BOO!!
Posted on 10/09/2011 7:25:05 PM PDT by DRey
The latest Fox poll offered Republican voters a menu of 11 candidates and found...not only were voters scattered across the conservative landscape, but 1/4 of the Tea Party adherents sampled were still “not impressed” with anyone. It’s hard to impress a movement that only knows what it is against. Now, barring some wild twist of fate, there are two men standing: Mitt Romney, the methodical, thrill-free, ideologically elastic technocrat from Massachusetts, who has made himself the default nominee; and the last hope of the hard core, the Not Mitt: Rick Perry.
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...whatever you think of his deviations from Tea Party purity, they make some sense in the context of Texas. His decision to let children of illegal immigrants attend state colleges at the in-state tuition rate, which so scandalizes the zero-tolerance conservatives, is conventional bipartisan pragmatism in Texas. The logic is: if the federal government can’t keep illegals out, it’s not our fault, but we can at least steer them away from the welfare rolls or jails and into productive lives.
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In this race, Rick Perry is the Tea Party’s dream candidate, the one remaining figure who could translate a noisy backlash into serious power. If Rick Perry loses, the Tea Party will have missed the opportunity of a lifetime. If he wins, Perry being Perry, it’s not entirely clear whether he will appease its members, but my guess is he’ll try. “Rick Perry is the only candidate who would actually close down a cabinet department,” one longtime admirer told me, when I asked whether a President Perry would disappoint the Tea Party. “You would see a very happy base — at least for the first term.”
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What a bad flashback. Molly Ivins was a real POS.
What a bad flashback. Molly Ivins was a real POS.
translates to "without principals".
The 2010 midterms were just the beginning. The Lamestream media are running scared, and now Sarah doesn't have to worry about defending her positions, she's free to unload on them and their blatant bias.
I’ve missed nothing. Your support of liberal Rick Perry is completely transparent as is your desperation in knowing he has less chance of becoming the Republican nominee with each passing day.
Romney is not an option.
Lol. You’re silly.
You're obvious.
I didn’t write the article, South...or the headline.
Firstly, I know you did not 'write the article'. But you posted it because you like what it said. Example" In this race, Rick Perry is the Tea Party’s dream candidate, the one remaining figure who could translate a noisy backlash into serious power. If Rick Perry loses, the Tea Party will have missed the opportunity of a lifetime.
That is garbage and it is a pro-Perry puff piece that YOU posted because YOU agreed with its message.
Get it yet? Of course you do.
...and Santa Claus invented Christmas.
That's only true if Republicans who win Congressional seats are moderates and RINOS. I don't see that happening in all places. Even though the Tea Party hasn't had any large scale gatherings, there are still Tea Partiers working at state levels for candidates who meet their smaller government, less spending criteria.
Good Lord. That’s almost as bad as Helen Thomas. :)
I don’t miss Molly in the leasst.
The TEA Party better not be “over”. I just gave them 50 bucks the other day. Still not answering the phone when the GOP calls.
How peculiar. Who do you think is casting winning votes for Cain in organized straw votes every week or so? Who do you think is showing up to protest Obama's appearances when he is out selling his BS? What else do you expect people to do right now?
As for the OWSers, I say let them have all the air time they want. The more they show of themselves the less cred they will have. Remember, the far left is a tiny sliver of the electorate, and the media is in the bag for them already anyway. But the mainstream of the country is as always, ceneter-right, and the Tea Party is right there.
So the NYT is doing a Perry puff piece for its liberal readers, huh? A puff piece that reminds them how awful presidents from Texas have been? Good thinkin’ there, South. You are in such denial about these primaries you cannot see straight.
12/16/2007 - Rand Paul at Faneuil Hall Boston.
Limited Constitutional Government.
Don’t Tread on Me Flags.
Tri Corner Hats.
And it was actually called Tea Party.
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