He's an unapologetic gun guy and I like that. He was Al Gore's campaign manager in Texas, and I didn't like that. Now it's moot.
His 'no heart' comment lost the base, and that painfully difficult to watch stumble in the CNBC debate last night, lost everyone else. It would be tough to watch if it were anyone. It's a horribly difficult moment. Even if it were a liberal it would be tough. It could be Maxine Waters stumbling, and it would still hurt to watch it.
So I think Rick Perry is probably just about done running for president.
Give our best to the folks in Austin governor.
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So who is left to vote for? I would rather be set on fire and dragged naked over a field of broken glass than vote for Romney.
IMHO, the world is going to get frighting and unstable to a level not seen since 1939. The last thing we need in the leadership is a squish of a man with in my view, has no core principles. Romney will bend whatever way the political winds are blowing. This is not good when a tornado is bearing down on the nation.
With the primaries being front loaded, us voters do not get the time needed to properly vet candidates. Or allow for other possible good choices to get into the race.
Is it possible we could take Newt Ginrich's intellect, Romney's personal life, and Reagan's backbone and build a decent candidate? Dr. Frankenstein! Please pick up the white courtesy phone!
Better get out your asbestos jammies then because I think he's going to be the guy. things could still change, but the odds are falling rapidly.
I agree, he's not the perfect candidate by any means. But at the end of the day the only persona he has to be better than is Obama.
He's a competent manager, and a free marketeer. I don't know whether either of those things will survive contact with the enemy - especially since so little of what Romney believes seems to.
But I'll take lip service to conservative principles over open hostility to them any day.
Tom,
I am afraid Romney will be Christie Todd Whitman on a national scale. Lots of lip service, but will take actions that will hurt the cause in the long term.
i.e. Whitman appeasing the public union at the same time and cutting taxes without cutting spending. The pension are now less than 45% funded. Also her sending evil morons to the state supreme court... the upheld a redistricting pan that will keep any Republic challengers at bay for eternity; as evidenced by the last election.
I hear ya, but what are we going to do? No one is out there to topple him. I was hoping Ryan would run. He didn't. A lot of people hoped Christie would run (I wasn't among them, but a lot of people), he didn't.
Romney may be the worst of all possible candidates except for Obama, and I'll still vote for him and hope for the best.
The RFNJ readership is a deviation from the norm. I know this is no salve but we really are getting what we deserve. An intellectually vigorous and informed voting demographic would be horrified at this candidate pool but with the bulk of our citizenry apathetic, disenfranchised or believing it to be so, uninterested and really quite unaware of where we (RFNJ readership) believe things are heading i.e. "tornado bearing down on nation," we're screwed and my opinion is, it's karma.
A very valid point, although I think there is a level of nobility in being apathetic about politics. It shouldn't be a big deal after all. The government shouldn't have enough power or authority to mess with you very much, so not caring about it "shouldn't" be such a big deal. The problem really is that we have so many people who have deviated from that noble apathy.
That generation or two who were enthralled with collectivist ideology (whatever it’s label) are the ones who are really the problem. They’re the ones who have poisoned the well. By imposing their demonstrably incorrect view of reality on everyone else, they’ve created a creature that is too big to control. That’s why it’s really a moral question – about whether we are still fir for self rule.
Milton Friedman used to say (and I'm paraphrasing) we shouldn't hang our hopes on the right people. We need to concentrate on changing the national conversation so that even the wrong people end up compelled to do the right things. A human windsock like Romney is not the right person, but unlike the rigid ideologue Obama, it's hard to imagine him signing PPACA in the face of such strong public disapproval.
I also wonder if the electorate has gotten collectively dumber. At least in my neck of the woods. I worked on a campaign last year. Canvassing with the candidate I came across an electorate full of leaches and clueless half-wits. The ones who are trying to fix things are too few, too disorganized, and too busy keeping our heads above water. Its hard to campaign when you have to hold down a full time job.
I am in the land where the parking authority has to spend lots of $$$ to remove the new parking meter stations. People are too stupid to figure out how to use them:
1. Plug in your parking space number
2. Insert money
3. Press the big green button
4. Take ticket and place it on the dash.
The above instruction set has proven too complicated for much of the populace, resulting in complaints and lots of parking tickets.
Paraphrasing Heinlein: In one of his stories (forgot which one) told of how before you could vote, you were give a quick test. Nothing too difficult.. some civic questions and a simple quadratic formula. If you passed, you could vote. If you didn't an alarm would go off, the curtain would open, and you would be escorted out of the voting booth.
I know.. its fiction...
Tom, below is the message that Team Perry emailed out to supporters this morning... it's quite the spin....
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Friend & Supporter,
We’ve all had human moments. President Obama is still trying to find all 57 states. Ronald Reagan got lost somewhere on the Pacific Highway in an answer to a debate question. Gerald Ford ate a tamale without removing the husk. And tonight Rick Perry forgot the third agency he wants to eliminate. Just goes to show there are too damn many federal agencies.
The governor said it best afterwards: “I’m glad I had my boots on, because I sure stepped in it tonight.”
While the media froths over this all too human moment, we thought we would take this opportunity to ask your help in doing something much more constructive: write us to let us know what federal agency you would most like to forget.
Is it the EPA and its job-killing zealots? The NLRB and its czar-like dictates? The edu-crats at the Department of Education who aim to control your local curriculum?
Send your answer to forgetmenot@rickperry.org, and if you are on twitter join us in using a new twitter hashtag: #forgetmenot. And, if you could, throw in a $5 contribution for every agency you would like to forget. We hope you have a long list. And we promise we will write down every last idea. So we don’t forget.
Still standing in our Boots,
Team Perry
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