Perry now has Bush's rope-a-dope team.
Perry sounds like Bush, his animated facial expressions look like Bush and as he stumbles just like Bush trying to recall his rehearsed one-liners...Perry is Bush.
http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011/10/perry-hires-on-some-tough-new-talent/
Perry hires on some tough new talent
AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry is working to inject new life into his lagging presidential effort with the addition of tough political veterans including Joe Allbaugh, former campaign manager for George W. Bush and part of the former president’s vaunted “Iron Triangle.”
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Allbaugh “will bring his Bush and Giuliani experience to ensure the campaign is focused, frugal and effective as we move towards election dates and votes being cast,” Sullivan said. “Augmenting, not replacing, existing staff.”
A source familiar with the decision, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Perry personally called Allbaugh for help. Allbaugh, who with Karl Rove and Karen Hughes made up Bush’s disciplined core team known as the “Iron Triangle,” was campaign manager for Bush’s 2000 effort and advised Rudy Guiliani’s 2008 campaign.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/10/25/political-wisdom-can-perry-turn-his-campaign-around/
After announcing an expansion of his campaign team to include former President George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign manager Joe Allbaugh and three other veteran GOP operatives, Rick Perry is in South Carolina Tuesday to announce his national flat tax plan. He’s also launching a TV ad blitz in Iowa.
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Fabrizio, Anderson and Warfield are all veterans of the Bob Dole 1996 campaign with Perry top strategist Dave Carney — who is no stranger to hardball tactics himself — meaning they’re not just getting to know each other now. And Allbaugh is a veteran name that the GOP donor community is familiar with. …
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http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/joe-allbaugh-others-join-team-perry-sources/
Updated, 4:50 p.m.
Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas-bred campaign team is getting a shot of new blood.
Joe Allbaugh, who ran George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign, will become a “senior adviser” to Perry, the campaign announced Monday. Sources say Allbaugh, known as a stern and disciplined manager, will play a central role in trying to get the Texas governor back on top of the GOP field.
Perry also announced, as reported in various media outlets over the last 24 hours, the addition of six other nationally known consultants. Tony Frabrizio, a pollster and former strategist for 1996 GOP nominee Bob Dole, and Fred Maas, who has worked on the campaigns of Dole, John McCain and others, will also take “senior adviser” titles, the campaign said.
Herman Cain was the top economic adviser to Bob Dole/Jack Kemp. Give me a break.
Perry now has Bush's rope-a-dope team.
Perry sounds like Bush, his animated facial expressions look like Bush and as he stumbles just like Bush trying to recall his rehearsed one-liners...Perry is Bush.