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“What about Perry vs the other non-Romney candidates caused you to choose Perry?”

Well, I’ve been weighing several factors since last summer, and I live in Michele Bachmann’s district so I was initially a supporter of her’s. I also gave $ to her campaign. But when Perry got in, and Michele launched that hyperventilating Gardisil attack, I became convinced of what so many were saying, that she was a Romney stalking horse. Now, I’m more sure of that than ever, and very disappointed with her, especially having worked on past congressional campaigns and met her a couple of times.

So after her, I flirted with Cain for a while-even gave him some $-but of course we saw what happened to him.

I guess all along I was sort of considering Perry, but wanted to learn more about him. Being from MN, I honestly didn’t know alot-and of course I was not crazy about his instate tuition for illegals stance.

But looking at what’s left, I narrowed the choices down to Perry & Gingrich. I like Santorum too, but I just don’t think he’s got enough money/organization/stature, etc to win it.

What really sells me on Perry is he is to me the total package. He’s a guy with a proven record-everybody says they have a great record, but anyone can objectively look at Texas and say that job-wise (and I’m sure in many other ways too) they are the envy of the country under his watch.

Then I look at him as a social conservative, and find that not only is he every bit the social con as Bachmann & Santorum, he also is a praying person and has a deep love for Israel, which is very important to me. Then I watched his August 15 “Response” event where he preached for several minutes from scripture, then prayed for the president and our country, and I said to myself “this is our guy.” This man doesn’t just give lip service to conservative Christians, he IS a conservative Christian-in every sense of the word. In fact, he would make a great preacher once he’s done with politics.

Anyway, to sum it up-the accumulation of all I’ve learned about him from true, objective sources has convinced me that he just has much stronger character and I believe will be a better leader than Newt. I like Newt, like what he did in Congress, but he’s just got ALOT of baggage that would need to be overlooked to support him. Unlike with Romney, I could support Newt if he were the last man standing, I just feel much better supporting Perry.