Posted on 02/06/2015 12:26:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Texas governor Rick Perry is benefiting from others foibles, as is often the case with a second-time presidential candidate. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) had a miserable week, as did New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (now reportedly under another federal investigation). Meanwhile, Perry released a list of more than 80 top donors and methodically continued his charm offensive with the press and his comeback tour in early primary states.
Pundits are reluctant to raise him above the others category, and it is true he remains in single digits in state and national polls but then so do Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and several governors. Unlike some of those yet to register in the polls, however, Perry has a long and successful executive record to run on, an appeal beyond the tea party base and a robust approach to foreign policy, as he sketched out in a Post interview:
Compared with characters such as Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Ben Carson, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and even Rubio, Perry appears remarkably grounded and serious. If you put aside 2012 a big if, if you believe pundits the media would proclaim him to be one of the most credible candidates in the race....
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Yeah, but if Ted Cruz is going to get into the race, he actually needs to get into the race. Now.
Putting together a smart, functional, national campaign apparatus is no trivial task. I and others grade candidates on the quality of their team - it can foreshadow how they’d perform in office. And frankly, the number of qualified operators for this kind of work is few, and they’ll get snatched up early.
He already has a “team,” has rented office space in Houston, has a SuperPAC and all that good stuff. There have been threads here about all that.
If she thought Perry had a snowball’s chance, Rubin wouldn’t be pimping him.
Ted Cruz is absolutely HATED by the Washington establishment, both GOP and democRAT. Those are sky high positive accolades.
Cruz 2016!
Ted texted me today to come to CPAC! love to make it but can’t. Oh, and
FUJR (J. Rubin)
When conservative primary voters learn that the "indictment" is leftist bull manure from a drunk DA who's the latest Ronnie Earle wannabe, it could actually help him.
Still though, I think his best shot was 2012. For whatever reasons, he wasn't ready then and now is probably too late.
This is how Steve Schmidt buys positive press for his guy, and negative for his guy’s competition.
Waiting for Nate Silver’s next name rec/net favorability to come out, may already be out.
Bingo.
Wish he’d come here and do a Q & A like they do at that Reddit site.
THIS.
I wonder who “got” to Rush and Drudge to fluff Walker.
“Does she somehow not know that Perry is under indictment in Texas?”
Whether or not anyone likes Perry, everyone knows that the indictment is bogus.
If he is convicted, which is always a possibility when you’re indicted, he’ll be finished, right?
The TEA Party is far from monolithic but Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent have both been big Perry supporters. Perry's biggest problem at this point is his miserable performance in 2012. If he hadn't run then he would probably be the frontrunner now, IMHO.
And advocated in state tuition for illegals. For me that would be enough to write him off.
The Chamber of Commerce.
What Cruz needs to do is give a short 3min speech about what happened in 1973 that caused wage stagnation to dig in, how women were forced into the workplace, thus having less children, and why by 1995 Mexicans stopped going home after earning their wages and stayed here, pumping out the demographic the Chamber of Commerce insists the US will implode without.
I’d love to hear that, just to watch the feminazis heads explode.
The budget committee isn’t persuing at this time funding that section.
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Cox was invited to present to the Senate committee on its first day of budget hearings,
which Finance Chairwoman Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, said would last about a month.
Nelson’s initial proposed budget gives no money to the unit, which has requested
$6.6 million to cover, among other responsibilities, public corruption cases. Nelson
has said she does not believe those cases should be handled by the Travis County
District Attorney’s office.
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/02/02/piu-chief-says-corruption-unit-could-move-where/
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