy alone.
The buzz is Perry will revive his campaign——
Perry will guarantee federally subsidized heart transplants for those who disagree with his in-state tuition program.
...as Romney rises in the polls.
Mackinac center is hardly representative of Michigan anyway.
Personally I think the way they stepped over the people to get to the perceived power brokers may harm both candidates.
Like Romney a lot?
“Perry is strong on border security, with a record to show.”
Speaking as someone who’s in Texas every week, I laughed out loud at this statement. Perry’s only concerned about the border as of this past session of the legislature, and even then, it was about establishing political cover for all the years he’s been helping illegals by covering his eyes or outright carrying their water. Strong on border security? This is the guy who said a border wall was ridiculous! Sanctuary cities, aid for illegals, even open-ended hate legislation, he is nothing if not weak on border security. You’re just trying the old Obama trick by repeating the lie that it’s a strength to see if it will stick. It won’t. There are too many Texans that know better.
This is why Ron Paul and Herman Cain are both doing well with the grass roots. Cain works on the radio and speaks to the voters; Paul educates and mentors young voters, and not in a hamhanded way. I think one of the two will probably do better than expected. From what I know of them right now, I could probably vote for either. I’d like to know more about Cain in some areas, but I bet he has a radio statement on these.
Boy are PerryKristnas BLIND! As if Rick Perry is the ONLY candidate. Get off the Kool-Aid PerryKristnas. You need to be deprogrammed. Rick Perry has insulted true conservative voters and he had been rejected because of his own doing. However, there are 13 months to go before the general election. The primary elections don't begin until 2012 and Rick Perry is not the ONLY candidate who can win. Stop drinking the Kool-aid now PerryKristnas.
Canidates: Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum. Possible canidates: Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, others
I’ve got two favorites and a 3rd potential candidate in waiting but the fact that one of them isn’t Perry makes me an unreasonable extremist. LOL
The tea party movement in Michigan is a lot stronger than most people realize and candidates who recognize it will do well here.
“I’ve got two favorites and a 3rd potential candidate in waiting but the fact that one of them isn’t Perry makes me an unreasonable extremist. LOL”
I know what you mean. Gov. Palin is my first choice, but she isn’t in it yet (I’m waiting though). However, I like Cain, Bachmann, The other Rick, I’d even choose Newt if I had too. But saying that the only choice is either Rick Perry or Obama is ridiculous. It’s o.k. to have a favorite and root for them, but to claim that they are the only candidate that can run against Obama? Come on. Let the process run.
Hopefully Conservatives will give a pass to Perry and Romney. Herman Cain said it best at the Fox debate when he said that the candidate isn’t going to be a media chosen candidate like the front two. The American people will choose their own. I like McCain, but people need to take a look at Rick Santorum.
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