I’m finding it hard to get excited about Rick Perry when there are several better candidates.
I don’t know much about Perry but I am willing to listen.
“I’m finding it hard to get excited about Rick Perry when there are several better candidates.”
Let’s look at that.
Let’s assume Perry runs, and the other candidates are Romney, Bachman, Cain, Pawlenty, Palin, Santorum, Gingrich, and whoever I may be forgetting.
If conservatives are insisting on voting for candidates with no chance of winning the primary, much less the general election, we will have a repeat of 2008 — conservative votes get split and McCain walked away with the nomination.
In this case, conservative votes would split among some six or more candidates: Bachman, Cain, Pawlenty, Palin, Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney will walk away with the nomination, and then lose spectacularly to Obama. Great conservative accomplishment!
It’s high time that conservatives focus on beating Romney and beating Obama.
Perry can do that, but only if he gets the support he needs to beat Romney.
You may be right but I think Governor Perry is the only GOP candidate who has what it takes to beat Obama.
Perry is WAY down the list of folks that could get me interested in voting for a Republican...
According to family and some teacher friends I have in Texas (on BOTH sides of the political spectrum), Perry is dividing the state in some very destructive ways.
One particular area of serious concern - his method of supposedly reforming the educational system - dramatic cuts to funding (not necessarily a bad thing), but the methods of cutting are actually violating state law, and is resulting in very odd and damaging flushing of some of the best teachers in state (while some very bad and sometimes inexperienced teachers are getting to keep their jobs). I know personally of one teacher that has been in the classroom over 20 years, has been recognized not only in her district, but statewide as a candidate for teacher of the year, many many honors and awards for quality of teaching... but the district she was happily working in (spotless record and evaluations) had to cut her. And from what I am hearing through the pipe - this is nowhere near an isolated cases.
And this is just one of several areas where I have been hearing frustration with Perry.
I don’t live in Texas, so I cannot speak from my own experience.
The team the Pubs finally pick will surely have one southerner on it , top or bottom. The Pubs need to get back all 11 states of the South. I can see Perry on the ticket , top or bottom. He is a Center Right guy who will surely have borders, jobs, oil drilling in his platform as well as abolishing regs for farmers via the EPA. We shall see.