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Posted on 08/11/2011 8:38:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Texas Governor Rick Perry will upend the Republican presidential primary with his entry this weekend, CNN’s latest national poll shows. He starts off in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney, 17/15, with his nearest competitors at 12%. Perhaps most surprisingly, Michele Bachmann isn’t among them — and her support gets cut almost in half with Perry’s candidacy:
According to a CNN/ORC International poll, 15 percent of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP pick Perry as their first choice for their party’s nomination, just two points behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who’s making his second bid for the White House. Romney’s two point margin over Perry is within the survey’s sampling error.
The poll’s Thursday release comes two days before Perry gives a speech at a major conservative gathering in South Carolina where his staff has indicated he will make his intentions for a presidential run clear. Later in the day Perry travels to New Hampshire to meet with GOP lawmakers, activists, and voters. Perry’s travels Saturday come as the rest of the political spotlight will be shining on Iowa, for a crucial presidential straw poll in Ames. Perry heads to Iowa Sunday to speak at a Republican party gathering, which means he will visit three of the crucial early voting primary and caucus states this weekend.
The survey indicates that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who is making his third bid for the White House, are at 12 percent apiece. While both Giuliani, who ran for the presidency four years ago, and Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008, have flirted with bids, neither has taken concrete steps towards launching a campaign.
Three weeks ago, Perry scored 14% but Giuliani, Palin, and Bachmann all scored 13% or 12%. Now Bachmann has dropped to 7%, a fall of five points and the biggest decline in the field for the period. Ron Paul has picked up four points to surpass her and join Giuliani and Palin in a three-way tie for third place.
Bachmann isn’t the only candidate trending downward, but the rest are in the second tier. Herman Cain dropped two points to 4%, while Tim Pawlenty dropped one to come in at 2%. Both of these candidates need breakout performances in Iowa, which was well known before this week. If CNN’s series is not an outlier, Bachmann may need one as well, now that Perry has come closer to tossing his hat in the ring. She has been wowing crowds in Iowa this week in advance of the debate and straw poll, so she is doing all she can on the ground, but that may not be enough — at least not this week.
Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin interviewed Perry this week about his plans:
Personally, I would love to see a Perry/Cain ticket!
Romney = Howard Dean’s lead in ‘03.
It’s a myth that he will get the nomination.
Perry will bury him.
Vote Rick Perry! Because we just can’t get enough of that good ol’ Bush Republicanism!
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Because no Republican will ever be good enough for some people!
I’m looking for the person who will unabashedly standup an say that what they have done, promoted or whatever beliefs they hold follow and strengthen the Constitutional principles the Founding Fathers laid out for this Nation. I would have hoped that the persons in tonight’s ‘debate’ along with Perry would be doing this. Perry for me has to explain what is going wrong and how it gets remedied as much as any of the others while the pot is being stirred.
You give Palin flack b/c of her endorsement of McCain, but you give Perry a pass and he’s endorsed mega rinos....
And he IS a RINO to boot. So, still why him over Palin?
Vote Republican! Yeah, we suck, but not quite as bad as Democrats!
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There was a news clip either Tuesday or yesterday that said the SRM is heading to Texas to start trying to dig up all the dirt they could find on Perry to use against him.
Well, not always!
Because he is not a RINO. Perry is Pro Life, Pro Second Amendment, states right and the Bush clan hates him. He is also not the defacto head of the Tea Party. Palin is. When McLame slammed the Hobbits on the floor of the Senate, I felt it was Palins job to step up. She endorsed him after all. I can’t find any endorsements that Perry made except for Algore 23 years ago so I have no idea if he supports McLame style RINOS.
Perry looks like the only one that can take Mittens on and win. Of all the metrics being used, even when Palin is factored as running, Mittens wins. Perry is the only one that shows signs of being even or better with making sure Romney doesn’t win right now.
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Perry thinks states can abort babies if they want to.
He’s as “pro-life” as Stephen A. Douglas Democrats were “anti-slavery.”
But if Roe is turned over, which is the ultimate goal, wouldn’t it automatically become a states rights issue? From the states, we can close down abortions. If you believe in the 10th Amendment, where else can an overturn of Roe go to make it illegal?
"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.""No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
If a candidate told you he thought it should be "up to the states" whether or not you can keep and bear arms, would you call him "pro-Second Amendment"?
And there is no department of government, in any branch, at any level, that has any legitimate power to alienate the right to life.
All they have is the sworn duty to secure it for all.
That's the primary purpose of government. All government.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
We can forgive him for that. Everything else is a positive though.
That is all fine and good and I agree, but we have had Roe on the books for almost 40 years. The Pro Death movement have been able to sell this as a right to generations of dopes. I don’t see any other way to back out of it once Roe is overturned. People have been brainwashed that life starts at birth and not conception and the education that the opposite is true is taking an extremely long time. We are going to have to work with the bucket of s#!t we have.
Really? Then why did he just get done supporting a $2.4 TRILLION dollar rise in the debt limit?
Just where exactly do you think that money is going to come from, and be spent on?
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