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Posted on 12/30/2011 2:10:24 PM PST by Quicksilver
WATERLOO, Iowa -- Rick Perry's events have taken a turn for the crowded. He'll arrive, typically, to find that a coffee shop built to accommodate 75 people is crammed with up to twice that many, spilling out the door and jammed into every available corner.
The crowds are excited, too. They'll murmur "mmm-hmms" and exclaim "yeahs!" as he winds through his stump speech, breaking into loud applause when he calls for a balanced budget amendment, a part-time Congress and the end of Obamacare. Despite the excitement and enthusiasm, though, the Texas governor remains very firmly stuck in the middle of a race for third place in the Iowa caucuses with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
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The good news for the Texas governor is that his poll numbers have improved since his November doldrums when he could barely break 10 percent. Perry isn't denying that he's drawing big crowds of undecided voters. But he's convinced he's breaking through.
"What I'm feeling, what I'm seeing what I know is happening is they're leaving and I know they're going to be caucusing for us on the third of January," he told CBS News/ National Journal.
Conversations with voters suggest Perry's rising numbers are a result of his 14-day bus tour across the state that gives him a chance to display his famed retail politics skills. Some showed up to his town hall in Marshalltown, Iowa with a number of candidates in mind -- but left the event saying they were sold on him.
"He got my vote," said Edward Hermsen, a Marshalltown resident. Ruth Knudson, also from Marshalltown, came to the event with her eye on Romney, Perry and Santorum, but said she left a likely Perry caucus-goer.
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The MSM want him to surge so they can play whack-a-mole with him.
The venues sound tiny, but campaigning and pressing the flesh is how you get grassroots support.
I like it.
They will. He’ll be the surprise come Tuesday. Watch.
well, with the wildness of this primary, I must say, if Perry were somehow able to manage a victory, that would probably vault him back up in SC. After that, who knows?
This is a crazy primary.
It is crazy. But for Perry, Santorum, Gingrich and Bachmann splitting the conservative vote, Mittens would get slaughtered along with the nutball Paul.
Yep
Yep. Perry is the only one with executive experience and a record as such. Debates don’t win elections.
Can and will. Rick definitely gets a ticket out of Iowa, finishing in the top 3.
Hope so.
with rumors that Paul is falling in private polling I would not be shock by a Romney/Santorum/Perry top 3 finish....
” The MSM want him to surge so they can play whack-a-mole with him. “ <<<
I am sure you’re exactly right. Wondered also if Rick comes off as far more South-ey than G.W. did? The regional biases are not entirely dead, and I think maybe this has affected his numbers, as well as the early debate debacle. He is so-o awesome and energetic, and fresh. I like him. Can you be turned back for reasons of minority twange language?
It’s sad that conservatives are so stupid. Romney vs anyONE in the South, Midwest, most of the West would be a Romney loss. Romney vs. AnyTWO or AnyTHREE is a Romney victory. But Conservatives have to have their perfect candidate and even when they see their guy/gal floundering (i.e. didn’t get on the ballot in some states) they harbor comeback fantasies that keep the vote split. Sad, Sad, Sad. We really are the Stupid Party.
Just about the most frequent question I get asked is “who are you going to vote for?” The simple answer to that question is “no one” because I am not a registered Republican and I have no plans on changing that.
I have been reluctant to answer the question because it will not be an endorsement and I don’t want it taken as an endorsement. Why? Because I don’t believe anyone is waiting on the edge of their seat to get guidance from me as to whom they should or should not vote for. My audience is way smarter than that and the people will come to their own conclusions. As I have said repeatedly on the air, everyone should vote their conscience.
I have also, until now, been unable to answer that question because I hadn’t made my mind up.
With the exception of Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul who I have publicly rejected for different reasons (Huntsman because of his contempt for my State and Paul because I believe that when it comes to foreign policy, he is actually dangerous), all of the remaining candidates are worthy of consideration.
I have always been looking for strong Conservatives of character, who not only talk the talk, but who walk the walk in their own personal lives as well. I narrowed it down to two who met those basic and essential criteria for me and then finally one.
The two are Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Texas Governor Rick Perry. I have spent considerable time with both of them and have gotten to know them on a personal level as well interviewing them on numerous occasions.
This has been a real problem for me because it would be easy for me to say I was going to vote for either one of them.
You know exactly where you are with Michele Bachmann. You know her positions on all the important issues and you know she is solid in all of them and passionate about all of them as well. Her priority would be the repeal of Obamacare and that, in and of itself, would give a huge lift to our failing economy. She is an outstanding leader with a spine of titanium who is reminiscent to me in so many ways of the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. She would be an exceptional President and someone who we could all be proud of.
Rick Perry has been successfully running the 13th largest economy on the planet for the last 11 years and has been doing it very well – creating a climate for job creation against a backdrop of worldwide recession. You cannot ignore that. He is a small Government Conservative who will help bring about a balanced budget and a flat tax, while reigning in Congressional excesses and promising to veto any Bill that contains an earmark. He will be strong on our national defense and will seal our leaky borders within the first 12 months of taking office. And when it comes to foreign policy – simply put, he gets it. He’s also a nice guy by the way and he will make an extraordinary President.
I would love to simply leave it at that, but that would not be answering the question.
I can only choose one of these two and so I have finally decided that my one vote, if I were to exercise that right, would go to Rick Perry. His Executive experience in running Texas is what pushed him over the winning line for me. I truly hope that as President, Rick Perry will persuade Michele Bachmann to serve in a very senior capacity within his Administration because you can never have too many very smart people of character in any President’s Administration.
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