Arizona's controversial Sheriff Arpaio set to endorse Rick Perry

msnbc.com ^ | November 26, 2011 | By From NBC's Carrie Dann

[EternalVigilance]

Hardly the first Democrat Joe has endorsed.

The last one I remember was Janet Napolitano for Governor.

[smoothsailing]

LOL! Great minds... :o)

[HiTech RedNeck]

Arpaio should stick to sheriffing, and leave the presidential politics to the hopefuls.

[paudio]

No swing voters or independents will vote for Newt.

I think you are right. Like it or not, he has a lot of baggage both for liberals and conservatives.

[altura]

Would you say that if he endorsed your candidate?

Didn’t think so.

[BillyBoy]

>> Your friends have a ping list. Every time a Perry thread is posted, the list is pinged and they obediently trot over here to post anti-Perry comments. <<

Yes. Anti-Perry freepers ping each other so we can post the truth about Perry on these threads, and pro-Perry people have a ping list so their friends can show up and drool over what a heroic leader he is and how we must elect a "Christian" (as if no Christian has ever run for President before him and there aren't a dozen other Christians running right now), and photoshop fake images of Sarah Palin supporting him for President. We both have ping lists. What's your point?

>> Most of the comments are just recycled trash including clever phrases like “LaRaza” Perry, etc. <<

Yes, the phrase "La Raza Rick" deeply offends Perry supporters. The truth hurts, doesn't it?

>> I think most of them are Cain supporters <<

Yes, you will continually call us "purists" and claim we will "only" accept Herman Cain (previously, you claimed we would "only" accept Sarah Palin and quickly abandoned that tactic once Cain rose in the polls before Palin even announced she wasn't running). You say this over and over again no matter how many times napscoordinator and others have listed various candidates we like including Bachmann and Santorum. Many of us, like myself, haven't endorsed anyone for President but like numerous candidates better than Perry. This doesn't fit your "purist" smear about us so you ignore it.

>> but Shield thinks they are democrat underground people. <<

Yes, claiming we're all closet Democrats and Obama supporters is another common Perrybot tactic. I actually posted a list of your top 10 tactics on another thread a few days ago, in case Newt supporters wanted to borrow a few of them. Hope you don't mind them sharing.

>> Perrybots, as you love to call them, are actual grownups who do not have a ping list to call us to trash Cain threads or Newt threads or anybody threads. <<

Claiming the high ground and insisting "only you guys bash our candidate, we would NEVER go on a Cain thread to bash Herman Cain" (then showing up on a Cain/Bachmann/etc. thread to bash them merciously) is Item #2 on my list of Perrybot tactics.

>> If you think this behavior is appropriate or helpful in any way, you are wrong. <<

Perhaps you think tactic #9 on the Perrybot tactic list, calling everyone who opposes Perry in the primary a racist/hater/bigot, somehow helped your goal of endearing conservatives to Perry.

[CharlesWayneCT]

100% chance that Perrybots will continue to CLAIM she's endorsed him next month

Well, we'll see, but at least they won't take a poll from November 2nd, and claim it's a poll from November 21st, and use it to try to raise money, like a certain other candidate did.

[CharlesWayneCT]

100% chance that Perrybots will continue to CLAIM she's endorsed him next month

Well, we'll see, but at least they won't take a poll from November 2nd, and claim it's a poll from November 21st, and use it to try to raise money, like a certain other candidate did.

[CharlesWayneCT]

He is the closest to Ronnie Reagan that we've had in a long time.

Yes, except that Ronald Reagan had years of executive experience, had a solid campaign staff, understood the issues, spoke clearly and effectively, and didn't screw up every couple of weeks and go off half-cocked with erroneous information he found on the internet.

[CharlesWayneCT]

He is the closest to Ronnie Reagan that we've had in a long time.

On the other hand, if you actually meant "Ronnie Reagan", I'd have to disagree, because Cain was a successful businessman and a good conservative, neither of which would ever be said of Ronnie.

[CT]

Controversial network, MSNBC set to report news......

[octex]

What could of Rick Perry of said to get, Arpaio, to endorse him ?

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Nothing Perry has said. It’s his actions over the years in favor of securing the Southern border, being against amnesty for illegal aliens and being against sanctuary cities. That’s why Sheriff Joe favors Perry.

[TYVets]

Arizona's controversial Sheriff Arpaio

Joe doesn't appear to be soft on crime, therefore he is controversial.

A biased article from MSNBC, in other countries around the world they would be known as:

The State Controlled Media.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well with the big thing he’s making about catching all the illegales there, with Obama’s ICE dragging its feet the way it does (essentially nullifying federal responsibility by executive order), you’d think he’d pick a candidate that isn’t going to turn the illegales loose once more in his back yard. The signals from Perry are mixed at best. Bachmann would have been more logical, even if she is a weak overall candidate. Next best from this standpoint is not Perry; it’s Cain.

[altura]

Why do you think Rick fought so hard to ban sanctuary cities in Texas if he’s so pro illegal.

He even called a special session. The problem is with the special interests who want them.

I think Sheriff Joe knows a little more about Rick Perry than you or I do.

We literaly know nothing about what Cain would do. I don’t think he’s given much thought to it.

[Ron H.]

Its often been said that 'politics make for strange bedfellows'. I'll be curious as to read more on this alleged endorsement in the days and weeks ahead. I'm also mindful that endorsements as an accepted general rule do very little to to boost the numbers for a given candidate in any given race so even if true I don't see the endorsement as significant or even impacting.

Perry all by himself has sabotaged his own campaign and there isn't much that will change that cold hard fact and one doesn't need a heart to see that. He still has mangled shoe leather dribbling from his mouth over that one.

[Ron H.]

Sheriff Joe’s endorsement carries a lot of weight. I guess he went with what he thought was the pick of the litter. Perry’s stock should rise with this news.

Yep, about as much as it helped good old boy slick Willard the last time around when the Sheriff endorsed him as a Presidential candidate. That ought to help Perry a lot.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Perry himself ought to do a better job of explaining himself. If he’s really so uncheckered as you would have it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

What, he endorsed Romney? Oh well. So much for THAT appeal to authority.

[Venturer]

Thats your opinion.