He's meeting everyone in Iowa, not just relying on debate performances to wow the masses.
His hard work will pay off.
I am frankly disgusted at the ability of so many Republicans to jump from one front runner to the next. Nikki Haley really made me sick with that endorsement because it is clearly political.
Do you know how I know Perry will win? Because CW, and you know as well as anyone the fire that the "Perrywinkles" have fought on FR alone from before Perry even announced and everyone was hoping Palin was going to run.
We have fought and each candidate has fallen by the wayside. Newt is the latest and he will fall too and in the end, when the smoke clears, Perry and Romney will be face to face.
What will be interesting is what politician will see the handwriting and endorse Perry in order to seem like a king maker. As far as I am concerned Bobby Jindal and a couple other deserve big praise for sticking with their convictions.
30 MINUTE Presidential Candidate [Perry] Holds Agriculture Conference Call [no subsidies on ethanol, or gas or oil or wind-- CUT regulations and let the free market decide -- if states want to invest in local business, go for it but don't have the federal government involved.]
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Back in Texas Perry angered the medical association with a VETO and they supported his rival NOW THEY SUPPORT PERRY because they can see now how he was helping them and they couldn't see it.
Betting on Rick Perry - a winner in a GOP year, with no need in the world to win liberal approval ………..”IT WILL BE THE JOBS ISSUE—and Texas’s record in creating them—that will define Rick Perry’s presidential run. Since he became governor in 2001, the U.S. as a whole has had a net loss of private-sector jobs, while Texas—which has only 8 percent of the nation’s population—has had a net gain of 825,000 jobs.......
If there is on issue which Perry has made a personal crusade, it is lawsuit reform. Working with the legislature, he has helped pass curbs on frivolous lawsuits, implemented a first-in-the-nation system under which loser pays all court costs in many lawsuits, and reformed medical malpractice law.
Dick Weekley, the co-founder of Texans for Lawsuit Reform, says Perry showed genuine political courage in resisting calls for watered-down reforms that wouldn’t have addressed the core problem. He recalls that in 2002 Perry vetoed a bill strongly supported by doctors that would have required them to prompt payment from health maintenance organizations.
In the eyes of the tort reform advocates, the bill was a Trojan Horse compromise negotiated between doctors and trial lawyers. “There was a huge response from physicians [against the veto],” Kim Ross, the former top lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association, said.
TMA went so far as to endorse Tony Sanchez, Perry’s millionaire Democratic opponent in the 2002 election. “Perry sent a signal that he wanted real reform and would stand his ground,” Weekley told me. “Soon the medical lobbyists playing footsie with the trial lawyers were gone and the obstacles to real reform started falling.”………………..
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AND now the TMA is endorsing Gov. Rick Perry. They understand now what he was doing would HELP them.
...."The Texas Medical Association’s political action committee recently endorsed him for president, and its members are helping him raise money and make connections with medical groups in other states.".... source
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A letter describing one Texan’s experience with these reforms: “I live under the light hand of the Texas system–a hand that Governor Perry has done everything in his power to make lighter.”…………. Texas Gov Rick Perry Is The Only Right Choice For The 2012 GOP Nomination
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Rick Perry: "I will work to make D.C. as inconsequential in your lives as possible."