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Perry: We don’t need outsiders’ views on Senate race (Are you listening, Sarah Palin?)
Texas Chronicle ^ | Friday June 1, 2012 | Peggy Fikac

Posted on 06/01/2012 4:06:14 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Gov. Rick Perry is once again slamming “out-of-state interest groups” backing former solicitor general Ted Cruz in his runoff with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst –this time tweaking Sarah Palin, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and Rick Santorum by suggesting their states could learn a lot from Texas, but Texas doesn’t need their advice on choosing its next U.S. senator.

Perry, standing staunchly behind Dewhurst, brushed off the question about whether his own tea party credibility may be damaged by his opposition to Cruz, who has been endorsed by national conservative and tea party groups and figures (including Palin, DeMint and Santorum) in the runoff for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate.

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Without naming Palin, DeMint or Santorum, Perry called them to mind by naming their states: “I appreciate everybody paying attention to Texas – as well they should, they could learn some things on how to run South Carolina and Pennsylvania and Alaska.

“Come to Texas and learn how to do it right, but don’t come down here and tell us who needs to be our next United States senator, thank you very much. We’ll decide that without your outside, Washington, D.C.-oriented help,” Perry said.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.chron.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: daviddewhurst; jimdemint; palin; rickperry; ricksantorum; sarahpalin; senate; teaparty; tedcruz; texas; tx
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To: TexasSecede79366

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2890818/posts?page=15#15


241 posted on 06/03/2012 10:10:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Bigtigermike

“You can support Dewhurst without attacking people that had your back when you most need it and you asked for it.”

Agreed. I like Perry, but have to wonder why he thought this was a good move?


242 posted on 06/03/2012 10:27:01 AM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." - Willard M Romney)
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To: TexasSecede79366
TexasSecede79366 - another troll off my alert list.
243 posted on 06/03/2012 11:15:18 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It's time to take out the trash in DC.)
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To: TheOldLady

Wondered how long he was gonna last. :)


244 posted on 06/03/2012 11:46:43 AM PDT by luvie (This space reserved for heroes)
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To: LUV W

He talked pretty conservative in a lot of his posts, but he was very rude. That’s straight out of the troll handbook.


245 posted on 06/03/2012 12:03:05 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

He is from north of me, and people from that part of Texas are usually very nice. Too bad he had to be an exception!


246 posted on 06/03/2012 12:10:14 PM PDT by luvie (This space reserved for heroes)
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To: Paladin2

Luckily, Texans don’t need Perry or anyone else telling them to support the GOPe’s candidate.


247 posted on 06/03/2012 1:31:19 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: TheOldLady
"He talked pretty conservative in a lot of his posts, but he was very rude. That’s straight out of the troll handbook."

I've never understood the penchant of some to use rudeness as if it's somehow useful to "winning" a debate. At FR it's a recipe for a fast ticket to "outside looking in."

Thanks for the Ping!

248 posted on 06/03/2012 4:47:44 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: TheOldLady

Another one bites the dust. I am glad to see that name calling moron gone!


249 posted on 06/03/2012 5:02:15 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Flotsam_Jetsome

My pleasure, sweetie.


250 posted on 06/03/2012 7:00:35 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: tennmountainman

You’re not the only one.

I can only aspire to be as cool as my redneck friends.


251 posted on 06/03/2012 7:02:36 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

That poster was so stupid, he thought Harold Ford was a redneck.


252 posted on 06/03/2012 7:11:55 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: TheOldLady
'Another One Bites the Dust'
253 posted on 06/03/2012 10:38:09 PM PDT by NYTexan
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To: tennmountainman
Quite a feat for either Ford if so. ;-)

Harold Ford Sr.   spaces Harold Ford Jr.
 
254 posted on 06/04/2012 3:12:48 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: NYTexan

Indeed!

Thank you for the serenade. That’s one of my favorites by Queen.


255 posted on 06/04/2012 7:49:29 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Bigtigermike
For those who care, here's what Perry actually said.

"There are a lot of out-of-state interest groups — whether it's Club For Growth, whether its senators who have interest in being the next minority or majority leader in the United States Senate — there's a whole lot of people who don't intimately and expertly know how Texas operates that have come in and endorsed in this race," Perry said. "I respect each one of those individuals, but they don't know anything about how Texas works."

"If they did," he added, "they would be endorsing David Dewhurst."

"They can learn some things on how to run South Carolina and Pennsylvania and Alaska," he said. "Come to Texas and learn how to do it right, but don't come down here and tell us who needs to be our next United States Senator. Thank you very much. We'll decide that without your outside Washington, D.C.-oriented help."

His initial response was directed at outside money pouring into the Texas Senate race. The blogger who wrote this clearly has an agenda.
256 posted on 06/04/2012 3:51:47 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: TheOldLady; tennmountainman
That poster was so stupid, he thought Harold Ford was a redneck.

Quite a feat for either Ford if so. ;-)

Redbonenecks maybe?

257 posted on 06/05/2012 3:14:47 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?)
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To: humblegunner

snort!


258 posted on 06/05/2012 3:48:44 PM PDT by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
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To: Markos33

LOL! Who knows?


259 posted on 06/05/2012 3:56:23 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: humblegunner

Just reminding ole Rick that we know that Dew....is a Tory Dem in disguise who will settle comfortably in a McConnell-like grove if he gets to Washington.


260 posted on 06/08/2012 8:52:26 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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