Posted on 05/17/2011 12:58:32 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
As many grass-roots Republicans remain in search of a conservative candidate with the pizazz to go toe-to-toe against President Obama, a man from deep in the heart of Texas who was tea party before the tea party was cool appears to be giving the presidential race some thought. Gov. Rick Perry has insisted on multiple occasions that he has no interest in the presidency, but RCP has learned that political associates have begun to nose around quietly on Perry's behalf. A Texas pol who is close to Perry has been telling a few key strategists that the nation's longest-serving governor sees a vacuum and is waiting to be summoned into the race. This source believes that could happen by late summer. Without fellow Southerners Haley Barbour or Mike Huckabee in the race -- and with Newt Gingrich's early troubles raising further doubts about the current lineup -- there could be a glaring niche for Perry to fill. According to another well-connected Republican, at least one Perry confidant has been very quietly making inquiries about the political terrain in the nation's first voting state of Iowa. A third Perry associate, RCP has learned, has been heralding a small contingent of Iowans with the time-tested line that is often used by would-be candidates who are leaving their options open: "Keep your powder dry." Perry's aides have long made it clear that the tough-talking Texan, who succeeded George W. Bush in Austin in 2000, would not seriously entertain the idea of mounting a White House run before the state's legislative session finishes at the end of this month. That date is now less than two weeks away, and the 2012 presidential field remains fluid.
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So is she running?
According to Forbes. Texas is #2 for the friendliest to business. Virginia is #1. But Virginia has all of that endless supply of Belt Way money.
According to this web site Texas is #1 this year and last year for business friendly. Has been #1 on many lists for around 7 years. Great track record for business. What is this country huting for now?????
http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business
I read that as a good conservative government.
Obama would not want not run against a governor that has the BEST business climate in the U.S. when everything else is in a depression. He also has a military background. He also can speak Spanish. Which Obama can’t do.
Also spending has not went up significantly in Texas for several years. Another reason for a great business climate.
And hair. Perry is famous for that.
If Daniels was six foot tall, and had hair like Perry he'd be way ahead right now.
“Because that whole Gardasil debacle was completely based on liberal feministic agenda.”
No more so than the polio vaccine.
Sex is hardly the only way to spread this disease. An untimely handshake and an itch can do it.
I believe so. We don’t have to know definitely at this point in time.
Perry is far from free of RINOism. His advantage is that he talks a good game, but he hasn’t held the line on taxes, spending, illegals an dborder enforcement, property rights, etc. As a candidate, he would be telegenic. As a president he would be a little better than McCain, but not a lot.
Yeah? Which party?
That looks pretty tough right there.
Dude ... I’m in. Where do I sign up?
Just Wow!
So, you are willing to take control of my minor daughter away from me and place her life in the hands of the state? Over the asumption that she WILL have sex? And FORCE her to be inoculated with a dangerous vaccine?
Words fail me.
Really? How so?
From his web site:
• He refused to raise taxes when Texas faced a record $10 billion budget shortfall in 2003. Instead, he was the first Texas governor since World War II to sign a budget that lowered state spending (and has now done it twice). As governor, Perry has used his line item veto to cut over $3 billion in proposed spending.
• In 2005, Perry signed a historic $15.7 billion property tax cut for homeowners and businesses that also included new taxpayer protections against appraisal increases. In 2009, Gov. Perry secured a tax cut for approximately 40,000 small businesses in Texas and protected the Rainy Day Fund for future challenges.
• He led the battle to pass the country’s most sweeping lawsuit reforms, closing the door on junk lawsuits that had been making trial lawyers rich while driving countless doctors either out of the state or the profession all together. Since Texas voters approved these reforms, malpractice claims and premiums have fallen and access to healthcare is increasing across the state as doctors have applied in droves to practice in Texas.
No Perry. In my view his track record shows a Romneyesque sort of track, but without the exposure of Romney.
Perry was for all the things Texas Conservatives,”H” all Conservative’s were against until all of a sudden Perry seemed to see himself somewhere down the road doing something he wanted very badly, and began to be more malleable.
The guy was a Democrat, and was governing as though still a Democrat, thus a RINO until only a couple of years ago.
I think he’s had his eye quietly on the Pennsylvania Ave. add’y for awhile, and thus the reason for his turnabout in attitude.
Appears self serving, and lacking in conviction to me.
Of course he is. He was invited to the Bilderberg meeting a couple of years ago. (2007)
To everyone getting excited over the thought of Perry being WHAT PALIN IS DOING-Perry’s VP. I gave a gut feeling Rick Perry is only throwin this out there to send a signal to the chosen billion dollar man Romney<———Hurl- that he would be a good VP.
West or Cain or a non professional politician or bust.
“I say HECK NO. He is as wishy washy as they come”
That’s what I have understood from other conservatives who have followed him (I haven’t kept up with his career). It seems I have heard he is soft on immigration issues and had a lot of people riled about the Meh-hee-co/Canada freeway a few years back.
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