Posted on 04/25/2012 6:01:44 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Texas Gov. Rick Perry originally endorsed Newt Gingrich as the top candidate after dropping out of the Republican presidential race.
But with Gingrich set to quit the campaign trail, Perry on Wednesday evening gave his support to the probable nominee, Mitt Romney.
"Mitt Romney has earned the Republican presidential nomination through hard work, a strong organization, and [a] disciplined message of restoring America after nearly four years of failed job-killing policies from President [Barack] Obama and his administration," Perry said in a statement provided to FOX News Channel.
"So today I join the many conservative Republicans across the nation in endorsing Mitt Romney for president and pledge to him, my constituents and the Republican Party that I will continue to work hard to help defeat President Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxla.com ...
Might as well face it folks, the only principle that drives politicians is getting elected/reelected.
The only way to take the country back is to elect Conservatives not politicians.
I wonder what the response here will be when Newt endoses Romney.
Geez Louise, I knew it would come, but I didn’t think it would come so soon. Ugh.
At least I know he hated doing it, LOL.
This "I'm staying at home" bull is beyond stupid.
We've got a very, very old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for crying out loud.
At least he didn’t stab Newt in the back like Cain.
Then dont, and feel better about yourself.
>>This “I’m staying at home” bull is beyond stupid.
We’ve got a very, very old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for crying out loud. <<
And this, we’ll concentrate on the Congress, let Obama win, crap has got to stop as well.
Maybe it’s me, and maybe I just pay attention but has anyone seen the amount of “executive orders” that have come from this Marxist President?
At least with Mitt the Ken doll he will give a thought to the rules and the constitution. With BO, we are freakin’ lost.
Amen.
That's why a lot of Texans have disappeared from around here and took their money with them..
It should be fun. Tune in to FR next Tuesday to see the excitement.
Yeah, ‘nother DC Insider Sellout, like Santorum and Newt.
So you like Rove?
Thanks NoLibZone.
Exactly, the point of a political party, in the American system, is to win. That is why they cover a larger segment of the ideological spectrum. If the spectrum is shrunk, then you end up with a fringe party, who under our Constitution, have no impact on policy making. In a parliamentary system a fringe party can win 8% of the vote and have influence within coalition governments. Our system does not work that way.
100 years ago the spectrum of left to right spanned both parties. That is why you had a LaFollette as a Republican. Today the left and right have sorted themselves out, with far less exceptions than the past. Despite the sorting out, the two parties are geared to win. That is to win 50%+. In order to win, differant factions within the party have to come together. If they split off into splinter parties, then each splinter will lose and lose and lose. That is the way the Founding Fathers intended it to be. They might not have written this into the Constitution, but the same men created the first two political parties. The original Republicans (now the Democrats) had to balance the interests of the Southern plantation owner with those of the Northern small businessman. They were so successful at this that they eventually destroyed their rivals that we had briefly a one party state during the Monroe administration.
No, no, say it ain’t so. Not Sarah ! Not St. Sarah. Not Santissima Sara, Wonderwoman incarnate. No, Sarah will never, ever, never-ever sell us out. Sarah a RINO? Impossible.
[Fingers in ears] Not listening, not listening, not listening, not listening. If I don’t hear Sarah’s sellout when she sells out does that mean she didn’t do it?
Not Sarah.
Ya just knew the Republican party insiders would support another liberal.
No, no, say it ain’t so. Not Sarah ! Not St. Sarah. Not Santissima Sara, Wonderwoman incarnate. No, Sarah will never, ever, never-ever sell us out. Sarah a RINO? Impossible.
[Fingers in ears] Not listening, not listening, not listening, not listening. If I don’t hear Sarah’s sellout when she sells out does that mean she didn’t do it?
Not Sarah.
That is exactly the type of silly behavior that lonestar was talking about
“Would Ron Paul be better than Romney?”
Paul might be a bit of a nut on foreign policy but at least Ron Paul is not a lying charlatan.
“As the Knife Turns” - Mitt Romney Represents Betrayal
http://youtu.be/r9sYgYY9rIc
Actually our system is much the same. The difference is that we have coalitions within two large parties. They have many small parties who make up, almost invariably, a majority coalition and a minority or opposition coalition.
There’s good and bad in both systems.
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