Posted on 12/03/2011 4:00:01 PM PST by onyx
Short commercial ad first.
Six candidates are participating.
Eddie Haskell Hunstman has declined the invitation.
Herman Cain suspended his campaign today and will not participate.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Thank you dear and precious FRiend, for providing this thread and forum.....
Rest well......we have a nation to save in the morning :-)
YEs,can’t wait! Last time we were sabotaged by Gov. Crist,now a private citizen. Won’t happen this time.Republicans in Fla are now the party of Marco Rubio and Col. West. We are much better off.
Perry also is talking about imposing term limits for the SCOTUS. He’s tired of the judges legislating from the bench. Get check and balances back!
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Yes was glad to hear that and I’m with him 100% on term limits for SCOTUS.
Newt's going to plug the holes and kick out butts very quickly and has said as much. Then settle in to take on the big stuff!....I can't wait to see Obamas butt and his Czars get booted...likely they'll all but jump ship before then...they see the handwriting on the wall...
The questioners are demanding specifics and justification under the rule of law. Puts Perry out of his depth.
I liked the format and I’d like to see it used again.
You’re right but...we must keep informing to the best of our ability right? :)
Sarah Palin endorsed Pam Bondi and I posted a thread about her....lol.
I agree with those two. Newt....mmmmmm....I still have many
questions about his past positions, but he surely is comfortable
in his skin. AND he understands government better than most.
LOLOL.
I agree,catch you guys tomorrow.
From: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/sep/07/legend-al-gore-and-rick-perry/
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But interviews with political players in Texas and Tennessee and news articles from 1988 have convinced us that, although Perry endorsed Gore, he was not his Texas chairman.
Ray Sullivan, a spokesman for Perry’s presidential campaign, recently told us by email: “We have no record or recollection of any leadership position” for Perry in Gore’s 1988 campaign.
Asked why Perry did not say as much when a 1998 opponent repeatedly lofted such claims, Sullivan replied: “We did not (have) access to information about the Gore ’88 campaign organization and therefore 10 years later could not definitively say one way or the other.”
Perry says he voted for Republican George H.W. Bush in November 1988, Sullivan said.
Political journalist R.G. Ratcliffe of Texas, who also reports for the Austin American-Statesman, recently declared in a blog post that Perry did not chair the Gore campaign in Texas. That prompted us to take a closer look at the Perry-Gore connection.
Austin consultant George Shipley, who advised Gore’s 1988 campaign, told us in an interview that Perry “made, to my knowledge, one, possibly two press tours, but he was not what I would call that active in the campaign.”
Sherman lawyer Bob Slagle, who supported Gore while chairing the state’s Democratic Party, told us in an interview that Perry “may have been chairman for some area around Haskell County,” Perry’s home county, but he was no more than that.
Similarly, two staff members in Gore’s 1988 effort said Perry was not its Texas chief.
Tennessee lawyer Tom Jurkovich, Gore’s Texas director, told us by email that “we may have named (Perry) to a ‘steering committee’ or as one of several campaign ‘co-chairs,’ typically honorific titles with no real role ... (Perry) wasn’t highly involved in the campaign, however, and had zero operational responsibility.”
Mike Kopp of Nashville, who did press outreach for Gore, was more emphatic, saying in an interview: “We didn’t have a chairman in Texas; we didn’t have co-chairs,” either. “We weren’t that organized; we didn’t have that strong a ground game.”
Perry has not been spectacular, but he does not waiver.
That means a lot.
Thanks for the thread, onyx.
[That half million was his line of credit with Tiffany’s, not what he owed them.]
Sorry, all the Google sources say OWED........
Newt Gingrich owed up to $500, 000 to Tiffany
Now he is being stung by a report that he carried up to $500,000 in debt to the Tiffany jewelry company - and may still be carrying it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20063654-503544.html
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich owed between $250,001 and $500,000 to a top jewelry company
http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/17/gingrich-owed-over-250000-to-jewelry-company/
Rick Perry, who entered the Texas legislature as a Democrat in 1984, served as Al Gore’s Texas Campaign Chairman in the 1988 presidential campaign. Soon after the campaign, Perry switched parties and was elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner as a Republican in 1990. “Going through that (Gore experience) was part of what started me through the process of changing parties in 1989,” Perry later said. “I came to my senses.”
If only he could tell us that.
Yes, we do what we can. So many need help and our days are short.
This most recent love affair with Newt is baffling. . . .how can anyone even entertain the idea that he will be able to beat Obama? Smart, yes, but way too smarky and condescending for the average voter. Reminds me too much of Rove and Co. Old Guard will never work against our current administration. Good idea guy, but not presidential material in our current political climate.
Contribution of the night. I looked at that book as a teenager, but it’s past time for a second look.
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