Posted on 12/31/2011 4:20:30 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
....... Perry is still the affable governor of Texas, and voters still want to like him, which has become easier since he's mostly stopped screwing up all the time...
...He tells the crowd that the small towns of Iowa are just like the small towns of Texas, where he grew up: "The same people, the same values."
As the days to the caucuses wane, Perry has things other candidates would kill for: Crowds who want to meet him, ads all over the airwaves, a decent ground organization, an anti-Washington message people are hungry for, and terrific hair. The question is whether it's too little, too late, to get through the crowded pack ahead of him.
Several Perry-inclined voters in Boone said they were former Herman Cain supporters, which helps explain Perry's uptick.
Marti Melton-Streeter, the former GOP chairwoman in Boone County, said she couldn't support Romney because of his health-care record, and she's frightened by Ron Paul's foreign policy views. Perry, she recently decided, deserves a second chance with voters.
"I'd really like to see Rick Perry come out of Iowa. I think he needs that opportunity on the national level," she said. "I know there have been missteps along the way, but his philosophy is what we need in a candidate."
Carolyn Erickson, an 81-year-old from Ogden, thought she'd made up her mind to support Romney, but Perry changed her mind.
"I was what you call impressed" with Romney when she saw him Thursday, she said. "Today, I'm excited. I feel a passion for [Perry]."
But at least one audience member experienced a different conversion. Loren Nalean, 61, a Boone attorney, said Perry convinced him to caucus -- for Romney.
"I just think he's more intelligent and more sophisticated than Governor Perry," he said.
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No. But your loser candidate is still the same loser he was in 2011. I see you haven’t changed much either.
Didn't ask a question; made a statement.
But your loser candidate is still the same loser he was in 2011. I see you havent changed much either.
ROFLOL! Yes, some of us have the same candidate that we've always had!
Some of you losers have had 3 or 4 loser-candidates.
How do you keep up with them?
Do you play, "It's 10 o'clock! Who is my candidate?"
BTW, who is your candidate this week?
The haters come on when Perry ascends to tell us Perry isn’t ascending or advancing and in fact is doing worse.
We had a nice little vacation from them but guess they’re back.
A lot of that is just wrong. Newt never said he would beat Obama solely on debating skills. There will certainly be a vigorous ad campaign against Obama.
He hasn’t changed his positions or become more progressive since leaving office. They came up with the individual mandate while he was in Congress in the ‘90s to combat Hilarycare. Likewise he’s always had some interest in climate change, but never believed it was at the level of what the libs say. Other than that he’s been 90% conservative consistently. He’s been on Fox News many times over the last decade and usually agreed with Hannity, not with Colmes.
Most of the ads against Newt can’t work for dems or moderates. How exactly can Obama bash Newt for doing an ad with Nancy Pelosi? Is he going to try and tell the public Nancy Pelosi is evil? Romney is far more vulnerable to attacks from the left of the OWS style. Newt has almost no angles that Obama can attack him from.
You mean libs like Pelosi?
Here he is with Pelosi telling viewers to ask their representative in congress to mandate stuff like ethanol on us and outlaw safe light bulbs(starts today), which they did in the 2007 energy Act which GWB signed into law. Unless you are claiming this isn't Newt in the video with Pelosi. That would really be delusional.
Gingrich Earned Twice As Much As Previously Disclosed From Ethanol Lobbying Group
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