Posted on 05/19/2011 6:36:56 AM PDT by SumProVita
"Conservatives would have to mount a massive, rapid, and high volume effort to get him in. I think such an outpouring of support and requests would draw Perry in. But, to do so, it’d have to be after Daniels and with continued displeasure with the field by conservatives.
One of the sticking points has always been whether the country was ready for another guy from Texas so soon after Bush. With Texas’s economy flourishing and the national economy still imploding, I think the country could get ready for another guy from Texas really quick.
Daniels is running. How conservatives react once Daniels makes it official could have an impact on Perry if conservatives target him for a draft effort."
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
He’s too short.
Yes. I’m speculating, but it seemed obvious to me that he probably was getting a kick back from merck. I can’t prove it of course, but the whole thing made no sense otherwise.
newsbusters:
Experience tells us that the Republican presidential candidate the media prefer is the one they believe is most easily defeated.
On this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show," seven of the twelve regulars said Mitch Daniels "has the best shot to overcome his obvious flaw" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: We put it to the Matthews Meter, twelve of our regulars including Howard, Katty and Norah, “Which candidate has the best shot to overcome his obvious flaw?” Well this is surprising I guess. Seven said Mitch Daniels. Three said John Huntsman, two, one each for Mitt Romney and one for Pawlenty
Daniels isn't running either.
I don’t know anything about Rick Perry. I’m paying only scant attention to him unless and until he actually says he’s running. In the meantime, I just kinda sift through what others who seem to have some knowledge of him are posting, something beyond “He’s a RINO!”, “He has great hair!”, etc. Here’s a post I copied yesterday, from a Texas FReeper, patriot08, on another thread. I haven’t taken the time to verify or refute any of the following, but will do so if it starts to look as though Perry has serious intentions. Maybe you’ll find this helpful too.
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. Sarah Palin threw her endorsement to Rick Perry for governor.
. Pro-life, Pro-guns, pro-spending cuts, pro-business
. He’s an outside-the-Beltway candidate
. Fighting with Obama on many fronts
Google Perry/Obama and you will see he’s been fighting him and his government for the past two years.
. Since Perry has been Governor of Texas, Texas has added more than 850,000 jobs, more than all other states combined. Texas has added over 180,000 jobs since August of 2009.
. There is no such thing as ‘Perrycare’
. According to this web site Texas is #1 this year and last year for business friendly.
http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business
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 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.
. He is not a Ivy League grad
The Bush’s don’t like him
He was an Air Force captain who flew a C-130
AMEN and AMEN.
Since our good country has not yet seen the wisdom in just letting me appoint the next POTUS, I will not be able to anoint President Palin, so we will have to go through the election again. I'm not certain Palin is running, so I am exploring the other candidates. It annoys me no end when someone is mentioned as a candidate and the substance-less posts which amount to little more than name-calling immediately pop up. I have no objection to someone concluding that a candidate is a RINO but give us some reasons for that conclusion.
I don't know much about Rick Perry but those for him have presented a much more substantive case than those who are against him.
I don't demand perfection in a candidate but I don't want someone who is seriously flawed either.
The only people cheerleading for him are from outside the state of Texas. The "substantive" reasons they posit for him tend to be statistics about how much better Texas is doing than most of the country, which speaks to the supremacy of the overall political environment here in Texas, but doesn't necessarily reflect on the merits of Perry as a political leader in general or as governor in specifics. Most of the FReepers FROM TEXAS who have commented on these threads have commented against him because we have seen some of the very UNconservative things he has tried to do while governor. We recognize that much of the economic strength here in Texas has resulted from conditions that would have prevailed due to our conservative legislature with or without Perry's help. We do NOT need another John McCain as our nominee, even if he does have better hair.
Those are all very impressive achievements. Thanks for posting them.
Arab American Group Praises Mitch Daniels As ‘The Adult In The Room’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2707672/posts
While some GOP presidential contenders ratchet up their anti-Muslim rhetoric to toxic levels, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniel (R) is set to accept a prestigious award next month from the Arab American Institute.
Maya Berry, executive director of AAI, told TPM that the award was incidental to his status as a possible presidential candidate and celebrates his broad record of public service and his Syrian heritage, which is not commonly known. Nonetheless, she noted that Daniels’ award comes at a time of increasingly mainstream anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment in conservative circles.
“It’s a moment to honor our own and Mitch Daniels goes back to the founding of the institute as one of our earliest supporters,” she said. “We have a community that comes with some unfortunate political baggage in terms of bigots...it’s just nice when folks are proud of their ethnic background and don’t allow that kind of politics of exclusion to get in the way.”
Berry noted Daniel’s emphasis on fixing the economy and the group’s website praises his call for a “truce” on social issues, a quote that has invited heated attacks from religious conservatives.
“I think he’s been the adult in the room,” Berry said.
A spokesman for AAI, Omar Tewfik, contrasted Daniels’ relationship with the Arab-American community with other potential candidates in the 2012 primaries in a post on the group’s website.
“Gov. Daniels piques our interest not only because he is Arab American (his grandparents are from Syria), he is a politician who - even in today’s hyper-partisan political climate - has not digressed from his primary focus; fixing the economy,” he wrote. “He has insisted that other issues not become a distraction and has not pandered to the anti-Muslim, anti-Arab sentiments expressed by many other potential GOP presidential candidates.”
Asked about the GOP field, Tewfik told TPM that one area of particular importance to the group was the debate over Park 51 community center. AAI put out report cards grading public figures on their rhetoric on the issue and gave Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin their lowest rating, indicating “anti-Muslim sentiment in opposing the construction of the Muslim community center” and including “individuals who imply that those behind Park51 are pro-terrorist extremists.”
Past winners of the Najeeby Halaby award, named after the former airline executive and father of Jordan’s Queen Noor, include Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Congressman Nick Rahall. Daniels’ paternal grandparents immigrated from Syria.
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Our likely choices suck thus far.
I am not a huge fan of Perry, but
compared to Romney, Newt, and the rest of JOKES running for President , Perry is a ROCK STAR!
You are NOT going to find a perfect candidate. They don’t exist.
Texas has been voted #1 business climate for the last seven years. .
Texas has been getting all of California’s jobs.
Perry must be doing something right.
We need a good business guy right now.
Perry has proved it.
Better looking
Better record
Rick Perry for President.
America will get it.
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That comment is completely false. Every parent had the choice to opt out if they chose to do so.
While that is an interesting observation, it still doesn't give any substance to the objections to Rick Perry. There are also a lot of Ron Paul supporters on FR, many of whom I assume are from Texas. Just because a FREEPER is from that state doesn't give them automatic credibility. I'm much more inclined to give credibility to Sarah Palin's support of Perry than I am a bunch of nameless, faceless FREEPERS whose conservative credentials could be suspect.
Rather than take anyone's word for it (including Sarah Palin's), I would prefer to see an accurate account of Perry's record and I'll make my own call about his conservatism. That was the issue that my initial post was bemoaning.
Nope...there was a right of parental refusal to this test.
Imagine that allowing parents to select something about their children?
Oh yes, the ever popular parental "opt-out" for government mandates. That should placate the objections of conservatives. As long as there is an "opt-out" provision, even the most intrusive mandate can be made palatable.
Imagine that - MAKING PARENTS JUMP THROUGH HOOPS to opt out of a mandate rather than just leaving it up to parents to discuss with their doctors and then make a decision for themselves and their children.
I’ll take either over Obama.
HOOPS??? You mean not signing the permission slip that parents sign for field trips, thats not a hoop that’s being a parent.
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