Gracefully, MSNBC’s Schultz Awaits Perry
Background information is here: Obama is a Big Black Cloud, Says Ed Schultz. Cross-Posted: TobyToons.com (Conservative Political Cartoons)
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Post Charleston, Perry Moves to First
Michael Barone has the scoop on the first polling done post Charleston. Rick Perry is at 29% Mitt Romney is at 18% Michele Bachmann is at 13% Ron Paul is at 9% Well . . .
Is Karl Rove Afraid of Being Marginalized?
Last night Karl Rove started buzzing about Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, and others getting into the 2012 race. This morning, around 10:30, Karl took a shot at Rick Perry on Stuart Varney’s show on Fox. Karl Rove’s political director for American Crossroads is now working for Mitt Romney. And the word among several reporter friends is that the reason Mitt Romney came out of the | Read More »
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Hyperbloviating Think Progress Gets Its Collective Panties In A Wad Over Rick Perry
Let me remind you that union goons sympathetic to Barack Obama have taken to showing up on the doorsteps of bank executives’ houses in America to threaten and intimidate them. Let me also remind you that Barack Obama told Wall Street Executives that he was all that stood in the way of pitchforks coming for them. And Barack Obama also called on his supporters to | Read More »
Reflecting on the RedState Gathering
This past weekend I had the pleasure of, once again, attending the RedState Gathering. I began my 90 mile drive to the nearest airport at 4 am Friday morning. Two flights later and I was in Charleston before lunch. I arrived at the hotel and checked in to my room before meeting up with Erick and Neil to go to Staples and Chick-Fil-A. This was | Read More »
Does the Wall Street Journal Have An Ethics Problem With Charles Dameron?
The Orcs at the Wall Street Journal were for TARP and all sorts of corporatist intervention before they even started calling tea party activists “hobbits.” I love the Wall Street Journal, and the Editorial Page, but for all their laments about conservative activists going off the reservation, they frequently stand on the wrong side of government intervention into corporate America. But, to be fair, they | Read More »
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George W. Bush in 1999 vs. Rick Perry in 2011
Watching Governor Rick Perry’s speech at the Red State Gathering, I was struck by the degree to which conservatism has grown at the highest levels of electoral politics, including presidential elections, over the past decade. Twelve years ago, another Texan, George W. Bush, announced his presidential bid by ushering in a new era of conservatism. At the time, following the longest Republican exile from the | Read More »
A Singular Overlooked Advantage for the Perry Team
Let me give you some quick and dirty info about the Perry team that, in talking to a number of reporters in New Hampshire and Iowa, is being corroborated. Perry has a team in place that he has used for a number of years. While Governor Perry really did legitimately stand down after the November 2010 election and, until a few months ago, had no | Read More »
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Rick Perry Announces His Presidential Bid at the RedState Gathering
Transcript below the fold.
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Perry releases campaign video
Texas Governor Rick Perry not only announced his candidacy for president at the RedState Gathering 2011 in Charleston, South Carolina today. He also released a new campaign video and has an event scheduled in New Hampshire this evening. The terrific video is about Gov. Perry’s vision for getting America working again:
So . . . Yeah. That Happened.
That happened. Here’s my introduction. It is an honor to introduce the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry. Rick Perry knows the power of the American Dream. He’s the son of tenant farmers… among the first in his family to graduate from college… a proud Air Force veteran… and married to his high school sweetheart, Anita – the first girl he ever dated. They are the | Read More »
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Gov. Rick Perry’s announcement of his run for President
As Moe and Erick noted below, “it happened.” Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced his intent to run for President of the United States. Video streaming by Ustream The first Redstate Gathering was in Atlanta in 2009, and now we’re on our third one. No matter what GOP candidate you support for the nomination, this 2011 Gathering is one for the history books. Thanks to | Read More »
RS Gathering: Perry declares.
Governor Perry has made it official today: he’s running for President. Reactions from various and sundry Contributors and alumni within reach of the bar: Ben Howe: holy monkey Leon Wolf : well, that happened. Aaron Gardner: Rick Perry just became President. Now we just need to wait for the election. Brian Simpson: right person, right time, great speech. Thomas Crown: hit the right points, needs | Read More »
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About Charleston and Rick Perry
According to news reports, Rick Perry is announcing he’ll be running for President at the RedState Gathering. I know nothing. My information comes from these same news reports. The RedState Gathering is the same day as the straw poll in Ames, IA. If the Governor announces or, as Reuters suggests, “strongly hints” well then that’s just cool and fine with me. See, I told you | Read More »
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Your Exciting Facts of the Day
With more and more media speculation that Rick Perry is getting in, I’m getting questions from reporters about a projected budget deficit in Texas and several of the reporters make clear that the Democrats are the ones pushing this. Let’s be clear about a few things: 1. Rick Perry has never signed into law a budget that did not balance while Barack Obama’s own budget | Read More »
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