“I’m finding it hard to get excited about Rick Perry when there are several better candidates.”
Let’s look at that.
Let’s assume Perry runs, and the other candidates are Romney, Bachman, Cain, Pawlenty, Palin, Santorum, Gingrich, and whoever I may be forgetting.
If conservatives are insisting on voting for candidates with no chance of winning the primary, much less the general election, we will have a repeat of 2008 — conservative votes get split and McCain walked away with the nomination.
In this case, conservative votes would split among some six or more candidates: Bachman, Cain, Pawlenty, Palin, Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney will walk away with the nomination, and then lose spectacularly to Obama. Great conservative accomplishment!
It’s high time that conservatives focus on beating Romney and beating Obama.
Perry can do that, but only if he gets the support he needs to beat Romney.
"Whoever you are forgetting" would be Ron Paul, who has officially announced. I think that he should be mentioned before Gingrich, at any rate.
Here we go again... anyone but a Democrat”, even if that means voting for a sack of horse crap (not NECESSARILY calling Perry names...though if the shoe fits...).
Those so-called “electable” Republicans will be very little better than another 4 years of king Obummer... It is those same RINOs that have “helped” carry this country into the toilet on so many levels.
Sometimes, the ONLY option is revolution - a radical change in course brought about by radical means (And NO WAY am I pushing Ron Two-Faced, earmarks-happy Paul!).
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing you have always done, expecting different results.
And as far as the 2008 election - by 1/4 through the primary season, the press had already chosen the Republican loser...I mean candidate. There were no “good conservative candidates” from that point. The primary still had plenty of votes left had there been a good candidate... there wasn’t one (though McCain was probably one of the worst of the last few that were in the race).
Mythbusters featured the “polish on a turd” myth a couple of seasons back... pretty tough to do.
Beating Romney and Obama accomplishes zero if the result is still a socialist.
Which is why I and many others will be working to see that Perry does not carry Texas.
Given his record and how Texans in general feel about him, that is one of those fish in a bucket things.
This will mot be a debate, we will simply do it and nobody from out of state has any pull to get Texans to trust Goodhair to not be similar to Obama given his odor here.
Maybe if he had turned on the illegals in 2008 during the beginning of the Mexican drug war spillover he might have regained some credibility with Texas Conservatives. His chance to credibly turn to.the right passed.