I beg to differ. It’s ALL prayer. He’s even calling prayer recruits to his prayer breakfast.
Perry tried to push through the Trans Texas Corridor, a shameful landgrab that only his wealthy developer supporters wanted. He also signed legislation mandating women be provided a video sonogram of their baby before being allowed to have an abortion. He does rely heavily on the Christain right so I wonder how he’s going to explain/spin this: KHOU reported last night that Perry made (I think) 1.2 million last year. His 10% tithing came up a little short though, totaling only 90 dollars. Yes, 90. In the entire decade before, when he earned some 2 or 3 million his tithe total was around $14,000 or so.
Hr refused to debate Bill White in the Governor’s race, knowing full well he have his ass handed him on a platter. White would have been three times the guv Perry’s been.
As a Texan who remains an Independent, I have often voted Republican for the Governor’s office. But I can’t frikkin’ stand Perry. He’s an absolute embarassment. I take some solace in the feeling he’ll get his ass kicked on the national stage but do prefer that he would just stfu instead.
I have a feeling he will announce late that he is in the race. He will have appeal at first, but as more facts and his platform are revealed, Romney will regain momentun, and eventually win the GOP nod.
Things have gotten so bad ANYONE can beat Obama at this point.
Perry has a lot going for him.
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Texas has done better than most of the country in this recession. Of course, they get the advantage of having some of the NAFTA soak-off of all that commerce that moves up from Mexico.
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Solid street cred with the Religious Right, the Tea Party and the GOP establishment. He might well be a solid comprimise candidate after the Establishment rejects Bachmann and the Base rejects Romney (again!)
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Hasn’t been caught in “moderate heresies” like support of single payer health care or support of cap and trade. (Personally, I consider this a strike, but it helps him with the nomination.)
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The guy isn’t even running yet, and two polls have him within striking distance of Romney. He is ahead of Bachmann, Palin, Pawlenty and Huntsman.
http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/republican_presidential_nomination-1452.html
Now, inevitably, we get the comparisons to George W. Bush in that they are both from Texas. Except that Bush was pretty much angling to run for President after his father got voted out, Perry is being drafted more than running, I think.
I think you’ve convinced yourself through repetition, but that doesn’t make an argument. A couple of weeks ago you were saying anyone could beat if unemployment stayed high around election time. Now it’s just ‘anyone can beat him’ without qualifiers?
I don’t think Romney’s nominatable.
Strike 1- He’s a Mormon. To the evangelicals and baptists who make up the GOP base, Mormons are a heretical cult. To a non-religious person like myself, it’s a goofy religion started by a con man who wanted to have sex with teenage girls.
(the difference between Joseph Smith and David Koresh? Original and Extra Crispy!)
Any discussion of Mormon beliefs isn’t going to help Romney. Hebrews in Ancient America, dark skin is a curse from God, God lives on a planet called Kolob, when you die you go to another planet and father millions of spirit children… oh, yeah, and Magic Underpants.
Strike 2 - RomneyCare (or ObamaCare the BetaVersion.) This is actually where I kind of feel bad for Romney. Almost. When he proposed RomneyCare instead of a single payer system, the Heritage Foundation, Club for Growth and other conservative think tanks praised it as a free market solution.
then Obama cravenly backed down on Health care, and instead of the Canada style system he wanted, he got something that looked just like- RomneyCare. But since the wingnuts hate ObamaCare because it has Obama in it, they hate RomneyCare, too.
Strike 3- Abortion, Gay Marriage, and everything else. After years of supporting moderate positions on social issues, he’s now trying to run in a party that takes conservative positions on these issues. He tried to claim he changed his mind on them in 2008, but no one bought it. “He’s not pro-Choice, he’s multiple choice”.
Strike 4- Wall Street Raider- This wouldn’t have been a strike against him a few years ago, but the Tea Party influence has an undertone of dislike for Wall Street. His argument is that he turned companies around. The argument against that is he turned companies around by laying people off.
I no longer believe unemployment is going to go down. I think there is absolutely no incentive for businesses to add people at this point and help this clown who wants to screw them.
Or maybe I just got annoyed by the polyanna-ish support of his supporters here who act like nothing is wrong.
Guy- a lot of stuff is wrong.
Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by recovering Republican.
I’m sure you misunderstand a lot of things…
No doubt. However I don’t think nothing is wrong with the economy. I do think that your unqualified prediction is ridiculous at this early date - we’re more than six months from the first primaries, nevermind the general election - and changing it because you don’t like Obama supporters makes little sense.
My opinion is based on being involved in politics most of my adult life and having seen a lot of similar scenarios play out.
I guess I’m influenced by my own job, where they are tearing down the empty cubicles because they have no intention of filling them. Or my last job, where I visited some old friends, and found that they are also just going to keep working the folks they have harder. And why not?
Crap, if I can get the same amount of work done with four people that I could with six, I’ll just hire four.
And given the business class absolutely despises Obama at this point, they aren’t going to help the guy. That crack about private planes yesterday I’m sure cost 100,000 jobs.
I think that’s a fantasy.
Oh, no, not really. I suspect there were a lot of CEO’s who went back to their offices and thought, “How can I really screw this idiot?”
Not hire anyone I don’t have to hire, that’s how.
Having failed to produce jobs, Obama is now playing the class warfare card.
Well, I am pretty sure they weren’t going to hire anyone they didn’t have to hire on Tuesday, either.
No, they were about to hire 100,000 people. Not for the good of their business, not for the sake of making profits. No, they were going to do it because it was the correct, humanitarian thing to do. But then the Lyin African said something they didn’t like so FUCK EVERYONE.
SOME NIGGER SAYS SOMETHING I DON’T LIKE? FUCK MY BUSINESS. FUCK THE WORKING CLASS. I’M GOING TO PUNISH HIM AND PUT HIM IN HIS PLACE!
Looks like RR “recovered” from Bush worship and transitioned to full on Teabagging.
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Are we talking about running for the Presidency of the United States or the Presidency of the Republic of Texas?:rolleyes:
That sounds like you’re saying that there really is class warfare going on. The rich deliberately screwing over the working class, just to spite the current President, and get him replaced by someone who better stands up for their interests? How is that not class warfare?
Seceding will only appeal to a small base of crazy Texans. It will not play in the patriotic mid west and other southern states. It will not be a positive across the country. Many Americans will be offended.
He is another Repub joke. The right wing cupboard is bare.
It’s easy to be ahead (or close) when you aren’t running yet. Right now, he’s likely picking up a good chunk of the “I don’t like any of the current candidates” group. Once he either declares or is all but declared, then the fun will begin. Not saying he won’t hold up, but right now no one is aiming any fire his way.
No, guy, not really.
I do have to thank some of you folks for reminding me why I became a Republican in the first place, though.
Practical matter, you’re a CEO, and he’s talking about raising taxes and villifying you, why would you hire more people when you are just going to have to fork over that money to the government anyway?