Posted on 10/05/2011 9:07:44 PM PDT by DRey
What Perry’s fundraising shows, his backers argue, is that he’s the only conservative candidate in the race with the resources to compete against Mitt Romney over the long haul. In other words, he can spend his way out of his current predicament.
And while Perry has likely lost his chance to run away with the Republican presidential nomination, his eye-opening cash haul — collected in just 49 days — suggests he may yet be able to wrest it from Romney in an expensive, bruising nomination fight that drags on into spring.
“He is going to have the resources to run a comprehensive and lengthy campaign,” said Mississippi Republican National Committeeman Henry Barbour, a Perry supporter. “It’s clear that he would have raised more than $17 million if not for the loss of momentum that happened in Florida, which makes the $17 million more impressive.”
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If the Perry team is correct and Romney has already disqualified himself with too many GOP primary voters, there’s only one other candidate in the race who looks capable of cobbling together the right set of votes to claim the nomination.
“We’re 90 days out from the first ballot being cast and I don’t know whether Romney can seal the deal,” said Jeff Ballabon, an influential GOP fundraiser supporting Perry. “But $17 million in seven weeks from 20,000 in 50 states just said loud and clear that Perry can.”
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Just read that Townhall has posted a letter sent to all the candidates inviting them to a conservative forum debate, to circumvent the media firing squad format. I certainly believe they should accept. It will help them all, I should think, and at least for once to pass by the jerks with but a hat tip. ( This includes FOX, whose worm has turned for Romney.)
“And it is cute to imagine the pizza man in the White House.”
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Why don’t we call him the BA, Mathematics Man, or the Masters, Computer Science Man, or the Navy Ballistics Analyst Man? Because all those are accurate.
The fact is, Herman Cain is the best-educated, smartest (because, um, science is harder than law), most successful candidate in terms of making his own money at a real-world job, than we’ve seen in either party. In YEARS.
I’m not arguing that he didn’t take the last debate as seriously as he should have. We’re on the same page there. I’m saying it won’t happen again. If it does, he deserves to lose it all.
We can call him whatever you want. You mentioned three, I mentioned one. Do you have a favorite?
I think “undefeated” is something to be proud of, yes. It’s a legitimate and noteworthy accomplishment, no matter how you spin it.
Have a heart!
Well look, Texas has all the ingredients to be California, but is not. Rick has a ten year run at sustaining the differences proving conservative principles, and left no democrat standing in office at the state level, or in committee appointments. Texas Monthly is no friend to Perry, but even they credit him as wielding power like no one since LBJ himself. The personalities are pecking material but are small, cheap, exaggerated and will hold no weight whatsoever in this titan like contest. Let’s watch awhile.
He’s the pizza man because that’s his claim to expertise. That’s why he says he needs to be president, because he was a Chief Executive of a pizza company and can be a good Chief Executive of our country. Pizza and country. Like apples and oranges.
Naah. The Perrybots would rather have a blow-dried buffoon career politician instead.
Hmm?
The last person we need going up against Obama in the debates is a bumbling idiot stupid enough to tell his base they don’t have a heart.
Instead of Romney? You bet. I’d take a blow-dryed gorrilla.
You would prefer Romney? We wouldn’t know which was Obama.
No, I would prefer Cain, Gingrich, Santorum, and Bachmann over Perry. We don’t have to settle.
He’s the only one up there on the stage that personally insulted his base.
Can you imagine what the media will do to him if he gives one of those bumbling answers in a debate against Obama?
He’s the worst debator of the remaining candidates, and his immigration stance and defense of it is just a non starter with too many people, not just Republicans.
This Dream Act has very little support among the American public, and he played racial politics with it (”it doesn’t matter what your last name is”, “you don’t have a heart”, “come here through no fault of your own”). There was too much of this crap in the Bush administration and Perry seems to want to double down on it.
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