Posted on 08/16/2011 10:30:29 AM PDT by AAABEST
Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6%) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5%). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1%) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero.
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Santorum’s loss had little to do with Spector and more to do with 1. Bob Casey’s last name and 2. the media assault because Santorum’s kids went to school in Virginia. It is a shame because Santorum’s victories in those debates were about the most lopsided I have ever seen. It remindedme of Einsteidebating Forrest Gump.
Please speak for yourself! There is nothing Bachmann is offering that I want...
Her hiring of Rollins, and now we are hearing her people are going door to door in Iowa bearing false witness on Governor Palin.
I want nothing to do with this woman Bachmann.
Perry is just a politician that will say or do anything.
Sarah Palin or Flippin bust
I listed him with the other two conservatives. Cain, Bachmann, Santorum (of the announced candidates.)
Whereas state sponsored socialized medicine will only bankrupt the country one state at a time, instant citizenship for tens of millions of socialist voting amigos will put the country into the crapper overnight.
Odd - I see nothing inaccurate in that list.
Governor Palin has, so far, left herself out.
You do realize that using the word “haters” makes you sound like a teenager right?
What makes you think I’m listening to anyone else in drawing my own conclusions?
I don’t trust Perry because his record is inconsistent. You may believe him to be a good man, and indeed he may be so, but that doesn’t mean that I have to support him.
Bachmann may not win, but I trust her far more than I trust her more than I trust Romney or Perry.
But the Gardasil thing shows a dangerous nanny government mindset. And the shared love with his predecessor on the open borders thing makes him a poor candidate for national office. Putting illegal aliens first is not putting America first.
Bachmann will win if Palin doesn’t get in and the RINO’s take each other out.
Far too many conservatives don’t know Perry appointed a self described moderate to the Texas Supreme Court to replace a conservative. Then when a distinguished conservative knocked the moderate off in the next election Perry went after the conservative justice.
Purging of Supreme Court Justice Steve Smith
Perry has made numerous appointments to the Texas courts, the Railroad Commission, and other bodies and commissions during his tenure as governor. One of his first selections was the appointment of Xavier Rodriguez to the Texas Supreme Court. Rodriguez, who called himself a moderate, was quickly unseated in the 2002 Republican primary by conservative Steven Wayne Smith, the attorney in the Hopwood v. Texas suit in 1996, which successfully challenged affirmative action at the University of Texas Law School. Hopwood, however, was overturned in a 2003 decision stemming from the University of Michigan. Steven Smith was elected in the 2002 general election.
Perry objected to Smith’s tenure on the court and refused to meet with the new justice when he attempted to mend fences with the governor. Perry encouraged Judge Paul Green to challenge Smith in the 2004 Republican primary. Perry raised a lot of campaign cash for Green, who defeated Smith in the primary and was then elected without opposition in the 2004 general election. Smith attempted a comeback in the 2006 Republican primary by waging a shoestring challenge to Justice Don Willett, another Perry appointee. Smith polled 49.5 percent of the primary vote, but Perry’s man prevailed.
I don’t think most conservatives want someone who will replace a conservative with a moderate on the court.
You're right - it doesn't make sense. But I figured I'd better throw it out there, since sooner or later, one of the Palinstinians was bound to.
Way too early to make any sense of these numbers. In November 2007, it was Giuliani polling first and Fred Thompson second at 23 percent. Both were out of the race 2-3 months later.
I like Ryan alot! In fact I like him so much I'd hate to see him wasted as a running mnate. He's doing great and important work in the HofR and I hope he stays there.
Rubio’s fine with me...as would be Cain or Bachmann.
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