Posted on 07/11/2011 3:30:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
My..my kids. All this squabbling. If Perry has the votes to win the nomination, good! If Bachmann has the votes to win the nomination, good! If Cain has the votes to win the nomination, good! If Pawlwnty or—God forbidd—even Romney has the votes to win the nomination, then so be it. Don’t get in too much of a huff over who is the purest of them all. None of them are perfect. This is politics. It’s a filthy business no matter who you root for and who you vote for.
Don’t forget who the real enemy is. He sits in the White House and dreams of how better and faster to destroy America in hopes the country will fall like a ripe plum into the grasp of the socialists. Stay united in your desire to replace him.
Bump!
You need to learn how to spell his name, it’s PErry. :)
How much was he good for in 2010? There were 4 people in the 2006 race and Strayhorn-Whatver took 18%, which probably would have gone to Perry if she were not drawing the “moderate” RINOs off. 55% of Texans voting for him last year is pretty good, no? The more pressing question to me is who in the current field is more conservative than Perry that actually has a chance to win? I do not see anybody at this time.
Thank you. May I add he’s also a crony capitalist in addition to being a globalist RINO poser.
In 2006, 100% of Texas voters had a chance to voice their support of Perry, and 60% said, "no thanks, I'm going to go over here and vote for some other person." There were two RiNO's, one Democrat, and one flaky populist Democrat (Kinky) in the 2006 race.
What does that tell you about Rick Perry's political majesty, his authori-tiy </Cartman>, and the public appreciation of his stewardship of the state for the preceding five years?
Using your own number, and adding back Foghorn-Leghorn-Strayhorn's "mean grandma" 18% to Perry's 40% in 2006, that gave non-Democrats 58% of the vote that year ..... declining to 55% six months ago, against a former Texas Democratic Party chairman, well-known ur-liberal and "sanctuary city" practitioner, and generally charisma-less nobody.
The arrows are not pointing up for Rick Perry in Texas.
Perry has always been looking for the next golden ring to grab. $$$ is why he pushed the Guardasil thing and why he pushed the TTC. Goodness knows what else he has sold. He needed somewhere to land after leaving office. And he would have left office long ago if he was not time and again the douche running against the turd sandwich. He never has been challenged. I'd bet Perry is as surprised as the rest of us that he is still in office. He is absolutely for sale. I know Bob Perry (great guy but not perfect) and Rick is his beotch....
The kind of odd thing is that if it came down to Perry or Obama that race would be right up Perry's alley because he'd be the less of two evils. Perry won't make a move before Palin does. The fact that he has not jumped in makes me think he knows Palin is going to. And Perry will not run against Palin. That would be, well, work:) But, if he does get in no matter what the situation is I want him to resign as Texas Gov. immediately!
How so? He gets his political advice from the same people (Rove, Ailes) and he works for the same people (the Bilderberg bunch and their NWO project).
So how's he different, n/w/s Dubya and Rove have a poor opinion of Perry's acumen?
Bottom line, how is Rick Perry good news for real GOP conservatives?
On the contrary, he's a RiNO and the Establishment's "Judas horse" that Alan Keyes has been warning us about for months.
....that race would be right up Perry's alley because he'd be the less of two evils.
You've just described the existential niche of the GOP Establishment.
Being the lesser of two evils, and selling the decrement to the plutocrats who run the Fortune 500.
That is why RiNO's are pallid, loathesome, and useless. They're little white parasites, squirming around in the diseased tissues of the body politic.
And Perry will not run against Palin. That would be, well, work:)
That would be a biblical blowout, a slaughter -- hell, it would be political murder.
And Rick would look bad and go into retirement wearing an "L".
I know several Austin lobbyists who say they have been in the room with Bush and Rove when they refer to Perry using the nickname Bush gave Perry - The Dumbass.....
There is no love lost..
Right, I hadn't heard that one, but I've heard the "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" characterization, and I stipulated to their disregard.
The question though, is how is Perry different from other RiNO's? And the main one seems to be that he went to Texas A&M, the East Coast snots look down on him, and so he tries harder to brownnose the NWO types.
He's really not much different from Prescott Bush when Pressy was a young ex-shoe salesman from Ohio humping Yankee college boys' legs at good old Yale.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Palin/Perry ticket.
Perry did get 55% in a conservative state a few months ago. That result is much more relevant to today than a 4 way race 5 years ago is. I don’t know where you live but I do not usually get the luxury of voting for my perfect candidate where I vote. I vote for the most conservative in every election. I held my nose and voted McCain in 2008 because he was definitely more conservative than Obama. As badly as McCain sucked, I think it was better than staying home in protest. I want the most conservative Republican nominee that can win in 2012. If Palin does not get in I think that would be Perry, if he gets in. In the end I would vote for any Republican, even Romney, over Obama in the general. I could vote for Bachmann too but I don’t think she has much chance of getting the nomination and will most likely be long done by the time the Texas primary rolls around next year.
Perry is a living caricature of everything wrong with politics.
Perry will do or say anything during election season. He’ll do a Joe Arpaio imitation on immmigration, plagarize Reagan stump speeches word-for-word during the primaries, then ‘grudgingly admire’ FDR during the general election (as if he could get that far).
When it comes to governing, he’ll do exactly as his open-borders backers say. I think he’d drop his pants and sing Aura Lee in public if they told him to. Perry thinks ‘principle’ is that SOB that hollered at him for chewing gum during History class.
Well said.
It would be good for other FReepers to pay attention to us Texans before jumping on the Perry bandwagon.
I do not like him. I do not trust him. I will vote for him in a heartbeat if doing so will kick the Dems out of the White House.
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