Posted on 09/07/2011 10:58:58 PM PDT by free me
Texas Gov. Rick Perry needed to show in tonight’s debate that he is presidential, substantive and ready for prime time. While he made no major gaffes, he certainly did not stand out in the crowd. He took hits on his views on Social Security and on mandatory HPV testing, and unsurprisingly did not have convincing comebacks. At times — on foreign policy and on global warming — he seemed to search for words. He will need to lose the frozen grin as well. His best moment came near the end of the debate when he gave a measured, tough-minded defense of Texas’s high rate of executions, explaining the circumstances under which you will pay “the ultimate penalty” in Texas.
Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann turned in solid performances. Nevertheless, it was largely a Romney vs. Perry affair.
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Yep; that whole Maunder Minimum thing is lost on the anthropogenic crowd. Nice pedantic questions too about the names of the specific scientists.
Bachmann needs to find a better hair dresser, and lay off the heavy dark eye makeup. She looked awful.
Cain not only touched the rail, he had something substantive to say about fixing it. That beats platitudes like "we have to look at it".
Fails to impress? LOL too funny. Not according to just about every poll, every other article out there.
If Perry were a liberal the term “he searched for words” would have been instead, “He came across as thoughtful and deliberate”
Ron Paul attacked fellow Republicans more than he attacked Obama last night.
That makes him scum in my eyes.
On top of that, the fires are still not completely contained.
I've never been a big Perry fan, but he's under a lot of pressure at the moment, so all in all, I think he did pretty well.
There are about six hard-core anti Perry freepers who have no integrity or shame in their attacks. None.
No sense engaging them but no need to shy from forcefully confronting their lies.
In the long run I suspect they’ll actually help Perry since more details of their allegations will surface with more and more people.
But the knee jerk reaction is as you describe.
Americans with functioning brains have learned from experience to be very wary of such as this.
On the other hand, such backing may be necessary for getting the Democrats out of office.
But, on the third hand, what good did it do to elect George Bush to the Presidency? His election blocked the election of Gore and Kerry, but the outcome of it was not much better--if at all--than if they had been elected instead.
I'll never again vote for a globalist.
That narrows it down.
So I hope there is a third party candidate in 2012.
And who went gave the state or federal govt the authority to meddle in these matters. Merck did. Bottom line is that Rick Perry is in favor of the same type of Democrat lite that Bush was. Only difference is that his marching orders will come from presently out of favor corporations instead of GE, Soros, and the labor unions.
This commentary on the debate is good. Rick Perry has had tremendous momentum this month, and this debate was his chance to show that he deserved to be soaring above the rest of the field. Instead, the debate showed that he’s not that strong. His record isn’t as conservative as some claim. He’s not the driving force for some “Texas miracle” on jobs. He doesn’t do a good job of explaining where he stands on positions or explaining his stands in a way that will inspire confidence. For most voters, even most primary voters, the debate is a reminder that being undecided isn’t such a bad idea right now.
Perry did not impress me. As a previous poster stated, He did not have any horrible gaffes, but he just failed to impress.
I was working during the debate so I was listening to the TV instead of watching it. During Perry’s answer on Climate change, 3 or 4 times I thought the TV cut out b/c of the long quiet pauses. The delivery of that answer had to be close to the worst of the night.
Newt and Cain really showed me some fire. Newt with his backbone and Cain with his ideas. Neither got much air-time.
Perry just didn’t get it done tonight. Maybe it was an off night or something, but He just didn’t get it done.
For decades, Dems have used the line of attack, "Republicans want to take away granny's SS". The attack has been leveled regardless of how a Republican stands on SS. It's on the first page of the Dem playbook right under "the GOP wants to push old people off a cliff." Avoiding mention of SS will not result in the Dems laying off the attacks. They're going to come anyhow.
We desperately need leadership who will look us in the eye and give us the unvarnished truth. The message could be honed, but Perry and all the other GOP candidates should be delivering it.
I hate cancer. We passed a $3 billion cancer initiative that same legislative session of which we’re trying to find over the next 10 years cures to cancers. Cervical cancer is caused by HPV. We wanted to bring that to the attention of these thousands of — of — of — tens of thousands of young people in our state. We allowed for an opt-out.
I don’t know what’s more strong for parental rights than having that opt-out. There’s a long list of diseases that cost our state and cost our country. It was on that list.
Now, did we handle it right? Should we have talked to the legislature first before we did it? Probably so. But at the end of the day, I will always err on the side of saving lives.
Allowing for an opt-out instead of an opt-in, and to always err on the side of saving lives are Perry's philosophical points of view I don't agree with.
Oh PLEASE....Perry was fine!! They were ALL fine except for the NUTCASE Paul!! And even PAUL would be a better Prez than Obama.
Ah....Then you will be elceting Obama again as sure as pulling the lever for him. GROW UP....NO ONE IS PERFECT......we DO live in a GLOBAL time.....geesh.
If you are right then Perry is the nominee, I don’t see Mitt having a snowball’s chance in South Carolina without which no one has won the nomination since the state held its first primary and Sarah seems to be out. I have as yet seen no evidence to indicate that the WOMEN of America have any interest in putting a woman in the white house, if they did we would be moaning about president Clinton again rather than president Obama.
I think Perry is the nominee and I think he will beat Obama...the only wild card is Palin.
I am thankful to Ron Paul for being the only one with guts enough to tell people that Perry supported Hillary Care, Thanks Ron!
But I can not believe that Perry got away with bringing up a letter that Paul said something unflattering about Reagan, without someone saying....PERRY NEVER VOTED FOR REAGAN!!!
I believe a lot of viewers had no idea that Perry somewhat forced the shots on young girls, that he in fact supported Hillary care (HE FREAKIN DID!) and that he supported Rudy G in 2000.
I would think that a guy that had a true conversion, would not backslide to supporting a guy that holds anti Christian values, speaking of Perry supporting Rudy G. I thought we were supposed to believe that he was repentant for his Democrat years?
I suspect many people still have no idea that he never at any point supported Ronald Reagan! This was at the Reagan Library for goodness sake, it should have come up. I think people are going to find this stuff out
As for Michele Bachmann, Thought she looked and sounded odd, she is toast
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