Posted on 10/13/2014 11:05:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yes, the presence of a deadly disease in Texas has benefited a certain governor. What with intense and alarming media coverage of two Ebola cases in the Lone Star state, Gov. Rick Perry has risen to the opportunity and gotten decisive indeed. It has paid off. Republican attitudes toward Mr. Perry have “improved significantly,” says YouGov polling analyst Kathy Frankovic, who reports that Mr. Perry’s favorability ratings have quickly jumped 16 percentage points — rising from 51 percent in late September to 67 percent by late last week.
While President Obama has yet to appoint an Ebola “czar” to coordinate U.S. response to the disease, Mr. Perry has already launched the “Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response,” complete with an aggressive emergency plan and hands-on director Dr. Brett P. Giroir, who warns of an “interconnected world” and vows that Texas is “fully prepared for the worst-case scenario, no matter what form that may take.”
Mr. Perry’s bodacious moves could burnish his image as a 2016 presidential hopeful, and those promising polling numbers should remain stable for a while, and possibly even improve. He should ready another kind of battle plan, though. None of this has been lost on his critics.
“The only ‘spread of Ebola’ in the U.S. was caused by a private hospital in a red state,” tweeted MSNBC host Joy Reid on Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Didn’t perry say we SHOULD NOT stop incoming flights from ebola infected countries? Yep he did
Didn’t he also say that anyone who opposes in state tuition for illegal immigrants “doesn’t have a heart”? Yep he did.
FAIL
I wish that were possible, but I believe that both can not come from the same state -— or am I wrong???
They can come from the same state. But it is better if they come from different states with separate constituencies.
And you're expecting Governor GoodHair to make those changes?
Don't hold your breath, amigo.
It’s very sad to see folks fooled by this hype.
Perry is a no-go for many of us.
Why would I want to attach this lead weight to Ted Cruz.
I don’t know why it is so important to divert the thread from what is important in this story in regards to Ebola and Texas preparedness, into just another routine Perry bashing thread.
Post 11 was much more relevant than what you decided to respond to it with.
I’m from Texas, too, and I WILL DEFINITELY BE VOTING FOR GOVERNOR PERRY AGAIN!
Good question. Consider also that if Perry had his way Ted Cruz would never have made it to Washington. Cruz is a conservative, Perry is not.
Moreover, Perry continues to prove himself NOT presidential material. Ted Cruz most certainly is.
Perry's got an uphill fight if he wants to have any chance of becoming the 2016 nominee. His last performance in the 2012 primary was almost comical, and blaming that dismal performance on pain medication was a weak cop out, in my opinion.
I don't see any way that Perry can force Cruz out of the race, given his inability to do more than regurgitate red meat talking points.
Cruz, on the other hand, is a master at communicating conservative principles, and can do so off the cuff, and for hours on end. It's because he's guided by those principles, whereas Perry is an establishment guy who's driven by political ambition alone.
There won't be any comparison between the two in a head-to-head fight.
Uh.....the article is about Rick Perry, not Obama.
Mittens has no support in TX.
It's because Rick Perry is 'all hat and no cattle', as we say in Texas.
Texans on the thread are responding with sneers because Rick Perry has earned our lack of faith and trust in him. He's very good at grandstanding and talking the talk, but fails like any other liberal when it comes to walking the walk.
Post 11 was pretty important, and about Ebola and national defense, in fact a take on Ebola that is barely mentioned here, or anywhere, how the nation needs to use this outbreak as a wake up call for national defense.
You could be posting your boring stuff to anyone.
No. Not even with Cruz on the ballot.
Perry is not fit for ANY federal office until he learns the meaning of "Illegal".
Those are my views as well. Thanks South40.
I’d like to know that too. I’m in California, but my elderly mom and lots of family and friends a live in Dallas. Presbyterian is my mom’s hospital. When their ER is closed because of ebola, that makes me concerned.
My son goes to college in Texas. He goes to Dallas often.
I really don’t see that Perry has done anything. That are all incompetent political hacks!
I’m speaking for Basil, she meant she is NOT voting for Perry again... typo
No offense, mate, but post 11 was an overly optimistic response to a press release. I get that the message was well crafted, and yes, it does hit the right notes, so I can understand your being buoyed by it.
If it were coming from a political regime with a proven track record of always doing the right things, I'd be right there with you, but it's not. It's emanating from a regime that (like the U.S. gov't) has consistently failed its citizens on the most basic level possible.
I wonder if Perry has considered running for Cruz’s senate seat when Cruz takes the WH?
Exactly.
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