It’s time to put our money and our effort where our mouth is. Rick Perry gets it! Won’t be any need for Super Committees with President Perry and a Republican Congress. We can achieve the conservative reform we want only if we nominate and elect Rick Perry. Time to get off the sidelines and get to work. Romney puts forward the “Perry is soft on immigration” lie to cover up his own terribly liberal record and disguise the fact that Perry is FAR MORE CONSERVATIVE than Romney on everything. And Perry has the record to back it all up.

Erick you have said you won’t endorse and I don’t understand why. There is no other candidate in the race with the conservative platform and a conservative record to back it up in this race. You have endorsed Rubio against Crist (Romney is the Crist of this Race) and you have endorsed others when there was a clear seperation in beliefs from the conservative candidate to the not-so-conservative candidate. The fate of our nation and our movement is at stake as you said previously. You are not a summer soldier or sunshine patriot and now is not the time to shrink from the service to our country.

Let’s get in this game big time and win it!

Perry is the proven true and tested conservative with over 10 years of governing experience. Don’t you think we ought to rally behind him.

A major problem with this flat tax is that it doesn’t actually simplify the system. Because it is optional taxpayers will have to figure out which system taxes them less so they will still have to spend as much time, if not more, complying with the tax code. http://eng.am/sNjdNK

Instead of radically overhauling the tax system, why not try and achieve the grand bargain based on the Simpson-Bowles committee’s suggestions that had been but forth during the debt ceiling debate? http://eng.am/usFAFs

The Simpson-Bowles committee found that by eliminating tax expenditures and lowering marginal tax rates Congress would be able to simplify the tax code, improve fairness, and spur economic growth. http://eng.am/noTDPF

Would you rather wait for Republicans to budge on higher taxes or achieve the grand bargain revenue-neutral tax reform right now?

I wonder if EE’s interview with Rick Perry has anything to do with his “I give up” post. I wonder if EE saw something off camera.

Don’t forget the upcoming debate tomorrow, Wed 11/9/11;

http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-debate-schedule/2011-2012-primary-debate-schedule/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

November 9, 2011 8pm ET on CNBC
Location: Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan
Sponsor: CNBC, the Michigan Republican Party and Oakland University
Participants: Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Huntsman, Paul, Perry, Romney, Santorum

Also Saturday 11/12/11;

November 12, 2011 8pm ET on CBS – Tickets
Location: Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Sponsor: CBS News, The National Journal and the Republican Party of South Carolina
Participants: TBD

And thank you to Rick Perry for being there with you to respond to your questions.

I know you have courage already but you *also* need to know that we’re glad you do.

SO much of what Perry says in this interview is terrific. It should have been done a while ago, that’s my only criticism if I can make one.

n/t

and if Perry hadn’t raised all that money, it would be easier to just write him off completely.

He has a very good chance now, and his poll numbers are at about the same level as they were in July. So, he actually has gained cash, and lost nothing in the polls since he decided to run.

I know, I know. I am optimistic.

Who’s going to Iowa to help elect this man?

Rick Perry does great on interviews and with liberal tool on FNS host. I can’t believe he pulled race card when he had Herman Cain on and asked about rock. I will not watch that show again,I did watch that Sunday am show because if was on four times a day if I wanted to catch it.
I do not see an alternative to Mitt except Rick Perry. I read comments about Newt, I am a woman and I do not care, I want Obama out of office on 1/20/2013. I may be banned for saying this but I hope, if he is on way out, that he gets reception that Bush/Cheney got on thier way out, liberals booing, etc.

With over 350,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in Texas, why is Perry talking about freeing up federal lands and waters for exploration? Does he even understand the oil industry? Does he understand how much it costs to explore and to 3-D seismic evaluations and so on? He thinks if he opens up Yellowstone for oil exploration that companies are going to rush in? Why would they, when they can produce oil in Nigeria or Libya at a fraction of the cost?

The point is, all those abandoned wells in Texas do not need onerous environmental permits. They don’t need to be explored for potential. They just need to be reclaimed. Why doesn’t Perry test out his Energy Jobs Plan in his own state? Well, because he can’t tell oil companies what to do in Texas and he certainly wouldn’t be able to tell them what to do as president.

If Perry didn’t have a legit plan for the country, he should’ve stayed out of this cycle and maybe tried in 8 years. In fact as I said on another thread, greater U.S. domestic production and an emphasis on real energy independence will drive down oil prices, which in turn will kill the very oil jobs he claims to be promoting.

…because of the following database:

http://www.tlma.org/water.htm

“There are approximately 354,616 oil and gas wells in Texas today. Of these 114,259 wells or 32% are shut-in, depleted and are not expected to produce another barrel of oil.”

The issue has been framed thusly:

“Many of these wells have been idle for decades and some irresponsible oil operators refuse or can’t afford to spend the money necessary to honor their obligation to plug the depleted wells.”

But Perry’s government does have a proposal:

“We must support the efforts of the Texas Railroad Commission to ensure that anyone who wants to operate an oil well in Texas must first have the money to plug it when the well runs dry.”

THEREFORE, Seth, your argument has “come up dry”!

Rick Perry will be the “Bayonne Bleeder” to Obama’s Muhammad Ali in the predidential debates. Perry cannot win! I’m not saying he wouldn’t be a decent president but he cannot win. Wipe the gunk out of your eyes and imagine the carnage of an Obama/Perry debate. Yikes!

Dan Foley

…which, in turn, was previewed in “Fed Up!”…
then Rick should be able to draw upon his experience to prevail.

Notwithstanding the “usual suspects” who have blogged pro/con Rick, the bottom-line [based on the calm, factual presentation] is that Rick has a clear plan-of-attack.

Perry said in an interview he would love to debate Obama. If he can’t debate his fellow candidate how in the devil could he debate Obama. His statement was pure rooster arrogance. That’s exactly what people I talk to say about him. ARROGANT! Frankly, I think he would make a good President IF he could get there.
But, I question if he understands all the problems facing America, not just energy or tax structure. Does he understand we are losing the youth of America through the indoctrination program passing for a school system? Newt sure does.
Does Perry understand how America has filled up with ideologies that want to destroy America? Newt sure does.
Does Perry know how to get rid of Judges making law? Newt sure does.
Perry would be left on the floor with an Obama debate. Newt would wipe the floor WITH Obama in a debate.

Tonight marks yet another debate. This debate will be very interesting. Since the last debate much has happen. We now have the Cain sex scandal which may be brought up in the debate.

In regards to Rick Perry:
Since the last debate there has been much change in Team Perry camp. New people have been added to Team Perry and Perry has released and shown us his vision with: Cut, Balance, Grow (flat tax), he also has his energy plan, job plan.

Perry has much to focus on with his new policies and vision. Perry has gone into full campaign mode, doing lots of interviews. He has remained much focused and is clearly showing a huge improvement in his overall campaign, staying very much on message. Anyone who has watched Perry’s interviews recently can see how much he has changed, how focused he has become.

There has been much change in Perry and in Team Perry since the last debate. Think back when Perry first got into the race, he had no visions, no plans and wasn’t in full campaign mode. He even had back surgery shortly before he entered the race.

I suspect most people would agree that Perry has gone through a big transformation in the past month and “may” surprise all of us in his debate performance tonight (I don’t what to get my expectations too high but I do expect a difference in Perry’s debate performance tonight).

I do hope Perry stays away from the bickering, the high negatives tonight and stays on message.I also realize and think that Perry isn’t as good at these 1 minute slam dunk debate formats as he is with interviews or even debates that allow for more time giving us real substance.

by Americans4Perry. Loved it.

http://americans-4-perry.com/2011/11/09/rick-perry-values/

plan to defeat him. Bickering with one anther has to stop. every time one candidate cuts into another it is just more blood for the Democrats. they will remember all the opposition to any of the candidates when it comes time to debate Obama. Obama is a slick talker and will lie about anything in order to make a point. The Presidential debate wil be quite different from the primary debates going on now. Newt Gingrich is the only candidate i believe that can stay on message and not be side tracked by Obama. When Reagan was debating Carter and Mondale no matter what Carter would say to distract Reagan he stuck to message. by dong this he showed strength and leadership. We know we aren’t going to ever see another Reagan but to discount his methods would be a sin. he had a winning model andit needs to be applied to our conservative candidates and NOW!. I hope there isn’t any of the bickering of the past debates and that this is a true debate. I have not been able to watch all of any of the debates because of the childish bickering. It shows extreme weakness of character.

bzip: Thanks for the full one on one with Christiane. Good practice if Perry ever encounters Rachel Maddow -add my smile.
I am not a regular at redstate, so I do not know if you similarly highlighted Gov. Perry’s 71-minute interview with the editorial board of the NH Union Leader, hours before his terrific , when watched from start to finish, NH Cornerstone speech. That 71-minute interview was outstanding and wide-ranging.

My concern about Perry’s interviews since Oct 28 is that he is relying a bit too much on his stump speech talking points – one main reason he was not as effective as he could have been at the Iowa GOP Reagan dinner on Nov 5 when he should have prepared more new material for his ten minute speech. I read he really worked the room before the dinner started.

Anyway, came across this interesting post today – maybe ABC is still into journalism despite Christiane taking over “This Week” from the far more unbiassed Jake Tapper.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/politics-aside-three-gop-candidates-wives-bond/

Christiane never read the entire Parade magazine interview with Perry because he covered his passion for Ludwig von Beethoven in detail in that interview. She was genuinely surprised when he said “anything by Beethoven” in this interview.

of course, I loved “Made in the USA” that closed out Perry’s SC speech at ISO Polymer.

I wish GOP voters would stop fretting about Perry v Obama on the debate stage in ten months. Watching Perry completely unravel Waffle Romney’s coolness was genius at work. Pooh on the pundits who said Perry looked like a bully. Anything BUT. Perry always stands his ground and rattles his competitors just with his innate self confidence. My immediate thought was no way can Romney ever meet one on one with Putin. Perry would probably go bow hunting for whales with Putin!

Obama is always uncomfortable next to anyone with Perry’s toughness+unshakeable optimism.

I still think Gov. Perry’s fading in his first two debates was due to his discomfort standing still for two hours with his back brace. He is too private to have used that as an excuse. He never complains.

So, bzip – how often have you watched the new, improved version of what Gov. Perry does on his day off? I await Perry’s cameo in a future episode of NCIS where Gibbs has to go to Texas to track down a sniper rifle, and winds up taking a turn at target shooting with Gov. Perry on his day off. Gibbs wins the five bullets in one hole contest, Perry graciously buys the burgers….and wins another 20 million votes. never underestimate the power of Donald Bellisario. (I confess that Rick Perry does resemble Harmon Rabb from JAG.

disclaimer: I am the disillusioned fiscal conservative dem that any GOP candidate needs in the general, and I want Rick Perry. Leadership fuels confidence.

btw, Bill Clinton came very close to endorsing Perry’s 20% flat tax for corporations, and need to fuel growth to balance the budget, on The Daily Show last night. The GOP should wake up and understand that Perry is the strongest candidate who can win. He can win women – the voters the GOP is going to lose if Cain stays on the stage much longer.