"[J}oy ride in a trial balloon," cool. Carl Cameron has a literary streak, not easy for a reporter on deadline.
Smart! I like it.
ping.
Well, it looks like we’ll soon see all the Perry haters start in on Newt, now.
One says we are heartless to illegals, one says we are inhumane. Not sure this ticket would get a lot of support from those who want tougher immigration enforcement.
Multiple grammatical & spelling errors. That always irritates me in others, so sorry about that.
I’m in!
Palin for energy department.
Perry is heads and shoulders the best choice in the original field - a crying shame he is out.
I’d rather see Allen West debating Biden.
I can get behind that one.
Gingrich is the most qualified man in the U.S. to be President. Kerry is the most successful governor in the U.S. This sounds like a winning ticket to me.
Uhh, I’m not so sure this is a good idea. I love Newt, and I love Perry’s platform of eliminating federal agencies, but I fear that the perception of Perry’s mental acuity has plummeted so low that this would only serve to hurt Newt.
Interesting.
At one time I didn’t think Perry would consider a veep position.
But now I wonder. He has a good job in Texas but I think he yearns to be a factor in national government. He has a lot of good ideas he wants to push.
Plus, he may be tired of being governor of Texas and not want to run again. It would be an unprecedented term as governor and people might vote him out, good as he’s been just to get someone new.
I think it would be a fabulous ticket. Not sure how much influence a veep pick would have for Newt now, but who the heck knows.
I love it. Could not find a finer man than Rick Perry to run as vp. He ran an above board campaign and I hope to see him again in a major role ...Newt/Perry 2012
Why not have, either, Herman Cain, Allen West, or a conservative woman as VP, instead? IMHO, I don’t see a ticket of Newt Gingrich/Rick Perry as getting enough of the total women’s vote and getting enough of the total votes from minorities to defeat Barack Obama this November, and Barack Obama must be defeated, please!
I like it. Perry might keep Newt on track. And Newt has the gumption to push major changes (which we desperately need).
I think this leak is currently intended to counteract all the talk of Newt dropping out-which talk is intended to deflate his turnout on Tuesday. If enough media pick it up, it might serve that purpose.
Perry and Gingrich camps issued this “denial” —
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Newt Gingrich’s spokesman on Sunday dismissed speculation about a potential Gingrich-Rick Perry ticket being announced before the Republican National Convention in August, saying the two camps have not discussed the idea “at any level.”
A report by Fox News cited “sources close to the Gingrich campaign” saying preliminary conversations about such a ticket have begun with the hopes that pairing the former Speaker of the House and the Texas governor might unite evangelical, tea party and other conservative voters.
But Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond said no one in the campaign has reached out to Perry’s camp about a shared ticket.
“While there’s certainly a lot of people who are great admirers of Rick Perry on our campaign,” Hammond told CBS News/National Journal, “whether or not the campaign has gone as far as to reach out to Governor Perry about a possible VP ticket, any sort of talks along those lines would be premature — it would be something more appropriate for later on in the process.”
Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for Perry, also called the speculation “humbling but premature.”
The report came just two days before voters in Mississippi and Alabama head to the polls to vote in primaries that are vital to the continuation of Gingrich’s campaign. Perry dropped out of the race in January, throwing his support to the former speaker on the same day.
Gingrich frequently references his endorsement on the campaign trail, saying he expects to win Texas decisively with his help. But since dropping out, Perry has appeared with Gingrich only once on the campaign trail, when he attended a debate last month in Mesa, Ariz.
Oh yea hee is what the average American who watches the 6 pm news will think - an old white guy and a crazy guy from Texas who was laughed off the stage. Come on folks these guys are not in the race. They are getting less than 10% in 90% of the races, why them? Oh and Perry jsut gave Apple 21,000,000 in tax breaks to EXPAND their existing facility in Texas - he is one tough guy on taxes.
Yep, don’t ever elect a 40 something year old...they are too wrapped up up in themselves to ever look out for our country.
Yep, don’t ever elect a 40 something year old...they are too wrapped up up in themselves to ever look out for our country.