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Posted on 01/18/2012 1:22:00 PM PST by TBBT
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Several prominent conservatives have called for Rick Perry to call his presidential bid quits, with one blogger urging the Texas governor to end his campaign and throw his backing toward Newt Gingrich.
Erick Erickson, the founder of RedState.com, the website that hosted the event where Perry announced his presidential bid in August, penned an entry today calling Perry a potential “kingmaker” in the South Carolina primary if he drops out before the weekend.
“Barring a miracle, this is Rick Perry’s final act in the 2012 elections. On Saturday, he will come in last in South Carolina,” Erickson wrote in a diary entry on RedState today. “Perry, however, has a potential trump card up his sleeve as he rebuilds political capital. It’s simple: he can drop out today, and endorse someone else. Doing so today, before the CNN debate tomorrow, gives the news time to sink in.”
Erickson suggested that the Texas governor’s choice of an endorsement would likely be Gingrich, not Romney or Santorum.
Earlier in the day, radio host Laura Ingraham urged the Texas governor to leave the race in order to boost another social conservative over front-runner Mitt Romney. “It’s time for Rick Perry to drop out of the race — he is only helping Romney by splitting the vote,” Ingraham tweeted.
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I reject that slander. All I ever did was defend Sarah Palin against the unhinged and irrational looney tune attacks that were legion on this website for almost three years.
I never gave a damn whether anyone disagreed with Sarah Palin on substance, but discussions about her record, or where she stood on important issues were few and far between around here. Mostly, a rabid contingent of howling monkeys showed up to throw their excrement at Palin supporters, every time her name was mentioned.
And for your information, I've held my tongue far more often than I've loosed it. A person would go insane around here, otherwise.
Don't try to walk it back now, big man. You as much as said that you're looking forward to a good gloat if Newt doesn't win SC. I heard you loud and clear.
Remember how we got McCain?
Happened in SC... I believe.
Candidates either run out of money or the endorsements go to the front runner along with the big donors.
It IS possible that Romney becomes the default nominee.
Remember McCain.
(whenever I think about Romney I see McCain standing... to the far right)
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Santorum needs to place his country before himself and drop out- but his ego won’t let him.
Rick Perry is twice the Conservative Santorum is!
Perry stated that in his administration he would start all countries getting U.S. foreign aid at ZERO, until they proved to be our allies.
He was also the first to bring the war on religion to the forefront.
Take a look at RINO Santorum’s voting record:
Santorum:
Voted for Federal funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-government-conservative-looks-like/
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Voted AGAINST increasing the number of immigration investigators?
VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS?
VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?
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Santorum; Big government spender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6XCZz2X1Y&feature=player_embedded
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I never saw Palin attacked I did see anger from posters that were disgusted because Bachmann and Perry were.The Palin fans not Palin were what caused any strife.If you never called Bachmann and Perry personal names of attack then I apologize but there was a group amongst your ping lists that surely did; very obviously because they were competition to Palin.
I am praying for a miracle and Perry wins. Next is Santorum.
The polls when Perry first got in were smearing all and Obama in a knockout.After all the crap I think a brain fart should be forgotten as well as his immigration stance is better than Newts if not the same.Perry would secure that damn border that I know;I remember the note he passed to Obama when Obama landed in TX. (donning a cowboy hat for photo ops-or was this the year before?)Perry wanted federal help on the borders ASAP and Obama ignored him.
Well, before Santorum’s showing in Iowa I was going to put my support behind Perry.
Perry has the executive experience that Newt is sorely lacking. I don’t like him as much as I do Santorum, but he’d be a good president too.
I’m really starting to get tired of having progressive republicans shoved at me though.
See here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2834588/posts?page=39#39
I’m in SC and will vote Gingrich on Saturday.
I see no citations there.
Hearsay is supposed to be evidence?
You have GOT to be kidding. The unhinged "PDS" attacks against Palin on this website are legendary, and are documented in literally hundreds of threads that stretch back over at least three years.
I find it hard to believe that any active Freeper could have missed that.
I suppose if you haven’t even vetted or studied the candidate you support it’s all hearsay.
“I suppose if you haven’t even vetted or studied the candidate you support it’s all hearsay.”
Yes I have done so. I don’t see the evidence for what you are claming.
From what I can see you are relying on hearsay.
If there’s evidence, I’d like to see it.
I’m claiming? Take it up with poster. I’ve seen the evidence and have satisfied myself. Deny it and find for yourself if for some strange reason he stays in. The left will excoriate him with it if you don't deal with it now. I’m in SC and am voting for Gingrich on Saturday.
“Take it up with poster”
Uh, I’m asking you. You are using it as evidence. If you don’t have a source for evidence that you are passing on to other people, that’s bad.
“I’ve seen the evidence and have satisfied myself”
Ok, is all the evidence that you saw in that post? Or is there other stuff you are relying on?
“Deny it and find for yourself”
It’s up to the person making the claim to provide evidence for the claim. I’m amenable, but I have to see independent confirmation outside of the FR post.
“The left will excoriate him with it if you don’t deal with it now.”
Deal with what? All I see is hearsay without evidence behind it. If the evidence is shown that he actually did vote for these things, then sure.
His support of pro-choice liberal Arlen Specter that proved decisive in the 2004 GOP primary against pro-life conservative Pat Toomey. Isn’t he claiming a strong pro life stance? Lost my support there. That Specter win with his subsequent switch to the Democratic Party gave the Dems the 60 vote majority didn’t it. Thank your buddy Santorum.
Santorum worked for No Child Left Behind, a proposal that trampled the conservative view that education was strictly a local matter. He was right there with Ted Kennedy on that one.
His own statements in support of pork barrel projects flys in the face of claiming to be a fiscal conservative.
And those only the ones that most everybody should remember let alone have to look up.
Santorum is a fake.
Who is “dissing” Texas? And lets not dumb-down this site by injecting words used by an illiterate culture, which believes any effort to become educated is to “act white.” I don’t think you are against people becoming educated, but if I were you, I would stop borrowing language from a culture that is!
You're just another one of those whiny fanboys that is oblivious to reason and pragmatism.
Why should Perry drop out - let the voters decide Saturday.
Who is so naive to think that this won't be aired before the general election if Newt makes it that far?
Another question: Does Newt have sealed divorce records? What do you think the chances are of them remaining sealed? In Jack Ryan's case, the wife wanted them to remain sealed as well. How did that work out?
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