Perry dominates in South Carolina (PPP Poll has Perry up by 23 pts.)

In other words, you have nothing to dispute the trends, just your distrust of polling in general. Okay, noted. But doesn’t that make your posting on the subject meaningless? If you cannot offer anything more substantial than your “feeling” about polls, why bother posting on the subject at all?

You forgot that as Governor, Ronald Reagan enacted a massive tax increase and signed what turned out to be the nation’s most permissive abortion law. In 1978, Reagan helped defeat Prop 6, which would’ve barred gays from teaching in public schools. And for those getting spun up on the TTC, NAFTA was Reagan’s idea.

Ronald Reagan is still my favorite President and the gold standard for conservative candidates. But, let’s remember his actual record.

;o) I have my moments.

—Wow, people seem to be dropping Romney in droves once they got someone else they viewed as electable.—

You just nailed the whole thing in a single sentence. Romney’s done. It happened remarkably fast this time.

You persist in applying labels to folks that you have little or no real knowledge about.

Moderate? By who’s standard?

I am a native Texan who has been VERY active in political circles there for more years than you have likely been alive! I have watched Rick Perry’s career from the very beginning! When he was a democrat state representative he was FAR more conservative than Mitt Romney has EVER been and he has learned a damn site more since then! He is, in my estimation leaps and bounds ahead of EVERY other candidate out there with the possible exception of Herman Cain who has absolutely zero chance of getting the nomination!

Is Rick Perry perfect? NO! Not by a damned site! He IS however going to be the next president of the United States and you might as well get used to the idea!

Doesn’t matter. If DoughyOne says he’s a RINO, then he’s a RINO. Capice?

You stated the obvious about this poll and people are still doubting e pol calling it dem manufactured all because Palin is not in it or doing well. I recall many of these same polls that were not name called way back when Palin did well on one of them. The hypocrisy is so blatent.

We are not ignoring the bad stuff about Perry. We are quite familiar with it. We just don’t give a ****. The good far, FAR outweighs the bad.

The problem with people that have experience is that they don't agree with me 100%.

What we need is someone new, someone fresh. Maybe clean, articulate young Senator who says everything I want to hear, but without any kind of pesky 'record' that would confuse me with facts. Someone who I could hope will change things in the way that I would.

My moral sensibilities for the perfect candidate are very sensitive, you know. I just can't handle information that I don't like, so the less of a record a candidate has, the better. Let's make it happen, people! It's never happened before, ever, and we could be the ones to make it happen! We could be the ones we we've been waiting for!

You stated the obvious about this poll and people are still doubting the poll and calling it dem manufactured all because Palin is not in it or doing well. I recall many of these same polls that were not name called way back when Palin did well on one of them. The hypocrisy is so blatant.

He’s conservative enough for Texas but somehow he’s not supposed to be conservative enough for some schlub from a blue town in a blue county in a blue state?

The real questions that you need to be asking are;

“What’s wrong with Texas?”

“How can they not see what you clearly do?”

“How in Gods’ name could the patron saint of all things conservative, Sarah Palin give him such a ringing endorsement?”

I was just being facetious. He’s a perennial candidate like RP.

I don’t pretend to know but I agree with you, Palin is preparing to endorse Perry. We will see soon enough.

I love Sarah Palin and would be happy to see her run. But this is my observation.

It is my hope that if she doesn’t run, she will campaign hard and well for the nominee and get a great cabinet position. That would be awesome.

If any of these Perry polls are correct..then there should be more than about 6 or 7? people repeatedly posting in favor of Perry in FR.
Nearly one third of FR posters should be commenting in favor of Perry?

Conservatism remains the same for me year after year, decade after decade.

I don’t change my definition so that I can support the latest flavor of the day.

In 1988 I wasn’t supporting Democrats.

In recent years I haven’t supported massive government projects.

I haven’t opted to take 70,000 acres from my citizens, rather than improve current rights of way.

I haven’t said I support open borders.

I haven’t said I don’t want a fence or wall on our border.

I haven’t pushed for in-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants.

I haven’t stated that I would have a hard time sending long term illegal immigrants back to Mexico.

I haven’t tried to force women to take a new vaccine, one that seems to have killed over 100 girls, and cause immune deficiency problems for thousands of others.

This guy does not get it. There’s no way I will support this man for the presidency.

If this represents my being doughy not only to you, but everyone other than myself, I can live with it.

LMAO, I bet the zealots just hate you.

Palin is blowing it. People are beginning to cement behind Perry.

snicker, from the state that gave us lord McCain and prince Lindsey Graham. Now I will give them credit for DeMint.... but they in majority should have sent McCain's sidekick out to make his own living.

The more her people act like jackasses, the less support she is going to have if she gets in.

Okay folks. Perry is not a RINO. He’s just the best Conservative ever. I have been wrong.

Here, here’s the stuff we’ve been supporting for the last decade here. /s

Right?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2770943/posts?page=46#46