You are making my point! Perry poll numbers are < 10 % BECAUSE:
” - - - Perry has been on that hymnal page for years.
He has the plans. - - - “
Perry will stay “on that Hymnal Page for years” after this campaign season is over as long as he does NOT “break out above the noise!”
“Don’t rock the boat, be PC, don’t offend ANY group of voters, etc, etc,” is the very surest way to lose a campaign, in my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion.
Perry MUST capture the imagination of those of us who want a much smaller Federal Government by FREQUENTLY (MSM needs fuel 24/7), releasing portions of his Government reduction plan in a manner that “gets him above the noise.”
His previous statements on Soc.Sec. Ponzi scheme is an excellent example of how to “get above the noise.”
Quote from the more controversial parts of his book “Fed Up,” be the cheer leader for a smaller US Federal Government, embrace conflict with the damned MSM, LEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Perry can’t do that now, then why should we trust him to have the backbone to downsize the US Federal Government? Wimps need not campaign for POTUS.
This is it! Nanny-State Newt or Willy-Rom-Rom-RINO are poised to whup up on Perry in the next three States elections.
If Perry wants to win he has to stop being the 12 th Man standing and cheering as America loses to BIG Government RINOS in the most important game in our Republic.
Perry must QUICKLY jump into the bloody field of political battle as if America’s Financial Future depended on only HIM!
BTW, gig ‘em Rick!
That Perry has been on that hymnal page for years is not directed at informing you of that fact...which you used to attack his campaign as ineffectual.
It was directed to reassure anyone reading this he’s no newbie on the Federal power encroachment issue, because he has fought that battle as long as he has been a Texas officeholder...a long time. He’s constantly accused of being a pretend conservative and an actual “RINO”...absurd accusations.
But when you get in the national political arena, you don’t carry the same rep you carry back home; still, Perry might’ve thought his rep with the nation’s Republican governors was such that at least they would rush to support him in their own states. Instead, his debate glitches scared them off except for Jindal and Brownback. Hah...they need to quit pussyfooting around and back the man.
I have no inside with the Perry campaign, and I’m guessing you don’t, or else you could be advising them privately instead of critiquing his campaign on Free Republic.
Until now, I didn’t know you or who you support, and your criticisms could just as well have been to needle someone you are more unhappy with than you are a supporter of. Therefore my words were supportive of who Rick Perry is and where he has always stood.
His campaign? Might as well take that up with them...