Perry is a real conservative you are just to blind to see it.
Yes Perry has made mistakes, but that doesn’t disqualify everything else he has done, even Savage has said that Perry is 80% of everything he would want in a candidate, and surely you don’t think Savage is a RINO.
Here’s the deal, Perry IS an insider, but he there are different groups of insiders. Many people seem to think there are only one group of evil insiders, when their are actually several. The currently most powerful group is the one that the Bush’s control, it’s the Northeastern Rockerfeller Republicans that gained power when Reagan left office and HW Bush took over. This group has been running the party since HW Bush and they are the ones people typically think of when they talk about Republican insiders.
But there is another powerful group, lets just call them the conservatives who have been out of power since Reagan but have exerted influence in various ways. Their power base lies mostly in the south and west, Cheney was a part of this group which is why he was brought onto W’s ticket, and Perry,Buckannan, and Gingrich are a part of this group too. They are insiders currently out of power seeking desperately to reaquire it.
There are other insider groups that are much smaller, the religious right insiders like with members like Huckabee.
And then there are the true outsiders like the Tea Party people and the libertarians represented by Ron Paul.
McCain by the way didn’t really belong to ANY of these groups, which is why many insiders considered him to be an outsider AKA a “maverick”
”[RINO Bill] Kristol told me just after Perry entered the race... Establishment Republicans may prefer Romney to Perry, but their assumption is that either man can be counted on to steer the party back toward the broad center next fall, effectively disarming the Tea Party mutiny.”
This quote is from:
GOP Empire's Plan to Crush Tea Party Rebels
It is a part of this thread from earlier today:
GOP Elite Declares War on TEA Party
Romney may be their favorite, but RINOs have always considered Perry as an acceptable alternative to Romney because they know he can be had.
And then there are the true outsiders like the Tea Party people -—————————————————>
Well, I consider Michael Savage somewhat on the same playing field as Ron Paul. So if he says Perry is 80% of what he is looking for in a POTUS count me out of that school of logic.
I am a Tea Party advocate so I guess I am, as you indicate, a true outsider, (unlike Perry, Bauchman and Gingrich who you indicate are out of power trying to get back into the GOP establishment.)
This is one reason I will not vote for Perry in the Florida Primary. I am really tired of the “good ole boys” and their money running the show.