Posted on 08/13/2011 11:48:31 PM PDT by SUSSA
The two men are good friends, and Perry was the only Republican governor in the country to endorse Giuliani’s presidential campaign in 2008. Payback could benefit Perry on a number of fronts – most notably fundraising – and would likely strengthen his status as a top-tier candidate if he decides to run.First and most importantly, Giuliani has deep connections in the New York City Republican money world.
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Perry has never had to raise money under federal contribution limits — $2,500 for the primary and $2,500 for the general election is all any single donor can give — and would have to change his model of finding a handful of major donors who can write huge checks to one centered around big bundlers who can collect hundreds of smaller checks.
His fundraising base in Texas gives Perry a foothold in one of the most donor-rich states in the country. With Giuliani making introductions for him in New York City, Perry would almost certainly have the financial foundation he would need to make a credible run – particularly given some of the less-than-inspiring sums reported over the past three months by his would-be rivals for the nomination.
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I would be more worried about potential bimbo problems.
Money money money .....
Electability! He has the war chest!
Same ol’ same ol’...
Souls have been sold for less...
but the Devil still got ‘em.
Oh there are plenty of those. I haven’t even scratched the surface on Rudy yet.
A war chest doesn’t always translate into electability.
This guy just declared and there is already talk of morphing left to get Rudy (Rudy! tied for last on my primary candidate list in '08!) to bring in the N.E. liberal Rinobucks.
I view it this way: The GOP will support whoever the Republican candidate is, Conservative or not, or they will be on the sidelines again. The trick is getting a Conservative past the primary.
For decades, the GOP has counted on Conservatives voting GOP to try to keep the Liberals/Marxists/New Left crowd out of power, and used us like toilet paper afterwards.
No more. Not again. Enough.
Let's get a Conservative candidate for POTUS and they can vote with us.
Perry has never had to raise money under federal contribution limits — $2,500 for the primary and $2,500 for the general election is all any single donor can give — and would have to change his model of finding a handful of major donors who can write huge checks to one centered around big bundlers who can collect hundreds of smaller checks.
Wow, and we’re supposed to like this guy?
Perry is used to getting huge sums of money from small numbers of people.
Nobody likes him much, but he gets huge sums of money for favors. Selling off the states infrastructure to foreigners, and money for Perry.
Such a hero, that Perry.
Let’s get a Conservative candidate for POTUS and they can vote with us.
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Agreed. We were told that Bush, Dole, and Bush were conservatives and some people believed it. Not this time!
His lawsuits against American gun manufacturers are hard to forgive.
Some warts become malignant.
Ironically Perry also endorsed Al Gore for President.
Yeah, in 1988. It’s 2011.
:-) Yep. Looks like it. I really looooved the last one.
All these *2008 noobs* don't know what they're asking for.
still too early for me to eat popcorn
Well, this is interesting. It makes me think better of both of them, because these are not the type of people I’d think would be “friends”.
Say what you like about Rudy Giuliani, but I grew up in NYC and watched it deteriorate into a hell hole.
Rudy Giuliani single-handedly brought that city back from the brink of the abyss. While being called Hitler, oh no wait, let’s call him Mussolini, by the NY Times, et al.
You think mud was slung at Bush? It was all a recycle of the mud they threw at Giuliani.
And I don’t know what your beef is with him about 9/11, but all I know is that first night, when there were tens of millions of people in the tri-state area absolutely at the ends of our ropes, he went on TV and bucked us all up.
Even my stinking, lefty, liberal friend (who would cut her throat in Macy’s window before she’d vote for a republican for dog catcher) said “he was great”.
So, yeah, there are some problems with Giuliani, but he’ll always be a hero in my book.
Perry is owned by the Bilderbergs . Will American ever learn ???
Liberal + corrupt to go with RINO + corrupt?
Clean up workers suffering from lung disease don’t think he’s a hero.
Although Giuliani constantly blames the EPA for misleading him about air quality at Ground Zero, the city had its own test results which outdoor tests showed hazardous levels of asbestos up to seven blocks away, he decided not to make the results public. EPA chief, Bruce Sprague, sent an October 5 letter to the city complaining about “very inconsistent compliance” with respiratory protection. Sprague, who wrote the letter only after unsuccessful conversations with Giuliani aides, likened the indifference in a subsequent court deposition to sticking one’s head “over a barbecue grill for hours” and expecting no consequences. An internal legal memo to the mayor estimated early in the cleanup that there could be 35,000 potential plaintiffs against the city, partly because rescue workers were “provided with faulty or no equipment (i.e. respirators).” Bechtel, the major construction firm retained by the city as its health and safety consultant, urged it to cut the exit-entry points from 20 to two so they could enforce the use of respirators and other precautions, just as was done at the Pentagon, but Giuliani ignored the recommendation.
And that’s just part of the problems he has with the real heroes of 9-11.
You may want to read this.
Firemen douse Rudy’s image as 9/11 hero
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1530535.ece
I don’t know why Perry, who recently presided over a fervent Christian prayer meeting, likes Giuliani.
Giuliani, the former wife-abandoning cross-dressing mayor of New York, is a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual agenda, faux-Catholic social liberal. He was a total failure in the 2008 primary performance. He is an aloof, incompetent campaigner who doesn’t like to shake hands and mix with crowds.
Giuliani may be tough on crime, but he is otherwise a RINO disaster.
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