"The idea that heartless Americans are gonna
vote for a great guy like me makes no sense."
Posted on 09/25/2011 2:58:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you watched the Fox/Google debate that kicked off the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida this week, you'll know which video clip we're going to embed below. If you didn't, you're in for something of a treat.
Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, created waves when he entered the GOP race for the presidential nomination. His entry scared off other vultures who were circling, like Giuliani and Palin perhaps, and he robbed momentum from the now almost absent Michele Bachmann.
Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul all saw their own figures give way as the Governor of the Lone Star State threw his Stetson in the ring. Alas this honeymoon period was short lived for Perry. Latest performances and polling figures suggest he's coming crashing back down to earth like an old NASA satellite. His campaign team will be praying he doesn't break up on re-entry.
It's perfectly possible for Perry to completely derail at this point - in fact, it's almost likely. The Governor shows signs of reluctance or reticence when debating - many say his heart is simply not in it. Regardless of whether you think he has an emotional attachment to the campaign or to the office of the President of the United States, serious questions must be raised about whether he has the intellectual attachment:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Of course let's not forget, he's still leading in the national polls and has only been in the race for six weeks. Nonetheless this isn't going to be an easy ride to victory for Perry as so many once thought. He'll really have to fight to stay on course.
Stay tuned to The Commentator for updates on the GOP race. It's getting better by the day.
All we get are these mealy-mouthed self-interested hairpieces who want the job but aren't worthy of it - or just completely deranged, like Ron Paul.
I guess Perry failed to consider that old saying..
“You live by the sword, you die by the sword”
So Perry now lacks “intellectual attachment”?
Is that something like Obama lacking moral attachment as far as Solyndra and other crony-fundraiser taxpayer giveaways are concerned?
Hmmm, does that mean Perry might lack “moral attachment as well? So if only Perry had emotional, intellectual and moral attachment, he might make a reasonable presidential candidate for us?
He’s dead, Jim.
Damn, just like the plot of a Harlequin romance novel.
If we don’t learn that it ain’t over until at LEAST a few actual votes are cast, we’re about as good at this politcal thing as the blabbermouths on The View.
Cain is my Main man ! Go !
As Rudy found out last time if you get in late and you bet it all on Florida you must win. Bachmann is done and I hope she gets back to running for her house seat instead of running up campaign debt. She might have had a VP chance but going overboard on Gardisil and mental retardation was jumping the shark.
It will be interesting to see who among Cain, Perry and Romney can have a good fundraising quarter.
Take a look at Herman Cain. His biggest weakness is he's short on political experience, which is a valid point, but he's got an impressive resume and he seems a solid conservative. His time may be at hand.
Perry’s views on the border are troubling to say the least. At a time of 16% (actual) unemployment, and a shooting war on our southern border, we don’t need any mealy mouthed platitudes about not having a heart if you don’t support in-state tuition for illegals. IMHO, Perry was channeling his inner progressive with that statement and it won’t play well this cycle.
"The idea that heartless Americans are gonna
vote for a great guy like me makes no sense."
Perry 's most embarrassing moments.......... struggling to answer a foreign policy question, calling Americans "heartless WRT in-state tuition, and stumbling when driving home a prepared attack on chief adversary, Mitt Romney.
It is true that the nation has elected incoherent Texans to the White House, but Perry alone has come up with THE dumbest non-sequiturs. This one at the FLA venue takes the cake: Perry’s debate answer WRT what he’d do if the White House phone rang at 3 AM......informing him that the Taliban had gotten control of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
“Well, obviously, before you ever get to that point, you have to build a relationship in that region. And that’s one of the things that this administration has not done. Just yesterday we found out through Admiral Mullen that Haqqani has been involved with — and that’s the terrorist group directly associated with the Pakistani country — so to have a relationship with India, to make sure that India knows that they are an ally of the United States.” Perry went on to tell a story about how the Obama administration wouldn’t sell upgraded F-16 fighters to India. which n-e-v-e-r happened.
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Perry's candidacy-ending response was when he thumbed his nose at his country and its citizenry, saying those who disagreed with him on in-state tuition are "heartless." The inference was that only Perry was Truly Worthy (b/c only he had sucked up to Mexico).
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Perry was anticipating the triumphal moment when he would be able to nail Romney for being a flip-flopper---and had prepared for it. This was Perry's response: “I think Americans just don’t know sometimes which Mitt Romney they’re dealing with. Is it the Mitt Romney that was on the side of — against the Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment? Was it — was before — he was before the social programs from the standpoint of — he was for standing up for Roe versus Wade before he was against first — Roe versus Wade? Him — he was for Race to the Top. He’s for Obamacare and now he’s against it. I mean, we’ll wait until tomorrow and — and — and see which Mitt Romney we’re really talking to tonight.”
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All in all, Perry has a complete lack of presidential gravitas — he has an odd way of responding to a debater, then cocking his head in an almost mechanical way, posing with a self-satisfied grin (as if he had just paged through his vast holdings he's accumulated in Texas politics).
Not a Perry fan after the last debate but Obama lacks citizenship but he made it.
Mr. Perry and his great state of Texas is in a dilemma. He can keep siding with illegals or... tell Americans that he, and his legislature, were wrong on their position of aiding and abetting illegal immigrants.
In a nutshell - Does the rule of law mean anything?
From the GOP? It's obviously too much to ask. They have no heavy hitters in the bigs, no farm system. They are totally unprepared and ill-equipped at a time when we have a president who is so easy to beat, and who we desparately need to beat.
This entire election season is an indictment of the GOP as much as it is an indictment of Obama. It's a pathetic spectacle of mediocrity. It's exactly why this country is the way it is today.
It’s going to be a long campaign year...lots will happen, within the campaigns and out there in the world.
The one thing we can count on is that the MSM will do whatever they think it takes to reelect The One.
Any Reublican who emerges will be shown to be mostly stupid and complicit with big business to destroy the middle class.
In addition he/she will want to destroy social security and force old people to die.
The story has already been written.
Perry is, unlike Romney and Obama, eligible.
Now if he could only be cured of his RINO impulses.
To quote what radio host Jay Severin said about Jon
Huntsman, “He is greatly qualified to be the nominee...Of the Democrat party, that is.”
Not only the incoherence but the stand on tuition for illegals. Liberals who know little or nothing about him will
spout, “oh, he’s hardcore right winger”. They don’t realize stands like this put him in THEIR camp.
Since when does Obama lack citizenship?
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