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Posted on 10/04/2011 10:58:48 AM PDT by bullypulpit
Christian Science Monitor uses shaky evidence to declare that Rick Perry isn't wearing well. Citing multiple polls, the CSM cannot even pinpoint the reason. So, they leave it up to me to decipher all of this for you. Rick Perry dipped in the polls for three reasons:
Rick Perry has been down this road before. In 2009, when Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison announced her bid for Texas Governor, Rick Perry was trailing in the polls and some declared him dead politically. His campaign ramped up, and he soundly defeated the senator and Tea Party candidate Debra Medina in the primary to win the chance to trounce former Houston Mayor Bill White by a wide margin.
The key is the money. If Perry's fundraising is good, which from reports have Perry's first quarter of fundraising at around $15 million, he'll pull this out nicely. Another report says that Perry has enough money and donors to pay for the campaign through the end of April 2012.
Reports like this one are just fodder thrown out there to pile more of the same crap on. There's really nothing new to report.
Folks, hold on to your hats. The Perry train is about to roll.
Maybe so, maybe so!
(But...maybe not.....)
It’d be good for the GOP race if Perry did exceptionally well in the next debate.
It was “heartless”.
The conservative viewers know it when they see or hear it. They know Perry isn’t really one of them. It’s become instinctual and easy to spot.
No conservative would have used that word to denote someone who disagrees with giving benefits to illegals.
The GOP establishment fears Perry. The mainstream media fears Perry. Obama fears Perry. And the nativists really fear Perry.
The Perry feeding frenzy is in full swing. Never seen any conservative get this hammered so quickly and so intensely.
Instead of recognizing his campaign is in trouble and re-tooling, he and his supporters are running blaming everyone else for "piling on"
If Perry cannot stand the heat of a primary better then this, he is going to fold like a cheap suit in the much worse heat of a National Election
Of course fundraising is going to be good, he has spent years doling out cash for favored business, like his own little “stimulus”. These businesses and their officials will scratch his back just like those getting largesse from Obama are big donors to his campaign.
Hmm..when I get pulled over by the police they check my RECORD..not my bs. It can be good or it can be bad, but it is a tattoo on you.
Then you haven't bothered to watch any national elections.
Both Palin and Reagan were subject to far far worse abuse then anything Perry has faced to date
Perry has been subject to the most superficial basic scrutiny of his words and record. He has not faced the sort of nasty attack politics that both Palin and Reagan faced from the national media.
If Perry cannot handle this minor heat, he is never going to survive the much worse heat the National Democrat Campaign will direct at him in 2012.
Face it Perry is just not ready for the national political stage.
It’s not just conservatives who can spot it. It’s also former liberals. I speak as one. The ‘heartless’ comment, and the illegal instate tuition, etc., is very familiar to me. It’s how I used to think and talk. It’s ‘our language’ so to speak. You either agreed w us or you were heartless. It’s so simplistic, emotive, and devastatingly destructive.
I do think the next debate will be the tipping point for Perry. If he comes out sounding unprepared again, I think its all over. It's up to him.
Yes, he has been pummeled, and I am not thrilled to see our entire field piling up on Perry while Romney goes mostly untouched. That said, I am more concerned about Perry’s inability to handle the pummeling than the positions he holds.
We need to send someone into battle who can carry the conservative movement on their back and fight the media and the left. I want to see Perry be able to do it, but he has not proven to be able to so far.
The thing I can tell you first hand is that while visiting Texas, all of the people I spoke to said they would not vote for him.
He is known in Texas as a RINO opportunist. In fact he was a Democrat all his life until recently. And, he actually supported Al Gore. Furthermore, the word is he loves illegals. I don’t know who he did that tuition thing for, but it was not for the people of Texas. They hate it.
But, more than that, they tell me in Texas that his reputation is one of corruption and cronyism. Specifically, I was told, “If you do him a favor, he remembers his friends.” This was said in a more or less negative way.
I had no real opinion of him one way or the other. But after hearing what the people in Texas say about him, he is off my list. If they don’t want him, then neither do I. JMHO
Reagan took serious and endless abuse for decades, from both sides! Palin has been subject to a steady stream of nasty attacks mostly from the left for the last 3 years. NO GOP candidate I've ever seen has ever taken this much abuse in such a short time frame following an announcement for potus. Especially not from his own side --- Republicans and so-called conservatives. Lots of half truths, falsehoods and innuendo. Cheap pot shots!
You are one of those Perry smear merchants. I hope you enjoy GOP nominee Romney because sadly, that is what you're gonna get in the end.
Bwahh! Derail is more like it.
I don’t expect a candidate to agree with me on everything but to call those who don’t agree with them “heartless” shows he does not have conservative instincts.
It showed with his handling of the TTC and Guardasil too, a top-down, my-way-or-the-highway approach as his default setting. He only backed down when it was clear he could not win.
When he says he believes in states rights, he also does not seem to like individual rights. He really means he was a state supremacist, at least while he’s Governor.
Ideology wise, he has little to none. He’s like a gummie politician.
Big sissy!
Conservatives have thick skin.
You obviously have thin skin.
That makes you a whiner.
Btw, Perry apologized, get over it! LOL
One thing we don’t want to do is to put a rich, country club, big corp. guy like Romney up as the face of the Republican Party in today’s political climate.
This is not the image we want to put up as our voice. Yes, he’s a good debater but he’s never had to work for anything in his whole life and has been on every side of every issue.
We must make sure Romney is not our voice to go agaist Obama.
Rick Perry is not a conservative. He has proved it.
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