[9YearLurker]

I’m not a man and I submit you don’t understand the sensibilities of most people in the Northeast and the Coasts if you think Perry is going to fly with them. He’d be “God Squaded” out of their consideration before they had to even contemplate why they were so distrusting of and put off by him.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I’m not a man and I submit you don’t understand the sensibilities of most people in the Northeast and the Coasts if you think Perry is going to fly with them.

Guess it's a good thing for Perry that he wouldn't need the Coasts and the Northeast to win.

[normy]

Well I spent my highschool years in Seattle. I even went to a liberal indoctrination class at Ballard high when we first mover there from Texas my 9th grade year. I moved back to Texas when I was 20 but I understand the Northwest very well. That is where I honed my skills at dismantling liberals. I know states like Washington are almost 50-50 and states like Oregon are very independent minded.

I think a States rights platform by Perry, extolling the virtues of local control over massive Obama control from thousands of miles away will resonate.

By the way, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota will all be in play. The Northeast and California are generally lost causes anyway, plus if you look at the governors of those states you see they already know Perry, have a working relationship with him and will campaign for him. I could even see Chris Christie campaign for him in New Jersey. Throw Marco Rubio on the ticket and you take Florida and probably New Mexico and Colorado again.

[OrangeHoof]

...the sensibilities of most people in the Northeast

Well, there's your problem right there. The gay-loving, tax-loving, union-loving Northeast aren't going to love Perry because they're a bunch of liberals and - if you haven't noticed - their numbers are shrinking by the month. That's why they are losing congressional districts and the South is adding them.

The GOP spends way too much time kissing liberal ass because of "the sensibilities of most people in the Northeast". The way you win a general election is to politely tell the Northeast to go screw themselves.

How many electoral votes did the GOP win in 2008? In 2004? In 2000? In 1996? Other than New Hampshire and half of Maine, the answer is probably "zero". And yet we won the White House in 2000 and 2004 without their help. It will be even easier in 2012.

How many times does the Democrat Party worry about offending the sensibilities of people in Texas or Utah or Alabama? I'm guessing they don't.

[deport]

you don’t understand the sensibilities of most people in the Northeast and the Coasts if you think Perry is going to fly with them.

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Does the electoral votes in the ‘Northeast/Coasts’ go GOP in the general election? If so then you may have a point but if they go to the democrat then it doesn’t make a dime’s difference.