Posted on 10/03/2011 8:09:20 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 3, 2011
Although Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been hurt by poor debate and straw-poll performances - and in recent days by associations with a racial slur - top Republican officials think he nonetheless can survive the blows and remain a major contender for the party’s presidential nomination.
These party officials, whose neutrality in nomination contests requires their anonymity in discussing the candidates, have told The Washington Times that the structure of the 2012 primary race, funding advantages and weaknesses in other candidates mean Mr. Perry can hang with Mitt Romney, Herman Cain and the other top contenders.
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Last week, Florida, in violation of Republican National Committee rules, jumped its primary to Jan. 31, which will prompt Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada to move their contests from February to early January in order to preserve the traditional calendar primacy. On Monday, South Carolina did exactly that, moving its primary to Jan. 21, and Nevada officials agreed over the weekend to move their caucuses.
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And while the latest primary moves have the effect of shortening the window for new people to get in the race and raise funds, a complaint already being made by the Texas governor’s campaign, party officials who spoke to The Times said Mr. Perry, a tea-party favorite, can keep his campaign going until April 24 at least and probably into May.
Even by that time, these officials say, no candidate will have been able to accumulate enough delegates to clinch the nomination - for two reasons.
First, three of the five states jumping ahead of the RNC-set calendar will lose half their voting delegates to the August GOP presidential nominating convention in Tampa. Only Iowa and Nevada won’t be penalized because...
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I remember Dick Tracy and Mumbles. I didn’t know Dustin Hoffman ever played the character. He has played some odd ones though.
That’s a paramecium, you dork :P
A perineum is not bad by itself but it is guilty by association.
Yeah, it was the Movie version and Warren Beatty played Tracy.
Oh. Never mind.
Who stepped on your tutu?
I used to read the cartoon in the Rocky Mountain News when I was a kid though.
Like most of us I guess it has its good side and its bad side. ;^P
WELCOME TO FREE REPUBLIC!!!
“Like most of us I guess it has its good side and its bad side. ;^P”
not in San Francisco...
I’m not gonna go there.
Don’t ask, don’t tell.
:O) lots of people are going to look up that in the dictionary....please no pictures...
You crack me up. But you are very correct about Fox News seemingly shilling for Romney.
And Dick Morris predicts Perry can’t win. Gives me hope. When has Dick Morris ever predicted anything that came true?
I hear Black Helicopters circling your house. Better get into the secret bomb shelter in your basement before the men in black pajamas grab your ass and put you on trial in one of Rick Perry’s Sharia Law courthouses in Austin.
I hear that the defendant stands for trial while sitting in a cage, just like Mubarak.
Good grief!
I was going to tell tigerseye thats a paramecium, but didn’t know how to spell it..your smart and a good speller and knew....:O) guilt by association,,,,a sense of humor...
The parties had all signed an arbitration agreement, a legal contract. The case you are writing about was whether or not they all had to follow through with their contract.
The Texas Supreme Court found that *under Texas law,* a contract is a contract, even when you change your mind or your lawyer.
http://wingright.org/2011/08/17/no-sharia-law-in-texas/
In the latest video posted on Dick Morris’s website he says that Mr. Cain is a major contender. It is too early for anyone to predict with any certainty who will win the nomination but Mr. Cain is the one with the momentum at the moment.
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/cain-in-contention-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/
You gotta know how to spell it to find a picture of it. ;-)
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