Posted on 06/27/2011 2:54:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Jared Woodfill, chairman of the Harris County Republican Party and a Perry supporter, thinks an Austin-Boston connection represents a potentially powerful ticket for his party, but he maintains the roles should be reversed.
"Perry's going to be strong in the primaries," he said last week. "Romney may fall short, and he could be number two. Gov. Perry has a very strong record as governor of Texas that will play strong across the country. I think he'll beat Romney in the primaries."
Romney falling short is a possibility, political scientist Jillson says, noting that Republicans usually nominate the person next in the line of succession - Romney in 2012 - "but this isn't a normal Republican year. It's conceivable that a tea party candidate could it take it from him."
If...former Massachusetts governor survives a minefield of primaries dominated by tea party activists, he is likely to look to the South for his vice-presidential nominee. Perry would bring obvious advantages to the ticket, including a stump style that's more engaging and natural than the public Romney's Dudley Do-Right rectitude.
Perry also could help inoculate Romney against the religious right's lingering suspicion of Mormonism. Half a century ago, polls showed that 25 percent of the American electorate would never vote for a Catholic president, and yet those numbers fell into the single digits almost immediately after Kennedy's election.
...The Mormon issue has not yet subsided. When the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, the current candidate's father, ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968, a solid 20 percent of the electorate said they could never put a Mormon in the White House;..
An outspokenly evangelical running mate - one who's planning a national day of prayer and fasting later this summer in Houston - could help mute that concern.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Anyone who thinks Mitt will accept the slot currently held by Joe the drunk Biden is nuts.
I will NOT support RINO Romney under any circumstances.
NO RINOs.
Great line.
Great point.
Crappy paper.
OR, the media's dream team...Romney/Huntsman
You, know...I would not be surprised to see ol'Joe thrown over the side and an OBozo/Huntsman ticket come to the surface.
Why would a strong conservative like Texas Governor Rick Perry drag establishment GOP Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney along for the ride?
It’s a Romney family heritage and it’s HIS TURN!
Romney never was a U.S. Senator.
Though he ran for the Mass seat against Ted Kennedy:
"....Romney had been thinking about entering politics for a while. He decided to take on longtime incumbent Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, who was more vulnerable than usual in 1994 – in part because of the unpopularity of the Democratic Congress as a whole and also because this was Kennedy's first election since the William Kennedy Smith trial in Florida, in which Kennedy had taken some public relations hits regarding his character. Romney changed his affiliation from Independent to Republican in October 1993 and formally announced his candidacy in February 1994. He stepped down from his position at Bain Capital during the run. Romney came from behind to win the Massachusetts Republican Party's nomination for U.S. Senate after buying substantial television time to get out his message, gaining overwhelming support in the state party convention, and then defeating businessman John Lakian in the September 1994 primary with over 80 percent of the vote. In the general election, Kennedy faced the first serious re-election challenger of his career in the young, telegenic, and very well-funded Romney.
Romney ran as a fresh face, as a successful entrepreneur who stated he had created ten thousand jobs, and as a Washington outsider with a strong family image and moderate stands on social issues. Romney stated: "Ultimately, this is a campaign about change." After two decades out of public view, his father George re-emerged during the campaign as well. Romney's campaign was effective in portraying Kennedy as soft on crime, but had trouble establishing its own positions in a consistent manner.
By mid-September 1994, polls showed the race to be approximately even. Kennedy responded with a series of attack ads, which focused both on Romney's seemingly shifting political views on issues such as abortion and on the treatment of workers at a paper products plant owned by Romney's Bain Capital. Kennedy and Romney held a widely watched late October debate without a clear winner, but by then Kennedy had pulled ahead in polls and stayed ahead afterward. Romney spent over $7 million of his own money, with Kennedy spending more than $10 million from his campaign fund, mostly in the last weeks of the campaign (this was the second-most expensive race of the 1994 election cycle, after the Dianne Feinstein–Michael Huffington Senate race in California).
In the November general election, despite a disastrous showing for Democrats overall, Kennedy won the election with 58 percent of the vote to Romney's 41 percent, the smallest margin in Kennedy's eight re-election campaigns for the Senate. Source
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ROMNEY can get elected ONLY with massive influxes of money and against a weak opponent -- he is not a natural born leader nor does he possess a winning personality.
He HAD his turn.
The "unity" ticket.
Birds of a feather. Mitt Romneycare and former democrat Rick Perry have a lot of positions in common. Both the taxechussettes RINO and the former Al Gore campaign manager from Texas are running on platitudes while trying to dodge their records.
“.....Which brings us to Mitt Romney. And all those other RINO type quasi-ecotards of his ilk who imagine, somehow, that by positioning themselves in the middle they’re going to achieve the kind of consensus that will keep everyone happy.
“Suppose,” Romney is saying, “We just put a tiny bit of dog poop in the yogurt and mix it up with the fruit and the plain. That would work, wouldn’t it?”
No it wouldn’t. And even if half our political class don’t yet understand why it wouldn’t, an increasing number of the people who vote for them very much can.
The public understand that if there is no remotely convincing, proven link between Anthropogenic CO2 emissions and catastrophic climate change then there is absolutely no point in politicians formulating major, economy-destroying, landscape-blighting, liberty-crushing, tax-raising policy decisions on the basis that there is. Period.
More than that, as I argue in my new book Watermelons – yes, also available on Amazon – environmentalism is not some side issue which politicians can heed or ignore at their leisure: it is, in fact, probably THE most strategically vital political battleground of our age, the Helm’s Deep of Western Civilisation......”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100093953/does-mitt-romney-prefer-dog-poop-yogurt/
But Perry/Romney (NO, NO, NO, NO)
When I get up for breakfast
There's no oats in the the bin
Cause every thing is going out
and nothin's comin' in
Believe me when I tell you
I have heard the news
I got those empty feed bag
empty feed bag blues
My pretty filly told me
to stay away tonight
cause all that I bring with me
is a healthy appetite
Why am I so unlucky
me with four horse shoes
I got those empty feed bag
empty feed bag blues
Romney would need Perry more than Perry (barring a significant flub) would need Romney.
With Romney on the same ticket, both would then have to be trying to explain why Romneycare-good, Obamacare-bad.
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Freepers, don’t you think it more sensible to trust what the Conservative icons have to say about Perry?
>Sarah Palin threw her endorsement to Rick Perry for governor-. She recently restated that she likes Perry.
>Rush said that Perry is his dream candidate. http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/rush-limbaugh-on-the-record-3/
>Michael Reagan praises Perry:
“If you don’t believe Reaganomics can still work in this day and age, for whatever reason, I say you should look no further than the state of Texas.
Under the leadership of Gov. Rick Perry, Texas has championed and built upon the concepts my father used to rebuild America in the 1980s..
In short, Reagan Revolution is alive and well - deep in the heart of Texas.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/24/reagans-vision-lives-on-in-texas/?page=1
>Ted Nugent is a close friend and supporter.
Don’t you think it more sensible to trust what numerous politicians and scholars have said about Rick Perry than some haters on FR?
VISIT THIS SITE
Read the official statements of dozens of Perry’s fellow politicians and scholars (both Democrats and Republicans) have had to say about Rick Perry: http://www.politico.com/arena/archive/rick-perry-for-president-in-2012.html
All (including Democrat opponents) have called him a staunch Conservative, and not one of the dozens issuing opinions has mentioned the vaccine or TTC.
Apparently they don’t consider these things an issue. They DID mention Perry threatening to secede from the unionas a strike against him.
What Perry actually said; “You know, my hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention,” Perry continued. “We’ve got a great union. There is absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what may come out of that? So. But Texas is a very unique place and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”
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Why not?? The Dukakis-Bentsen ticket was a real winner. /dripping sarcasm
patriot08, you have a problem.
Despite your false statements,
Gov. Sarah Palin and Rush have not “endorsed”
Gardasil-Perry (Open-Border Perry) for POTUS.
True, he has the endorsements of
Michael Reagan and Politico like you post,
but that is hardly a foundation of CONSERVATISM.
NO SALE on your open-border Romney-supporting RINO.
Nice try.
I said Sarah endorced Perry for GOVERNOR- which she did.
I said she stated she liked him- which she did.
I said Rush said Perry was his ‘dream candidate’- which he did:
http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/rush-limbaugh-on-the-record-3/
I think they should. They’d be a great team on “dancing with the stars”. But who would take the lead part. Mit or Per.
From The Daily Kos:
Sun Jun 26, 2011 at 10:54 AM PDT.
Why Rick Perry is Very Very Scary
(Exerpts)
If you are not concerned about Perry running on the Texas job creation numbers that the Dallas Fed officially reported, look below the squiggly thing and consider the remarks in a speech to a local Dallas trade group by Richard W. Fischer, President of the Dallas Fed, in which he squarely credits Texas job growth to Perry’s insane, laissez faire Republican agenda of no taxes, no services and no regulation and corporate supremacy in all things.
He’s (Perry) the kind of candidate to whom everyday Americans can relate. He has an abundance of political skills, which explains why this career politician has never lost an election. He is affable, charming and a great campaigner.
Rick Perry is coming. Rick Perry is a sitting Governor in a state that can be portrayed as thriving in an election focused on jobs. the economy and the validity of Republican governing philosophy. Rick Perry will storm to the Republican nomination with his jobs record, political skill and impeccable Tea Party credentials. Rick Perry is playing the ant in a Texas remake of Aesop’s Fable, The Grasshopper and the Ant, but Winter won’t come until after the 2012 election. Rick Perry is very very scary.
If you’re not scared yet, consider these remarks from one of the debunkers of Perry’s economic record who, as a newspaper reporter and columnist in Dallas, knows the Governor very well:
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From the Kos forum:
And Perry also has (2+ / 0-)
Recommended by:cassandracarolina, LeftOfYou
the bona fides to bring out all of the religious conservative vote in a way that Romney or Pawlenty never could. He’s got enough Huckabee in him.
by Leap Year on Sun Jun 26, 2011 at 12:26:16 PM PDT
Koz readers took a poll:
Rick Perry in 2012?
He’s Bush Lite; no worries.
4% 5 votes
He’s far too extreme for a general election; no worries.
11% 12 votes
He’s a contender, but very beatable.
19% 21 votes
If he runs strong in the Midwest, he’ll be trouble for Obama.
14% 16 votes
Perry is scary; he could win with enough corrupt corporate lies and attacks.
38% 41 votes
Inaugurate him now and save all the trouble.
11% 12 votes
| 107 votes | Vote | Results | Vote
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/26/988522/-Why-Rick-Perry-is-Very-Very-Scary?via=tag
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