Having a combination of Mitch Daniels and Rick Perry might be a good. A Midwestern and Southerner provides good balance for the party.

We were all expecting Huck to run, and then look what happened. So don’t assume Daniels is running just because he’s making the right noises.

Would be – on paper – our star recruits this year, yet could be used to remind the voters of the still highly unpopular last GOP President. I can hear the heckles already:

“Yeah, remember the last time we elected a (fill in the blank: “guy named Bush/Governor of Texas”)? See how that turned out!”

Would be – on paper – our star recruits this year, yet could be used to remind the voters of the still highly unpopular last GOP President. I can hear the heckles already:

“Yeah, remember the last time we elected a (fill in the blank: “guy named Bush/Governor of Texas”)? See how that turned out!”

Then we will know he is getting ready to throw his hat in the ring.

You can’t compare Rick Perry to George W Bush, they are totally different. TX economy is the best in the country, that’s in his favor. We need someone big, strong and conservative. I say draft Rick, he’s our best chance.
Daniels does nothing for me, remember his truce with social conservatives?

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At some point, I think a candidate has to want it. I’m leary of all these saviors who need “drafting”. The standard bearer should be decisive, be committed and have the fire in the belly for the long, tough, brutal slog that lays ahead.

Rick Perry is the type of Republican that would beat Obama to a bloody pulp, he has a killer instinct similar to Giuliani. I will say though the Texas connection will hurt him (although it’s not fair) A Texas Republican is sort of like a San Francisco Democrat, it’s a hard mold to break.

The whole drama of whether Mitch Daniels is running or not seems silly, imo. I’m really not waiting on the edge of my seat for Mitch to come in on a white horse and save us, he doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that Obama will be a one-term President. It would be one thing if this “teasing” were coming from someone like Chris Christie.

If Daniels jumps in, I think it’s almost certain Romney will be our nominee. Daniels and Pawlenty will be fighting over the same voters.

Not sure why he put his support behind Newt. That doesn’t seem very precient.

They are good buds. If she runs, he won’t. If she doesn’t, he has a great opportunity to jump into the race with her endorsement.

Is she running or not? I hope so, because I don’t like ANY of our candidates so far.

The narrative should not be “Republicans are depressed because look what a sorry lot they have to choose from.”
We have some excellent choices – Palwenty, Cain, potentially Daniels or Perry. I could get enthusiastically behind any of these.

The narrative should not be “Republicans are depressed because look what a sorry lot they have to choose from.”
We have some excellent choices – Palwenty, Cain, potentially Daniels or Perry. I could get enthusiastically behind any of these.

after seeing him in action down in for over a decade, its clear he is actually Romeny’s identical twin brother. Both of them serve in the title of “Panderer in Chief”. Romney just had to pander to a liberal base while Perry does it to the tea party. Neither one has any core convictions and is as fickle as the Texas wind direction.

I admire Daniels a lot, and have wanted him to run, but lately I’ve been getting cold feet – and not for the SoCon reasons. I had hoped to talk to AZaeroProf about this the other day, but it hardly matters, since my state’s primary is so late in the year (and rightly so given how it works here) – August – as to be irrelevant. Right now I’m focused on beating up Tim Geithner and the statist big spenders on my word processor, in a would-be reply to Senator DeMint if I can tone it down, but I thought I’d weigh in briefly here on 2012, in case anyone cares.

Please — NO! Anything but that. He’ll try to play doctor with every little girl in America for the benefit of his campaign donors. http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/316331.php

and I’m a Texan. Cain is the obvious choice. Just hope our primary makes it past three states this time

every other candidate as far as conservative values are concerned, but I’m not sure he can see over any of the other candidates’ belt buckles.

As a Texan, I only voted for him in the GOP Primary because the primary had gotten too nasty and was on the verge of tearing the party apart, and Perry was near the 50% mark. If Perry was held in that high esteem, he wouldn’t have a setting Senator from his own party consider challenging him. The truth is most Republicans are not in love with the Perry era. Whether its the Trans-Texas Corridor, forced HPV Vaccinations, among other things, he is someone that gets national respect solely from the position he holds, and not for the man himself. He drastically underperformed the rest of the state ticket, and due to his lackluster general election campaign, he hurt the downballot races in Dallas County and others. In a banner election year with a strong GOP tailwind, he underperformed McCain’s performance here in ’08.

I want to cast a vote for someone that will win. I don’t know TX politics but to me, from afar, in MA, I would love to see Rick Perry on the same stage with Obama. He’d show what a real man looks like vs one that is a manchild.
We can’t afford four more years of this! I hope Cain cleans clocks in the primaries. I’d support him in a minute, I don’t think he has the name recognition, but there is plenty of time between now and the primaries for him to get out and be seen everywhere.

I am afraid it will fall to the heir from last time, Mitt Romney. Mitt’s a nice guy but he should have vetoed Romneycare, instead he did work with Heritage Found (I read that on these pages) to imporve it. It’s not working here. We have been hit with huge increases in health insurance costs over the past four years.

For a preview of what a debate would be I suggest that you watch the Nixon/Kennedy debates. Content doesn’t matter presentation will be 90% & obama will clean Cain’s clock on that. Nixon technically “out-debated” Kennedy but his appearance turned voters off, Cain (along with other valid issues) has this to contend with also.

I like Rick Perry. I’m a proud Texan and I know Perry to be a good guy.

However, I think he is very likely to be RINO. He began his career as a Dem, and Texas has plenty of RINOs playing themselves off as conservative and I think Perry might be the biggest one.

I don’t see him implementing any of the state’s rights issues he touts. I think he is really in it for publicity. None of his ideas seem particulary nuanced or well thought out….mostly seems to be bombastic sound bites.

Also, his dealings with Texas highways leave him very suspect.

I like Rick Perry. I’m a proud Texan and I know Perry to be a good guy.

However, I think he is very likely to be RINO. He began his career as a Dem, and Texas has plenty of RINOs playing themselves off as conservative and I think Perry might be the biggest one.

I don’t see him implementing any of the state’s rights issues he touts. I think he is really in it for publicity. None of his ideas seem particulary nuanced or well thought out….mostly seems to be bombastic sound bites.

Also, his dealings with Texas highways leave him very suspect.

but pretty much any name you toss in (except Palin, but she does attract some fears of electability) gets the same “ugh, not him” treatment.

What people really want is Ronald Reagan. He is constitutionally ineligible though, even if he should reappear as Zombie Reagan, so that’s out. So they compare everyone else to him and Guess What? Everyone else looks small and unworthy in the comparison.

As Rumsfeld said, “You go to war with the army that you have,” remember? Them that’s in are in, them that ain’t, ain’t.

GOP guys (and gals) who are in, and even guys who aren’t in, get trashed on conservative blogs daily.

If I were an on-the-fence GOP contender, I would say, “thanks, but no thanks.”

I wonder if liberals beat up their candidates on lefty blogs?

Be running for president of The Republic of Texas. We need to secede before we get dragged down with the rest of the U.S. They’ve been riding our coattails too long anyway.

I think that is what the GOP needs right now.

Hopefully the reality show Republicans are finished.

support a ticket like Danils/Perry or vice versa. We must find a ticket that CAN win the Presidency. We need to find the ticket and get behind it now with a running start so we can start challenging the ignorance of the leaders we have now! We need to stop infighting, pick a good conservative ticket made of men with a history of conservative ways. Both these guys would put the “Czars” on the road along with that long-legged McDaddy!

Seems like Rick Perry was mentioned on Chris Matthews last night which makes me wonder if they are just screwing around or reporting every rumor without performing due diligence. I like Perry and would support him.