Posted on 07/05/2011 5:17:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In early June, TIME has learned, a group of prominent figures on the Christian Right held a conference call to discuss their dissatisfaction with the current GOP presidential field, and agreed that Rick Perry would be their preferred candidate if he entered the race. Among those on the call were Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council; David Barton, the Texas activist and go-to historian for the Christian Right; and John Hagee, the controversial San Antonio pastor whose endorsement John McCain rejected in 2008.
Religious conservatives have often played a substantial role in choosing past Republican nominees, but leaders on the Christian Right have been conspicuously quiet so far in this campaign season. Privately, however, they are enthusiastic about Perry and are encouraging the Texas governor to throw his ten-gallon hat in the ring.
Perry’s favor with the Christian Right is relatively new, and he is their candidate of choice as much by default as anything. Many leaders had hoped that Mike Huckabee would make a second run for the nomination and give them a fellow religious conservative (and a Southerner) to support. When Huckabee chose to sit out the race and Haley Barbour stepped aside as well, some Christian Right bigwigs considered throwing their support behind Newt Gingrich.
The former Speaker has made religious freedom for Christians his signature issue over the past few years. And more importantly, Gingrich needs religious conservatives more than they need him — he might feel indebted to that constituency if he won, the thinking went. But as Gingrich’s campaign operation seems to have shrunk to a few interns and wife Callista’s Twitter feed, alarmed Christian Right leaders have sought to find a new–preferably electable–candidate to carry the social conservative banner.
What’s wrong with the existing crop of candidates?.....
...come on down, Rick Perry!.....
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...
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Any sensible person will listen to our Conservative icons:
>Sarah Palin threw her endorsement to Rick Perry for governor-. She recently restated that she likes Perry.
>Rush said that Perry is his dream candidate. http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/rush-limbaugh-on-the-record-3/
>Michael Reagan praises Perry:
“If you don’t believe Reaganomics can still work in this day and age, for whatever reason, I say you should look no further than the state of Texas.
Under the leadership of Gov. Rick Perry, Texas has championed and built upon the concepts my father used to rebuild America in the 1980s..
In short, Reagan Revolution is alive and well - deep in the heart of Texas.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/24/reagans-vision-lives-on-in-texas/?page=1
>Ted Nugent is a close friend and supporter
Read the official statements of dozens of Perry’s fellow politicians and scholars (both Democrats and Republicans) have had to say about Rick Perry: http://www.politico.com/arena/archive/rick-perry-for-president-in-2012.html
All (including Democrat opponents) have called him a staunch Conservative, and not one of the dozens issuing opinions has mentioned the vaccine or TTC.
Apparently they don’t consider these things an issue. They DID mention Perry threatening to secede from the unionas a strike against him.
What Perry actually said; “You know, my hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention,” Perry continued. “We’ve got a great union. There is absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what may come out of that? So. But Texas is a very unique place and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”
Until 1989, Rick Perry was a conservative Democrat. He switched parties as, like many Democrats including Ronald Reagan and Phil Gramm, he saw that party moving farther and farther to the left. Under Perry’s decade as governor, hundreds of Texas Democrats have followed his lead and become Republicans. As a former Democrat, Perry can speak to that swath of his former party that has become disenchanted with their party as President Obama has taken it even farther to the left, in a way that few Republicans can. He can also speak well and credibly to all wings of the national GOP, from the fiscal cons to the social cons to the libertarian set.
He would appeal to all segments of the Republican electorate and would come armed with a record of economic success and a commitment to liberty that no other contender can match.
The Perry trashing is hardly in the best interests of our Conservative agenda. The Loony Left does not need any help from us in character assassination of our Conservatives.
Our Conservative candidates are not perfect.
None of them.
They have all made mistakes and carry baggage.
But what we must do is try to run one that has a chance of winning the White House from the Marxist/Muslim usurper.
We MUST win, or Hussein will finish America.
We had best trust the opinions of our Conservative icons.
We have to run someone capable of winning this thing.
As much as we love our Palin, Backmann and Cain, they simply cannot win.
We must run someone with a proven solid record and cross-over appeal. Even with all his faults, that someone is Rick Perry.
They all have their faults.
There is no perfect Conservative candidate.
Never has been.
Never will be.
We are forced to choose the best of the lot.
That’s just the way it is.
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ALLEN WEST GETS IT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k
He’s one of the few who get it. View this short video where he states most eloquently that Muslims- ALL Muslims are the enemy.
October 2009: “....It would not be surprising to find that Karl Rove had a hand in this somewhere. The Bushies are definitely in the Hutchison camp, and there is no love lost between them and the Perry camp. The tension (according to Perry team members whom I interviewed on this subject last year) dates all the way back to Perry’s race for lieutenant governor in 1998, when Rove insisted that Perry stick with a positive message even while he was being pounded by John Sharp. Meanwhile, in the view of the Perry camp, Rove was trying to turn out Hispanic Democrats who would vote for Bush, even though that meant they were likely to switch back to the D column to vote for Sharp. The Perry team decided that they had to fight back, Rove or no Rove, and they went rogue, going after Sharp hard. It worked.
The only thing that makes me wonder about this once-upon-a-time story is that Rove and Bush needed Perry to win. If Bush were elected president, his resignation would hand the governorship to a Democrat, and that possibility was damaging to the Bush campaign. Maybe, in those days, Rove was good enough to find just enough votes so that Bush would carry El Paso County (the battleground) and Perry would win anyway.
If that animosity weren’t enough, after Bush was named the winner in December 2000, Perry was insistent that the president-elect vacate the governor’s mansion so that Perry could move in, notwithstanding that Bush wanted to stay a day or two longer before leaving for Washington. I heard that firsthand from the Bushies at the time....”
http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?tag=karl-rove
You've totally lost it.
You wrote you'd support Huntsman and/or Romney over Perry
I have not written or spoken of Christine O'Donnell.
You post like you do frequent Daily Kos.
Bump!
truthfreedom has acted like a conservative
and given URLs to back the posts up.
what is “lost” is you doing the same.
Perry is outright sinister.
I know that he pretends to be conservative, but I don’t give him any credit for pretending to be tea party. Actually, I take points off for trying to take the tea party slot that belongs to someone who is a tea partier.
I didn’t know what you were referring to when I talked about Rove. I looked at the post, and saw there was a lot about Rove in there, so I figured that you were defending Rove.
My understanding is that Kos is a Democrat site. And Romney is the Republican front runner of the announced candidates. So, you must be new, or working on a client for the first time in a while. A Romney supporter is not going to Kos. A Romney supporter is called a RINO. The proper insult to me is “you’re a RINO because you said something good about Romney”. The Kos part is just wrong.
Perry and Romney and Huntsman are all RINOs. All unacceptable. But Perry is an especially awful brand of Globalist Bilderberger Fake Conservative RINO.
Mitt seems to be a garden variety Country Club Republican. There are still Country Club Republicans. Their attitude is “don’t change things too much, I’m making too much money.” and “don’t do anything to cause my liberal wife to start shrieking at my conservative business associate at dinner”.
The specifics of the policies don’t really matter. Slightly less government than the far left, and I make money and my wife isn’t shrieking. I’m in. That’s Romney right? That’s the attitude of Country Club Republicans.
We need Country Club Republicans to vote for the Republican nominee in the fall. It’s tempting to say “out Country Club Republicans”, but the truth is that they’ve been a part of the Republican party for many years. They aren’t interlopers. Now, they’re a smaller bloc than the Conservatives, and their candidates shouldn’t win the nomination as often as they do, but they are a part of the Republican Party. We can’t say “how did they get here?”
You said would vote for Huntsman or Romney over Perry.
That tells me everything I need to know about you.
I notice your friend FReeper “Gadsden1st” said he’d rather have Obama as president than Rick Perry.
You “run” with an interesting crowd.
What your link says to me is that Perry has worked with Rove for 8 years, at least 3 races.
I’m looking for someone who never even met Karl Rove. Any closer than that is suspect.
You’re saying well, sure, Rove worked for him over and over and over, but, this article says their mad.
Well, look, they got over it.
They clearly know each other really well.
Do you think you’re helping by the way?
I’m going to use your link to add to my “list of links of Perry to Rove”.
You have repeatedly been asked by me and other posters who you support and you refuse to answer.
Interesting crowd, what is that, Freepers?
I have no idea.
You didn’t see me praising Obama.
I just said that Romney, Huntsman and Perry are all RINOs, and Perry is also Globalist (based on Bilderberg). Huntsman is also presumably a Globalist (based on Lady Rothschild) but it’s theoretically possible that an individual Rothschild might not be an evil Globalist NWO. However, Bilderberg remains a globalist organization.
It looks like that poster can join the ranks of those I've flushed out into the open in post #70.
You challenge them and then
***crickets***
Let’s be clear “truthfreedom” you “just” said this:
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[text] “why even ask Perry vs Obama?
I’ll take Pawlenty over Perry
I’ll take Gingrich over Perry
I’ll take Santorum over Perry
I might even take Huntsman or Romney over Perry.
My first choices are all tea party.
And Perry is not tea party.
Tea Party does not like the globalist elite. He’s going straight from the Bilderberg playbook. And we know we don’t want that. Above all, we don’t want that. We want to put obstacles in Bilderbergs way. Most certainly, tea party conservatives do not embrace, at all, any New World Order stuff.
Also, Karl Rove switched Rick Perry from Democrat to Republican, and ran his first campaign as a Republican, for Agriculture Commissioner.
Karl Rove is not tea party. Karl Rove attacks tea party. See: Christine O’Donnell.
Karl Rove is an expert in Fake Conservatives.
Karl Rove is smart enough to try to remove his stench from Rick Perry by fake feuds.” [end text]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2743718/posts?q=1&;page=104#103
You are aware, that Karl Rove, tried to unseat Perry in his last election, right ?
He supported, endorsed, and worked for Senator Hutchinson in her primary bid against Governor Perry. They may have been allies, but now, it is clear, they are very very bitter enemies (see rumors about Perry being gay).
you are correct my lady on all counts. For those people that say he is for open borders, hell,,,he’ll put up the fence anyway so he say he created more jobs lol
I don’t support Rove candidates.
No argument from me, but note, Karl Rove tried to defeat Rick Perry, and helped run the campaign of Senator Hutchinson in her bid for Governor. Rove actually put in time and work, to beat Perry, thats already a good sign to me.
Note: Former President George H.W. Bush also endorsed, donated to and campaigned for Hutchinson against Perry during his recent reelection.
Do you know why you don’t rebut the facts?
why you focus on the posters, demanding this and that?
Because you have no case.
The posters demonstrate Perry acted like a RINO.
Is there an admission and moving on? [.... crickets]
Rick Perry has the most executive experience and has proven he knows how to create jobs. He can beat Obama. He is far more conservative than Mitt Romney.
And yes, he has the support of the Christian right.
No, it is not clear.
Anyone who had Rove manage his campaign 3 separate times is attached to the hip to him.
Karl Rove managed Rick Perry 3 times. They are attached at the hip.
Karl Rove is smart enough, and deceitful enough to craft as strategy that would allow Perry to escape Rove’s powerful stench by pretending to be feuding (if anyone bought it).
I don’t buy it. BZZZZZZZZ. Way too close to Rove. All your excuses aren’t worth anything.
When I accuse a candidate of being too close to Rove, “there is no evidence they ever met” is a good defense. “sure, he managed his campaign 3 times and Rove changed him from Democrat to Republican, and Rove got him every job that allowed him to become a governor, but they had a fight”
is not a good defense.
I believe Palin will jump in IF the pubbies collapse on the debt limit. Are you listening, pubbies-?! Especially Bachmann-?!
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