Posted on 01/18/2012 10:41:23 AM PST by Red Steel
Gov. Rick Perry is getting pressure from conservative leaders to bow out of the presidential race before South Carolina’s primary election Saturday.
In particular, Erick Erickson of the prominent conservative blog, RedState, reflecting on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, wrote this morning that:
The next big question is whether Governor Perry decides to depart the race before or after Saturday. And if he departs, will he endorse Newt Gingrich, who wrote the introduction to Governor Perry’s book Fed Up!
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Why? How many delegates have been chosen? There’s a long way to go.
A lot of people don’t like Newt and he is more than capable of saying or doing something that will topple him. I hope that doesn’t happen because I like him better than Santorum.
But it’s a possibility.
As for Santorum, he is only on the radar because he sat in Iowa for 6 months listening to granny. He was a non-factor before that, and he will be a non-factor again soon.
Why want the other conservative out of the race?
I hope he doesn’t yield to this crappy, whiny pressure to ‘drop out and let me win.’
Who knows what will happen in the next two months.
Stay in, Governor Perry.
perry’s campaign is finished.
he has no presence in fl.
no subtantive promotions in SC.
he is only useful in throwing his support to someone who can beat romney. If he stays in the race, it will be because he believes romney is inevitable, he wants to add money, and he just wants to be a spoiler to either keep gingrich from winning or help romney.
I’m sure he’s praying for your admiration, Jedidah.
And why don’t you like the most conservative candidate with no baggage and a history of leadership?
In my kindness, I had him pegged as the lessor of evils of the herd at best....but even so...I prefer he not grab over and bend his ankles for the likes of these phony Rs !!!!!
he’s better than that!
Semper Watching!
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Sorry...you couldn’t be farther from the truth...Perry is just another RINO.
Even Red State, which has been all but an official Perry supporter, is now saying Perry should drop out.
Erick Erickson (runs Red State), on his radio show, suggested that Perry should drop out today and endorse Gingrich before the next debate, so it can have the most impact.
I want a president who actually loves his country and the military. I want a president who actually understands the necessity of America creating our own energy.
Perry has proven himself to be pro-life and has put his name to legislation to prove it. This guy has walked the walk.
Awaiting for all the Perrybot whining to start.
These guys think he’s the next Reagan, more like the illegitimate baby of Ross Perot and Bob Dole.
He should drop out and endorse Gingrich. His campaign isn’t going anywhere. If his latest debate performance had been his first, he might well be the nominee, but it’s too late now. Dropping out and endorsing Gingrich will endear him to conservatives, give him a noble way out, and is the best way to stop Romney in South Carolina. Only vanity and the faint promise of (understandable) ambition is keeping him in.
I live in Texas and I know what he's done here. I know what he stands for, and he's a rock solid conservative.
1. Pro 10th Amendment? Check
2. Pro 2nd Amendment? Check
3. Pro Life? Check
4. Pro-Business? Check
5. Pro domestic drilling? Check
6. Pro offshore drilling? Check
7. Pro military? Check
8. Served in the military? Check
9. Wants lower federal regulation? Check
10. Loves this country? Check.
11. Pro Death Penalty? Check
12. Pro cut/cap/balance? Check
13. Pro tort reform? Check
14. Supports ID to vote? Check
15. Supports lower taxes? Check
16. Supports balanced budget amendment? Check
17. Repeatedly called on Bush and Obama to secure the border? Check
18. Wants Obamacare overturned? Check
19. Thinks global warming is a scam? Check
20. Wants to end ethanol subsidies? Check
21. Supports Israel? Check
22. Had the nuts to confront Obama in person over the border? Check
23. Supports an end of sanctuary cities? Check
24. Never supported TARP? Check
25. Thinks the NLRB has too much power? Check
But I can see how you think he's a RINO. /s
Perry can go out as a patriot who took one for the team. Sorry, but Newt is the only one poised to knock Romney down a notch but he needs more votes to do it.
Had folks not bailed out on Newt earlier this would be a 3 way race between the Ricks and Gingrich. Now we have to worry all the way about Romneycrat and Uncle Nutty.
All I see are a bunch of talking points...
He is done....he needs to go away...period.
I think that - now that there are only 5 candidates - the debates are much easier to watch. And, likely easier to participate in.
I like Governor Perry and I am giving him one more debate
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Those are facts, and you can't deny them. You said he was a RINO, and I prenented you with facts. The only thing you can come back with is that I have talking points. Prove me where I'm wrong in what I said. You can't.
Again, I live here and I know what he stands for.
As for getting out, if he does, he does. But that doesn't take away from the fact that I backed up my claim, and you can't.
I was going to post the same exact thing until I saw yours. Palin is right - we need to keep this race going - it is too early to declare the winner yet. My own feeling is that Newt is still an unpredictable candidate - I don't think anyone should drop out to let him be the conservative voice - he could still implode at any time. Better to have 3 eggs in 3 baskets right now - rather than have all of our eggs in one basket.
I see no facts...What I see is a bunch of conservative phrases with the word “check” after them....
Stop kidding yourself......
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Rick Santorum need to place his country before himself and drop out of the race. THIS is a Conservative??
Santorum:
Voted for Federal funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-government-conservative-looks-like/
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Voted AGAINST increasing the number of immigration investigators?
VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS?
VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?
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Santorum; Big government spender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6XCZz2X1Y&feature=player_embedded
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Perry stated that in his administration he would start all countries getting U.S. foreign aid at ZERO, until they proved to be our allies.
He was also the first to bring the war on religion to the forefront.
Rick Perry is twice the Conservative Santorum is!
Santorum needs to place his country before himself-
but his ego won’t let him.
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You can't prove that any of those positions are false. If you think those positions aren't conservative, well, then I think you need to check your definition of the word. I would suggest to you that those positions are the bedrock of the conservative movement.
You may not like Perry, but you can't back up your claim that he's as RINO.
I’m sure you thought Bush was a conservative too......
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