Posted on 09/23/2011 4:42:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
Politics: Despite the "gotcha" sniping at Thursday's debate, Republicans need to keep their eyes on the prize. The target for 2012 is not Santorum, Cain, Bachmann, Romney or Perry. It's the current White House occupant.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry must have felt a bit like Gen. Custer at Little Big Horn at the Orlando debate, a made-for-TV contrivance in which those who have a real chance to be president must take pokes and jabs from those who don't.
We appreciate this may be a necessary evil in which front-runners without stamina — the Ed Muskies and Rudy Giulianis, for example — are weeded out.
Still, we must understand that while the goal is the nomination, the prize is the White House. Lost in the brouhaha over tuition for illegal aliens and mandated vaccines is the fact we simply can't afford four more years of President Obama.
Perry has given awkward responses. How can he debate the president, the whispers ask. Sound-bite debates in which you thrust and parry (no pun intended) with eight other candidates, as well as the pundits, are one thing. Comparing your job-creating pro-growth record in a booming state to the record of the arguably worst president in American history is something else.
Those former and nongovernors without a 1,200-mile border with Mexico may criticize, and perhaps justifiably, Perry's embrace of a college tuition break for illegal aliens. We've opposed it too in the past.
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Yeah! We should just hold a coronation ceremony for whichever moderate the GOP establishment decides is going to get the nomination.
Your reply to me barely seems relevant to my post. I didn’t say the choice was between Perry and Romney, but I did point out that neither is going anywhere. I replied to a poster announcing who he had “eliminated”. No one gets eliminated. Some rise and some fall. But in the end, we will each face a choice from a ballot with 2 or 3 frontrunners. Anyone dissatisfied with Romney and Perry should be seeking to raise someone else to frontrunner status and not just tear down those two.
Your post #111 is excellent.
You have out done your self in stupid this time, hats off.
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