Posted on 06/23/2011 6:46:41 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Add New Hampshire to the list of early states where Texas Gov. Rick Perry's associates are making calls about how they can acquire some visibility with Republican primary voters ahead of next year's presidential election.
By now, it's well-documented that Perry's people are putting out feelers in Iowa, the first caucus state. And on Wednesday, Kevin Smith of the socially conservative New Hampshire group, Cornerstone Action, announced that Perry will headline the group's annual fundraising dinner on Oct. 28. But it turns out there's even more work going on behind the scenes.
Fran Wendelboe, a former state GOP legislator turned Republican consultant, is also the president of the Belknap County 4-H Fair. She's the person political organizers need to call if they're thinking of having a candidate make an appearance there, or if they want to rent space for a political booth.
And on Tuesday, one of Perry strategist Dave Carney's lieutenants at the firm Norway Hill Associates phoned Wendelboe in search of details for setting up a booth for a possible campaign.
"I was contacted yesterday by someone who was inquiring about rental space for a political event," she said. "It was one of Perry's people."
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Would that be "Newt's rejects"?
I think he is serious and he will enter the end of the month. Good or bad? I don’t know, but he is going to run.
Heseems to entering the 2012 POTUS race at the end of the month and the article states he is late to the show; of running. I remember hearing something about some Tx business he had to do before he could think about running so this is why he is late and missed the debates.
He seems to be entering the 2012 POTUS race at the end of the month and the article states he is late to the show; of running. I remember hearing something about some Tx business he had to do before he could think about running so this is why he is late and missed the debates.
For conservatives the choice is no choice at all. Perry is not perfect but Romney is a progressive; his nomination would turn 2012 into yet another lose/lose proposition. It might also trigger a serious third-party candidacy that would give Obama his only chance at victory. Romney as President would be marginally better than Obama and marginally worse than Bush. Perry would be an improvement on both. He meets the minimum requirements for a GOP nominee and Romney doesn't.
If Governor Perry is getting in then he's got to be our guy, warts and all. He's a bit of a let down for those of us who have been dreaming of Sarah, but he'll do.
So far, I know that Perry does not pass the Double Secret Probation Politically Holier Than Thou Test of many. For example, Perry is not Tom Tancredo Politically Pure on immigration. Yet, I'm old enough to remember Ronald Reagan's amnesty of 3 million illegal alien. I can image if Reagan, in his prime, were alive right now, Ronald Reagan would be savaged as "Ronaldo" Reagan the RINO.
I do know, however, that the current GOP primary field is absolutely pathetic and leads nowhere except President Barack Hussein Obama 2.0 or President Mitt Romney 1.0.
Right now, the Republican field is "Mitt, the Forgettables, the Nut and the Affirmative Action Candidates".
The Mitt: "Hi, I'm Mitt Romney. I imitated Ted Kennedy in a Massachusetts Senate race."
Forgettable Number 1: "Hi, I'm so boring, sometimes my mother forgets my name."
Forgettable Number 2: "Hi, I'm so boring, I sometimes forget my own name."
The Nut: "Hi, I'm Ron Paul and these are my enthusiastic and loud supporters (all 527 of them) that follow me wherever I go."
Affirmative Action Candidate Number 1: "Hi, I've been in the House of Representatives since only 2007 but I am female and I am cute!"
Affirmative Action Candidate Number 2: "Hi, I have never won a single election in my life but I was the CEO of a national pizza chain and I have the same Politically Correct skin color that Obama does."
The Sarah: "Hi, I am way too busy making $100,000 every time I make a speech and millions of dollars making reality TV shows. But, keep waiting my adoring fans. One of these days, I MAY run. Maybe. After my next $100,000 speech. Or maybe just one or two or three or four more after that. It's a lot lot of money to leave on the table, you know. Just keep on waiting. I MAY run. Maybe. Just maybe. Ya never know."
And, yes, with less than two years as the Governor of a State with half the population of San Diego, California, Sarah Palin was as Affirmative Action as you can get when John McCain picked as the GOP Vice Presidential candiadte. With 65% of all voters saying that they will "definitely NOT" vote for Sarah Palin, her nomination absolutely guarantees Barack Hussein Obama reelection.
Sarah Palin is not dumb. She is one smart cookie. Sarah's refusal to enter the race under the circumstances makes her a lot smarter than her adoring fans that insist that she be nominated so that, in November 2012, she can be humiliated by that 65% of all voters and Obama can be easily reelected by that 65% of all voters.
So, compared to that, along comes the Governor, for almost 11 years of TEXAS.
Such a candidate gets instant attention and instant credibility, from coast to coast, even if he is introduced to America without a name and with a paper bag over his head.
Governor, for almost 11 years, of TEXAS!
Paper bag or no paper bag, THAT candidate sucks the oxygen out of the room that "Mitt and the Pee Wees" are in.
And, to top it all off, Sarah Palin claims that the guy under the paper bag with a Texas-sized load of executive experience is a "true conservative".
Governor Sarah Palin's Endorsement of Governor Rick Perry
"That's why I am supporting Governor Rick Perry for re-election. He does what is right regardless of whether it is popular. He walks the walk of a true conservative. And he sticks to his guns – and you know how I feel about guns!" ..... Sarah Palin
"But, ... but, ... but,..... Governor Perry is not as politically pure and holy as the Politically Holier Than Thou Club (Conservative Chapter) members are.".
Well, neither was Obama to the the Politically Holier Than Thou Club (Liberal Chapter) of the Left Coast region where I now live. Their darling was and still is:
Dennis Kucinich.
Obama was simply "not Politically Pure and Holy" enough for them. They wanted Deniis Kucinich nominated.
"Dennis Kucinich? Are they bat-sh#t crazy? He would not stand a chance in the general election!"
Try saying that to the Politically Holier Than Thou Club (Liberal Chapter). You see, once Dennis Kucinich is heard, all of America will fall absolutely in love with him and he will kick butt all the way to the White House.
Politically Holier Than Thou Club (Liberal Chapter) talks exactly like the Politically Holier Than Thou Club (Conservative Chapter) except that the names of their darlings are different.
"The Perfect is the enemy of the Good Enough"
Is Perry "Perfect". No. Nobody is. Even Mary Poppins was only "Practically Perfect".
"Perfect" will not do you a damn bit of good if Obama chews up one of the Pee Wee League candidates or one of the Affirmative Action candidates in the general election and gets four more years in the White House.
Pery is not "Perfect" but, so, far, he is the best that I see in an extremely weak GOP field.
Perry, at least, has a very good chance of destroying Obama in the general election.
Until somebody better comes along, that can actually WIN the general election against Obama, Perry is the only thing that now stands between four years of President Romney or for more years of Marxist-wannabe Obama in the White House.
Warts is right but you’re correct all around like it or not.It seems as if Palin is waiting for a VP nod from someone. I agree she will endorse him (as she has before) But I am guessing Perry will not pick Palin as VP. Who knows though it could already be a done deal? Palin is late to the show and I also join you in hoping she does not go third party and elect Obama.
I have no problem with any affirmative action candidates.
AKA females and blacks.Palin,Bachmann,Cain,West. I am sick of the commiecrats calling everyone but them racist anti-woman. Besides... America is tired of the old white guy politicians and pretty hair doos and tans and I am not talking about the women.
Yours is the correct analysis.
People need to understand amnesty by another name is still amnesty. Glossed over amnesty is still amnesty and in no way guarantees future votes for republicans. In fact, the uneducated and needy 3 worlders will most likely give the democrats the edge in the future.
The dems may lose this round. In fact, they may like it if another republican takes the credit for mass amnesty. They can always say, well, we didn't do it, you did.
I understand the picture, but in the primary I will vote for Bachmann because she has it right on this issue.
In the General, if isn't a conservative, I will vote against Obama, but I won't be pumped about it.
huntsman just entered yesterday and Bachmann last week, I wouldn’t say it’s too late.
The article insinuated Perry was late. I heard he had Tx. business.
Perry is still kind of a blank page to most people outside of Texas, so I’ve been trying to learn up on him.
The more I learn, the more I feel he has the same achille’s heel that GW Bush had—from a conservative perspective he’s great on some things, but awful on other things.
Should he get into the race, I think he’ll split the establishment vote (Romney’s, Huntsman’s, & Pawlenty’s base). I don’t see him gathering much in the way of Tea Party support.
MB’s candidacy is a waste of time and effort that is badly needed elsewhere. And in any case, where immigration is concerned Perry is not good, but he's a whole lot better than the last two GOP nominees. He's a step up in every category.
If you think any candidate will be one you agree with 100%, or vice versa, you are being unrealistic.
So who is your candidate? Bachmann is the only tea party candidate that just did so well in the debates she is now looked at as being on top because of Romney’s global warming crap, he is political toast. I like Cain but the media keep damaging him saying he was a CEO of a pizza joint and I doubt the GOP fat cats will back him. I wish West would run.
I will reluctantly vote for the nominee if conservatives have decided they no longer care about amnesty. But it will be a empty vote and just a vote against Obama. We have been through all of this with Bush.
Funny, back when Bush, McCain, and Skeletor were trying to shove amnesty up our posteriors, a poster asked me if I voted for Bush. I said, yes I did. They then said that I should have paid attention because that was always Bush. I have never forgotten that. The truth was that I really didn't know what the Bush position was on immigration.
Well, I am paying attention and I refuse to be chastised for voting for what I was against.
If amnesty gets passed, the US is over anyway. Just a matter of time.
Affirmative Action does not mean "female and black or (insert Affirmative Action category here)".
Affirmative Action means "held to far lower standards because that person is (insert Affirmative Action category here)."
If you have no problem with Affirmative Action candidates, in politics or in any field where competence matters, ..... you should.
If all NBA teams are told by the NBA Commissioner that, for the sake of "diversity", all NBA teams must have at least one token white guy as a starter, regardless of abilty, then that white guy qualifies as being "Affimative Action".
In the NFL "Rooney Rule" mandates, the token person with the black skin that must be humiliated by an interview for a job everbody knows he will never get because Bill Belicheck has decided to leave as Coach of the New England Patriots is an Affirmative Action candidate.
By contrast, Tony Dungee, a Coach that most NFL teams would kill to have, will never be an Affirmative Action candidate because he is highly desireable because he is damned good at what he does and not merely because of the color of his skin.
Besides... America is tired of the old white guy politicians and pretty hair doos and tans and I am not talking about the women.
I, personally, do not like "pretty hair doos" and Perry's hair turns me off. But, you know what?
A Presidential election should not be about hair or about great legs or looks or about XY chromosomes or XX chromosomes or skin color.
A a Presidential election should be about the BEST QUALIFIED person available REGARDLESS of looks.
If Ronald Reagan, in his prime, were alive today and looked like this:
That, butt-ugly female should be the next President of the United States.
Once upon a time, America valued what counts instead of valueing "looks".
"Lincoln's voice was, when he first began speaking, shrill, squeaking, piping, unpleasant; his general look, his form, his pose, the color of his flesh, wrinkled and dry, his sensitiveness, and his momentary diffidence, everything seemed to be against him, ... " --William H. Herndon letter, July 19, 1887
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