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Hero or Spoiler: Rick Perry Will Quit. The Question is as What.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 19th, 2012 at 04:45 AM  | 

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Yesterday, I argued that Rick Perry should leave the GOP primary in advance of Saturday’s election and endorse Newt Gingrich, who is the most logical fit in the existing field for a Perry endorsement.

The Perry campaign responded that the race would be decided by voters, not pundits behind a computer.

Fair enough. Rick Perry does not want to be seen as a quitter. But quit he will. I do not want him to quit. I urged him to stay in the race. But sadly his campaign has been unable to get the second look I thought it deserved. Now, at this point, he and I both know he is going to quit the race. The only question is whether he quits now and saves us from Romney or quits Sunday and ensures us Romney.

It may suck, but it is reality. And we are forced at times like this to deal with reality. The reality is that Rick Perry will be quitting the race, but he is not quitting the fight, which has always been more important. We started campaign season with candidates asking what Washington can do for America. Through his singlehanded, tireless, and unfailing efforts, Rick Perry has managed to steer the conversation to what Washington cannot do for America and what Americans can do themselves if Washington just gets the hell out of the way.

Without Rick Perry in the race, that would never have happened. But sadly, at this point, with Rick Perry in the race the people most likely to campaign and govern with Perry’s conviction to make Washington as inconsequential in our lives as possible have no chance. For Rick Perry’s vision of America to win — something we should all want — Rick Perry must depart the race now.

It’s not like I relish taking this position. I introduced Rick Perry at the 2011 RedState Gathering as the next President of the United States. He remains the best qualified man to be President. I would be thrilled to have him as my President. But he is polling in last place and there are three days to go. It isn’t going to happen.

But throwing his support to one of the other non-Romney candidates could help that person win.

Rick Perry will quit. He knows it. I know it. You know it. The question is whether he will quit before Saturday’s primary and help someone else win as a hero and king maker, or will he quit next week and see Mitt Romney win with Perry serving as the spoiler, keeping either Gingrich or Santorum from winning.

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  • wbf

    nt

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    EE fails to uphold principles he had previously relished.

    Will insert “Kowalski” references as others chime-in, noting that 712 entries were provoked by yesterday’s posting…overwhelmingly critical.

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/18/rick-perrys-final-act-king-maker/#comment-162701

  • statenislandcon

    Yesterday was a victory of substantial proportion for the conservative movement. As websites went black across the internet, partisan sites like Redstate and Dailykos also joined the fray. Yesterday we saw the impressive state of the online right, and the sorry state of the left. “The idiocy of Democrats” graced the front page of Daily Kos yesterday. What they were hiding was their own irrelevancy as compared to the “right roots”.

    But today, one day on from flipping 13 Senators, it is time to abandon the only conservative in the race? It is time to bow to the utterly irrelevant delegate counts of Iowa and New Hampshire?

    It is undeniable, we are “forced at times like this to deal with reality”, and that reality is that Rick Perry is still, as always, the conservative in the race for US president. At some point you have to ask yourself, are you a Republican before you are an American conservative? Or do you place your priorities the other way round?

    The surest way to permanent Obamacare remains its validation by a Republican president. President Mitt and President Newt ensure that ultimate outcome.

  • Christine (Trelaina)

    but it royally ticks me off that this “wonderful” process has allowed a relative handful of Americans, some of whom aren’t even Republicans, to make our decision for us. This is not right, and I think after this election we should focus a portion of our attention on ways to fix it.

    We are saying here that the will of millions of Republicans doesn’t matter.

    We are letting Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina make our decisions for us. Because of them we’ll have an “electable” McCain-redo candidate….AND we may have to suffer through a Ron Paul speech at the convention.

    And people wonder why conservatives don’t get more involved in government. THIS is why. I’m so fed up right now that I’m censoring every other word. If it weren’t for my children I probably wouldn’t bother voting this year.

  • davesinsanantonio

    Obummer’s re-election. And, thinking that this will somehow help this country four years from now is total nonsense!!!
    In four more years Obummer will appoint hundreds of federal judges at all levels FOR LIFE!!! Do you think he will appoint anyone but radical statists??? In addition, he will appoint of promote tens of thousands of government bureaucrats who will make and enforce the regulations that will have the effect and power of law. He will also issue hundreds, if not thousands, of executive orders that will accomplish all the state control of every aspect of our lives that the laws and regulations don’t take care of.
    And YOU want to not give his opponent your vote???
    What is wrong with you???!!!!!! Do you also hate America so much you want to destroy it by allowing this socialist fanatic another four years to finish his destruction of this nation?????
    The only possible way to get rid of this dangerous president is to vote him out of office. So, swallow your pride and help to save America, not to invite its further destruction.
    Get over yourself and do what is right for America and Americans!!!

  • onenationundrgod

    As you state:
    ?We started campaign season with candidates asking what Washington can do for America. Through his singlehanded, tireless, and unfailing efforts, Rick Perry has managed to steer the conversation to what Washington cannot do for America and what Americans can do themselves if Washington just gets the hell out of the way?.
    ?Without Rick Perry in the race, that would never have happened. But sadly, at this point, with Rick Perry in the race the people most likely to campaign and govern with Perry?s conviction to make Washington as inconsequential in our lives as possible have no chance. For Rick Perry?s vision of America to win ? something we should all want ? Rick Perry must depart the race now.?
    ~Who are these people who will most likely to campaign and govern with Perry?s conviction to make Washington as inconsequential in our lives as possible? Are you serious?
    ~Isn?t it clear, all the people who have undone all his tireless and unfailing efforts?
    ~This is a sad day for America
    ~ No matter what he does He will always be a Hero, make no mistake about that!
    ~For my vote that you seem to think you have the right taking away?
    *The Honorable Governor Perry

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …and myriad problems with his policies weren’t even addressed [yesterday or today], not the least of which is his ongoing support for the Individual Mandate.

    The full-length article [which is touted as a career-ending event] should be evaluated dispassionately, after which time EE’s essay [composed after he knew or should have known of this revelation] can be charitably concluded to be “incomplete.”

    Are we not complicit in the MSM’s intent to kill-off each tireless participant in the GOP-POTUS field ASAP…helping D’s and RINO’s bestow the nomination upon “Son of McCain” [just after he skewered McCain-Feingold]?

    If The Newt can be praised for his survival-against-all-odds activities during the past half-year, why can’t that POSSIBILITY be afforded Perry?

    *

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/whats-marianne-gingrich-got-on-her-ex/2012/01/19/gIQADzaq9P_blog.html

    Posted at 01:05 AM ET, 01/19/2012

    What?s Marianne Gingrich got on her ex?
    By Melinda Henneberger

    As far back as the ?90s, Marianne Gingrich has been saying she could end her ex-husband Newt Gingrich?s political career with a single interview. So has she finally dropped that long-threatened bomb, just when the former speaker and GOP presidential hopeful is rebounding in polls?

    ABC reportedly has interviewed his second wife at length, and plans to air the interview on Thursday?s ?Nightline,? just ahead of Saturday?s crucial South Carolina primary.

    The Gingrich campaign must be nervous, because it issued a preemptive statement from the candidate?s two daughters from his first marriage, Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Gingrich Cushman: ?Anyone who has had that experience,?? the statement said, referring to divorce, ?understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events.?? A Gingrich aide prophylactically pinned the tried-and-true tag for ex-wives on her, saying she was still ?probably very bitter.?

    What is it Gingrich is afraid his wife of 18 years is going to remember incorrectly? And what could be so bad that it would eclipse all that many Christian conservatives have forgiven and forgotten about his history already?

    Just as interesting to me is ABC?s reported internal back-and-forth about whether to air the interview right before the primary. Does that mean they have legitimate questions about her credibility? Or that an ex-wife is by definition an iffy source? Or maybe they just fear the heat they?d take for giving voters even rock-solid negative information so soon before an election. (If the latter is the case, I hope they do air it, because I never understood the worry that we can?t give voters information they might actually take into account.)

    Or, say you?re in Marianne Gingrich?s shoes, and in possession of truly disqualifying information. Remember, you?re a red-hot Republican and also spent a lot of years in the service of your country, or that?s what you thought, anyway.

    Do you protect yourself now by staying as far away from the action as possible? Or wait until the last possible minute to see which way the thing is going, and then spit it out if it comes to that?

    It would depend on what it was, of course, but it would have to be pretty bad, because no matter how pure your motives, you know it?s going to look like payback.

    In an Esquire interview in 2010, Marianne Gingrich already painted an unflattering and highly detailed portrait of her ex. Here are just a few of the lowlights from that outing, in which Marianne Gingrich was described as chain-smoking Benson & Hedges while spilling that:

    1. Newt actually started seeing his geometry teacher, the first Mrs. Newt Gingrich, when he was only 16. (I?d start the TV movie with that, but a career-ender, no).

    2. That early in their marriage, she had to take over the budget ?because it was too stressful for Newt.?? Lots out there on ?temperament? already.

    3. That unlike Chris Christie, who recently told Oprah he?s over the stupid fat jokes, Newt found such remarks painful. ?You know what he hated most?? Marianne says. ?When they talked about him being fat. That weight thing was personal.? Endearing!

    4. That after his Congressional career ended in scandal, he pretty much fell apart: ?There were times,? Marianne told Esquire, ?when he wasn?t functioning. He started yelling at people, which he?d never done before, and he?d get weirdly ?overfocused? on getting things done ? manic, as if he was running out of time. He took to taking meetings while eating, slurping his food, as if he wasn?t aware or didn?t care how strange it looked.? If he ever sought treatment for depression, I would hope that wouldn?t be a disqualifier, but I wouldn?t bet on it.

    5. That he has lost his way and wants more than anything a lifestyle that?s ?opulent? or ?self-indulgent.? Class warfare, anyone?

    6. That he begged her to ?tolerate? his affair with Callista, his third and current wife. Forgiven already.

    7. That his conversion to Catholicism ?has no meaning.?? She can?t know that.

    8. That he might go ahead and run for president anyway, because ?he doesn?t connect things like normal people.?? Does anyone who runs for president do that?

    Whatever this new revelation is, it?s got to be worse than all of these. And for Marianne Gingrich?s sake, I hope she?s got proof.

    *

  • statenislandcon

    America needs you as part of her polity. Websites, the mainstream media, they are going to tell you to get in line, to go along to get along.

    Don’t. Just don’t. Are you a conservative? Then be it! It’s that easy.

    It’s easy not to support “McCain” as a conservative (in the primaries). It involves doing nothing more than what is right.

  • JSobieski

    Lie?

    How can an assessment of a situation be unprincipled?

  • marktx

    Newt Gingrich is the only anti Romney with a clear path to the nomination. Nor will I waste my vote on Perry who’s polling numbers are lower than Stephen Colbert’s.

  • statenislandcon

    are those that get blessed by presidents in both parties. Obamacare cannot become permanent without a Republican president accepting it.

    A Newt or Mitt presidency will grant Obamacare a permanence far more durable than any that would be granted by an extension of Obama’s tolerance of his own Frankenstein creation.

  • davesinsanantonio

    Always remember those children, and do what is needed to protect their future.
    Even if your candidate doesn’t win, there are thousands of down-ballot races that will need our support and votes.
    Then, they will need their feet held to the fire to make sure they are doing what is needed also.
    It is what it is, but that doesn’t mean it has to remain what will be.
    The future is still in the making, so keep making it.

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …about the claim [which he constantly issues, tongue-in-cheek] that “dr. bob, this isn’t about –fill-in-the-blank– because, actually, you think it’s all about you!”

    HERE, it seems EE has personalized the situation unnecessarily and unjustifiably.

    And he’s not alone.

    *

    I just listened to the O’Reilly replay of Glenn Beck’s take on the field; he said “I’m against Perry because I want him to stay in Texas.” [This was preceded by O'Reilly saying, "And what do you think of Perry? He's done, isn't he?"]

    GB trusts Santorum {notwithstanding his big-government, pro-labor, unabashedly-earmarking voting record}, but thinks Romney will be the nominee…with a sense of resignation. [He'd vote for his shoe over BHO.]

    It seems that the entire field of Conservative-Heroes has failed us [Ingraham now included], creating specious arguments to justify their rejection of Perry.

    I will now cancel my GBTV subscription.

    WHERE is RUSH???

    *

    The more weak rationalizations are invoked, the more I feel Perry needs to hang-around…if for no other reason than to force these faux-pundits with themselves.

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …would be a disastrous candidate:

    http://thelibertyblog.org/2012/01/18/rick-santorums-negatives-part-6-not-daniel-hannun-bush-big-government-compassionate-conservative-statist-spending-and-borrowing/

    [This is a subset of a 14-part series that he has been rolling-out.]

    Pivotal is the phenomenon that the PA-electorate pulled away from him, the more he was known.

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    The other four candidates could be anticipated to drop in the polls, both because of external issues and internal squabbling [details upon request, but are intuitive].

    Perry remains distinguished, poised, making-points against BHO [as might the front-runner] and consistently raising issues that hadn’t previously been discussed [and often noting that others co-adopt his positions, such as awareness of the need to dust-off the Monroe Doctrine].

    There is no reason for him to quit, none; too many people are depending upon him to uphold his Calling [regardless of whatever religious persuasion, regardless of whatever policy position, regardless of whatever quote is lifted from "Fed Up!"].

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …and this expos? won’t help [particularly because excerpts are supposedly going to be released all-day, to tease viewership].

    The Newt is scared…

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/01/19/gingrich-camp-tries-damage-control-before-interview-with-ex-wife-airs/

    …and hyperlinks from the aforementioned WPost article may explain why.

    *

    SO, WHY would EE want RS-READERS [and others who read his quotes, widely disseminated within the MSM] to BACK a LOSER???

    [Surely, we can't be mesmerized by debate-skills, when we know that the "Bad Newt" keeps emerging....]

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    He can again do well tonight, corral the military vote, and watch how competitors continue to slip.

    There must be time for people within two key communities [TEA Party Movement and Evangelicals] to reveal what’s happening within their communities. For example, where’s Dick Armey, the guy who picketed the ONE time Mitt spoke before a TPM-event?

    The more people [who claim to have been his "friends"] emerge as providers of “candid advice” of this pivotal nature?the more such input is thinly-documented and abjectly-specious?the more reactions such as those from RS-bloggers against yesterday’s column WILL EXPLODE!

    *

    Disclaimer: I continue to have an “in” whenever JSobieski raises his blogging-head, for he has YET to admit that The Newt has continued [in written/oral emanations] to support the Individual Mandate [despite overwhelming documentation, provided by yours-truly during the past two months]. I would LIKE to LIKE his other postings but, again, he has come up wanting….

  • itsjoanne

    As sad as it is, Perry will finish in last place. He’s far better off to withdraw now and support either Newt or Santorum.

  • statenislandcon

    Does anyone else remember Newt championing “green solutions” , motivated by government of course, on Redstate itself?

    Newt tells off non-enviro conservatives on Redstate.

  • bobguzzardi

    dr. bob and I were in Iowa and the electorate was not as informed as the RedState poster. dr. bob and I live in Penna. and we have little to say about either the next Republican or Democratic nominee.

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    Reference is made to last week’s poll, in which Colbert got 5% and Huntsman got 4%, which Steven claimed was his contribution to the withdrawal on Monday; his explanation was that the “Colbert Bump” (which would usually occur following an appearance on his show) ricocheted.

    This has nothing to do with Perry, who can only benefit from the exposure of weaknesses harbored by his competitors.

  • bobguzzardi

    Clearly Rick Perry represents our principles. A vote for Rick Perry is a vote for your principles.

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …and fails to appreciate the acknowledged dynamism in the polls.

  • mizzou1776

    I hold politicians in contempt. My last exception to this view was Jack Kemp in 1988. A good man (R.I.P.); a sad result (thanks Ed Rollins). When Gov. Perry replaced the ludicrous Donald Trump at the annual Lincoln dinner hosted by the Manhatten GOP I paid up & attended in order to evaluate him. Well informed friends in Texas considered him not-ready-for-prime-time & not too bright. I was impressed by his Lincoln performance. Well the “oops” ruined his candidacy. It’s been over since then. The only purpose he is serving now is his own.

  • Christine (Trelaina)

    I stayed through McCain and three years of Obama. I’ve supported establishment elites in the past. I can get through this.

    However, I’m taking an opportunity to be angry and ticked about what this party has done to us…AGAIN…and what those who support the elitists are saying.

    Then, I’m going to swallow my pride, hold my nose, and do what has to be done.

    …and my new drumbeat will be “we need a new primary process”.

  • Christine (Trelaina)

    New Hampshire and Iowa decided for you. South Carolina may be the true kingmaker, but only between Romney and Gingrich.

    Vote your heart. Save the practical votes for the general.

  • bobguzzardi

    If Rick Perry withdraws, let him withdraw in dignity and tell the truth that none of the candidates represent his values and have accomplished what he has accomplished.

  • wbf

    this morning since it provoked you so at the beginning of a new day!!

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Rick Perry isn’t going to go sulk like some would have him do, should he do as poorly as expected in SC.

  • mikelindell2

    To be able to effectively go after Obama on his poor record, we need to have someone with a strong record. Gingrich can rightly claim 4.2% unemployment, 4 balanced budgets including surpluses, entitlement reform and 11 million new jobs as Speaker. That would give confidence to any voter. He can contrast Obama’s era of despair with his era of prosperity. He is best to articulate the case for conservatism and is obviously the best debater, which will count for a lot as it will be a rare glimpse at each candidate without media bias. Gingrich can point to having worked with a Democrat president to get a lot done, which will help nullify Obama’s “gridlock” argument. Romney is what the Democrats want the stereotype of Republicans to be, and he gets flustered very easily when he’s off script (Bret Baier interview, numerous debates.) Newt would make best pres too, he’s already served at the highest levels of gov’t and look what he was able to accomplish. you could say that when he left as Speaker the party started to lose its way. Gingrich’s supposed baggage is personal stuff from decades ago and will come across as too old and too personal to effectively use against him. Think about it, Romney might be the least electable candidate. Don’t just go along with what the establishment, including Fox, tells you. Newt’s got the most aggressive plans and he’s the only one proven to fight for and accomplish what he says he will in DC. Romney will be painted as greedy, willing to say anything, insincere politician, Santorum will be painted as extreme on social issues (states have right to ban contraception) and perry will be painted as a more mistake prone Bush 43. What will Newt be painted as-68 yr old who had some personal problems decades ago? Plus, Gingrich can navigate Washington to make real change.

  • nunleigh

    I will never forget his television rants against Doug Hoffman to the bitter end in support of Dede in New York. This is a pathologically egotistical man. We already have one as President. He will fall away and there will be no alternative to Romney. ABC and the X will start the ball rolling downhill. I will say it again, Perry is the only one who has one iota of a chance to beat Obama in a scorched earth campaign. So S. Carolina ALWAYS picks the winner. Then let’s never change that. Let’s continue to allow early states and the pundits to pick our candidates. I pray Perry defies all conventional wisdom and stays in. In my humble opinion, his policy on the Fed and 0 starting point for foreign aide might even eventually help him make a deal for Paul supporters. So there! And God help us all!

  • circlegranch

    the still undetermined number of dead voting in NH, anything can happen now. “Missing” precincts in IA. What a mess our system is in. May God save America.

  • btpull

    I was a Cain supporter mainly because he was on the radio for a couple of years who always came across as a sane rational person that could make a decision.

    After he dropped I moved to Gingrich because entitlements are burying this country; he is the only one of the bunch that has successfully reformed an entitlement program.

    Recently Gingrich has lost his principles as he attacks Romney from the left on Bain and Romney’s effective tax rate. This tells me Gingrich will abandon principles when backed into a corner.

    Santorum is a big government compassionate Bush type of conservative. We know where that lead us.

    Paul is Paul. He is leading a movement within the nomination process. He has a base line of support, but it is not strong enough to get the nomination or beat Obama. Paul, also, does not understand that this is not 1912 when we could hide behind our oceans.

    5% Perry is not going to get the nomination or the resources to continue. It is as simple as that.

    None these guys can run an effective multi-state campaign. They are either skipping states, only able to handle one state at a time, not getting on ballots, etc. So by default we are left with Romney.

    Sure Romney is a right of center moderate; overall though he looks pretty good compared to the bunch of misfits he is running against.

  • circlegranch

    Cain didn’t endorse. Bachmann didn’t endorse. They are both holding fire until the nominee becomes apparent without question so they can garner administrative appointments.

    Rick Perry brought the most comprehensive plan to get this country back on track. He will stay or go in this race owing nothing to any other contenders.

  • mikelindell2

    In 2008 Republican candidates went after Romney on Bain too. The establishment Republican media decided to try to villify Gingrich for it and blow it into something it’s not. Fox News and many Republican outlets want Romney. Newt is the biggest threat to him so they use anything and everything against him. Gingrich is clearly a supply side free market guy through and through. Also, he never attacked Romney’s tax rate whatsoever. He said he wants everyone to pay that rate.

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …that we CAN vote effectively in November!

  • mhorner

    My choices for President would be Rick Perry, followed closely by Mitt Romney and followed as a distant third would be Newt. We HAVE to have someone who has been a top executive for our next President. Only Rick and Mitt qualify. Newt has NEVER been an executive, plus he was run out of DC with a major ethics violation. Mitt would make an absolutely outstanding President. Get over it!

  • nunleigh

    There are many people who are frustrated right now. Let them vent, give your oppinion but don’t yell at them!!!!!!!!!!!! I just keep remembering holding my nose to vote for McCain. All the donations I gave, down the drain. We are a nation of sad, disappointed people right now. It will be so easy to throw in the towel, but time will see us rally around the Republican candidate, possibly having to hold our noses again.

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …and merits a 2nd look.

  • renl57

    There are only TWO candidates in the GOP race that have proven executive experience: Romney and Perry. And that’s why I support Romney, with Perry as my second choice.

    In a troubled time like we’re in now, we can’t elect another amateur who will spend 3 years figuring out how to be a Chief Executive. (Gingrich couldn’t even figure out how to be House Speaker; he got aced out of that position by *Republicans*.)

    We’ve made that point to the electorate already–Obama is unqualified to be Chief Executive. So whom does the GOP have who does have the qualifications to be Chief Executive?

    We’re not electing a spokesperson for conservatism. We’re not electing the chairman of CPAC. We’re electing a Chief Executive of a superpower.

    If whoever the GOP President is can do a good job as Chief Executive, that will *by itself* be a good advertisement for conservatism (since whoever the GOP picks will be much more conservative than Obama).

    If whoever the GOP President is, ends up a failed Executive, that will discredit conservatism–just like Obama’s failures have gone a long way to discredit progressivism.

    Nothing succeeds like success.

  • Dave_A

    And a ’1990s all over again’ budget plan requires (A) massive tax increases and cuts to Defense, and (B) commercialization of a groundbreaking, world-changing new technology (like the Internet was in the 90s)….

    Part (A) is far too destructive/damaging, and part (B) just won’t happen again in our lifetime…

    Which leaves Newt with nothing except ex-wives & the will to say anything he thinks will get him back in public office or sell more books…

  • spolson

    Gingrich will be quitting after his ex wife has her day. That leaves Romney. This is Rick Perry’s day to shine and you are telling him to quit.

  • constitutional

    I’m really quite glad for you that you’ve come up with this idea he’s going to quit. Whatever. He may quit, but I sure hope he doesn’t. I’m not really ready to resign myself to either electing a moderate named Gingrich or a moderate named Romney. I mean, this idea that one is more electable than the other is nothing more than a joke. Mitt created RomneyCare, endorsed TARP. Newt endorsed the individual mandate, endorsed TARP. What’s the difference?

    There isn’t one. On all of the calls I’ve placed I’ve spoken to barely three people who were “maybe Newt, maybe Perry.” After I told them what exactly their beloved Newt was about at his core, they switched to Perry pretty much. This is ridiculous.

    Maybe you’re working to beat Barack at any cost; I’m not. There is nothing to the argument that we’ll “be okay if we beat him with anyone.” No. Not only will we not win with “anyone” but if we do, we’ll be worse off. I’m 17, meaning if we elect a moderate who is then likely followed by a liberal, I’d be 33 when we’d get our next chance.

    I am not willing to sacrifice this country so I don’t have to look at Obama. I don’t care about seeing him do the damage he’s planning. Mitt Romney will do just as much damage both to the party brand — well, what’s left of it– and to the nation.

    Sorry, but Perry shouldn’t and won’t drop out at your will. He got more delegates than Gingrich in Iowa. He’s the only guy that’s going to do anything about our problem. Frankly, it is ridiculous to ask the only chance we’ve got to drop out. If he comes in last place or first, I’ll support him and want him to continue. This is not a hard message to get out there: the man creates jobs and cuts government; the others do the opposite.

    No. No. No. No Gingrich. No Romney. Nobody BUT Perry.

  • APA Guy

    Good grief…study some history before you type. This is a nation in economic crisis, and you think some idiot ex-wife spewing garbage about her ex-husband (an Earth-shattering development!) matters right now?

    But by all means, keep supporting Perry…maybe that 4% will be 4.1% by the end of the primary season.

  • sta46

    IA, NH, and SC are all open primaries where thousands of dems can cast votes against the one person in the race with the courage to bury their whole, miserable statist/commie party. Why on earth would anyone take those results seriously?
    Newt’s ex is aboout to absolutely bury him, Romney is stashing cash in the Caymens and pays the same tax rate I do (and I only have a very small retirement income) and Santorum is plumetting.
    So why on earth should Rick Perry leave before a primary where only Rs can vote?
    I starrted praying for him to enter the race over a year ago. He is the only one who can save us.

  • sta46

    In one of the debates Romney said he would give all states “waivers” for ocare… not REPEAL it, just issue waivers. That leaves all the structure in place for the next statist elected.

  • mikelindell2

    You are overlooking what Newt contributed to all of that. The economic boom took off after Newt’s tax cuts. His capital gains tax cuts helped spur massive investment in new internet companies. In terms of the budget, he helped restrict spending and reformed welfare to shrink the budget.

  • vtdelacy

    Agreed that thee term Texas Governor Rick Perry is by far THE most electable Christian conservative pro-life pro-Israel and excellent on the economy of his state candidate that we have. Once nominated, he would be absolute dynamite against Obama. Unfortunately, it would appear that the nomination has been fixed as destined to be carried out between Romney and Paul based upon the tricks used to squeeze Perry off the ballot here in Virginia. It’s rapidly turning out to have been one of the dirtiest campaigns I’ve ever seen in my 40+ years as a Republican voter. I pray we get through this and do indeed replace Obama with a conservative pro-life Republican.

  • sunshinek67

    why should he care what you classify him as. If he is truly polling at 6%avg RCP, why are you even worried about whether or not he stays or exits, or where his support goes? Why aren’t you asking for Santorum to drop out, seems like his poll numbers are higher and poses much more of a competition to Gingrich than say, Perry. Why aren’t you making the argument that Gingrich, or even Santorum, should be making a harder case for themselves?

    Huh. You come out of that “evangelical” meeting and must have been baptized by their overzealous ignorant “political” water from leaders that should be placing substance over style. That is Biblical. Willing to overlook Gingrich’s very flawed past of professional and personal corruption, willing to overlook Santorum’s big Government tendencies and some equally questionable but milder corruption in his own record. But yet, a debate gaffe from a guy who was talked into entering the race, after back surgery and going through transition to the national stage in a relatively short amount of time, who’s own professional and personal record is strong and intact, unforgivable and unelectable.

    By the way, hon’, glad you found appreciation for the Milky Way sky over Texas, it is infinitely beautiful and serene. You are right, mimimal interference from city lights. My home State is beautiful and vast, diverse and strong-willed in nature governed by a great man. Perry is a hero to many here, regardless of your jaded, cynical eye. Sell out~

  • runner12

    that Perry should not get out before Saturday, and I feel even stronger about that position today in light of the potential of a very damaging interview to Gingrich.

    My question is what if Perry gets out to “help” Gingrich defeat Romney only to see Gingrich go down in flames due to this interview? That leaves us with Romney and all of the hand-wringing for Perry to get out would have been for naught. Not to mention all of the ill-will stirred up in the process.

    With respect to EE, I am glad that the Perry camp has decided to listen to voters over pundits.

  • therightman

    I have to address this to EE. What is the point of your post? What purpose do you hope to accomplish with this?

    If you are of the opinion that Romney is the problem in the primary, then I can see you calling for Perry to drop out and support whoever happens to be the leading Not-Romney in this extemely fluid race.

    But if you know just as I do that Romney is NOT the problem but the IDEOLOGY that he espouses – that Big Govt. is the solution and not the problem – then you will recognize that there is NO alternative to Perry in the race.

    In what way can you ask the only small Govt. conservative left in the race to drop out and endorse either of the big Govt. conservatives, Gingrich or Santorum? And why this rush to have our candidates drop out? Do they have some obligation to do that when the majority of states have still not had their say?

    Frankly, this reminds me of EE writing off Cain’s campaign months before Cain enjoyed a surge that took him to the top of the race until he was brought down by women issues.

    I believe better days lie ahead for Gov. Perry provided he doesn’t throw in the towel and fights on.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Wow, you really *are* a candibot.

    Betrayed? Sell out?

  • runner12

    Gingrich will not have that luxury. Added to that, Gingrich lacks the charisma that Clinton possessed. The situations are quite different.

  • sunshinek67

    nt

  • sunshinek67

    in a year where conservatives do no have to settle and sacrifice principles, time to dig in, not fall in line. How absurd.

  • sunshinek67

    :)

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Your attacks on Erick are insane, simply insane.

    Get a grip.

  • therightman

    I also find it strange that EE was all for Perry staying in to fight before the “evangelical” meeting. His version of what transpired was quite negative on Perry. But now he is all for Perry dropping out which is exactly what some of those evangelicals also called for.

    Why not Santorum?

    Care to weigh in, EE?

  • therightman

    I also find it strange that EE was all for Perry staying in to fight before the “evangelical” meeting. His version of what transpired was quite negative on Perry. But now he is all for Perry dropping out which is exactly what some of those evangelicals also called for.

    Why not Santorum?

    Care to weigh in, EE?

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    You gonna call me a betrayer, too?

  • sunshinek67

    for this diary entry?

  • sunshinek67

    ;)

  • texastory63

    You recommended he stay in after Iowa until South Carolina. Had he dropped out then and endorsed the conservative winner it would have made a difference. Now that reality has “finally” broken out here you encourage him to withdraw so you are not criticized for encouraging him to stay in. All of that and you criticize the SoCon confab for acting as they did –to late to impact the primary.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Let me know when he starts acting like a BPD case.

  • sunshinek67

    enjoy reading your rationale on HotGas. Governor Perry has a great team of supporters in the blogworld.

  • sunshinek67

    wherever you are in your little spot in the world.

  • okpensfan

    In a showdown between hypothetical President Romney and Harry Reid, do you believe Romney would prevail or capitulate? We cannot afford to elect someone who will turn into Reid’s punching bag.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Erick’s my friend and I will not stay silent when you continue to lob attacks at him.

  • sunshinek67

    for any candidate. The case for themselves should be made harder, same goes for the Governor if he does not win.

    Peace~

  • votemout2012

    Conservative Pundits abandoning their principles to support a candidate who is the poster boy of big government and republican establishment is pathetic. This is only the 2nd Primary. What a bunch of cowards. Erick you should be ashamed.

  • votemout2012

    You would trust Newt? Who threw Paul Ryan under the bus? Please!

  • votemout2012

    I have to say I agree. If Perry out all the rest of the candidate are about the same. Will not vote in Primary. Let the dogs duke it out. I don’t care. I will vote in the general to stop Obama but with no enthusiasm what so ever.

  • votemout2012

    Rush is about as bad as the rest of them. The big voice on the right is just as much a coward as Erick.

  • votemout2012

    Rush is about as bad as the rest of them. The big voice on the right is just as much a coward as Erick.

  • jakeofalltrades

    No, I have no idea why, but you can guess what I’m thinking.

  • jakeofalltrades

    about the candidates.

    Foreshortening the primary is a good thing if your favorite candidate has more baggage than Delta Airlines, but bad if your candidate has been misrepresented, partially by himself, and needs to overcome an information deficit.

    So I’m gonna have to keep disagreeing with Erick on this one. And since Erick’s wisdom is therefore unavailable to me, I now follow my auxiliary guru, Ann Coulter.

  • avagreen

    WTH?

  • tyman

    I agree with Dr. Bob and Circleg….

    With the ad that Erick brought up about Mitt that Newt is running and then the interview with Marianne Gingrich, do we really expect these two to duke it out and not have any effects?

    I think Santorum would be disastrous if Newt and Romney take each other out.

    In my humble opinion, that’s why Perry needs to stay in.

    If Perry gets out, is there a guarantee that his support will go to Newt? Nope. So where will the support for Newt come from (excuse the prepositional ending)?

    Another thing, I have been playing Newt’s APPLAUSE lines from the other night over and over in my head and I just hear more government.

    When Newt said that 99 weeks is an Associates’ Degree, who is going to pay for someone to get said degree? The government?

    If children go to work in schools as janitors, who is paying the salary? Governement?

    Those are just a couple of examples.

    I don’t hear private enterprise solutions to these problems, and yet people stood and applauded without thinking. To me, that really sums up this campaign: people want applause lines more than they want real solutions to the problems that we face.

    Do people honestly think that if Newt or Willard take Obama down on the debate stage that all of the undecideds will just surrender and come over to our side? Personally, I don’t think there are really that many independents…I think they’re liberals with an identity crisis.

    If what Reagan accomplished didn’t show people, then a silly debate between an old, rotund white man and a Marxist won’t convince them.

    Perry needs to stay in so that after Santorum drops out, and Willard and Newt are damaged beyond repair, that he will be the candidate that folks gravitate toward.

    Maybe his campaign has been bad, but this country is in such pitiful shape that if people can’t see beyond that superficiality, then our Republic truly is lost.

  • tngal

    Since Colbert’s asking everyone who likes him to vote for him by checking Cain’s name on the SC ballot. And Cain is suppose to endorse someone(something) today. Maybe he’ll endorse Colbert. I know Cain’s doing a bit on his show tomorrow.Cain said he found the whole idea of Colbert running under his name really funny. Cain’s always had a nice wicked sense of humor. I’d love to see those Cain numbers bump up again.

  • cheetah2

    Then Romney although I just don’t like Romney…

  • bs61

    I’d like to vote for who I want next month in my primary, because it’s obvious that although polls said IA was more concerned about the economy than religion, they picked Santorum.

    Endorsements don’t mean much, I’d rather it be decided by more than 3 states out of 50!

  • avagreen

    That truly is mixing religion and politics, which is forboden from the pulpit, but these guys can do it out of the church, which is exactly what the Constitution implied should not happen by mixing the two.

    Guess who many of these “religious” folks were supporting back in 2008….
    They got a wake-up call in 2008, when Democrat Barack Obama captured 33 percent of young white evangelical voters, nearly triple the percentage John Kerry received four years earlier.
    http://www.nhclc.org/news/liberty-university%E2%80%99s-johnnie-moore-speaks-language-young-evangelicals

    ?That way faith loses its independence, Christians become `useful idiots? for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology,? according to the draft.
    http://www.jewishjournal.com/thegodblog/item/leading_evangelicals_to_condemn_groups_politicization/

  • cheetah2

    Perry is a hero no matter what he decides to do. He can’t be a spoiler when he is only polling at 6% or whatever it is. Santorum, Gingrich, and Ron Paul are the spoIlers of each other. And w said all of everything we are saying in this thread yesterday in our 50 bazzilion comments on the other “Perry needs to resign for no apparent reason” thread.

  • avagreen

    I tire of people that don’t support Perry giving all the advice to those that do, and to Perry himself.

    Maybe I should just phone in for advice to tell me for whom to vote? Problem is……..which group should I call?

  • shinglejim

    You say not quitting the fight is more important, yet you are asking Perry to quit the fight. I can not honestly believe that any other candidate in the remainder is serious about reducing government.

    Mitt has proven that with Romneycare. Newt has proven that when he sat on the couch and when he bashed the Ryan plan. Santorum has proven that with his history of big government and pro-union votes.

    In this case, quitting the campaign is quitting the fight. As I’ve said all week, primaries are for principles. Can’t we at least wait until the general election before we start compromising them.

  • jgge

    Perry my favorite guy in these primaries is only at 5% average support in South Carolina so Perry quitting the race now would not do any significant boost for Gingrich or Santorum because this 5% Perry support would be almost evenly split between Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney. For Gingrich to win then Santorum is the one who should quit because he carries much more support than Perry.

  • reaganator

    He is out.

  • reaganator

    He is out.

  • reaganator

    That he is withdrawing.

  • gunslingr45

    you want to throw your weight behind Newt (not much difference between him and mittens IMHO.) Newt is simply a gun right hating fool.
    I thought when I joined redstate it was full of freedom loving people like myself but….all I have seen here is more establishment GOP bullcrap and certain posters allowed to get away with murder while others get banned for just speaking their minds.
    My vote in Indiana’s primary is for Gov. Perry. Go ahead and ban me for saying that I’m gone anyways.

    “For those who have fought for it freedom has a sweet taste the protected will never know”

  • edintexas

    Rush is doing what he always has done during Republican Primaries, refusing to endorse any one (though taking pot shots at some, and defending most from some attacks at times). Whomever the eventual nominee, Rush will endorse the Republican nominee.

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

    politicians. What I have a huge problem with is passing themselves off as “conservative” and passing a guy who hasn’t drawn a conservative breath or had a conservative thought in 20 years as a conservative.

    These bozos (sorry b) are nothing but government sponsored social engineering pro-lifers.

  • jakeofalltrades
  • jgge

    this is the ultimate proof of the extreme stupidity of the electorate and prime among them are the Republican primaries voters. You guys are shallow fools looking for a good debater and actual records are damned for you. You want your stupid media reality shows via those stupid debates and you got it but by doing so you have made the media as your Lord and Master. You fools always complain about the media picking up the candidates but this year and for the first time you made it a reality because you fools have decided that the debates run by the media are the most important qualification for President.

    Presidents do not govern and must not govern in 30 second sound bites. The “quick on his feet” is a buzzword crap that means absolutely nothing in the qualification for President. Do you want the President to make a “quick on his feet” stupid decision in 30 seconds that may heavily impact the nation and the world? If so then you are a stupid man and Obama is what you deserve.

  • sunshinek67

    For the record, factually inaccurate to refer to me as a *candibot*, many times have I posted here at RedState of candidates that I admire for certain strengths, Newt with his 3-4 bullet points of success in the 90′s, Contract With America, and Santorum with his social culture warrior positions. I have said that I would vote with zero enthusiasm for these two guys. I also mentioned one day about a brokered convention and got shot down in the room lol. At the end of the day, it’s ok, all for political discourse.

    But you absolutely positively correct that I am a very zealous outspoken supporter of Governor Perry, if that makes me an “insane candibot” I wear that proudly. You are fun to follow, analysis on spot. Thank you~

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

    I certainly hope he does.

    I’m sure it will be an interesting day here, I hope everybody gets it out of their system quickly. Reality is a harsh mistress folks, it’s getting close to time to prepare for war. The primaries have just been practice with wooden guns and tanks and a gunfire soundtrack. This summer the real war starts and we’d better be prepared for all-out, no-holds-barred fight to the last man. I’m not real hopeful right now given the level of silliness I’m reading around here for the last couple of days.

  • cheetah2

    Perry is dropping out today and endorsing Gingrich. I am surprised…about Newt endorsement anyway.

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/01/sources-perry-expected-to-drop-out-endorse-newt-111426.html

  • rdm42

    How permanent would the multiple supreme court justices that Obama would get to appoint in a second term be?

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Deal with it.

  • sunshinek67

    thank you thank you thank you for endorsing my #2 pick. At least we are still in some sort of agreement. Come on guys, rally for Newt!

  • edintexas

    “Maybe his campaign has been bad, but this country is in such pitiful shape that if people can?t see beyond that superficiality, then our Republic truly is lost.”

    Each quadrennial campaign seems to make it clearer that a significant portion of the people are more interested in the modern equivalent of “Bread and Circuses” than the country or the candidates. Why get off the couch, or engage your brain. Election campaigns have always had more than a touch of entertainment, but this endless series of so-called “debates” is a new low. Priebus was not my idea of a good Chairman for the Republican Party, but at least he tried to avoid this particular circus. Unfortunately the candidates wouldn’t stand up to the MSM demands for more debates (and most of the candidate’s teams probably wanted them).

  • hls87

    Gingrich still won’t win the nomination or even come close. Perry’s departure from the race insures that, barring a sudden heart attack, Romney will win and win easily. With Romney at its head the GOP will be part of our problems and irrelevant to their solution.

    If Republican voters wanted a paradigm shift in Washington, they had a candidate in Governor Perry who was inclined to fight for one. In the end, they decided they’d rather ride the dying progressive horse just a little while longer. They’ll get thrown hard when that horse collapses, but in the mean time everyone can pretend that there’s nothing wrong with the federal government that a new President and a new Senate Majority Leader won’t solve.

    And the country will swirl in the bowl.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Why don’t you treat Erick with the same decency?

  • beee

    So this morning, it is announced that Santorum really won Iowa…Gingrich’s ex-wife and ABC have an expose in the hopper to create more controversary on Newt. New Hampshire and Iowa ( basically open primary, can change or register day of) do not represent the entire country…Ron Paul nothing but a protest vote Romney finally being exposed as NOT a great debater and unable to defend his stands ( what ever they are at the particular time) and being more robotic…

    and now the cries for Perry to QUIT????

    This is NOT the time..patience is a virtue…Perry needs to continue his grass roots campaigning and get his consistent and heartfelt conservative message out there…He has a record of success which this country needs..This is no time to throw in the towel…

    Sorry Erick..seems like you “tripped” into the lifeboat prematurely…Perry 2012!!

  • paladin1

    n/t

  • johnnyappleseed

    Take a look at this interview, if the Newtt gets the nomination you will see this played over and over.
    No room for wiggling out of his “super pac did it”

    “The truth isn’t anything, it just is”….anon.

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/1400387793001/workers-from-anti-bain-film-set-record-straight/?playlist_id=87937
    I will stay home if he gets the nomination.

  • cheetah2

    I was going to go for Romney but Governor Perry’s endorsement of Gingrich will definitely influence my thinking.

  • tngal

    says politico, (who got it from cnn). So becker if that’s what you mean by heeding erick’s advice, he’s taking it. Maybe he’s considering his future by biting this bullet. And technically, he still hasn’t lost an election. So, there’s that.

  • porkandcheese

    If Erick hadn’t declared open war on Huntsman when he announced his run, he might have placed better than third in NH and slowed down Romney. That was the logical tack for anyone who opposed Romney.

    Bet TPaw was kicking himself for dropping out when he saw Bachmann show so poorly in the IA caucus and LOSER Santorum come from out of nowhere to tie — wait, maybe beat? Romney. He got no bounce in NH, and he’s fading in SC — Romney spokespeople are conceding that maybe he won, so he can divide the social conservatives in SC. They want him to seem more viable. Does this whole thing stink of the establishment rigging the process in Romney’s favor or what? He and Ron Paul are the only two on the ballot in VA. Conservatives were very understandably upset, because they want more choices. Yet everyone should just drop out says Erickson.

    No one even thought Gingrich was running a serious campaign earlier. Half his staff deserted him. He was seen laundering money through his Tiffany’s account before absconding to the Greek isles. Now a bombshell interview is about to drop. No one is the teensiest bit curious about that?

    Here’s a gossip item from April. It ran as a blind item on one of those online celebrity blogs Dlisted:

    http://www.dlisted.com/2011/04/21/blind-items-i-guess-you-guess

    So, this is not really celebrity gossip per se, but it is tabloid fodder, so I think it works. There is a Republican out there who is in the top 3 or 4 potential candidates for President. He wants to desperately run, but is trying to come up with a payoff for his mistress. Cheating is not unusual for him considering he even married a mistress in the past.

    The story was originally from this blog, and it was an entertainment lawyer with the goods. How many people knew about Cain before he folded? A lot.

    http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2011/04/todays-blind-items_20.html

    It’s too soon to be telling people to pack it up. If Gingrich cannot beat Romney all by himself, he has no business running against Obama. In fact, knowing Newt and his propensity for self-immolation, I will bet you Mitt Romney’s 10K that NEWT WILL NEVER BE THE NOMINEE.

  • Lucas Black

    Well, Perry can’t drop in the polls because he’s already scraping along the bottom. On the other hand, I don’t see how him dropping out helps anybody because he’s got no voters left to speak of.

  • carolina

    The heat is on.

  • avagreen

    HUZZAH!

  • annie54

    than they have during the entire campaign. FOX better be careful – he’s looking pretty good – see what the nation is losing?

  • jgge

    No problem, it is a loss for the nation, but we have to move on. I am now supporting the only other person who I have always supported in this race and that is Newt Gingrich.

  • jakeofalltrades

    I actually care about beating Obama.

  • irishgirl

    With Gov Perry out of the race, what’s the difference? I’ll vote in the general like a good little repub, but forget the primaries. Santorum’s a petulant twit, Newt’s a egotistical headcase and Mittens is obamalite. We’re screwed. Again.

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

    Now, let’s see what happens.

  • tyman

    Sad…

  • edintexas

    Although he didn’t do any of that by himself. And the point about Slick Willy getting the credit in many voter’s minds is a fair point. Presidents do get credit for things which happen while they are in office, at least if it didn’t require a veto override and they are a Democrat. Republican Presidents often don’t get the credit they deserve (see R. Reagan).

    But buying into the Global Warming Scam, being an advocate for government control of Healthcare, voting for the Democrat’s Crime (Read GUN) Control Bill in the 90s, supporting Scozzafava in the NY-23 Special Election, supporting Crist until it became clear that he was not going to win the Primary, etc. This is also his record – and much more which is decidedly not Conservative.

  • gunslingr45

    it would not be all that bad IF you don’t mind him giving away your gun rights.

    “For those who have fought for it freedom has a sweet taste the protected will never know”

  • lizzie

    and confirming Perry will indeed “withdraw” and endorse Gingrich.

    Governor Perry’s wording will be very interesting.

    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/as-a-primary-looms-perrys-donors-say-its-over/
    maybe this is why – donors drying up.

    my comment to this ABCblogpost was posted as K2K, just before I came to RedState this morning:

    “Most of the media wanted to paint Governor Rick Perry with three stereotypes: “another Texas governor, dumber than W”, “male Sarah Palin”, and “white Southern racist”.
    Ron Paul conducted early cyber-war against Perry – it was a Paulbot who uploaded that viral bash-edit of Perry’s otherwise very coherent, standing ovation, Oct. 28 NH Cornerstone speech. How many people watched Perry’s stirring address, quoting Daniel Webster, to the NH Legislature?

    Ron Paul rambles off into incoherence at every debate. Mitt Romney has “Mitt Fits” when challenged on anything, yet the media continues to say he is “Presidential”????

    Anyone who pays attention sees Rick Perry as a resilient, optimistic, consistent, and his intelligence shows since his full recovery from his July 1, 2011 back surgery. Where was the coverage of his interview with DMRegister’s Kathy Obradovich in December when he finally admitted how his recovery really slowed him down, expecially in those first three debates, and then said
    “No Excuses. It is what it is.”

    Where was the media coverage about the Iowa ethanol lobby’s report card that singled out Rick Perry’s opposition to Federal Corn Ethanol subsidies? Or that Iowa’s no-abortion fanatics think Rick Perry is too moderate, and that he was “evil” because he endorsed Giuiliani in 2008?

    I do not agree with some of Perry’s proposals, but I know Presidential Temperament and Leadership when I see it.

    All this proves is that you have to be rich enough to campaign fulltime for more than four years, and buy the media’s affection so they excuse otherwise disqualifying issues, from Reverend Wright to Private Equity Leveraged BuyOut Vulture/locust capitalism.

    I started protest voting the Democrats in 2008, after five months immersed in the Obama campaign, seeing how the party of Truman had degenerated into bullies entirely clueless about the economy or even the concept of fiscal discipline.

    I WANT to vote FOR Rick Perry because America needs calm, steady, No Excuses, leadership.

    I no longer want to live in what has become of America since 1978, when the Private Equity LBO vultures started monetizing manufacturing in the quest for that ill-defined “shareholder value”, in what was a totally bi-partisan failure of leadership that has led to America the Wasteland, Home of the Rich and purple Mountains of Debt.”

    Well, only way to stop Romney is to back Gingrich. Only Perry and Gingrich could win, and Perry can show us what it means to Never Quit! by being the most effective governor Texas.

    and, who knows, SecDef?

  • Juggernaut

    anyone but Mitt. We want Obama out and all you sound like PaulBots
    Romney is not a closer and his career successes will be demonized by Obama far more than Newts issues which are all far smaller.

    It seems that the narrow minded don’t want to vet Romney’s career in politics nor his job which makes him unelectable as Obama because of a lack of thorough vetting. Newts successes in office far outweigh his failures. Hell Newt fought for lower taxes which George HW Bush fought to hike taxes……..all moderate republicans are like whiner babies thinking this is time for revenge.

    Leave RS or grow up, that applies to all whom whine about staying home. Jeese!

  • porkandcheese

    Owned by Bain Capital. The vampire squid tentacles are insidious. Seriously, how can so many conservatives listen to these talking heads feed them baloney when the videos exist. The record is there. Anyone with curiosity and internet access can easily review Romney’s flip flops, Gingrich’s days as the Speaker, Santorum before PA chased him out, Ron Paul racist newsletters, etc. Yet these rabblerousers take to the airwaves and promote these charlatans. No one cares.

  • 4suramcan

    Now you’re talkin’. I agree

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

  • sunshinek67

    politics ain’t beanbag? Lol, I’m actually better at beanbag. Politics, same as religion, some topics just generate heightened emotions. ;)

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

    the Congress won’t go along. That’s a straw man argument.

  • irishgirl

    n/t

  • jakeofalltrades

    Newt has run an incompetent campaign. He has always trailed Romney by an insurmountable margin in practically all 50 states. Romney is who Republicans want as their nominee.

    You can shout into the wind all you want to about this, but Romney has the organization and support to win big. He is much more likeable than Newt and will crush him after Florida.

    Newt will be dropping out in a few weeks. Don’t break your little hearts.

    And all this Romney hatred is a few sheets short of a reem.

  • duramater

    The lap dog media wants the viewers to be sure to notice what it has been able to accomplish.

  • Juggernaut

    hissy fits while trying to pretend he’s electable without being thoroughly vetted. Keep on digging on Romney and lets break that glass jaw and get on with beating Obama! Just goes to show you that the exact same thing happened with Hillary voters who had to swallow voting for Obama or stay home.

    Perry was a good candidate who made rookie mistakes in debate, otherwise his skills in office are quite desirable on a national level. Proof some will vote for a political failure like Romney whose economic plan has been proven lousy, yet they refuse to accept real information from neutral sources.

  • johnnyappleseed

    Just watch this interview of the Candidate against capiltisms pac ad is disassembled, when Newthas been talking about how Romney’s pac ads were full of lies.

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/1400387793001/workers-from-anti-bain-film-set-record-straight/?playlist_id=87937

    “The truth isn’t anything, it just is.”…….anon

  • irishgirl

    Damn, well said………….

  • porkandcheese

    The importance of these debates is overblown, yet that is why Newt became more viable to many voters. You mention Newt successfully cut a government program. He also endorsed an individual mandate and lobbied for big healthcare. You don’t even mention Perry’s record in TX. There has been a push from the conservative and legacy media to play up Perry’s weaknesses and diminish his accomplishments, and the opposite has been the case with Gingrich. That’s fine, but you don’t expect REDSTATE to twist the knife in the most successful RED STATE GOVERNOR.

  • trevorb

    Perry’s biggest flaw was that he had never run a national campaign before. it’s a whole different ball game than running in a state; in Texas, they know him and he had more margin for error.

    he was thrown into 1st place immediately and the attacks began, which he wasn’t prepared for, and his back surgery made things worse. He managed to improve, but I guess it wasn’t enough.

  • acat

    Seriously, by saying “I won’t vote for…” you limit the amount of influence you have. More effective to say “I dislike …” or “… has some serious flaws” …

    I dislike Santorum and Romney, both are very flawed, but I’ll vote for either of them over Obama in the general election.

    Mew

  • Common_Cents

    That America cannot look at a record vs. news spun image. But it is reality, unfortunately.

    Rick Perry can still fight the fight in continuing setting the gold standard by running a successful state.

    Thank you Governor Perry for waking up America to the danger posed from the DC elites.

    America has not yet hit her bottom, someday we’ll be ready for change that Perry espouses.

  • irishgirl

    anybody. Why should he? Certainly doesn’t owe anybody anything.

  • Juggernaut

    and he needed to learn a lot about the differences. He’s doing the right thing for his image plus he could run again or pursue a senate seat after his term.

    People should have paid attention to his media interviews and public speaking since he did quite well. Regardless I wish the best for him since he was the best in many areas of importance.

  • johnnyappleseed

    Just watch it.
    “And now you know the rest of the story”…Paul Harvey

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/1400387793001/workers-from-anti-bain-film-set-record-straight/?playlist_id=87937

    “The truth isn’t anything, It just is”….anon

  • porkandcheese

    You would not have Lewinsky therefore Drudge. The rumors circulated, the path was blazed, then the proof came forward. Gennifer Flowers destroyed the candidacies of Al Gore (turns out he was an adulterer, too) and Hillary Clinton. For all Clinton’s likability, he was still seen as a slacker and a horndog. Dems were driven into the political wilderness, their two star players benched until Obama, who would not be here were it not for Bush and the establishment GOP.

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

    nt

  • iddavis

    it is to read on RS that EE is stating Perry is either a hero or spoiler…twisting his arm to drop out NOW when Mittens and Newt are imploding and all we’ll have left is another RINO, big Gov Santorum!! Well, I just heard the sad news that Perry is giving up, throwing in the towel as EE and other so-called conservatives (traitors in my estimation) have spoken. Who the heck is Newt or anyone for that matter to put pressure on the ONLY true common-sense conservative in the race, especially when they are ALL imploding! This is pathetic..and I’m very disappointed that Perry didn’t continue to be his own person, true to his convictions and his principles, as he has done so many times in the past. When BO wins in Nov, I sure hope all the traitors on here and elsewhere will realize what a HUGE mistake this was for saving this country from tyranny, because that’s what’s really at stake here. The true conservative who was battling against all odds to stand up and be counted, even if he stood alone, was crucified here on RS, the MSM, Faux News, conservative radio, and his supposed friends and supporters…disgraceful and revolting!

  • iddavis

    it is to read on RS that EE is stating Perry is either a hero or spoiler…twisting his arm to drop out NOW when Mittens and Newt are imploding and all we’ll have left is another RINO, big Gov Santorum!! Well, I just heard the sad news that Perry is giving up, throwing in the towel as EE and other so-called conservatives (traitors in my estimation) have spoken. Who the heck is Newt or anyone for that matter to put pressure on the ONLY true common-sense conservative in the race, especially when they are ALL imploding! This is pathetic..and I’m very disappointed that Perry didn’t continue to be his own person, true to his convictions and his principles, as he has done so many times in the past. When BO wins in Nov, I sure hope all the traitors on here and elsewhere will realize what a HUGE mistake this was for saving this country from tyranny, because that’s what’s really at stake here. The true conservative who was battling against all odds to stand up and be counted, even if he stood alone, was crucified here on RS, the MSM, Faux News, conservative radio, and his supposed friends and supporters…disgraceful and revolting!

  • acat

    Romney had not managed to “close the deal” with more than 30% of the GOP primary voters, how do you expect him to do so with the independents who decide the election?

    Romney has run a negative and scorched-earth campaign, one that – while not raising the middle finger – offers very few indications of true conservatism. How do you expect him to listen to us after he’s in office?

    Romney is not an inspiring speaker, he comes across as what he is, dry, uninspiring, not charismatic, a manager rather than a leader. He’s been shown to have a glass jaw in the debates and in media interviews, he gets flustered when asked uncomfortable questions. How do you expect him to defeat Team Obama?

    I just don’t see it, Jake.

    Mew

  • duramater

    nt

  • Juggernaut

    and out of touch with most voters. People clap a lot quieter at his townhalls and other public events, its like they are bored or simply ready to go home.

    Romney is a political failure, his economic plan sucks, that’s the bottom line and the economy matters more that a failures desire to prove he’s electable. You don’t know what hatred, you sound like a PaulBot.

  • avagreen

    Fox is dead to me. I will talk their site down and their bought/paid for “news casters” r/t their connections to Bain and Romney

  • sunshinek67

    I thought about that the other day, why wouldn’t they want a candidate that is not fiscally prudent somewhere in and around the Oval Office. They want their ideas in the mix, get bigger funding sent their way. Huh, that makes sense. Tax dollars sent to Washington then sent to political evangelical leaders. Perry was in the way with his “cutting spending” mantra, overhaul a broken system.

    Hold onto your guns and….Go Newt!

  • edintexas

    While I emphatically support Perry, saying that another 4 years of Dear Leader will be no worse than Romney or Gingrich is utterly false for at least one reason: Judicial nominations. District and Circuit Court of Appeals Judge, and potential Supreme Court Associate Justice, nominations are a fact of the Presidency which too many citizens totally forget.

    The country can survive a Romney who has to be forced by Republicans to agree to repeal Obamacare, or a Gingrich who has a staff to tame his sudden inspirations. Either Romney, or Gingrich, would have to take advice from Republican Senators (and Republicans generally) on judicial appointments (See Bush 43 and Meyers, H.). The country can’t survive the numerous lifetime appointments of Federal District and Circuit Court Judges appointed by Dear Leader that another 4 years enable.

    Worse yet, have you considered “Jurists” (I use the term loosely) of the quality (ditto) of Sotomayor or Kagan replacing either Scalia or Thomas (or both)? Neither is exactly young.

    So while I will oppose either of these two during the Primary, I would hold my nose in the General Election – once again – if either one were the nominee.

  • jakeofalltrades

    There is simply nothing left for them to debate. Romney will win the independents and moderates, he will win the North and the West, Florida, and Virginia.

    Newt has no path to the nomination whatsoever. His only hope was to get Romney out before his other competition.

    In about a month, it will be Romney. Don’t get your hopes up about Newt – he has always been a nothingburger.

  • Juggernaut

    offer?

  • porkandcheese

    Candidates’ supporters are now responding. Funny to see the supporters of someone so successful as an RGA chairman, tea party lightning rod and longest-serving governor of TX treated with less courtesy than Ron Paul supporters.

  • jakeofalltrades

    ads non-stop in Florida. That should take care of it.

  • avagreen

    Many in Texas didn’t want to see him run because they want to keep him here to continue his good work here. We need him desperately to continue his war on the border with the drug cartels and the illegals and terrorists that are coming over our border.

    The country had a chance to elect a true patriot…..we’ll see the price that will be paid. I’m hoping the pundits are enjoying their comfy lifestyles and their salaries they earn while betraying their country.

  • acat

    I have said before that I don’t think he can win the general.

    Mew

  • trevorb

    that he did better in crowds and interviews than he did in debates. If he had started out in, say, 3rd of 4th place, I think he’d have done better. He’d still get hit, but he’d have time to adjust and prepare himself.

    Now, though… we’re probably going to be stuck with Romney.

  • jakeofalltrades

    But I like Mitt’s odds a lot better than Gingrich, who can be spun into the dirt. If he couldn’t survive his own Republican caucus, I don’t like his chances against Obama.

  • paladin1

    Well spoken sir. You have shown a lot of class in this phase of the debate.

  • duramater

    to retain our rights under the influence of the Obama administration. He hasn’t used EO in this case, hasn’t been necessary.

    This is a monumental disaster in the waiting.

  • avagreen

    nt

  • barleycorn

    This nomination process is FLUID. It CHANGES as the days pile one on another. What made sense last month is made moot today.

    6 months ago Perry was leading the race.

    3 months ago he was still relevant.

    With-in the past two weeks he has become irrelevant. That is not Erick’s fault.

    To continue to be blindly loyal to Rick Perry as many posters here are is to be an Quixotic in the extreme.

  • edintexas

    “Romney is stashing cash in the Caymens and pays the same tax rate I do…”.

    I might have missed the reports of Romney’s banking activities, but I think you have no knowledge to support that allegation of “stashing cash in the Caymens”. Given the Caymen banking laws, I doubt that even the MSM has real proof of any such banking activity.

    As for paying the same tax rate (roughly) as you, so do Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and a number of Senators and Representatives (more Democrats than Republicans), etc. It is called limited to no earnings income. Capital gains taxation at 15% is what the law requires, Whether it is fair might be a question to be debated (I’d say after the profits of a company are taxed at 35%, taxing the distribution of the profit left after the government grabs that 35% is not fair, it is double taxation and a 50% rate), If you would rather Capital Gains be taxed at a much higher rate, that is your prerogative. But you should understand that those higher tax rates would limit the amount of money that people are willing to place in longer term investments (Capital Gains only apply to investments held at least 6 months) which fund company products and programs. And your retirement might be reduced if the retirement fund had to pay a higher tax rate on the long term investments held by the fund.

  • paco12348

    I’m sad to see Perry go but he just couldn’t overcome his bad start. I also agree with throwing his support behind Gingrich. I like Romney but he won’t change much going on in Washington and we need to have Washington shaken from the top to the bottom. We need to let the rats fall out, get out and stay out, Gingrich will do that.
    My greatest concern is the ego Gingrich often displays. If he can control that plus his anger when crossed he will do a great job. Anger is fine if you know when to let go and Gingrich seems to have a problem with that.

  • gjohnson

    What the hell man? You know what you have done, and you should have known you shouldn’t be running pieces like this. If the man was going to quit, he will do it on his own damn terms, not because you said it made sense. I did like you and I guess I can forgive since as a Christian I should, but man, you have really disappointed me lately.

  • edintexas

    He also said, while making that famous comment about liking to fire people, that enabling people to choose to keep or “fire” their healthcare providers was “…one thing…” which he “…would change…” about Obamacare. He has no desire to repeal Obamacare. just make minor changes around the edges of it.

  • jakeofalltrades

    heh

  • duramater

    Some are just not teachable.

    I dare say, most of the folks who recognized Gov. Perry’s strengths were already alert and aware of the challenges.

  • acat

    The interesting thing about a Romney vs. Obama campaign is that it’ll be pitting two candidates nobody particularly likes, who are both past masters at dirty campaigning against one another.

    I think I’ve seen this movie before…

    Mew

  • barleycorn

    Its something we need to help him with. His comment several weeks ago “I’m gonna be the nominee” was so foolish and unhelpful.

    I’m a Newt supporter but I want and need to see more humility from the man going forward.

  • Juggernaut

    with negotiating skills that are comparable to his while also having someone who is good with policy. I’m sure Texans want him home, my cousin lives in Houston and didn’t think he should of run.

  • stardustsara

    conservatives like you are destroying the republican party. the conservative wing of the party is not going to elect a republican president, they, along with moderates, independents and democrats are going to win the election for a republican candidate. gingrich will guarantee we lose the general election. romney is the only one with experience to win against obama and that is why they (the media and democrats) are trying to crucify him. conservatives are doing a great job also – an absolute disgrace. gingrich is a manic/depressive, sadistic and morally unfit to be president of these great united states. STOP DESTROYING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

  • jakeofalltrades

    Accomplishment makes it explode.

  • Juggernaut

    n/t.

  • jakeofalltrades

    He has way more power in Texas.

  • Juggernaut

    for Obama and that’s been the game plan all along with the anti biz Obamabots. Its Romney who has destroyed the party, read EERS writeups on Romney vs conservatism.

    Feamongering only proves desparation for the governor ranked 47th.

  • sulmak

    for no other reason than that is highly unpopular. A politician who hasn’t already banked on it will try to remove it whether or not they would have originally supported it.

  • Juggernaut

    we could use him too.

  • carolynr

    someone that should not be considered…Rick Santorum.

    Perry…I don’t want this to be about me…but never have I given as much of a donation to a candidate than I have to Governor Perry. Never have I made campaign calls to private individuals than I did Perry. Never have I blogged on behalf of a candidate than I had Perry and never will I stop pointing to the fact that we blew the only chance…the only chance we had to right the Good Ship America with the nomination of Governor Perry. Do you know why? Because of all the lies, all the deceit of Washington DC. Because I have been the victim of their greed, because I have been a victim of their power and I, like many of you have lost freedoms and liberties that will never be regained. This man, Rick Perry has done what all the candidates I promised to do but never complete. He is a true Conservative, a doer nor a talker and a man of Christian values. Never did I hear this man complain of his back hurting, the pain he endured while he stood up for the principles of the Tea Party Movement and the Founders and what did Nikki Haley do? Endorsed a man who holds the opposite views of those that propelled her into victory. Could he have won? Yes if America were principled but it is no longer. With the Old Guard Republicans, The Bushies, the MSM, the lobbyists against him…he was destined for this fate, irregardless of the Oops Moment and what was that due to…probably still suffering from the pain of spine fusion. No, Governor Perry is not a whiner, he never was and he never will be.

    From a pragmatic viewpoint, without this premeditated attack on Gingrich considered, I believe that Newt is our alternative. I fear, for some of the above reasons stated, Newt will succumb to the same fate a Governor Perry. Defamation of character, i.e., Perry is a doofus…Gingrich has a sexual problem like Clinton…only the Press will leave out Clinton and “allow” us to connect that ourselves. How charitable!

    Romney is Obama. Get use to it. If he wins the Presidency, Obama and Romney were playing musical chairs…we wind up with the same thing. His chances of winning the presidency, in my view, are nil because of his positions he took that will not woo the Blue Dog Democrats. He is a poor debater, he has as much, if not more baggage than Gingrich. Please see Drudge today on WILLARD’S offshore accounts along with those of Bain. Further…if you want to piss of the Evangelicals…look at the $$$ Bain gave the LDS organization.

    Paul – As I have been saying, will be the third Party candidate…right under our noses running in a Republican primary.
    He will be Romney’s nemesis. This is Obama’s gateway back into the WH.

    Santorum – This is a big spender, a union guy with little or no experience for the Oval Office whose claim to fame is in his Social Conservatism…and that does not fly well with the majority of the public in this political atmosphere. He will be a repeat of George W. Bush…and he, whether you like it or not…SPENT TOO MUCH OF OUR MONEY…as did the Greedy Republicans…that need to be voted out. Santorum was one of them.

    In closing…Thank you Governor Perry. You are the Hero that America failed to recognize. You were are last chance but the powers of Washington are too big for your solutions and the majority of Americans are too lazy or ill informed to recognize your service, your patriotism and above all, your honesty.

  • 1bunny

    get my vote but not my support. Not a dime, not a tweet, not a post will come from me. I was for Perry because of his record none of the other candidates will do they are just more of the same. So I will be an ABO voter but no more than that. I just can’t do it, sorry but I don’t have any enthusiasm for any candidate. The Tea Party is dead to me too. For all their railing against DC they wouldn’t follow through on their principles. So it was all just rhetoric and a way to get money. Yes they did some good in 2010 but then they just sat back and talked the good talk and begged for monetary support but then followed whoever the MSM claimed was the “it” candidate. RIP tea party.

  • carolynr

    nt

  • sulmak

    He can stand up to some punch drunk retired boxer. Gingrich was the one who was able to get rid of most of “pay people to not grow corn” nonsense, though some was left in as “grassland preserves”, it was severely cut back. As well as other conservative agendas, and he got them past Clinton.

    As long as you hold Newt’s feet to the fire, he will get a conservative agenda through.

    Think about it, how much was Reagan even able to get through, and how much did Gingrich get through.

    “Oh but Gingrich did liberal this or liberal that”. Reagan got full blown amnesty and a machine gun ban, never forget that. Nobody is perfect.

  • cbartlett

    All three that are left are very flawed and no matter who we end up with, we have to hold our nose to vote in November – again. BUT, Obama has been setting up the class-warfare rhetoric for many months in anticipation of running against Romney. It is obvious that the sheeple have fallen for it already. We don’t need to hand this election over on a silver platter to the Democrats. If Obama gets a second term and won’t have to worry about getting re-elected again, there will be nothing to stop him from moving this country into complete socialism in another 4 years. He is way too narcissistic to care what happens to the rest of us. I will not just sit this one out.

  • hwlone

    Perry plunged in the polls when his immigration positions became known to the wider electorate but for some reason establishment GOP and most of the press try to ignore it. Romney makes great statements on immigration but no one trusts him, Newt makes ill defined statements that no one can define. Both parties are trying to ignore and deny at least 70% of the American people.

  • cbartlett

    But there are a whole lot more of those “stupid man”‘s out there – and they can all vote and breed. We don’t all deserve Obama, but we may get him all the same. What is it going to take to change this? Civil war?

  • gagirl74

    I now have NO voice in this race. There are no conservatives left. None of the candidates are true conservatives. They are all RINO’s or worse. What an incredible lost opportunity. In a year in which we anticipated FINALLY getting a true conservative on the ticket, the establishment Republicans have prevailed again. I am so totally unenthused about anyone left that I feel I have no party, no voice, no hope for this country. The Tea Party has failed. Conservatives have failed. People who should have supported Gov. Perry, like Nikki Haley, will share the blame in the defeat this fall and in the destruction of our country. I don’t see a path to victory for anyone left in this field. I sincerely hope I am wrong, but Newt has enough baggage to fill a 757. Santorum is a fake conservative. Sure he’s a social conservative, but fiscally he’s as big a spender as any democrat, and his support for Big Labor and Arlen Specter, I cannot forgive. Besides, he is consummately boring. No charisma at all. Mitt is a northeastern liberal. He’s McCain redux. He’s Dole redux. And the party wants me to get excited about these people? Once again, conservatives are shafted and forced to hold our noses and vote for someone we don’t really want. After this election, I think it is really time for true conservatives to join together and create the Conservative party and leave the RINO party behind. Best wishes to Governor Perry, who SHOULD have been the next President.

  • cbartlett

    If we managed to get a Congress that actually passes a repeal, I can’t believe ANY Republican president would have the guts to veto it – not if they ever want to do anything in the political realm again. All the more reason to hold your nose, vote for whichever Republican idiot manages to inherit this mess and concentrate on getting the absolute most conservative Senators and Representatives across the country elected for damage-control.

  • acat

    rather than just passing “fixes”, knowing Willard isn’t running on repeal?

    Mew

  • JSobieski

    I agree that his heart may not be in it, but I don’t think it would possible to back down on something with such deep support in his base.

    The real danger is that to get it through the Senate, he negotiates away too much.

  • rdm42

    What other candidate who si actually IN the race should he support? And if you try to say “Well they aren’t any different than Obama!!!one11!!!”

    Then you really aren’t a serious person and can safely be ignored, because you don’t live in this little place I like to call reality.

  • rdm42

    . . b y saying that Romeny is the same as Obama, you have shown a complete lack of seriousness.

  • grubby10

    I, also, will never forget Rick Santorum, together with GW Bush, putting everything on the line to save RINO Spector for another six years in the senate when he was certain to be defeated in the PA primary in 2004. Toomey, a true conservative and a man of honor who voluntarily gave up his congressional seat because he had promised to term himself out, deserved that seat. It was rotten, dirty, betrayal politics at its worst.

    Given the big spending and federal enhancing votes Santorum has cast, he does not stand as any more conservative than Newt Gingrich, who actually has a record of conservative accomplishment as Speaker. For another thing, Gingrich has shown an ability to debate and handle the media. And last but not least, the GOP establishment, including Rove, do not like him, which is a big plus in my book.

    As to Newt’s marital problems, weren’t we told to ‘move on, nothing to see here’, by the leftist media when the stories were about serial adulter/rapist Bill Clinton?

  • http://www.doctor-bob.biz rsklaroff

    …so, please, take a stab @ it…for the Gipper….

  • iddavis

    have NO say in electing our President! In Iowa, they lose 8 precincts of voting that needed certifying?? We have Mittens hiding $$ in the Cayman Is…like all the wealthy fat cats! We have more of Newt’s dirty laundry being aired just before tonight’s CNN debate?! We have IA calling a draw on the GOP Presidential race earlier in the month!? These are not just coincidences…this is a planned, calculated attack on America’s freedom and liberty…against we,the people! EVERYONE on both sides were intimidated by Perry..because they knew he would win the WH and would clean house a/s/a he got there! They (DNC/RNC…both sides) wanted no part of that…it would take away their $$$ and power. So you have the leftists playing up the oops! and trying to make Perry look weak/dumb and you have the GOP establishment, talk radio, Fox..ALL of them, throwing Perry under the bus early on and making him look awful. Today’s perceptin is tomorrow’s reality…unfortunately, and we have ignorant folks going to polls to vote who only listen to the media..they do no research on the candidates as I have done..been following Perry for several years…read “Fed Up!”, etc. Then they turn on Fox news, or listen to Rush or Levin or Laura, O’Reilly, Hannity, etc….beat up on Perry, day after day, for whatever reason and BINGO! Perry goes from 35% to 7% almost overnight!1?? No way that should have happened if the GOP/Fox, etc. had his back! It’s obvious Perry wasn’t their candidate from the get-go…it was anyone but, but particularly Mittens, for Fox and GOP establishment, for sure. It’s no wonder people who are true conservatives are running to Ron Paul…he may be eccentric w/wild ideas about Iran, but I trust he’d do what’s right by this country w/regard to spending, and also a strong defense…and those are the top two critical issues right now. Of course, he can’t win, but perhaps he’ll garner enough votes to be heard at the GOP convention this year.

    We badly need a new conservative party..we can’t keep patching up the one we have and we saw how the Tea Party types folded, like a tent. The SC Gov is no conservative if she’s backing Mittens…that’s clear…and she was voted in by the Tea Party…what’s w/that?? To continue acting like losers, going to the polls and electing another RINO, is a huge mistake. Doing the same thing over and over again and thinking you’ll get a different result is insanity! We MUST do whatever it takes to get the movement started NOW or we will find ouselves in this same situation 2 yrs, 4 yrs from now…how stupid is that??

    I will continue to pray that Perry goes another round for the presidency…after all, it took Reagan several times before he succeeded, so it’s definitely worth keeping “the flame” alive and burning for Gov Perry. In the interim, there is no passion or enthusiasm left in this election year…just demoralizing corrupt politics that will continue thru election day. This is very embarrassing for the USA…a country that is supposed to be about freedom and liberty..and now it’s obvious to the world that this is another “rigged” election…attributable to both sides of the aisle. It’s matters like this that turn people away from politics because it is so disgusting and depressing. With Gov Perry out of the race, I see no way any of these GOP candidates can prevail in beatng BHO with his ACORN/Chicago/Soros/Union thuggery politics already working behind the scenes as we saw in IA and who knows where else?? We had better change the Presidential election process NOW before it’s too late!

    God bless Gov Perry, Anita, and his family, and God, please help us get thru another 4 years of tyranny and destruction.

  • jakeofalltrades

    We have given the franchise to people who by all rights should be outside the walls of the city.

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  • iddavis

    Several sources on Sunday noted he had already bought up $9M in advertising air space in FL! Additionally, Perry had ever intention of staying in at least thru FL and conveyed that msg over and over again. Folks, Perry, unfortunately, began believing the press instead of his own heart and spirit. EE convinced him to drop and be the “hero” or stay in and be the spoiler.
    With friends and advise like that, who needs enemies??!! Just keep all this in mind as we move forward. With all the bad press about to come out on Newt, the press already out on Romney and his stash in the Cayman’s “acting like a typical white fat cat”, how in God’s name could EE, Newt, or anyone for that matter ask Perry to get out of the race?? Perry was our last best hope! Can’t wait for these weasels to reap the fruits of their labor when BHO wins in Nov! Only prayer and God can help us now.

  • avagreen

    because they didn’t want him to leave Texas because of the job he’s doing here.
    Sample of news stories on the subject, which accompanied every story about the polling for his running for President:
    AUSTIN – Texans say Rick Perry is doing a better job as governor but don’t want him to run for president, a new poll shows.

    Although Perry, a Republican, has emerged as a tea party favorite and national voice on states rights, nearly two-thirds of Texas voters oppose a bid for the White House.

    “It’s not necessarily a vote of no confidence,” said pollster Mickey Blum. Democrats in the statewide survey overwhelmingly don’t want him to run, and many Republicans don’t, either.

    “Sometimes it’s a statement that I like you where you are, keep doing a good job, just stay there,” Blum said.

    And, part of the problem is right cher:
    http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011/09/new-spotlight-shines-on-old-perry-bush-rift/

    as well as the fact that (gosh I get tired of writing this)……the trial lawyers, the liberal newspapers in the big cities(such as Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, etc.)…:who hate Perry because of his conservative agenda: Tort Reform, trying to ban sanctuary cities, illegals not getting drivers licenses, voter ID, his plans to close the border, etc.

    Guess who hollered the loudest to defeat Perry’s sanctuary cities? Houston.

    Not everyone is keen on politics and read/believe whatever their local newspapers says.

    I have no doubt that the libs, smelling blood, will do everything to hound him out of office the next election.

    God help us if they do. It’s bad enough to lose him as a President, but not as Governor.

  • avagreen

    Duper.

  • johninohio

    People who say this don’t want to face the truth–Since Romney has been ahead in the polls from day one, but Tea Partiers fear him (including me) this can mean only one thing?Tea Party conservatives are a minority in the GOP. The majority of Republicans, apparently, want the era of Bush1/ Clinton/ Bush2 back, Reagan be damned. They oppose Obama mainly because he is making big government too costly and inefficient, and they hope Romney, being a businessman, will make big government affordable while keeping SS, Medicare, middle class tax deductions, 99 weeks of unemployment, etc firmly in place. And if he makes college free, he’ll win a second term, too.

    If the GOP plays its cards right (50/50), and the economy doesn?t improve markedly between now and November (50/50), they might win. And if they do win, it simply means our march to complete socialism will be slowed a little. Expect nothing more.