Could Rick Perry Surprise in New Hampshire?

Real Clear Politics ^ | July 8, 2011 | Scott Conroy

[Cincinatus' Wife]

...With Perry's history of straddling the establishment and tea party wings of the party, [Andrew] Hemingway [chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Liberty Caucus, told RCP] offered a bold prediction for the unique assets that the Texas governor could bring to the table in New Hampshire. "I think ultimately Rick Perry is a candidate who secures Haley Barbour's money with Sarah Palin's endorsement," he said.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Palin/Perry 2012: For 16 Years of Conservative Bliss ".....(That Keith guy who used to be on MSNBC would simply come unglued if we could pull this off.)"

Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson, right, gestures while moderating a panel of Republican governors: (from left) Virginia's Bob McDonnell, Mississippi's Haley Barbour, Hawaii's Linda Lingle, Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty and Texas' Rick Perry. Lynn Goldsmith / Special to The Aspen Times

July 16, 2010: GOP governors bash president at Aspen Institute event" ASPEN — The “drill, baby, drill” rally cry is alive and well among Republicans, despite the BP oil leak off the Gulf Coast, based on the comments of five GOP governors speaking at The Aspen Institute on Thursday...."

All in the Family: Texas Gov. Rick Perry directs Willow Palin(carrying infant Trig Palin)as Republican veep candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin arrives at San Antonio International Airport. Oct. 3, 2008.

"'He walks the walk of a true conservative. And he sticks by his guns – and you know how I feel about guns,' Sarah Palin said."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

July 5, 2011: Rick Perry Breaks Fundraising Record for Republican Governors Association "Though he has not announced whether he’ll run in 2012, Texas governor Rick Perry is breaking fundraising records, bringing in a record $22 million in the last quarter as part of his job as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. That’s getting the attention of the GOP, especially among those who questioned whether Perry could fund a presidential campaign...."

[Diogenesis]

RINO Rick Perry will surprise in New Hampshire by EITHER
Explaining why he mandated Gardasil and is an OPEN-BORDER
RINO .... or.... by handing out “samples” of Gardasil
for his Chief of Staff (Merck agent for Texas).

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Still won't answer the question:

"Who is your candidate Diogenesis?"

Why is that?

[Diogenesis]

NOT for Rick Perry because he is AGAINST personal choice
(except for HIS and his Merck connections)
and he is FOR Open borders.

Rick Perry - Agent of the Trilateral Commission,
Karl Rove and Merck. What more could conservatives want?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I know who you’re against.

Who are you for?

You won’t answer that.

Is it a conservative or a liberal?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Karl Rove!? You want to paint Karl Rove all over Perry?

Good luck with that Jack.

["Perry was part of the "Pit Bulls", a group of Appropriations members who sat on the lower dais in the committee room (or "pit") who pushed for austere [Texas] state budgets during the 1980s."] Source

Karl Rove claims Rick Perry as his candidate in Perry's FIRST campaign for the Texas Agriculture Commission. [From what I’ve found this was their only collaboration]

Perry was a Texas Democrat (not a liberal Democrat). He switched to the Republican Party in 1989. In 1990 Perry won the election (against Jim Hightower) to head the Agricultural Committee (a post Perry was well suited for as having come from a cotton farming family -- raised and worked the land -- and had a degree in Animal Science from Texas A&M). He was reelected in 1994 to that office in a landslide (62%). He did not seek reelection for a 3rd term and ran for Lt. Gov of Texas (1998), winning in a 3 way race, in a hard fought campaign against John Sharp (D).

["Perry thus became the state's first Republican lieutenant governor since Reconstruction, taking office on January 19, 1999 until his ascension to the governorship on December 21, 2000 upon the resignation of then-Governor George W. Bush."] Source

In that 1998 campaign year, the G.W. Bush camp (which included Karl Rove) was campaigning for W's reelection for Texas Gov (1st elected in 1994) and was at odds with Rick Perry's hard nosed campaign against John Sharp for Lt. Gov. Karl Rove told Perry to soft peddle to lift Bush's numbers in minority groups, Perry refused. Bush won reelection as Texas Governor. Perry won office as Lt. Gov. (arguably a stronger office than TX governor).

["Bush won by 1.4 million votes, Perry by fewer than 70,000. There were harsh words afterward; Rove and Dave Carney, a top Perry strategist, now are bitter foes."] Source

Then there was this in the TX Monthly about the 2010 governor's race:

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.

...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....” -- Texas Monthly

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Basically, in the 2010 GOP primary in TX for the governor's office, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutichison was hoping to come home to Texas as Governor. Her election was being backed by the Bush family and all their power players were lined up against Gov. Rick Perry, with Karl Rove serving as Sen Hutchison's adviser against Perry. Source

Rick Perry won a 3rd term as Governor of Texas in 2010.

[Diogenesis]

RINO Perry's GARDASIL-GATE (GorillaGlue to him and his PerryBOTs)

RINO Perry's Chief of Staff worked for Merck
and Merck company was desperate for cash.

RINO Perry rejected opponents' and Conservatives' calls to reverse
his mandate. There are >40 Types of HPV, 15 Types linked to cervical cancer.
Gardasil works against 4 Types and
does not grant full immunity to those 4 Types of HPV.
Gardasil offers no protection against the other
11 strains of HPV that have been linked to cervical cancer.

Sexually promiscuous women (not chaste girls)
require three shots over six months
CDC: 44% of teenagers received the HPV vaccine
but only 27% of them received all three requisite doses.
There is no evidence one does even works.

CDC: As of June 22, 2011, approximately 35 million doses of Gardasil
were distributed in the US. VAERS received a total
of 18,727 reports of adverse events; 68 deaths.

[Jim Noble]

I don't know the guy.

If he comes up here, he should leave the cowboy hat home, if he's got one.

NHers can be a pain in the ass, but the fake cowboy thing just doesn't go very far here.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

......."It's open for anybody," Perry's political guru, Dave Carney, who happens to be a New Hampshire resident, said of his home state. "If you're trying to convince people that you're the guy to compete against Obama, you have to play everywhere you can."

Source

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Is that what you think of Texans?

I don’t classify people from New Hampshire.

I thought liberals did that.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If he comes up here, he should leave the cowboy hat home, if he's got one......, but the fake cowboy thing...

Don't see a cowboy hat on his head in these pictures. But then I don't judge a person on their choice of hat.

A nice looking West Texas boy a couple of years from graduation.

Rick Perry 1969 TX A&M Yearbook, Aggieland

Perry attended Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets, a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and one of A&M's five yell leaders (a popular Texas A&M tradition analogous to male cheerleaders). He interned with the Southwestern Company during the summer time as a door-to-door book salesman where he honed his communication skills. Perry graduated in 1972 with a degree in animal science. While at Texas A&M University Perry successfully completed a static line parachute jump at Ags Over Texas (a United States Parachute Association dropzone), the dropzone that was then in operation at Coulter Field (KCFD) in Bryan, Texas, just north of Texas A&M (in College Station, Texas).

Upon graduation, he was commissioned in the United States Air Force, completed pilot training and flew C-130 tactical airlift in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe until 1977. He left the Air Force with the rank of captain, returned to Texas and went into business farming cotton with his father.

In 1982, Perry married Anita Thigpen, his childhood sweetheart whom he had known since elementary school. They have two children, Griffin and Sydney. Source

Anita and Rick Perry dove hunting 2010

Perry Awarding Iraqi Service Medals

Texas Marines

Gov. Rick Perry participates in ceremonies at Camp Mabry to redesignate the 49th Armored Division as the 36th Infantry Division. The former 49th Armored Division, which consists of approximately 12,000 soldiers, makes up almost two-thirds of the Texas National Guard. The division's redesignation as the 36th Infantry Division is part of the Texas Army National Guard's transition from a heavy armored force to a more versatile infantry force.

Texas Gov. Perry receives a warm greeting from Ghazni Provincial Governor Dr. Usman Usmani at the flight line minutes after landing at Forward Operating Base Ghazni by UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Perry led a delegation of four other governors to visit

Lt. Col. Thomas J. Kleis (R) briefs Texas Gov. Rick Perry (C) as Command Sgt. Maj. Peter P.A. Collins (L) listens on the intelligence gathering successes the 636th Military Intelligence Battalion has achieved during their last six months of duty in

Texas Gov. Rick Perry stands with Texas service members from the 636th Military Intelligence Battalion, 71st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade and the 136th Military Police Battalion on July 20th under the Texas flag he presented to the 636th.

Rick Perry served in the U.S. Air Force after graduating from Texas A&M

C-130 Rick Perry: He flew the world before politics

Rank: Retired as a captain

Hometown: Haskell

Crew job: C-130 aircraft commander

Served in the Air Force: 1972 to 1977

Dyess AFB tour: March 4, 1974, to Feb. 28, 1977

His story: Way back before he was governor of Texas, Rick Perry had two choices as a young member of the Air Force.

He could either follow his dream and work toward becoming an instructor pilot in the sleek T-38, or he could fly the hulking C-130, planes that affectionately were referred to as "trash haulers" by Perry and his cohorts.

"It was one of the great adventures of my life," Perry said. "I had a fairly pedestrian life until I was 23 years old."

Perry could count on one hand the number of trips he had taken out of his home state by the time he graduated from Texas A&M University, but everything changed when he joined the Air Force.

Flying C-130s, Perry lived in Germany and Saudi Arabia. He flew in Central and South America, North Africa and all over Europe.

"I saw all of these different types of governments and I made the connections to how the people acted and looked, and it became abundantly clear to me that, at that particular point in time, that America was this very unique place and that our form of democracy was very rare," Perry said. " ... That was the greatest gift I received from my years of being in the military, and they really shaped my outlook on the rest of my life."

[snip]

[Diogenesis]

Do you have a picture of RINO Perry signing
his/Merk’s MANDATE forcing Gardasil into chaste children?

Please post that picture.

[org.whodat]

Rino Perry is no conservative.

[ExSoldier]

All y'all have been freepers for a minimum of ten years, so it isn't seemly to be slingin' darts back and forth about RINO's and liberals and such. It's just not productive. Let's keep that for some noob troll tryin' to slip in under the radar from DU and disrupt. Just sayin.'

That said, (lol) I think I would be surprised to find that Palin would endorse Perry over Bachman (sisterhood and all that), especially if Michelle is running at the top of the polls. Of course, Palin is nothing if she isn't loyal to past supporters (like Perry). Look at her unwavering support of a true RINO like McCain. He is the one who gave her the shot in the first place, even if it was a shameless attempt to win the women's vote. In recognition of that, she has never backed away from him since. This, despite the fact that once she was on his ticket, HIS people did everything in their power to bully her and intimidate her into submission. She is the single overwhelming reason McCain won reelection.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[ July 6, 2011 Christian Post]….While Perry has a good relationship with social conservatives, they have not always seen eye to eye. In 2007, Perry proposed requiring all school-aged girls to receive the HPV vaccine. Concerned Women for America was one of the groups that thought that the vaccine should carry an opt-in provision, in which parents would sign their kids up to receive the free vaccination, rather than Perry's proposed opt-out provision, in which all female school children would automatically receive the vaccine unless their parents explicitly requested that they not receive the vaccine.

Ann Hettinger, Concerned Women for America's state director of Texas, was instrumental in convincing Perry to change his proposal to an opt-in provision. When asked if Perry's original plans for the HPV vaccine would be an issue if he were to run for president, Nance replied, “It would've been an issue if he had not fixed it.”…..

[Jim Noble]

Hey - the first thing I said was, "I don't know the guy".

Thanks for the info.

What I DO know is that GWB dropped like a rock after he started visiting here, and finished with 29% of the vote in January 2000, which, in retrospect, was pretty damn good judgement.

I wrote a vanity about taking my kids to see him and shake hands in our little town in July 1999 (I wish it was still recoverable in the FRarchives) that covered his act in painful detail, the last line was, "He is our Clinton", meaning not that he would cheat on Laura or sell us out to the Chicoms, but that he was skilled at saying what people wanted to hear but without any serious (conservative, in our case) convictions.

I love Texas, especially West Texas. l like a lot of Texans, and I admire the society you all have created down there. I DON'T like politicians who wear the hat on the campaign trail and have slimy weasly beltway values under the hat. Hell, even I've got a Stetson.

Honestly, CW, no offense meant. I know NH GOP voters, maybe too well, and you could read what I wrote about the damn hat as a slam on them as much as anything else.

Still, ask him not to bring the hat, OK?

FReep on.

[lahargis]

You KNOW he could! I see the Ron Paul crazies are already riding their dead horse...

[lahargis]

His fundraising capabilities seem to be incredible. Hopefully, he will throw his hat in the ring soon!

[lahargis]

Ron Paul