Posted on 09/26/2011 9:09:00 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
According to the survey, which was released Monday, 28 percent of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say they support Perry as their party's presidential nominee, with Romney at 21 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is at ten percent, with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who's making his third bid for the White House, former Godfather's Pizza CEO and radio talk show host Herman Cain, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, all at seven percent. The poll indicates that Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is at four percent, with former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania at three percent and former Utah Gov. and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman at one percent.
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Jealous we didn’t have to live through Carter? ;p
Yeah, but we've had Zero for a lot longer than your average FReeper. Remember I'm probably the only FReeper who met Zero and got his auto and talked to him for 10 minutes way back in 2005 (A SPECIAL YEAR GO WHITE SOX!!!!)
I told my mom on the phone that very day I met the next President because he had more charisma than Clinton. Part of me wants to sell his autograph, but being the worst President in the history of the country may make the autograph more valuable.
I did tell him to his face that I didn't vote for him in 2004. I'm sure your average country club repub wouldn't dare say that to the "Chosen One". He rambled about we probably agreed on more things than I thought, I said, "Well we do agree on the White Sox..."
Zero was very nice in person but I also told my mom when I said he'd be POTUS that he came off as the anti-Christ. And that I was ashamed he was a Sox fan...
Oh well, I can't drown in sorrow. Guillen and Cora gone makes me a very happy person right now and nothing really can drag me down right now. Even the crazy Perrybots who probably follow Ozzie Guillen and his retarded children on Twitter.
PS I'm pinging Chi-townChief since he hates Ozzie as much as you and I do :)
I'm not a fan of freepers who put Palin on a pedestal and lash out anyone who feels differently, but to be perfectly honest I was never heard a "And just who do YOU support??" response from a Palinsta if I questioned if she was the best person we could run. If anyone developed this technique, it was the Trumpistas during that whole fad when a bunch of freepers took his "tea party" B.S. seriously and explained to us that he "the only man the guts to take on Obama". I must have had half a dozen Trump fans DEMAND to know who I was supporting because I didn't like The Donald. (ironically, Trump fans are now exhibit A why it's a DUMB idea to hitch your wagon to a famous name floated early on in the campaign season).
The Perry-bots inherited this tradition from Trump fans (there seems to be alot of overlap here, since they were both flavors of the week that fizzled out quickly). Another thing I think the Perry-bots inherited directly from Trump's people is foaming at the mouth and screaming "smear!" , "pure lies!" and "anti-[their candidate] hit piece!" if you quote their OWN candidate's words verbatim and it shows their candidate in a less-than-conservative light. Palinistas don't have this problem, most of the quotes used against Sarah are quoted by liberals from SNL sketches and attributed to Palin ("I can see Russia from my house")
The problem with the "Just who do YOU support" quote is they assume all other conservatives operate them and latch ourselves unto whoever is the current "rising star" in the race. They cannot fathom that other conservatives don't have a "hidden agenda" to work for some candidate and UNLIKE THEM, we take our time before choosing who to vote for.
>> Another one stole is to accuse anyone that is critical of Perry (Palin last year) of being a secret Ron Paul supporter (based on the the Bush-Perry neocon analogy.) The Palinistas now no longer see secret Ron-bots as their threat as Perry-bots do, now they see secret Perry-bots and Mitt-bots everywhere. One of them hit me with that today LOL, this stuff fascinates me << <<
Here's the cute thing about the Ron Paul supporter conspiracy. For over a month now, Perry's supporters have used the talking point that ANY conservative who dislikes Perry must either be A) Ron Paul disruptor, or B) a "purist" who is "waiting for Sarah" and will tear down ANY candidate not named "Sarah Palin"
Unfortunately for them, this whole line of attack fell apart this week because Herman Cain is gaining steam over their beloved Rick Perry and his name ISN'T "Sarah Palin". So now they have to pretend one of their main talking points NEVER happened since it was proven wrong overnight. Apprently they've just decided to substitute the name "Herman Cain" for "Sarah Palin" and they're going to accuse anyone who dislikes Perry of being a Cain supporter as long as he happens to be polling well. I wrote a response critical of Perry on a thread this week and the Perry fan responded with a 5 paragraph anti-Cain rant "explaining" to me why Cain cannot win, even though I haven't endorsed Cain and my post didn't even mention his name or allude to him. So yeah, I guess the reformed Perry talking point is ANYONE who dislikes Perry is a Paul disruptor OR "voting for Cain". They've forgotten the "waiting for Sarah" crowd completely.
There is one technique they inherited directly from the Romney 2008 camp and that's the "you're a mean nasty bigot who will destroy the GOP and alienate the voters we need to WIN if you question our guy's record". The Mitt-bots would use this line of reasoning to accuse anyone who disliked Romney's record of being anti-mormon bigot. The Perry-bots have take this basic premise and greatly enhanced it so now questioning Perry means you're bigoted against EVERYTHING. They have accused freepers critical of Perry of hating... Women, Young Girls, Christians, Texans, Conservatives, States Rights, etc., etc. Pretty soon they'll say we're bigoted against guys with graying hair or people who like ZZ Top.
I asked only because it would be highly hypocritical if you supported a candidate whose immigration policy was essentially the same as Perry's.
Bachmann has a better record on immigration than Perry.
That said, I think Perry's got the lock on having the best record on job and economic growth. Plus he's got a very good record of fighting off the encroaching hand of the Federal government, so if he gets the Presidency, I do believe he'll make the best effort possible to reduce the size and scope of it.
Pretty good summary.
” Open borders (amnesty) Bush defenders are now very worried about the border (amnesty) just this year. they used to call us Border-bots. “
Wanna spot a faux conservative? Find someone who uses the term “border-bot or “paul-bot “ against you. It will never fail you : )
Actually a Palinista called me a Perry disrupter yesterday, but spring 2010 they were calling me and others a secret-Paul-bot. Meanwhile a few days ago a Perry-bot (aka Perry-dactus) called me a secret Ron Paul supporter and he made me think of a few Palinistas in early 2010.
I appreciate you bring up the Trump-bots, I had a blast going on their threads telling them he has no intention of running and he was playing them for suckers, that was just pure fun and easy to see coming.
The Palinistas labeling others secret Paul supporters happened well before Trump, I was talking early 2010. That ended by late 2010.
IF the 'fauxes' really want to sound nasty then they drag up that pejorative 'purists'... those high minded intellectuals of moderate-ville can no longer point their index finger in our faces and hiss at US as single issue voters.
You can call me an Anti-Obamabot, and I’ll take it as a compliment!!!
Notice Team Obama mentioned ‘the Titanic’ when talking about re-election?? man those life-rafts taking in water fast...
Axelrod: Obama Faces a ‘Titanic Struggle’ in 2012, September 27, 2011
RE Titanic:
I guess you could say that, in a way, a giant WHITE iceberg of discontent is about to wreck their asses.... :^)
I am getting the idea that Obama is not going to improve as POTUS before the election.
Really?
/s
” IF the ‘fauxes’ really want to sound nasty then they drag up that pejorative ‘purists’...”
I forgot that one, thank you : )
LOL!
“...This is the way immigration is supposed to work. This is the kind of immigrant I welcome with open arms...”
Same here. God bless him.
“..exuding gratitude for what he had been able to accomplish in America..”
That’s light years different than a bunch of loud-mouth radical La Raza and Mecha assh*les demanding non-existant rights to things they have ZERO right to, isn’t it?”
Yes it is !!
I know you remember that. The Palinistas accused us of being Paulbots back then, now the Perry-dacyus are suddenly seeing Paul-bots everywhere on their threads, and the Palinistas see Perry-bots everywhere.
I had a Perry-dactus accuse me of being a Paul-bot, the very next day a Palinista accused me of being a Perry-bot.,
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