We aren't settling for anything but a true conservative. That is why we are not voting for an "I love Al Gore" elitist that used an executive order to force all teenage females in TX to submit to a controversial and questionable at best for results drug treatment that may or may not decrease the chances of these females getting cervical cancer. Score another victory for Big Pharms in TX.
We are sticking with a true conservative. That would be NOT Rick Perry...NOT RINO Romney... and NOT "I love Nancy Pelosi, insider trading and global warming!" Newt Gingrich!
True TX is still creating jobs while the rest of the country is not. That is because the legislature is part time and the gov't has very little to do and hence runs very little interference with businesses that actually want to create and sustain jobs.
...because there are no authentic conservatives in the race?
In your opinion, is a brokered convention possible?
Perry, conservative? Hahahahahahahahahaha! Only before elections. After elections, not so much.
The sooner that the true conservatives - Perry, Bachmann, and Santorum drop out and endorse the most famous conservative accomplisher* since Reagan, the better we will ALL be.
And the absolute worse it would be for the Harvard libs - Willard and Barack.
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
-William F. Buckley, Jr.
*Hmmm….
Gingrich-led Republicans….the result:
* Four consecutive balanced budgets
* Over $400 billion of debt paid off
* Bipartisan welfare reform
* 11 million new jobs
* Unemployment falling to under 4%.
While I agree that he’s not a perfect conservative, by a long shot, he is better than Newt, Paul or Romney. I do believe he wants to change Washington and get it off our backs as best he can. He wants to kill ObamaCare, he wants to handcuff if not kill the EPA and he wants whittle down the government that liberals and statists have turned into a ravenous monster.
I sincerely believe Perry cares about those things to an extent that most others in the race do not. Whether it be by design or by accident, the economic success of Texas also gives him a platform that should resonate on the campaign trail if he’s the nominee. He’s been there when Texas has created thousands of jobs while the rest of America shrinks.
Obama can’t hold a candle up to that record and Perry is the only one of the candidates who can say his time in office has been so economically prosperous. He also has executive experience as governor of a large state that Bachmann and Santorum (the only other conservatives in the field) do not have.
Are there moments Perry makes me cringe - of course - although who he endorsed in 1988 isn’t one of them. At least he wasn’t endorsing David Duke like one of his rivals did.
If we focus on what they’ve done this century, Perry’s record and accomplishments far outweigh any other candidate in the field. Anyone who doesn’t see that is insisting on being blind to it.
I agree. Go Santorum!!!!!!
Perry wants me to vote for Bachmann? As far as I can tell she’s the only conservative, though she has no chance of winning.
First, define (with agreement from all) what an “Authentic Conservative” is...
He’s right. Go with Michele Bachmann or Rick Santorum. In a way the race is going like I predicted in August 2010. Too many “conservatives” fighting for the same base and siphoning off votes. And nobody can agree on which one is the best and Most conservative. And at times each one attacking each other.
This junk happened here in Kansas in the 2010 race for senate (primary) where both candidates claimed the tea party and conservative mantel. In the end the guy with a large5r district won. He had a lot of state support. While the losing candidate had a lot of national support. But Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn went for the winner, while Sarah Palin and Karl Rove went for the loser.