Texas Governor Rick Perry has made it known that he’s going to announce his candidacy for the GOP nomination for president at the Red State Conference in South Carolina on August 13, the same weekend as the Ames, Iowa straw poll. This didn’t sit well with the Iowa Republican blog. The paper called Perry’s timing a “slap in the face to Iowa Republicans.”
The Iowa GOP uses the well-publicized straw poll as a fundraiser for the party and it is also has a sort of pride of place being one of the early, notable primary time events. So, it is easy to see how the Iowans would be a tad upset that Perry decided to use another state on the same weekend to make his announcement. Iowa Republicans would naturally feel he should have used their own stomping grounds for his announcement.
Regardless of where he announces, Perry’s name will not appear on the ballots at the Ames straw poll and his announcement may make the results of the straw pool somewhat meaningless as Perry is atop the polls in those that ask potential voters about who they might like to see run, announced or no.
But Perry has parried that Iowan complaint. Perry has quickly made plans to appear at a Waterloo Lincoln dinner on Sunday to assuage Iowan’s hurt feelings. The Waterloo Lincoln dinner represents an “important area of the state for Republicans,” according to Mark Miner, spokesman for Iowa Governor Terry Branstad.
Perry made this move quickly showing his ability to adapt quickly to a political situation. I see this as a good sign of his versatility. It also is not a lasting or damaging incident, either. It’ll be one not long remembered. It is a minor mistake with a well-handled solution.
A good sign that Perry might have an interesting campaign ahead of him.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:02 am
I would not trust Perry if I were you. A traitor is a traitor, no matter the side.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:15 am
Don’t worry, Flo. No one listens to you. After all, an idiot is an idiot no matter the side.
August 10th, 2011 at 11:27 am
ooh, snap !
August 10th, 2011 at 11:52 am
Zing!
August 10th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Bang, Zooom!!!
August 10th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
What is about Perry that is gaining all of this support?
Job creation in Texas? That has been underway for years and is dependent on many factors, demographics, cost of energy, proximity to Mexico (since NAFTA, Texas has become a major transportation center) and geography in addition to the types of industries that have been there for years, (energy, software etc.).
While he may garner some credit, it is not as if he lifted a moribund economy on his shoulders.
Seriously, I am just curious. Besides that “new car smell”, what is it about him that has everyone so excited?
Additionally, given his propensity to consider prayer as a viable method for solving problems, do you think he can win a general election?
August 10th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
“Seriously, I am just curious. Besides that “new car smell”, what is it about him that has everyone so excited?”
I was asking myself that same thing about Billy Ray 2+ years ago.
Still no answer!!!
August 10th, 2011 at 1:33 pm
I dont know Buzz, maybe its the lack of filthy laundry and interns.
I myself give the holy rollers a serious scrutinizing.
I’ve come used to those who preach the most righteous morals seem to be the horndogs screwing anything with legs.
He does seem like a pretty serious sincere man no matter what his stripes
August 10th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
It seems that he’s doing more for job creation in Texas than BHO is doing nationally.
August 10th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Rick Perry has actual executive experience running a very large state. He stands for the 10th Amendment. He did not institute a single-payer health care insurance program, in fact, health insurance in Texas is about the least expensive as they actually allow for competition.
Perry has been aggressive in his rejection of ObamaCare, which, BTW, is going to cost us $50 Billion more per year than estimated because the White House told the CBO not to count the cost of insuring family members of workers who sign on. Now there is a minor math error!
August 10th, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Sorry, I know its off topic and self serving.
But everyday being worse than the last for 3 years and one to come if I’m “entitled” to anything, its a little self serving, as are most of us.
This is quite possibly the most…wait for it, wait for it….
August 10th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
FCKED UP presidency and 3+ years I think I’ve seen anywhere on the planet in my life and history books with the exception of the exceptions such as H!tler etc.
Never have I seen one man destroy so much of one country without a military helping him in such a short time.
I might break my sobriety the day his ass hits the curb and hes finally out of our lives.
I will take that risk to crown and celebrate one of the happiest days in American history.
Never have I come so close to hating a president as I have this guy.
The fck ups are mind boggling, staggering and will linger for decades worse than nuclear fallout.
I’m as dizzy as can be for the last three years trying to conclude if anyone can be this calibrating a genius or if anyone could ever be so focking dumb.
The verdicts in.
Theres no rhyme, theres no reason. Its simply a mess.
Hes just a blind idiot with enough sense and experience on earth to know how to lie everytime he needs to like some nickle dime pimp at a petting zoo.
Good grief, I dont think I’ll ever get over this anymore than if I saw Elvis land the Mars rover on my roof.
August 10th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
There’s plenty of “rhyme and reason” to Obama. His plan is to destroy the USA as it is and rebuild it in a socialist image. His plan is to wipe out everything that makes the USA the USA. A few things have to be utterly destroyed to do that, though. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, ya know?
August 10th, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Warner, the problem with your philosophy is that you forget the insurmountable flaw in all moonbat philosophy, the contradiction that defeats rhyme and reason, the problem that cannot be overcome- No matter what form that moonbat philosophy takes — whether it be progressive, democratic-socialist, welfare-statist, communistic, or any other name those of this mindset wanna to call it — in order to redistribute wealth, there first has to be wealth to redistribute.
Somebody must produce, and the moonbat cannot exist without this person.
The welfare state cannot exist without the producers of welfare.
For exactly this reason, the moonbat is at the mercy of the very person he seeks to plunder. The moonbat relies on those he so often denigrates.
The moonbats big, big problem, which the right-winger has to his detriment also accepted (albeit tacitly), is rooted in the misbegotten belief that if government doesn’t provide it, humans interacting freely will not get it done. That is the source of the insoluble flaw in all moonbat thought, which in turn has a deeper source…
… the belief that human survival should be assured no matter what.
Which is why I concluded he’s an idiot.
educated, well spoken when orchestrated, congenial… but ignorantly completely forgets a most important component to his end product
August 11th, 2011 at 1:19 am
Micky, you are forgetting the basic tenet of communism which is that the government owns all industry and redistributes at will.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
As Americans who have lived through the cold war and witnessed the defeat of communism we can’t bring ourselves to believe that this country elected a communist, so we refer to him as a socialist. Socialism is merely a soft form of communism.
Who were Billy Ray’s closest associates and influences? Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Michael Klonsky, Stanley Dunham, Franklin Davis, Van Jones… Communists all!!!
Call him a socialist if you want…
August 11th, 2011 at 3:17 am
“Micky, you are forgetting the basic tenet of communism which is that the government owns all industry and redistributes at will.”
Still, if you’re communist, socialist, Marxist you destroy production you’re fcking yourself.
Its old and cliche but true what Thatcher said. Eventually you run out of other peoples money.
In Barrys case that money never gets made to start with.
Would you feel fully rewarded for your labor/investment under Barry ?
As it stands the whole business community is frozen in fear of him so wheres all these revenues hes needing going to come from ?
Like most I’ll say screw him and work under the table.
So yeah, he may have a socialist agenda but still theres no rhyme or reason seeing as how every plan needs a foundation, which his is shot from the beginning.
Hes an idiot more than anything.
Not for lack of knowledge or education but for simple idealistic ignorance worse than those who believe Koresh was the messiah
August 11th, 2011 at 3:25 am
Hes a parasite, a crab louse.
To which the best method of removal is to boil all laundry, curtains, steam all mattresses,carpets and shave completely including genitals.
Every single one of his offspring must be dealt with or we’ll keep seeing this re-occur in our government over and over as theres some fool generation that thinks they can put a spin on wealth redistribution and make it work because “the other guys didnt do it right and they’ll be the ones to show us how its done”
What better way to point out the arrogance of the moonbat then to show his refusal to accept the constructs of insanity ?