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Rick Perry’s post-Dartmouth Remarks, Part II.

And here’s part II: the Q&A from last night’s (10/11/2011) post-debate remarks by Texas Governor Rick Perry. Again, this was done by RedState’s Aaron Gardner, not myself. You can see the first part here.

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  • Pirohy

    I’d be watching from the sidelines because NJ will have an Obama landslide if Perry is the nominee. I have not met one person (Republican or Independent) with a favorable impression of Perry.

  • tailfins1959

    I have lots of doubts about Perry, but he just might surprise us with the Latino vote. As you know, NJ has a huge Spanish speaking population. I have faith in the primary system. It will tell us whether Perry just has a few communication problems or if he is a dunce. The way he is hoarding his campaign cash while in a free fall also bothers me. The process will play out to produce the strongest candidate. Regardless who the nominee is, you can take a short drive to PA and make a difference.

  • paladin1

    Gentlemen, thank you so much for posting these post debate videos for everyone to see. They show the Rick Perry we know here in Texas. The viewer cannot help but notice the genuine and thoughtful ideas he puts forth, and the sincerity with which he espouses them.

    From 2000 to 2006 I served on the Board of Directors for large, statewide association-not a union, by the way, and on several occasions we had the opportunity to meet with Governor Perry and discuss relevant issues. On one occasion, he invited our small group to the Governor’s Mansion for a discussion over iced tea and cookies. In every instance, Governor Perry was attentive, thoughtful, and open to discussion and sharing his ideas, even as he heard ours. We could always count on him to follow through and act on the issues we agreed on.

    I realize that his performance in these televised debates may be the only exposure people get to him as they may never have the ability to meet and question him in person, By posting these clips, and hopefully others like them as you can, Redstate can play a part in exposing the Rick Perry that we know in Texas; the Rick Perry we have elected repeatedly to state office, and the Rick Perry who has made our state the success it is, even in these rocky economic times. He will do the same for the nation if he is elected President of the United States.

  • runner12

    seems like someone who will actually have aolutions to the country’s problems. I like the authenticity and the ability to articulate his principles.

    If he brings some of that to the debates, he will win the nomination.

  • bzip

    people who don’t understand why we support Perry so much is because they haven’t seen the real Perry, the one in these video’s.

    The guy is amazing, he truly gets it and truly does love his country he is inspiring.

  • Scope

    who voted for Bush.

    NJ will overwhelmingly vote for Obama or whoever the Democrat is, no matter what R candidate gets the nom. They always do.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Most of them will lose most of their power if he is the next president.

  • Pirohy

    not exactly overwhelming D.

    Romney would be competitive in NJ with Christie’s help.

  • jimmuy8

    the Presidency, we’ve already lost.

  • Scope

    that dense? Obviously I am a republican, Bush ran as a republican, Bush won the presidency twice. Hint hint, that means someone voted for him including me.

    Of course you don’t know anyone who likes Perry in NJ. It is a liberal mecca, and RINO Christie is the best you could hope for there. I know how liberal NJ is as I lived there for 25 years. By the time it came down to Christie deciding to run for the presidency or not, he was already outed to many as a squishy RINO. Christies popularity has already taken a huge hit. Romney=Christie. Christie=Romney. They are both Northeastern liberal Republicans. The electorate will not elect a liberal RINO Harvard squish.

  • Pirohy

    is a 6% victory overwhelming? do you read the entire posts?

  • Scope

    you’re not dense. You are just plain dumb. Have you never heard the expression, I don’t know how Nixon won, I don’t know anyone who voted for him. Or the women in NY who said, I don’t know how Bush won, no one I know voted for him. You said that Perry can’t win because no one you know likes him. When Perry is sitting at his desk in the oval office, you will be saying, I don’t know how he won, no one I know voted for him. Get it.

  • wonkish1

    I am expecting that Perry actually is in 3rd the polls margin of error is what has Newt slightly out polling Perry, but none the less…

    Perry has moved to 4th place behind Newt in this poll. It likely also doesn’t matter much because this poll was conducted over the weekend and a debate just happened.

    Also important in the poll is that Cain has pulled way ahead of Romney in their poll.

    Cain – 30
    Romney – 22
    Gingrich – 15
    Perry – 14
    Bachmann – 5
    Paul – 5
    Huntsman – 2
    Santorum – 1

    http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/cain-leads-nationally.html

  • Danielle Davis (ocleverone)

    if Christie has aspirations, he will help Perry in New Jersey.

  • Common_Cents

    The guy is slowly and steadily creeping up. He just needs to kiss a little more Palin butt with death panel defense to get an endorsement ;)

  • Jim Tomasik

    Did you see this bit near the bottom?

    -If the race came down to a two way match between Cain and Romney, Cain leads 48-36. Cain would pick up Bachmann, Gingrich, Perry, and Santorum’s supporters. Romney would get Huntsman and Paul’s. Cain would absolutely crush Perry in a head to head, 55-27. He would win over the supporters of every other candidate, including Romney’s by a 56-24 margin. Romney’s supporters really don’t like Perry. It seems so last month to even mention this but Romney leads Perry 48-38 now in a head to head- that’s a 22 point reversal from September when Perry had a 49-37 advantage on that question.

  • Pirohy

    are about as good as Perry’s. No wonder you like him so much.

  • wonkish1

    The comments that had been coming out of PPP over the weekend were extremely dire for Perry’s numbers. I didn’t want to freak out the Perry supporters than I already have so I didn’t comment on it.

    But the change in approval of Perry among GOP primary voters is the most shocking. Just calling a spade a spade here, but if he can’t turn around his approval rating within GOP voters, there is no way he can get the nomination. I mean 42/38 among Republicans is terrible.

  • Common_Cents

    he can win by attrition. This is probably their plan. Survive debates with minimal damage, do some good ground game, and survive to pick up support from the other candidates once they run out of money.

    His challenge is only if Cain can continue to hold his own and a steady uprising of Gingrich. I have a feeling it’ll eventually come down to Perry or Gingrich against Romney.

  • wonkish1

    “For whatever reason there’s no doubt Gingrich is the candidate besides Cain who’s had the most momentum on their side in the last month. His net favorability has increased **20 points** from +7 at 46/39 to +27 at 57/30.”

    Favorability is historically a very, very slow moving number its increasing. To give you an idea it took Clinton almost 15 months to move 20 positive % points among the general in favorability in 08 and that was considered extremely high.

    Granted these numbers are just in GOP primary voters, but I’ve never seen someone move favorability that fast. Never!

  • woggie

    isn’t what matters is primary vote delegate totals, ala Obama ’08?

  • Change Jar Conservative

    Write a two minute commercial that talks about energy independence creating jobs and another one about his tax/spend plan (which if he is smart will be a flat tax).

    Then run those commercials during the Iowa Hawkeyes, South Carolina Gamecocks, Florida Gators, and Miami Hurricane games.

    Get up on the air in New Hampshire with a commercial (again I’m projecting) that talks about a flat tax that includes doing away with AMT.

    Then run both commercials during Hannity or O’Reilly as well.

    Those commercials would raise his awareness and get a lot more people interested.

    His post debate remarks posted on the front page are great.

    I’m back to being completely undecided between Gingrich, Romney, Cain, and Perry.

  • woggie

    augmented by post-NH debate comments like commercials will pile up delegate votes in IA, SC,etc.

  • mtbrimstone

    many of the marginal Perry supporters of late have jumped into some passing bandwagons. In the end, though, he’ll come on strong as those bandwagons come to a halt, and he’ll get them back.

  • wonkish1

    But I don’t agree about dropping money right now on a bunch of ads.

    He needs to plan and put the cards on the table for 1 big ad buy. In 94 the by far most expensive ad buy for the GOP was a full page article in every TV guide in the country laying out the Contract with America.

    Perry needs to create a much longer(not 30 sec) commercial that is positive and solutions orientated and that has some great production value. And drop big money on the ad buy.

    Just think of this if you were to combine the production value of Perry’s Zero ad, but with the positivity of the Contract for America ad carried out over 4 minutes it would be worth at least a 5 pt bump in the polls. But if you think your just going to create standard ads and turn things around by themselves, I’m sorry I just don’t see it.

  • Tbone

    what NJ does?

  • Tbone

    Newt would be my pick because he is the only one really smart enough to process the data to make informed decisions.

    But, if I had to pijk a candidate to beat Obama, it would be Perry. If GWB could beat Gore and Kerry, Perry will slaughter King Barry the Hopeless.

  • Scope

    are non-existent. That’s why you support Romney.

  • JSobieski

    If Romney ends up being competitive in NJ it would mean that the overall election was a landslide and that NJ is irrelevant.

    For a state like NJ to be close, PA, OH, VA, FL, et al would all need to be Red, rendering NJ irrelevant.

  • Scope

    Apparently John McCormac was highly impressed with Perry’s post debate event as well, according to this article.

    There are many that believe that Perry is running a great and successful campaign, other than the debates. Perry is being judged totally on his debate performances, and everything he has done is getting lost in the hyper American Idol type network promotions that have been called debates.

    EE has suggested that the candidates just say no to the circus that the lefty networks are cooking up, just to increase ratings, and to try to make all of our candidates look like idiots. I would bet that if just one candidate took up EE’s invite, all would follow. When you have someone like Fred Barnes calling the so-called debates useless, that’s going some. I beg Perry to call and accept EE’s invite.

    I also agree with the author of the above linked article. Perry should tell anyone hosting any future calls to the three ring circus to shove it. Perry has the bucks to do plenty of webads and videos, he can afford many TV ads, he can keep hitting the campaign trail hard, meeting as many people as possible to grow a ground grassroots effort. There were a whole lot of people who were willing to give Palin a shot even though she wasn’t participating in any debates.

    As the author says, Perry can still run a successful top tiered campaign while not participating in what so many have called debacles for all the candidates except Romney of course. As she said, the debates are free and even those with no money can show up at them for free face time. The field for the debates will not winnow any time soon. Time for Perry to make a major change, and to start getting his message out in his own way, and in his own venues. I would respect Perry even more if he took the challenge to shake the way campaigns are being controlled by the leftists and liberal elitist republicans.

    If someone didn’t vote for Perry because he didn’t participate in any more of these American Idol competitions, chances are they would not have voted for him even if he was a debate champ.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Dishonors are about even at this point.

  • onemovoter

    now is not the time to do expensive advertising that doesn’t have a lasting effect. Perry’s campaign has done actual studies of what works and doesn’t work. It’s why they have such a low burn rate because they aren’t wasting it on crap right now.

    We still have about 2 and a half months to go which is a lifetime in politics. Perry is doing the retail politics like this which has shown to make huge effects through local media reporting stories like this in a truthful way.

    The best advertising is word of mouth because you trust the source much more than some ad on TV.

    McCain was actually polling at about the same point that Perry is now, with others swinging up and down on the polls. McCain still beat Romney last time and Romney will still lose this time.

    Who it will be will be anybodies guess. If I had to bet though based on what I know, it would be Perry in the end. Perry has many more important political connections with his time as leader of the RGA. It’s also why he was able to raise so much money too.

  • wonkish1

    McCain’s campaign was plagued by an extremely high burn rate. So much so that he ran out of money at this time, ditched most of his staff and expenditures and took out a loan collateralized by his contact/donor list so he wouldn’t have to get out of the race.

    I’m sure Perry supporters are much happier that Perry isn’t following in McCain’s footsteps on, “How to not run a campaign 101″.

  • runner12

    Typo alert. That would be “solutions”

  • nativetexan41

    I have been for Perry since he got in the race. He will make a good President , he is a good man and he has been trashed by the liberal media and the Republican establishemen as well as the other candidates except for Newt.
    He has the experience of governing a large state and knows what it takes to create jobs.
    I am voting for Perry and I believe that he can win and can beat Obama.
    Go Perry!!

  • explodinghead

    Thanks Moe.

    This is the Perry that we need to see on other tv outlets. If he can by-pass the debate straight-jacket and lay out his plans on Hannity and other shows, he can get back in this.
    I saw this link to a preview of phase I of Perrys economic plan, which will be released in full later this week.

    http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111011/LOCALVOICES/710119989

    It hits drill baby drill,jobs and the EPA regs , it’s just part 1 of his plan.

  • carolina

    This should be a friendly interview because Kudlow is so pro free markets. Perry might get a friendly nudge towards his economic growth message. He might even present some of his current ideas. It should be interesting.

  • carolina

    This should be a friendly interview because Kudlow is so pro free markets. Perry might get a friendly nudge towards his economic growth message. He might even present some of his current ideas. It should be interesting.

  • izoneguy

    Look how that turned out…..
    Mike Castle was the King of RINO’s – Romney
    is not the king of RINO’s yet….because he
    has lost a few elections along the way….

    At least the other candidates in the race are better than O’Donnell……

  • carolina

    I can’t think of a better audience for him.

  • Scope

    is excellent. It was written by Perry himself, and it bypasses those that want to misquote whatever he has to say. His energy plan will bypass all of the other candidates that have avoided the domestic energy issue.

  • rec0n

    Kind of a tip-off, that. One of many. I like Christie well enough – from a distance. His endorsement of Rombama was no surprise, but he is a powerhouse. Glad he’d never make it thru a primary either…

  • californiagold

    I’ve seen the videos of the energetic and thoughtful Rick Perry on the stump and doing one on one interviews. And then I’ve seen the Rick Perry who shows up at the debates. It’s as if an entirely different person shows up for the debates.

    The Rick Perry I’ve seen on the stump is an energetic, positive, and very appealing candidate. That’s the Rick Perry America needs to see real soon.

    My advice to the Perry campaign would be to get on TV as much as possible for the remainder of the campaign….a good start would be to accept Erick Erickson’s invitation for a one on one interview.

  • txpat

    We don’t hear anything about them now, but he had the most out of any of them.
    I see a serious carpet bombing coming soon to a media outlet near you.

  • center77

    Has anyone seen the tea party express ad that praises Perry.

  • avagreen

    They tend to be just a little more leftist in their polling, probs because of the sampling they use.
    At RealPolitics, a rundown of recent polls are shown. Aside from PPP, the three most recent do not agree with PPP.
    Namely, NBC poll, Reuters poll, and WP/Bloomberg poll.