La Raza Rick's candidacy.
Posted on 10/07/2011 11:58:55 PM PDT by Clairity
Texas governor wins standing ovation at Washington conference with forceful pitches on jobs and America's place in the world.
Texas governor Rick Perry won several standing ovations at a conservative conference in Washington on Friday that marked the start of a fightback in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Perry needed a good reaction after seeing his poll ratings drop sharply after poor debate performances last month.
He and the other Republican presidential candidates are speaking at the annual conference of the Family Research Council, which promotes traditional marriage. A straw poll of the candidates is being conducted, with the result due to be published Saturday.
Members of the audience, interviewed afterwards, said that Perry had done better in his speech than in the fumbled televised debates.
Perry made the focus of his speech American exceptionalism, the idea that the US is a shining example to the rest of the world. Many conservatives claim Barack Obama does not embrace the notion and has spent much of his presidency apologising for the US.
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Man you Perry bots are up late tonight
These ladies are up late every night, spamming the front page news with any and every article they can try and twist to be good news for the ever-sinking Perry. It’d be comical if they didn’t crowd out news that was actually important. The telltale is the 3-4 subsequent comments to bump the thread when no one else looks at it.
La Raza Rick's candidacy.
Perry's most memorable quote--- what Perry thinks from the bottom of his heart (/snic): “If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart.”
Perry is cramming for the next debate, harder than he did for the "Poultry Feed" exam at Texas A&M.
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The echo this time around is the tag team routine shaping up with Cain and Romney vs Perry. In 2008, Huckabee stayed in the race after he had no money in order to split the conservative anti-McCain vote. This hurt Romney and gave the nomination to McCain. Cain, with his race baiting reaction against Perry (the painted rock story of the Washington Post) and his statements that he would consider running as VP with any other candidate in the field except Perry (even Huntsman??? - YGTBSM) are telling.
It is always a good idea to keep track of who the left is publicly going after, as it tells you who they are most scared of. In 2008, it was Palin. In 2010, it was Christine O'Donnell and Rand Paul. This election cycle, that target is Perry. They fired a 7-page, race baiting hit piece in the Washington Post this week. Democrats are talking about introducing a resolution in congress condemning Perry for the allegations in the bogus story. You don't do this to a candidate unless you are terrified of what they will do to you if elected. This is fast approaching the Palin treatment.
In contrast, Cain has had to dodge none of this. Contrast that with what the media and democrats did with the last black conservative they were scared of - Clarence Thomas. Then ask yourself, why isn't Cain getting the same treatment? An obvious conclusion is that the left is not scared of him and are giving him a free ride. This ought to give all of us pause.
The left and democrats ALWAYS tell us who they are scared of. They always tell us who the strongest conservative is. This election cycle, that candidate is Rick Perry. Which for the time being is good enough for me.
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"For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure.."
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--Reckless Endangerrment; pg 182
"Angelo Mozilo, thank you"--Governor Ricar(D)o Perry--Tuesday, December 14, 2004
You are perfectly welcome to post articles on your candidate. Who is that by the way?
So are the weepy palinistas, I hear.
Cain worries me. I know the reason why but I can’t articulate it well yet. I’m going to wait for the next debate and if I still feel that way I’m going to write it out in detail.
It’s one of the reasons I’m still hanging in their for Perry, even though he’s obviously weakened himself with his debate performances.
And it’s not just 10-year-big-state-governor vs no-electoral-experience that worries me. There’s something else.
I hope Perry can turn it around. I worry that Cain can’t go the distance and we won’t find that out until it’s too late.
This is not an attack on Cain. I like Cain very much. I am leaning towards Cain. If Perry can’t turn things around, I will be switching to Cain.
But I’m worried, and I’m still hoping for Perry to pull out of his dive.
Thanks for the post and the link to his speech.
Re the article:
I found it interesting that the journalist covering the conference described the standing ovations for Perry and noted the issues Perry spoke of that received standing ovations. Then I noticed that journalist went on to say Cain received some ovations too for “his ability as an entertainer, to make them laugh.”
That’s an important piece of insight everyone should think about.
I'll take Rick Perry over the guy trying desperately to be Mitt Romney's running mate.
Members of the audience, interviewed afterwards, said that Perry had done better in his speech than in the fumbled televised debates.
That is Perry and he does a good job of Q/A with groups but debating isn’t his knack or skill it seems. Bush wasn’t a top notch debater either but he learned canned answers for selected topics and spewed them forth in responses to questions about the topic. Perry has to do that as he can’t it seems put together an answer off the cuff.
“Perry is cramming for the next debate, harder than he did for the “Poultry Feed” exam at Texas A&M.”
I have noticed his popularity with the hen population...
I agree. I was there. Two caveats: first, it was a VERY friendly audience, and second, he was not being grilled with tough questions in the presence of competitors looking to exploit his every stumble and gaffe. In sum, there really was no pressure--at least nothing remotely like the pressure of a national debate.
When he's up against Obama in the general election--if he gets that far--it will be even MORE pressured, stressful, and unfriendly than anything he has seen to date.
Perry was warmly and occasionally enthusiastically received by the VVS crowd but still only received eight percent of the straw votes cast. I interpret that to mean that the crowd thought that Perry was a likeable "thinks like I do" candidate, but not a particularly effective one. Not many people there seemed to have much confidence in Perry's ability to go 12 rounds in a media-rigged match in the national general election arena.
Romney only got four percent of the votes, and he was at best coolly--if politely--received. I interpret his low straw vote total to mean that he was not liked by much of the crowd, plain and simple.
Not a very good showing. Would have been even worse if "Values Voters" knew about Perry's activities in Texas.
Perry's been described by some Texans as a kind of a "Ten Gallon Punxsutawney Phil." When election time rolls around, Perry emerges, packing/campaigning in a cowboy hat, pushing all the right Texas buttons, dangling "secession" in front of believing voters. After he's elected, Perry disappears into his cave until it's time to gear up again.
When he does that disappearing act, big-hearted Rick gets down to the real business of governance----enriching himself---and advancing his political ambitions---which are one and the same.
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Perry has raised truckloads of money for years preparing for his presidential foray. Perry got into the 2012 race with hundreds of millions of dollars, and multiple political PACS, teeming with money.
There's "Americans for Rick Perry" for starters.
Perry's Super Pac raised $55 million just by saying he WAS NOT running.
“Texans for Rick Perry” committee is a $102 million slush fund he uses at will. Some PAC mega-donors paid in $100,000 each in order to influence Perry's official actions. “Texans for Rick Perry” committee paid for posh family trips to the Bahamas, Amsterdam, Madrid, out of campaign contributions.
Perry's "Make Us Great Again PAC" raised millions to flood Iowa, and other early voting states, with ads promoting their boy.
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No candidate has a more corrupt history of allocating tax grants and using his government office to favor mega donors than Rick Perry. He controls hundreds of millions of dollars in countless "do-good govt agencies." .....
One Texas news report titled “The Governor’s Gusher,” documents 100 wealthy donors who “have sought corporate welfare, relaxed regulatory rules or other government favors” in exchange for their political largess in Texas gubernatorial races. A disturbing number of these profiteers made a fortune off government handouts or by bending or breaking regulatory rules.
A recent bill pushed through the Texas Legislature benefited Waste Control Specialists, a company owned by #2 donor to Perry, Harold Simmons. Just days after the bill was signed into law, Simmons wrote a $100,000 check to "Americans for Rick Perry, " another of Perry's presidential PACs.
Another donor paid Perry nearly $8 million in campaign contributions, and, in 2003, sought and received, his own regulatory agency called "The Texas Residential Construction Commission"
One shady transaction---a Perry donor gave the RepubGovAssoc a $million----then the RGA wrote two checks to Perry totaling a $million, which he did not declare as per campaign laws.
His wife Anita Perry's $60,000-a-year salary at the Austin "nonprofit" "Texas Association Against Sexual Assault" comes indirectly from Gov. Perry's political donors, state contractors and companies that do business with the state or have issues before the Legislature. Of 37 major donors during Anita Perry's tenure as fundraiser, ONLY three have NO ties to the governor or state business. Anita Perry is paid from the "nonprofit" money pool that includes political contributions. TAAS also receives grants from state agencies AND her husband, the governor's, office. Donating to the TAASA seems to be another way Perry dreamed up for those with an interest in state government to influence Perry.
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Perry seems to have a "voting bloc checklist." Looks like and his handlers hunker down and figure out govt giveaways and power plays to nail down the blocs.The Texas Dream Act passed 10 years ago when vote-crazed Perry was desperate for votes---and began a curious unbroken string of election wins.
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