Nope.
When Perry talked about going back to Iraq, I said he was only going to get 1% of the vote.
And then he did!
In FL primary, Perry had my vote, but it looks like he won’t be in it by then. I expect him to drop out after SC.
Santorum has my vote now in FL.
Perry is sounding too much like an occutard with his Bain bashing. Romney isn’t a conservative, and his record as a Massachusetts progressive should be a target rich environment. Instead of focusing on Romneycare and Mitt’s liberal record, Perry has for some reason gotten off on this whole “vulture capitalism” thing and it isn’t going to work and is only alienating any support Perry may have had from Rush and others. It’s sad too, because I was very enthusiastic for Perry early on and even though his miserable debate performances I’d hoped he could come back. Attacking Romney from the left just tells me Perry is in desperation mode and willing to say pretty much anything no matter how ridiculous.
I like Perry a lot better than Santorum, but it doesn’t seem as if Perry is going to be able to get any traction. Santorum was a fluke in Iowa, and we’ll probably see him dropping in the next round, too.
That said, the one who should simply get out is Ron Paul, because he is not a Republican, there is no way he should be running in the GOP primary, there is no way this 77 year old nutcase is going to get the nomination, and he is just preventing any of the three non-Romney possibles from getting enough votes to coalesce as the leader.
I want a strong leader, with a proven record of accomplishments and a clear vision of the future. I want a president that will turn this country around intelligently and quickly.
I will continue to support the one man that I believe in my heart and head can turn this country around and set the right course for my children and grandchildren to have a better future........ that man is Newt Gingrich.
GO NEWT GO.........
I guess you know that your are ‘voting’ for ‘Bammy’? If not someone will be along shortly to explain it to you. (sarc)
I liked Perry and still do. But his campaign has been a clusterf**k.
His latest reincarnation as a occupy wall street type was a huge mistake.
This can’t work. If you simply urge Perry supporters to drop him and “support another candidate”, at best you get half to quit, and they spread out among the other candidates, INCLUDING Romney, so nobody really gets ahead.
What would need to happen is for Rick Perry to quit and endorse. But he won’t do that until after South Carolina, because for some reason he feels obligated to compete there. And since South Carolina is a proportional state, he’s not really hurting anybody by staying in the race. He can spend his money attacking Romney, which he couldn’t do if he dropped out.
Perry doesn’t have enough support to push either Gingrich or Santorum over the top right now.
But he never received “flavor of the month” like the rest of them.
Consternation - n. A state of paralyzing dismay.
Consideration - the act of considering; careful thought; meditation; deliberation
Not looking forward to the day I have to start considering Ron Paul as the only one to stop Oromney. Conservatives will rue the day they attacked Newt for not being a “perfect” conservative.
Not me.
If there were a candidate out there I could support with any enthusiasm, maybe.
There is not.
I’m sticking with Rick Perry till the last dog dies.
“There is only three other guys ...”
Come on Tim...if you want decent respect for your thoughts, at least submit them using proper English grammar.
Why would you say that we need to support the most Christian of the candidates then have to gall to ask us to consider a serial adulterer?
Newt Gingrinch betrayed not one but two wives. Adultery is the worst betrayal a man can make and he’s done it twice. Who cares about his debating skills the guys a traitor to the people who should have mattered most in his life.
I too am leaving Perry and going to the only man who actually values freedom and individual liberty. Ron Paul. I do not agree with his foreign policy but he cares about my freedom. That’s good enough for me.
Peee-Uuuuuuu!!!
Smells like a bunch of quitters around here...
I guess what we need to do now is go ahead and let the little states decide for the rest of us who is going to go up and lose to Obama at this rate...
Lets just drop the whole idea behind the primaries or whatever the hades you call what they did in Iowa stand...
Remember there are a WHOLE lot more races to be decided in November than just this one...
Those that wanna stay home will be doing the most damage because the republican party leadership elite and establishment will have bamboozled us once again this cycle...
Forget that we have a few Senators and Reps to put into play, or take out, considering the circumstances...
But if you wanna stay home and get all boo hoo’d because Mittens is the winner already, according to everyone but us at this point...Fine...
That next morning after the November election, I don’t wanna here any whining or crying because the end of the world is nigh because y’all didn’t git yer lazy arses up and go vote for what you could pull the lever for...
Geesh, sounds like 2008 all over again...
And if you have a problem with what I just wrote...
Prove me wrong...
Gov. James Richard Perry will still be on the ticket when the Primary’s get to Texas . . . Me and mine will be voting for Gov. Perry!!! . . . My mother did not raise any stupid children, we know a good thing when we “LIVE IT” . . . PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!
For once, before the light of liberty is extinguished, America's youth, and the the world need to hear the ideas of liberty of Jefferson and Madison debated and defended against the counterfeit ideas advocated by the current President.
That is a task for a scholar who has the founding ideas on instant recall and is able to expose, rebuke and repudiate the siren song of "redistribution" and "helping" that Obama's foundations and training in "other" ideas have provided him--made more dangerous by his Alinsky tactics.
In the Year 1776, with leaders like Washington and Adams available to them, it was young Thomas Jefferson's intellect and ability which caused him to be the one the geniuses of America's founding generation called upon to argue before the people on behalf of liberty against the offenses of King George III.
Now, America has another "ruler" who believes that political position and title entitle him and his fellow officials to plan, regulate, control, and "take" the earnings of the citizens, in order to carry out their ideology's goals for "society"--overlooking, if they wish, the "chains of the Constitution" (Jefferson).
Much has been made about the so-called "intellect" of Obama. A debate with a historian who has studied civilization's history of liberty versus tyranny, especially America's noble history, may be just the spark needed to relight the flame of passion for liberty in America's youth.
Surely, if exposed, they will not choose dependency, mediocrity, and certain slavery to coercive government power over the lives of themselves and their posterity.
Santorum, and others among the candidates deserve places in the Administration which replaces Obama. First, however, the citizenry need to explore carefully, and be led to understand why freedom works to inspire, create wealth and lift individuals up and is consistent with Creator-endowed rights. That was the Founding philosophy.
That is a far different philosophy than that of the more recent ideologies of Mao, Marx and Lenin--ideas which have led to tyranny and oppression everywhere they have been tried.
Gingrich can, if provided the opportunity, expose Obama's bankrupt ideas of government over people, by explaining the Founders' ideas of Creator-endowed, thus inalienable rights, protected and preserved by a "People's" written Constitution for a People-Over-Government arrangement.
I agree. We need to cull the field of all but the strongest conservatives so that Romney won’t win the nomination with a minority of the votes.