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Donald Trump says he’s intrigued by a Rick Perry presidential candidacy
Houston Chronicle ^ | August 8, 2011 | Texas on the Potomic, Perry Watch

Posted on 08/08/2011 12:38:21 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Donald Trump flirted with a presidential candidacy earlier this year and decided not to go for the gold. But the New York billionaire this afternoon expressed admiration for another high-profile Republican currently flirting with a presidential run: Rick Perry.

In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Trump praised the Texas governor, as well as active GOP White House candidate Michele Bachmann and possible contender Sarah Palin.

“I do know the governor of Texas,” Trump told Blitzer. “He’s a very interesting candidate, I think, a very interesting candidate.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; economy; gopprimary; perry
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To: Scythian
It's people like YOU that will give us Obama another 4 years!! Did you vote for Perot also??? GROW UP!!

Perry did NOT MANDATE Gardisil....STOP THE LIES!!!

Do you NOT remeber the PANIC that was spread by the media back then????? geesh.....

21 posted on 08/08/2011 1:22:18 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Love your Perry articles........I think I’m warming up to the idea. :)


22 posted on 08/08/2011 1:24:16 PM PDT by Badabing Badablonde (New to the internet? CLICK HERE)
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To: jessduntno
Donald is intrigued big boobs on blonds also.

LLS

23 posted on 08/08/2011 1:25:30 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Certified Al Palin Hobbit Terrorist)
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To: Badabing Badablonde

I think you’re just toying with me. =^D


24 posted on 08/08/2011 1:28:18 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: LibLieSlayer

About half the population is too.


25 posted on 08/08/2011 1:32:45 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (all your gold are belong to us)
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To: Ann Archy; Scythian
This Gardasil hysteria just came up on another thread (right on cue) so I gave this response:

There is an increase in oral cancer and a lot of it comes from oral sex the kids are having from the wonderful illustration Hillary Clinton's husband Bill Clinton so casually advertised for the world and children to see, where his sycophants in the media and education lapped it up. So I am not going to say Rick Perry was awful to want to protect women and young girls if it was possible to prevent this cancer (any strains of it - and oral or cervical). There is going to be an explosion of health care costs and this cancer will be among them. His idea to do good was at odds with what was politically correct but the legislature blocked his EO. They're responsible for not having the vaccine available. Was it the right thing to do? Time will tell.

26 posted on 08/08/2011 1:33:29 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I can understand the mutual respect thing ,,,,, they both like to flip party affiliation with the popular breeze .
27 posted on 08/08/2011 1:34:23 PM PDT by lionheart 247365 ( -:{ GLENN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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To: deport
Perry will announce on Sat in South Carolina.
28 posted on 08/08/2011 1:34:29 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Tucker believes Perry would frame his remarks around “what Texas has done right and we transfer that to the national level.”

Rick Perry is just what we need right now. His strong state's independence / anti-federal government stand and policies are SO unlike the Obama socialist administration and unlike most national politicians in recent years. That is why I think many people don't "get" Rick Perry yet. He is not like what they are used to in today's national politics.

By the way, did you know that after speaking with Rick Perry about what Texas does for small businesses, that Glenn Beck decided to put his new internet / TV adventure (about 150 employees to start, I think) in Texas and is personally moving to a Dallas, TX suburb?

Yes, I would really like to see if Governor Perry can get what he has done for Texas transferred to the national level!

29 posted on 08/08/2011 1:35:17 PM PDT by casinva (It was Obama who set the August 2 date to begin with. Since when did we start believing him?)
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To: The Bronze Titan

Do you want Sarah Palin to run for president?


30 posted on 08/08/2011 1:36:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: deport
I got fundraising material Saturday..."Texans for Perry."

I've never contributed to Perry.

31 posted on 08/08/2011 1:38:15 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: deport
Perry will announce on Sat in South Carolina.
32 posted on 08/08/2011 1:39:24 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: casinva
.....By the way, did you know that after speaking with Rick Perry about what Texas does for small businesses, that Glenn Beck decided to put his new internet / TV adventure (about 150 employees to start, I think) in Texas and is personally moving to a Dallas, TX suburb? .....

I heard him for a bit today on the car radio talking about Texas. Beck said if you want to move your business to Texas you better do it soon before Obama and his henchmen (my word) block business from leaving other states as it is hurting their economies a la Boeing trying to open a plant (not even moving just opening a new plant) in S.C.

In the past we would have laughed at that, but we can't anymore.

33 posted on 08/08/2011 1:42:24 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: The Bronze Titan

I thought I understood what you said there, but now I don’t.

Your quotation marks are wrongly used which leads to the confusion. Unfortunately, if you are like me you don’t see them as well anymore.


34 posted on 08/08/2011 1:42:33 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
A significant point about vaccination is nobody really knows who's going to do what, when or get what, when. Thus, from a public health standpoint, it's wise to vaccinate the entire target population, as has been done with smallpox, polio, tetanus, diphtheria, and a number of other serious diseases. Just because a particular disease is a STD doesn't mean it isn't amenable to the same type of mass vaccination program that's been applied to many other diseases. It seems to me Perry was pretty much following good public health practices.
35 posted on 08/08/2011 1:43:13 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: The Bronze Titan
Perry changed to Republican in 1989 when it became politically convenient after the Dukakis debacle in 1988.

Spoken like someone with no clue about Texas politics. Texas is a strange state when it comes to political parties. Rick's mother was the HEAD of the Democratic party in Haskell County in the '80s, as the Democrats represented the CONSERVATIVE party up to this time in Texas. However, in the late '80s, the Dems swerved hard left and MOST of the entire county left them, including their faithful representative, Rick Perry. Like Reagan, Perry followed the conservative party, and in Texas, that meant making a difficult decision to leave a previously beloved and defended political party, moving from Democrat to Republican in the '80s. He has never looked back.

As far as his conservatism, he is the real deal. His dad was a farmer, he was a farmer, his wife is/was a nurse and the daughter of a country doctor, and I can personally vouch for his faithful church attendance every single Sunday while growing up. He's a good man, faithful, conservative, tough as nails, and is fully capable of leading us out of the years of the Obamanation and back to prosperity.
36 posted on 08/08/2011 1:47:29 PM PDT by DRey
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To: libstripper
Thanks for adding that information.

It's time to follow Perry's lead and TAKE A STAND and not flinch each time someone goes "boo!"

The more I've researched Rick Perry the more I've found smoke and mirrors and downright lies about him and his motives and his positions.

Time for Perry

37 posted on 08/08/2011 1:51:39 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

FWIW:Someone told me they saw someone on the great American Panel of high GOP clout on Hannity supposedly say that there is a GOP process that all that are even thinking about running have gone through. A vetting sort of process all have to do each time and that Palin has not contacted them. They supposedly guessed Palin is not running. So unless Palin is going real rogue/third party; she may not be running.


38 posted on 08/08/2011 1:55:06 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (S&P wasn't worried about us not lifting the debt ceiling - they are worried about the spending)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Oh from what I’m hearing, Obama has been doing everything he can to pull Texas’s state success down for quite sometime now and has been at odds with Rick Perry as its governor big time.

Obama turned his head when Texas had raging wildfires that were threatening the entire state and Texas lost millions of acres from those wildfires a few months ago. It barely made the national news even, MSM backing Obama, I’m sure.

Obama is also furious at Governor Perry for figuring out a way to get around Obama’s EPA takeover of citizen’s rights,that light bulb federal mandate, lending ‘light’ (no pun intended but noticed, lol) to how much Governor Perry wants to diminish the EPA’s size and power.

Those two buck heads all the time, it seems!

For Governor Perry to build such a free market for business growth and jobs on the state level is SOOOO opposite than Obama’s “spread the wealth” idea!

And I just think that if Governor Perry could take that kind of “free market without government interference” theme to the national level, our country would begin prospering once again as a... the financial leader of the world!

Yea CW, I can certainly see what Glenn Beck was saying about moving businesses to Texas before Obama tries to stop them. The growth in Texas that has been protected by Governor Perry’s stand for ‘freedom to grow and prosper’ just doesn’t make it in Obama’s socialist book!


39 posted on 08/08/2011 2:08:06 PM PDT by casinva (It was Obama who set the August 2 date to begin with. Since when did we start believing him?)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

I heard a snip of an interview about the upcoming Fox Debate in Ames and they were saying they needed something from Perry about his candidacy (I don’t have the exact terms) to get him in the debate.

They really want Perry in the Fox debate but it looks like he’s going to be in South Carolina (?) — everything is getting bunched up. He’s going to, or is in NH now for meet and greets like they do in Iowa.

Personally, I don’t know how anyone could wait any longer to enter. It costs SO much to run and to get staff and organization and on and on — and to line up the money — it HAS to be done.


40 posted on 08/08/2011 2:15:09 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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