Posted on 01/25/2016 1:18:38 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is endorsing Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primary, Perry told POLITICO in an interview Sunday night.
Perry, who also sought the GOP nomination before dropping out in September, said he now sees the race as one that is between Cruz, a fellow Texan, and Donald Trump. Through phone calls and during a December day spent driving around his Round Top, Texas, home in his truck with Cruz, Perry said he found the senator to be a good listener who respects the Tenth Amendment, "knows what he does not know" and is more conservative than Trump.
"Of those individuals who have a chance to win the Republican primary, at this juncture, from my perspective, Ted Cruz is by far the most consistent conservative in that crowd," Perry said. "And that appears to be down to two people."
Perry, who is famously skilled at retail politics, will campaign with Cruz Tuesday across Iowa, and will join Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King to stump for Cruz again Wednesday. Perry and King will both join Cruz at a Des Moines rally Wednesday night.
The endorsement gives Cruz the blessing of the longest-serving governor in Texas history, just as the senator faces intensifying heat from other veteran politicians, including from his colleagues in Washington, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
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I feel sorry for Ted Cruz
Mo Greene endorsing him LOL!
Why ignore the fact that Trump colluded to steal a widow’s home? And lost.
Drill down to the actual summation statement in the thread, at the ad site, and in Ted’s tweet;
“This is actually a pretty good ad exposing how Trump has used eminent domain to bulldoze an elderly woman’s home to create a limo parking lot for his casino:”
That statement asserts - as fact - the following;
- An elderly woman’s home was bulldozed.
- Trump used eminent domain to bulldoze the woman’s home.
- a limo parking lot was built where the home was.
All three in factual reality are not true. They are lies.
Do you not have a problem with using lies to make a point? If there is a need to lie to make a point all credibility disappears in a flash of short circuited logic.
Isn’t that a problem?? Especially for a pricipled conservative like Ted? If not why not??
So is Cruz.
It isn't gonna help Cruz in Texas, and people remember Perry as the guy who couldn't remember which three departments he was going to cut, and had to be prompted by another candidate.
There have to be at least three standard deviations' difference in IQ between Perry and Cruz...don't see how it helps.
He'll now get a one percent poll bounce.
In Texas.
The foundation stone statement in Ted’s tweet is a lie. There is no rational, coherent, or logical way around that fact.
Are you really ok with using a lie in a tweet like that??
Brilliant principled people don’t use lies to make a point.
I had to chuckle this morning when Perry was on FOX about his endorsement for Cruz.
He said something like “Ted knows a lot about everything”.
I said “Yeah, as opposed to you who knows nothing about anything”.
The question was about foreign-born presidents. It would be a good trick question on a test. The first nine presidents were born in British colonies, which is why they worded the eligibility requirements as they did.
There’s always Pres. Arthur who had two towns claim him, one in Canada and one in Vermont and no birth certificate to verify which.
Hmmm. A highly successful 4-term Governor of one of the country’s most populace states......
Not sure that’ll be able to compare to the endorsement of a cognitively-challenged half-term breeder of misfits from a state with a population that would make it the 6th largest city in Texas.
But hopefully it’ll help a bit.
Hank
Hmmm. A highly successful 4-term Governor of one of the country’s most populace states......
Not sure that’ll be able to compare to the endorsement of a cognitively-challenged half-term breeder of misfits from a state with a population that would make it the 6th largest city in Texas.
But hopefully it’ll help a bit.
Hank
Dim may be part of the problem, too.
It’s not my lie. It’s not Ted’s lie. But Donald tried to make it his bulldozer. Denying that would be a lie. But you’re not denying it, you’re just ignoring it. And hoping everyone else does the same. Compared to what Trump did to that poor widow through his collusion, the media’s misquote means nothing and is irrelevant. All Trump can do is spin and dodge the truth and hope his media friends will cover for him. But if he ends up going against Hillary he’ll find his media honeymoon over. McCain was the media’s favorite Republican until he was nominated. Then the media was full against him. Trump’s long and colorful past offers more targets than the rest of the GOP field combined. His negatives are already higher than anyone, but Jeb. Once they get their pigeon nominated they’ll hit Trump so hard his hair will lay straight. Which is about the only way they can hope to get Hillary nominated. If Hillary fails and Bernie gets their recommendation he couldn’t ask for a better gift than Trump as the perfect model for his caricature of the rich. If they run against Cruz they’ll have to discuss actual issues logically. They’ll lose in a landslide.
Ted tweeted a lie. Why?
Are you really OK with Ted tweeting a lie??
The Bushes have always looked their noses at “hayseed” Perry (and quite a few others too).
What you may be missing is that the American people are capable of analyzing celebrities ad nauseum but not discussing “issues”.
Two Texans who won’t come aboard are fellow Senator Cornyn and former Lt. Governor Dewhurst: probably die-hard Bushites still.
Was Haskell a stronger-than-usual Democrat county then?
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