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The Benefit of Being In Charge

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 5th, 2011 at 11:34 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

There is a benefit to being in a position of elected leadership. We’ve seen it once in this GOP Presidential campaign.

On a stage of former this’s and former that’s, the issue of Libya came up in one of the first debates. Michele Bachmann gave a more thorough and complete answer than any of the other candidates and it was premised with the authority of being a current member of the Intelligence Committee.

In that moment, a lot of people who had dismissed her realized there was something there.

Now today the candidates are convening in South Carolina for a forum held by Senator Jim DeMint. I was supposed to be there, but due to Tropical Storm Lee and the coming ten inches of rain I’m waiting for, I’ll be on CNN tonight from Atlanta instead of trying to navigate the roads between home and Columbia.

Another person who will not be there is Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

Unlike the other candidates on stage with gubernatorial stylings, Perry lacks the word “former” in front of the title. Consequently, while the other candidates get to appear on television trying to prove their leadership abilities through hypothetical scenarios of what they would do, Perry is in Texas actually doing and showing in real time.

There is an advantage to be being an elected official running for higher office. This, and the priorities it suggests, helps those candidates who have not yet acquired the word “former.”

Oddly enough, about the only person who does not seem right now to benefit from a leadership title is President Obama who, we saw from the debt ceiling debacle, saw his polling numbers decline every time he stepped in front of a camera.

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  • Locked and Loaded

    http://www.dailyindia.com/show/459679.php

    Are all the Dems in the country really resigned to sticking with this surefire loser? Even Hillary?

  • izoneguy

    Find it as soon as you can.

    Perry was in command and had some great one liners…

    The one I liked best was – Someone asked Perry if he was
    in favor of gun control – he said “Yes, use both hands!”

    Perry is coming back to Texas because Central Texas is on fire.
    The Steiner Ranch area is hard hit. This is just west of Austin
    near Lake Travis.

  • onemovoter

    which was awesome. I have to say Perry has that personable type personality that comes across great. It’s the same reason why even those who didn’t like Bill Clinton still admired his ability to connect with people. It’s why Reagan connected with so many people, that he was able to personally connect his vision and policies with people’s lives.

    Many other candidates can spouse the same conservative ideals, but if you can’t make them connect with people, you won’t be able to coalesce all the different flavors across this country.

    Izoneguy, one other good liner: “I promise not to filibuster. If I wanted to filibuster, I’d be running for the Senate.” (not sure if that’s an exact quote. Perry had several good one liners and personal stories that really shined through.

  • izoneguy
  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    “Former” for their current positions…
    /

  • acat

    Just an update – Erick explained why he’s out.

    Perry is staying in Texas due to the disasterous fires around Austin.

    Mew

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    A pre-presidential announcement Rick Perry on CNN’s Parker/Spitzer mopping the floor with poor little Elliot.

    Unfortunately, it appears that CNN has buried that footage, and I can’t find any link to it.

  • wennejunk

    Could see the smoke all around this morning after the sun came up.

    Had some smaller fires about a mile east of our small North Austin-area town, too.

    I saw the helicopter and heard the sirens but had no idea until catching the news this morning.

  • silentcal2012

    Leaving for Texas. He was in SC this morning doing campaign events. Curtis Loftus looks liek a smart man today.

  • Scope

    rather than a debate. According to a “a href=”http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/11/demint-presidential-forum-planned/”>DeMint supporter, the candidates will be asked to offer concrete plans for fixing the debt, and growing the economy. There will be 4 participants, Romney, Paul, Cain and Bachmann? Huntsman?. I don’t know how long the forum is scheduled for, an hour, two, three. I still find it hard to believe that any one candidate, even given a half hour to respond can tackle the enormity of concrete ideas on how they will right an economic ship that has hit an iceberg after decades of ruinous economic policies. Probably the only candidate that could have answered that question in few words, but with concrete proof, would have been Perry. All he needed to say was that he would just take what he did in Texas to a national level. Don’t spend all the money, Tort and lawsuit Reform, low business taxes, as little regulations as possible, and utilization of all of our natural resources.

    The DeMint supporter also said:

    “I can’t take another candidate who says he or she is for lower government and then doesn’t do anything about it. We want to know you’re plan. This is about getting real, and not throwing out a bunch of 30-second soundbites.”

    I take it that the 30-second soundbite reference is a response to the earlier “debates” in which the candidates were only given 30 seconds to relay how they were going to save the country. We just had to know if Cain preferred thick or thin crust, or Bachmann preferred Elvis or John Cash. The way the DeMint supporters comment comes across though, is that it is the candidates fault for “throwing out a bunch of 30-second sound bites.”

    I’ve stepped back from presidential candidates all running around saying, I’m going to do this, and I promise to do that etc. The same applies to asking the candidates tonight for concrete plans for fixing the debt and growing the economy. The president doesn’t have the ability or the power to write the legislation, and to sign it into law by bypassing Congress, who by the constitution is the authorized body of lawmakers, other than Obama of course. The president can relay his visions for the direction he would like to see the country go in, and it is up to him to sell his ideas to those that write the laws. Short of just bypassing Congress, and ruling by Executive Order, he is not authorized to write the legislation that the DeMint supporter apparently thinks they have the power to do. For that reason, I think it’s a bit naive to say “I’m sick of candidates saying they are going to shrink the government, but then don’t do anything about it.”

    Yes, Perry’s record on the economic issues, and growing the economy is already out there for anyone who cares to look for it, and it is backed up with proven success. He is right to take care of the crisis in his state, and avoid standing next to someone who will profess to eliminate the FED and get back on the Gold Standard. Then again it could have been a shinning definitive moment for him. He’ll have plenty of other opportunities.

  • Scope

    “a href=”http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/11/demint-presidential-forum-planned/”> DeMint Forum

  • Scope

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/11/demint-presidential-forum-planned/

  • onemovoter
  • Scope

    Don’t know what I kept doing wrong, but thank you for doing it right.

  • onemovoter

    Looks like you were trying to use quotes instead of “>” at the beginning and end of the link. If you can’t remember how to do it, go to create a new diary and use the ‘link’ ability. Just copy and paste in the link, once it’s put in, type the link name you want, then end link by pressing the ‘/link’. You’ll see the entire setup that way, and even just copy what you made to here.

  • rightwingmom52

    so let me try mine. This one goes directly to a listen live (or it’s supposed to).

    here

  • Scope

    was to an article at CNN Politicalticker blog. The comments from the DeMint supporter were taken from that article. Apparently one cannot copy their link, and provide it elsewhere. I kept checking to make sure that I had all my opening and closing symbols correct, but for whatever reason , the article is unlinkable. If you type into google the DeMint Presidential Forum, it will come up on the list. It’s worth the read.

  • Adjoran

    “Lacking the ‘former’ prefix” does give one the opportunity to demonstrate some leadership, but this is hardly automatic.

    Case in point: President Princess Crybaby can only lead the way to the first tee.

  • rightwingmom52

    Love the “Keep Your Powder Dry Caucus.” LOL

    Onemovoter’s link was to an even later article. I just thought some might want link in to the event so that’s what I posted.

    Just for the sake of trying, I’m going to take a shot at posting both of the previous articles. No harm in trying.

    here and

    here

  • Scope

    I have no idea what I did wrong as I used the very same method of providing clickable links that I have always used. It’s worked in later comments of mine. Doesn’t matter, you got them both here for everyone’s perusal. Thank you.

  • Scope

    n/t

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    Go here:

    http://americanprinciplesproject.org/

    Thank you.

    ColdWarrior

  • rightwingmom52

    with occasional interruptions by John, the Grunter, King. Started at 3 pm CST and goes to 5pm. I’m recording it to watch later, but caught part of Bachmann, Cain and Gingrich, all of whom were good. Demint, Steve King and Robert George are asking the same basic questions with a little variation here and there.

  • Scope

    doesn’t get to ask thin or thick crust? LOL Please will you come back and give your impressions. I don’t get CNN, why pay for a channel I have no interest in most time. I can’t do livestream either. Would love to hear your take on the forum. I’ll read the transcript when it is available.

  • rightwingmom52

    Our basic satellite package has CNN and MSNBC, both of which I usually block out as my own little protest at home, but I did manage to find the channel so I could record the forum.

    I’ll post my impressions after I watch the whole thing – probably later tonight.

  • Scope

    which includes Fox, RFDTV, great farming channel, DIY, teaches you how to do it yourself and save money, history and science channel, CSpan, where you can scream at the TV when the liberals are fighting for their utopias in the house and senate etc. LOL

    Will wait patiently for your summation.

  • minister_of_war

    I like Perry, but he was already in South Carolina campaigning & a couple more hours of attending a Presidential Candidate Forum would not have made much of a difference regarding the Texas fires. It actually wouldn’t have made any difference at all. All he had to do was fly back 3 hours later to do his Texas fires photo-ops.

    All I’m saying is that it was bad form. It looked like Perry was chickening out of the forum & I doubt Senator DeMint saw this as anything but a snub.

    I hosted a candidate forum watching party at my house for the local county Young Republican Club. And the consensus was that Perry was chickening out even though most of us had looked forward to seeing him at Senator DeMint’s forum.

    I have to say that the other candidates did look good though. They were all thoughtful & had commanding presences. I still don’t agree with Ron Paul’s foreign policy (which I think is extremely naive). But at least Paul’s not like Romney said of Obama where Obama doesn’t even have a foreign policy.

    I thought that Bachmann & Cain did particularly well. And Gingrich did too. Romney was Presidential too. So, in the final analysis, all candidates (except for the one who ran away) looked good.

    The excuse of more important things to do reminds me of when McCain suspended his campaign during the 2008 Election to go back & work on fixing the economy during the financial crisis except that this seemed more like entrapment where Perry forced Romney, who hadn’t been planning to go to the forum, to go & then Perry decided not to go himself because he was afraid or unprepared for the format.

    Perry’s announcement speech was awesome, but appearances like Perry’s flub on the Laura Ingraham Show have left me with some questions.

    I hope that Perry doesn’t find a reason to chicken out of Wednesday’s debate.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    I doubt many people outside very conservative circles and the South Carolina area even know who Jim DeMint is. I’m sure there are other events that candidates aren’t attending. Does that make them a chicken if they don’t attend every one?

  • minister_of_war

    And he is one of the most coveted endorsements. He’s one of the main reasons that Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey & Mike Lee (among other conservatives) are US Senators today. I know that you really don’t mean it when you say that hardly anybody knows who Senator DeMint is. That’s just absurd.

    In fact, I think that Senator DeMint is one of the people who will be at the top of any Vice Presidential running mate list.

    Way more people know who DeMint is than know who Marco Rubio is & many say that Rubio is the front runner to be the VP candidate for whomever gets the nomination.

    And no, I don’ think that it’s mandatory to go to every single event. I just think that dropping out of the candidate forum a mere hours before the event should have come with a better excuse than fires at home that the Governor himself can’t do anything about. … Well unless Perry was rushing home to personally fly C-130s over the fires to dump water & other fire retardants on them. Then, I’d have to admit that would be pretty cool.

  • Scope

    reporting on Perry going back to handle the crisis in Texas, most support him going back to take care of his current job as Gov. of a state that is having some real hard times.

    I’m sure you had at it with your young Republicans, steering them to your preffered candidate. Ron Paul perhaps?

  • Bill S

    We give Obama a load of crap when he doesn’t pay attention to crises at a national level, and you think the Governor of Texas, whose state is literally on fire should pay more attention to a minor political event.

    I’m glad you aren’t in charge of his campaign strategy.

  • Scope

    that you don’t support Perry. Sad to see someone who invites young republicans to watch a forum, with pre-conceived notions. You are not helpful. Just from your snarky comments here, you should be the last one leading a group of young republicans.

  • minister_of_war

    But obviously, you cannot read. Once you can actually learn how to read & read my post, then you can comment on who I supported in it. But plainly, I didn’t give Ron Paul much of a resounding response.

    As I said before, Ron Paul’s foreign policy is extremely naive. I’m sorry for using such big words, but according to Dictionary.com, the second definition of naive is “having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information.”

    I guess that you would probably be the Ron Paul supporter since you have so much in common.

  • minister_of_war

    …until after the candidate forum. I really wanted to see what Perry had to say. A couple hours wouldn’t have made a difference. I’m sure if they really needed something from the Governor, his cell phone would have done just fine.

  • Scope

    attention to Katrina. They took him to the frekin’s cleaners because he was in touch, and offered federal help, but liberal Ray Naggin and Blanco wouldn’t accept it.

  • minister_of_war

    … As I said in my post, I like Perry. I saw Perry speak at a CPAC event many years ago & I’ve been impressed ever since.

    I’m just legitimately criticizing what I see as a candidate possibly grandstanding at the same time that he gets out of what could potentially be a difficult forum for him.

    I think that forum was an excellent opportunity for Perry to show us as voters how Perry would respond to conservative questions from some of the most influential conservatives in the country.

  • minister_of_war

    … who constantly criticized him. Katrina wasn’t his fault; nor was Bush’s response to Katrina bad or inappropriate in any way. Katleen Blanco on the other hand screwed up big time!

    But rushing immediately to EVERY SINGLE natural disaster, all we’re doing is playing the left & the media’s game. Sometimes, it’s actually a good idea to sit back & assess things before you go running in to make sure that we don’t make the situation worse.

  • acat

    but go on to criticize Perry for not stepping into it… ?

    You’ve constructed a lovely little Kobayashi Maru scenario there…. only I think Perry correctly determined that the fires in Texas matter more than a rather inside-baseball forum.

    Mew

  • Scope

    characterizing Perry as “grandstanding.” It is you who is claiming that the forum would be a “difficult forum for him.” That is nothing more than your opinion, coupled with the fact that you use snark within your comments, accusing Perry of nothing more than what you perceive to be “weaknesses” on his part.

    Get off your high horse that “I can’t read AGAIN.” Apparently you can’t read the majority of voters in this country, but need desperately to take someone out with creepy unfounded accusations, because he obviously isn’t your current choice.

    That makes the rest of your opinions of how some performed suspect. Your snark labeled you as a non-understanding reader, not me. I’ll make sure to read other opinions on the DeMint debate.

    BTW, it has bothered me greatly that DeMint has gone over to the libertarian side, which was never displayed before the last few years. Before that, he was considered the stalwart Reagan conservative, and, his voting record displays that. It saddens me to see the direction that he has chosen to go in.

  • minister_of_war

    I’ll say it again, I like Perry. And I think that any of our Republican candidates would be much better than Obama. But I also think it was wrong for Perry to skip out on the debate.

    And even though you don’t like DeMint because he’s a conservative, he apparently wasn’t too happy that Perry skipped out at the last moment either.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62657.html

  • minister_of_war

    I jokingly mentioned entrapment by Perry for forcing Romney to go to the forum (which Romney should have been planning on attending in the first place) & then Perry escaping from attending himself at the last possible moment.

    Is that the trap that you are talking about?

  • minister_of_war

    Somehow it posted as its own comment though. Oops.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    You do have reading comprehension problems.

    “Disappointed” != “not too happy”

  • minister_of_war

    …so I’m not really worried about what you think since you don’t live in reality.

  • renny

    something our pres. is unable to do, and he was just in NJ backslapping Christie at the Paterson Falls, which at least last week looked really ginormous. I supposed it means money for NJ and our chronic flooding, but the truth there is too much housing and too many small towns are built on rivers that flood regularly.

    After the 1993 500-year MO-MI Rivers flood some town along the route decided to pick up and move, and so should the towns suffering from Irene’s downpours here.

    And Perry will have many more opportunities. It is Labor Day 2011, not 2012, when we really should be starting campaigning instead of this almost endless and ceaseless and mind-numbing campaigning that we’ve had since 1992 and Bill Bubba. At least it was one thing that Bush did not do.

  • minister_of_war

    …but I’m still allowed to be annoyed that he skipped the forum. For those of us who are the “inside baseball” conservatives, we like to feel like we’re not avoided or ignored.

    It was a bad call in my opinion to skip the forum, but that’s Gov. Perry’s decision to make. We’ll see if it affects anything in the long run.

  • minister_of_war

    Why does the federal government always need to give away our federal tax dollars to people who live in flood plains when their homes flood?

  • Scope

    to his rants and foibles. He only helps Perry, and whatever other candidates may rise to the top. I can’t participate with stupid moronic comments from those that choose to throw them out. We are better than to stoop to his level.

    minister of war, have at it.

  • minister_of_war

    They were asking him about Rick Perry dropping out of the forum at the last moment possible. DeMint recognized the seriousness of the fires in Texas.

    But DeMint said that he had reached out to Perry’s people to work with them as much as possible. He said that it would have only made Perry arrive home to Texas ONE HOUR later if he had come by the forum briefly to talk with the many people in attendance who had come to see Governor Perry speak.

    In light of that, what would you call Perry’s skipping the event. It really does look like he chickened out. I don’t know how else to look at it – unless during HIS FIRST HOUR home in Texas, Perry put in place everything to put out all of the fires or put in place the apparatus to do so.

  • renny

    Actually, what happened in NJ is that from the1920s into the 1960s, there was no flooding of any degree, from the rivers, altho’ for the E. Coast that was a high hurricane landing era.

    Then, starting in 1968, a new pattern developed of flooding almost annually in areas that maybe were once farms and/or rural but were now part of the post WW II housing phenom.

    The state has worked on relieving some areas. Small islands in the Passaic R. had developed numerous housies which was deluged constantly and the state floated bonds to buy them up and tear the buildings down. I think maybe the same should be done for, say, the town of Boundbrook on the Boundbrook R. which has been in flood for months. Recently, North Jersey had a very wet spring and summer and when Irene came, the ground was already nearly 100% saturated, so worse flooding was inevitable.

    Those people must carry flood ins. but it is federal; ergo, it is like Fannie and Freddie for mortgages, it is backed with our tax monies. It is not cheap. A woman on the radio said a few days ago she paid $700 a quarter but did not ins. her belongings which this time are ruined. But if she insured the house’ contents, her ins. would be almost double.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    He’s taking care of his state first. Tough luck for DeMint and his dog & pony show. If anything, this makes me respect Perry a lot more.

  • Scope

    back a few years ago.

  • Scope

    especially on the dog and pony show. Perry is not a dog, and he is not a pony, that obviously the other candidates allow themselves to be.

  • Bill S

    But it does give ammo to Rombots like the mental midgets here who insist that he was trying to dodge. O well – as Ron White says, “you can’t fix stupid”

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    They gotta be peeing themselves they’re so worried.

  • trutexan

    leaving campaign events to come back to Texas to urge all Texans to be good stewards of the environment and be careful. That was surprising to me they did that. Could it be they like him????

  • trutexan

    I wish RS had the little Like button!

    …web guys…social plug ins on each article or post??? I’d LOVE to be able to Like an article I read on RS and have it show up on my page. As an officer in my local county Republicans, I have a lot of followers. Twitter too. I get the article on my FB, but as I read down through comments, I want to “Like” some and not others.

    Thanks!

  • minister_of_war

    Or you wouldn’t dare complain if Obama pulled that kind of stunt to avoid a debate against the eventual Republican nominee. I’m sure Obama could find thousands of excuses for hiding from going toe-to-toe with the Republican standard barer.

    My complaint with Perry missing the forum so he so be home an hour earlier is more than valid. And this is RedState – which is supposed to serve the purpose of supporting all Republican candidates. This is not just an extension of the Perry for President campaign. It very well could be once Perry clinches the nomination. But until then – all valid criticism of Perry & the other Republican candidates for President should be openly discussed here.

    One of my complaints with Romney today was his statement that: “Regulation is necessary to make a free market work.” He was very Keynesian in this response.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    n/t

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    We should even consider nominating any candidate that you have complaints about. Thanks for straightening us out.

  • Bill S

    McCain putting his campaign on hold is EXACTLY like Perry missing a relatively meaningless event. Yeah, just the same.

    Why don’t you tell us who YOU support, eh?

  • JSobieski

    Seriously though, the problem with McCain was McCain. His putting his campaign on hold was a symptom of the broader problems McCain had. Moreover, it wasn’t exactly evident that McCain had any role in dealing with anything, and TARP was obviously not popular.

    Dealing with literal fires is a different issue. Voters are pretty good about making judgments on the issue of “avoiding” campaign events.

    Nobody is going to care a lick about this. This is not the NACP/Urban League equivalent on the right, because the right has no such equivalent.

  • minister_of_war

    But one thing for sure is that all of our candidates are better than the moron who resides in the White House now & thinks that there are 57 states.

    Is it that wrong of me to have wanted Perry to be at the forum today though? And what makes Wednesday’s debate at the Reagan Library that much different? If Texas still has any dangerous fires going on at that point should we expect not to see Perry then either? I assume that judging by the map Moe Lane just put up in another post that all of those fires won’t be contained yet by Wednesday.

    But maybe that’s why Perry had to run home so quickly is so that they would be contained on time for his Wednesday debate debut.

    I was really annoyed that Romney was originally planning to skip out on the forum today in South Carolina. But even Romney in the end at least got this one right.

  • minister_of_war

    …I just hope that it doesn’t become a habit for anybody who wants to be the Republican nominee.

  • minister_of_war

    n/t

  • minister_of_war

    I still think that it’s a valid point.

  • JSobieski

    McCain’s decision was not MONTHS prior to the actual vote.

  • JSobieski

    and run out the clock this early in the process.

  • minister_of_war

    … For those who did watch the candidate forum today, you’ll probably agree with me that almost all of the candidates were very strong today.

    Although, I have to admit that Ron Paul was a little weird & his arguing against the 14th Amendment was pointless. I don’t think that Ron Paul quite understands the concept of picking his fights well.

  • Veronica

    and your criticism isn’t valid.

    Perry should have been here Monday morning — whether or not that was possible is irrelevant.

    I’ve spent the day watching the Austin news and the internet, particularly twitter feeds, as I myself prepared to evacuate and leave everything behind.

    People don’t feel they’re getting the information they need. Unless they knew how to crawl the internet and research, they’re just getting canned responses, 4-hours at a time.

    Perry being in-state might have made a difference. As it is, he’s having to play catch-up. I saw his news conference — I know.

    We’re talking lives — you’re talking entertainment.

    Give it a break.

  • JSobieski

    I am not 100% convinced that they are strong in terms of what they would actually do.

    Romney and Bachmann both scare me a bit, but for different reasons. I am a Perry supporter, but largely by default.

    It is my hope that the candidates get more specific than they are. However, I am prepared to be disappointed in that regard.

  • bs61

    endless postings that remind people of Ron Paul supporters.

  • perry4prez

    Rick Perry is Governor of the State of Texas. There is a serious natural disaster in Texas right now and the Governor’s place is with his people. That is the first rule of leadership, don’t abandon your people. And don’t forget that the last Republican President was criticized for supposedly not being quick enough to respond to Katrina. I am sure that Senator Jim DeMint understands this.

  • perry4prez

    Rick Perry is Governor of the State of Texas. There is a serious natural disaster in Texas right now and the Governor’s place is with his people. That is the first rule of leadership, don’t abandon your people. And don’t forget that the last Republican President was criticized for supposedly not being quick enough to respond to Katrina. I am sure that Senator Jim DeMint understands this.

  • perry4prez

    Rick Perry is Governor of the State of Texas. There is a serious natural disaster in Texas right now and the Governor’s place is with his people. That is the first rule of leadership, don’t abandon your people. And don’t forget that the last Republican President was criticized for supposedly not being quick enough to respond to Katrina. I am sure that Senator Jim DeMint understands this.

  • perry4prez

    Rick Perry is Governor of the State of Texas. There is a serious natural disaster in Texas right now and the Governor’s place is with his people. That is the first rule of leadership, don’t abandon your people. And don’t forget that the last Republican President was criticized for supposedly not being quick enough to respond to Katrina. I am sure that Senator Jim DeMint understands this.

  • perry4prez

    I am sorry for the duplicate posts. I hit POST several times because it wasn’t responding.

  • audax

    Is this the vid?

    http://inthearena.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/04/perry-let-states-decide-social-security/

  • audax

    I wanted Perry to be at the DeMint Forum, he wasn’t. I’ll just have to wait.

    I wanted Palin to say something more substantial about her future when she was in Iowa Saturday….she didn’t. I’ll just have to wait.

    The election is 14 months away, before then we’ll hear all we need to know from these candidates and maybe others who have yet to announce.

  • rightwingmom52

    I wish I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard somebody say the campaigning starts way too early or complain about elected officials campaigning instead of doing their job. Now we hear complaints about those who got in late, haven’t gotten yet or actually choose to govern rather than campaign when the need arises.