Video: Perry rocks the SRLC
posted at 5:10 pm on April 9, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Texas Governor Rick Perry may have had a tough slot in following Sarah Palin, but he proved to be up to the challenge. Perry delivered a stemwinder speech that had the crowd roaring on numerous occasions, and in doing so delivered a tough message to his own party. “Don’t tell me you’re a Republican,” Perry warned, “and don’t protect the innocent,” a sentiment that got a standing ovation. Perry took on his own party’s establishment, at least indirectly, than any of the previous major speakers.
I’ve seen Perry give speeches on television (mainly on YouTube) and knew he could be dynamic. Earlier in the day, I mentioned that alone among the other speakers on the ticket today, Perry had the only shot at matching the energy of Sarah Palin’s appearance. Perry has a very active delivery, in the same manner as a preacher. He doesn’t stand still, but instead puts his whole body into what he says. Perry’s speech turned a political conference into a Republican revival meeting, complete with the call to action at the end.
Perry’s first priority will be to win re-election in Texas later this year, which shouldn’t present a difficult task. If after that he decides to get serious about a run for the Presidency, don’t count him out. He’ll have more than two terms as an executive in a state that, as Perry reminded everyone in the speech, ranks first for economic growth thanks to Republican efforts to trim costs and keep taxes low. He could very well be the kind of challenger that could make Obama’s shot at a second term very, very difficult.
Here’s an interesting factoid: Perry’s not listed on the SRLC straw poll.
Update: Perry asked to have his name kept off the straw poll, according to CNN.
Thanks to our good friend The Right Scoop, you can watch it all here:
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I liked his speech quite a bit.
ButterflyDragon on April 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM
He’d probably be good, but would have to push against the “not another Texan like W” theme.
cs89 on April 9, 2010 at 5:16 PM
Not presidential material.
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Didn’t he also provide Texas with tort reform?
deidre on April 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM
Perry Palin 2012
Key West Reader on April 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM
Ha. I can’t imagine for a SECOND a governor of Texas asking the Governor of Louisiana for help :-)
He’s being very, er, polite about the havoc those people from Louisiana have brought to his state.
fivefeetoffury on April 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM
Great speech Governor!
Loved it.
portlandon on April 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM
I like this. Pretty soon we are going to start seeing the cream rise to the top. Two years of constant campaign mode is almost upon us.
sherry on April 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM
By 2012 the idea of a Texas Governor might not be a turn off, not after four years of Obama. I think W looks better every day myself.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM
I think Beck has a problem with Perry…I’m not really sure why.
deidre on April 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM
–He’s only running about 8% ahead of the Democrat running for governor in Texas, according to the polls. And he’s been governor in Texas for ten years and is running for an unprecedented third term. The anti-incumbent sentiment may end up huring him more than expected.
Jimbo3 on April 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM
Ed was it an activist speech or a true candidate’s speech?
chief on April 9, 2010 at 5:21 PM
This guy is a RINO. From taking kickbacks from pharma to require all girls in Texas to receive Guardasil vaccinations, to the Trans-Mexican corridor, and the theft of Texan’s property rights this guy sucks the wazoo.
paulsur on April 9, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Perry’s unfortunately more conservative in his rhetoric than in his actions.
ddrintn on April 9, 2010 at 5:21 PM
–He did about five years ago.
Jimbo3 on April 9, 2010 at 5:21 PM
You are looking at our next president. A REAL conservative. No a Bush Republican. Everybody needs to encourage him to run.
Dr_Irish on April 9, 2010 at 5:22 PM
I think he did. The other day I was listening to Bill Bennett’s radio show and someone called in and said Perry was not conservative enough for her..and I wondered if we were thinking about the same Rick Perry.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Exactly the opposite, Beck took out his competition for him with nationally broadcasted smears that ran right up the the primary.
paulsur on April 9, 2010 at 5:23 PM
Medina? She took herself out. Beck handed her a pistol and she put it to her head and pulled the trigger.
ddrintn on April 9, 2010 at 5:25 PM
You know something? If Republicans do not stop trashing each other and stabbing each other in the back, they will never win again. Bush was and is a real Republican. I listen to the Democrats talk about the man and you would think he was a right wing fanatic and then comes along the self appointed true conservative to stab him in the back. I voted for Bush and I would vote for him again and I think a lot of the people on the right who abandoned him helped elect Barack Obama. And the truth is a lot of those same people would turn on a guy like Rick Perry as soon as he did or said something that was not exactly what they wanted to see or hear.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:25 PM
–If the GOP runs another fiscal non-conservative, it’ll be over for them as a party.
Jimbo3 on April 9, 2010 at 5:25 PM
Gig’Em Governor. Give ‘em hell!
txag92 on April 9, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Charisma + Results = Better. More please.
Because he’s Beck. He has a problem with anybody so long as having a problem means having some more ratings and selling more books.
TheUnrepentantGeek on April 9, 2010 at 5:26 PM
That’s the way we grow them in Texas.
carbon_footprint on April 9, 2010 at 5:27 PM
And Hitchenson would haev been any better? If I remember right she was also a advocate for the HPV shot.
upinak on April 9, 2010 at 5:27 PM
I am not a fan of Gleen Beck, that stopped when he said we were better off with Obama than with McCain…but you are right here. Medina should have handled that differently. She messed herself up.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:27 PM
You know something? If Republicans do not stop trashing each other and stabbing each other in the back, they will never win again. Bush was and is a real Republican. I listen to the Democrats talk about the man and you would think he was a right wing fanatic and then comes along the self appointed true conservative to stab him in the back. I voted for Bush and I would vote for him again and I think a lot of the people on the right who abandoned him helped elect Barack Obama. And the truth is a lot of those same people would turn on a guy like Rick Perry as soon as he did or said something that was not exactly what they wanted to see or hear.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:25 PM
So how was Perry’s “Don’t tell me you’re a Republican,” Perry warned, “and don’t protect the innocent,” not a stab in the back to some of the libertarians who might vote for the GOP?
Jimbo3 on April 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM
No, the reason he had Medina on his show in the first place is because he didn’t like Perry or the other candidate. Medina is the one that shot herself in the foot with being a truther.
deidre on April 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Nah. It’ll just make them a permanent minority party bickering over the precise speed of the country’s decline to euro-weenie status.
TheUnrepentantGeek on April 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM
I think that might well be true.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:29 PM
Good heavens, Perry sounds just like Bush. (Except, of course, that Perry can assemble a coherent sentence. Guess that’s a benefit of an education at Texas A&M over Yale. :-D)
skydaddy on April 9, 2010 at 5:29 PM
You see though, the problem is that when we elect the middle-of-the road types, they eventually show their more lib sides and then we’re back in the wilderness after getting thumped electorally.
ddrintn on April 9, 2010 at 5:29 PM
This.
cibolo on April 9, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Libertarians are cool with killing kids? Liberty for me and not for thee, I guess.
TheUnrepentantGeek on April 9, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Libertarians who vote for the GOP are still libertarians, they might well figure that neither party is exactly what they want, but the Republicans are not as irresponsible as the Democrats.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:31 PM
And Ed, don’t forget how efficiently/smoothly he handled Hurricane Rita. Perry has some baggage, as his executive order to get the HPV vaccine to young girls in school. That did not go over well.
carbon_footprint on April 9, 2010 at 5:31 PM
I’m sure the girls are really broken up about that whole “now I won’t get cervical cancer” thing.
TheUnrepentantGeek on April 9, 2010 at 5:32 PM
“Hands off my right to murder infants, Perry!”
That kind of libertarian? They can go suck a lemon.
KinleyArdal on April 9, 2010 at 5:32 PM
Not tough enough on illegals for my tast and the whole Trans Texas Corridor thing was a little shady.
Like him otherwise.
m0nkeyb0y on April 9, 2010 at 5:33 PM
Not the point. It is not the government’s place to be vaccinating young girls for sexually transmitted disease. The parents need to parent.
carbon_footprint on April 9, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Heh. Either way, he says it was “the speech of the day.”
conservative pilgrim on April 9, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Perry has some conservative issues such as the HPV fiasco and the TransTexas Corridor.
He backed off of both of those issues, and I can’t see him going anywhere near something like that again. He learns political lessons well.
Vera on April 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM
Perry’s good as a gov.
I’m avoiding Texans after Bush, Armey and Delay though.
therightwinger on April 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM
My favorite speech from SRLC. A close second Palin.
cubachi on April 9, 2010 at 5:35 PM
I am not a fan of Gleen Beck, that stopped when he said we were better off with Obama than with McCain…but you are right here.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:27 PM
I am not a fan of Beck either. But if McCain had won the Tea Party would have never started and, for the most part, the sheeple mentality would have remained. I only hope we can correct the ship before we hit an iceberg.
Here’s to some variant of Perry / Christie / Rubio / Brown / Palin
Jed_Eckert on April 9, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Bush was middle of the road? Really?
You know something, I think that as far as a lot of people today are concerned, Reagan would be middle of the road. I remember Reagan, the real man, and I respected him even when I did not agree with him…but he ran deficits. He signed onto amnesty. He left Lebanon when our Marines were killed, there was Iran/Contra..but you have to look at the overall picture. And Reagan, overall was considered a conservative. He raised social security taxes as well. Once in the Oval office, they have to govern and that makes it more difficult to be an ideologue. I think that some people are too hard on Bush and I think that some of those folks helped the Democrats run him into the ground.
After the Bush tax cuts, the US government had its biggest pay day in history in 2006. And the deficit then was less in a year than it is in a month now. Was he perfect? No, no one is, but he does not deserve half the crap he gets.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:36 PM
As for the HPV vaccine thing: The vaccine has killed 48 little girls/young women. By contrast, Toyota’s faulty brakes killed what, 52?
If you want to accept those risks, fine, but don’t mandate that my little girl does the same.
Vera on April 9, 2010 at 5:37 PM
You Texas democrats just keeep telling yourselves that. (“Always look on the bright side of life …”)
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:38 PM
This guy is so under advertised. If he gains a bigger pubic footprint and recognition, this man will be President.
I would quit my job to help this man’s campaign.
Opposite Day on April 9, 2010 at 5:38 PM
That is like saying if the Japanese had not bombed Pearl Harbor we would not have built up the fleet in the South Pacific. I think there would have been a push for smaller government and fiscal discipline in any event, but the country might not be on the edge of ruin now. Obamacare alone is reason enough to wish McCain had won.
Terrye on April 9, 2010 at 5:38 PM
It is not a guarantee that they won’t get cervical cancer, they just won’t get a virus that MAY be ONE cause of the cancer. And it has caused numerous health problems to include bloodclots and death. I signed a stack of papers so my daughters did not have to have the vaccine. However, my 13 year olds best friend received the first shot about a year ago and has had a chronic headache since.
cibolo on April 9, 2010 at 5:39 PM
If Gardasil wasn’t a vaccine against a sexually-transmitted disease, would Perry’s wanting to mandate it have been controversial? I doubt it. I personally think that you have to have the vaccine at a point in time where you are very unlikely to be sexually active. Many folks think this OKs premarital sex or something, and if you raise your kid right, they won’t have premarital sex. Just ask Sarah Palin and Bristol how that can work out sometimes. Rape can also happen, and even if she abstains before marriage, it doesn’t necessarily mean he did.
A lot of the TTC opposition were folks who believed in the Amero and stuff. I’m not so sure about the TTC myself, but I-35 is way crowded, and toll roads getting trucks off 35 during rush hour in cities along 35 would be appreciated both by truckers and by city-dwellers. The bias towards toll roads has produced plans in Austin where the city is trying to turn every major way in and out of the city into a toll road. Whether this is Perry’s doing, or CAMPO’s idiocy, I don’t know and I don’t like it. Toll roads are meant for times when you need a road between Point A and Point B, and traditional highway funds won’t give it to you. It’s not meant to be a city’s revenue source.
That being said, I’ll vote for Perry again this year.
Sekhmet on April 9, 2010 at 5:40 PM
I am not that big a Perry supporter. I think he has been governor for too long, and our state needs someone more dynamic and less prone to cronyism. (Someone like Mitch Daniels.)
But I will crawl over broken glass and drag dozens of people with me to make sure democrat Bill White is not elected. As Dick Morris said, there is no such thing as a moderate democrat anymore.
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:41 PM
The main thing about that was, after the 2006 election, when Perry won with 38 percent of the vote and three challengers (Strayhorn, Bell, Kinky), all running to his left, when the 2007 legislative session began that’s the direction Rick went in, because he thought that was the direction the state voters were headed. When push came to shove, Perry was tiptoeing in the direction he thought he was going to be pushed.
Rick’s a savvy enough politician to know which way the wind’s blowing, and he’s certainly not moving away from the right either this year, or during the 2011 legislative session. But a President Perry who saw a few months of big media polls saying the electorate was moving towards the Democrats? That’s someone I wouldn’t put any money down on to stand firm on his core beliefs.
jon1979 on April 9, 2010 at 5:41 PM
As for only running 8 percent ahead, keep in mind one thing:
“If you like 0bama, you’ll LOVE Bill White.”
The ad writes itself.
B0ney isn’t all that popular in Texas.
Sekhmet on April 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM
So… he tried to enact something, saw the people were against it in a big way, and backed off.
Yeah. He would be SOOOO much worse than what we’ve got now.
UnderstandingisPower on April 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM
That is the first time I have heard him speak, and I must admit I’m impressed. He comes across as compasisonate, likeable, and even humorous. Texas is lucky to have him, and maybe someday, America will too.
ArkCon on April 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM
No teleprompters…
I liked it and I live in CA!
Seven Percent Solution on April 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM
I know as conservatives, we’re always looking for the “next big hope”. If you lived in Texas with Perry as governor you would not be that impressed with the man. (This from someone who has a “Perry for Governor” sticker on her car.)
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Oh, and as for the 8% thing. I live in Texas and were it not for the Internet, I would never have even heard of Bill White. Perry hasn’t even started that campaign yet, and trust me, Texans are non to fond of Obama… OR sanctuary cities. That’s a one-two punch that will take out any candidate around here.
AND Perry does have that whole, “We’re as big as California, and I’ve been in office 8 years, and we’re escaping the vast majority of the malaise the rest of the country is experiencing.”
Of course, besides those small things…
UnderstandingisPower on April 9, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Oh, I wasn’t saying that he would be a bad president, just the opposite. Just that he has had some misteps that might hurt him with conservatives, but has generally corrected well.
Vera on April 9, 2010 at 5:45 PM
I could waste a lot of time trying to have an intelligent conversation with you but it would be futile. Instead I’ll just point out the fact that you are a Progressive/RINO/Squish and leave it at that.
thomasaur on April 9, 2010 at 5:46 PM
jon1979 on April 9, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Exactly! You are so right about him, my friend. He blows with the wind. The one thing I will say in his favor: he seems to have managed the Rita and Ike crises competently.
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:47 PM
–Hey, we’re changing the laws so only Texans can vote for President.
Jimbo3 on April 9, 2010 at 5:47 PM
In 2012 a governor of Texas will much preferred over a gangster thug from Chicago or wherever the hell it is he came from.
JammieWearingFool on April 9, 2010 at 5:48 PM
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–You wouldn’t be thinking of Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” would you?
Jimbo3 on April 9, 2010 at 5:48 PM
“Compassionate conservatism”.
Reagan could only dream of having a GOP-controlled Senate AND House. I’m no “purist”, but I’ve seen enough of the folly of moderation in all the wrong places.
ddrintn on April 9, 2010 at 5:49 PM
His speech and mannerisms kind of remind me of George W. Bush after slamming a couple of Red Bulls.
Jim-Rose on April 9, 2010 at 5:50 PM
–That’s nothing. My thirteen year old got the shot and has been giving her parents chronic headaches ever since she became a teenager.
Jimbo3 on April 9, 2010 at 5:50 PM
Take nothing for granted. I remember hearing in 1994-1995 that the GOP could run Zombie Nixon and beat Clinton.
ddrintn on April 9, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Jimbo3 on April 9, 2010 at 5:48 PM
Yes! I don’t think Bill White was the worst mayor we’ve ever had. He’s a reasonably competent and intelligent man. But the party interest groups dictate what the office holders do.
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:51 PM
I was thinking the same thing.
jimmy2shoes on April 9, 2010 at 5:52 PM
Why?
jimmy2shoes on April 9, 2010 at 5:54 PM
Oh, you’re a hoot and a half!
But I really don’t think that a 13 year old that is never without pain is a laughing matter.
cibolo on April 9, 2010 at 5:54 PM
Well,up until now,Rush was the only person that I actually cared to listen to give a speech.Perry is a great speaker. Ohio is pathetic,being run by dems is definitely taking a toll.So thinking seriously about Tx. especially since our daughter is moving there.
ohiobabe on April 9, 2010 at 5:55 PM
If you guys are thinking about that, can you imagine tens of millions of people (those “independent voters”) across the country who would take one look at Perry, see Bush, and press the democrat lever.
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:56 PM
He has a beach house in San Diego.
thomasaur on April 9, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Perry may give a good speech but I watched the third debate (with Hutchison and Deborah Medina) and he was very unimpressive! It’s just that his two opponents were more so.
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM
He has the best hair, by far.
brak on April 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM
First let me say I LOVE Rick Perry, period. He ain’t perfect, but he is damned sure a great Governor.
But come on Ed..”Speech of the day” Really?
Now if Sarah hadn’t spoke earlier, Oh yea, this was awesome. But Perry doesn’t bring it like Sarah does. The energy dynamic isn’t even in the same universe.
I will say this though, today we saw the next President and the next Vice President of the United States.
This is just a hunch, but Sarah and Rick are buddies, and genuinely like one another. I honestly look for her to pick him as VP and that will be a completely unstoppable ticket.
Texas is God’s country, the greatest place on earth, and Rick has done a good job of keeping it that way.
Palin/Perry is the dream ticket to end all dream tickets.
gary4205 on April 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Rick has good hair, but Blago and Bart Stupak have better heads of hair.
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Sorry, Governor Good Hair is AWEFUL! He packs the state boards with his good ole boys and micromanges everything from universities to the pardons and parole board.
He gives a great speech, but he is a dreadful governor.
Heck, I’m even considering voting for White just to get some people on statewide boards other than Perry buddies.
Margee on April 9, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Margee on April 9, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Please, I beg you, don’t do it! I won’t be able to afford the state income tax.
chris999 on April 9, 2010 at 6:01 PM
I’m actually agnostic about the HPV vaccine & since I’m not an expert on epidemiology or the Human Papilloma Virus, I’ll let others figure out if mandatory vaccination is worthwhile. (We mandate kids get vaccinated against other transmittable diseases.)
What made it controversial for me, however, was that 1) he did it by executive order without any notice to or input from anybody and 2) his former chief of staff just happened to be the lobbyist for Merck, the sole manufacturer of that very expensive proprietary vaccine, and that company – also a Perry donor – stood to rake in massive loads of cash from his order.
That’s what soured me on that whole deal: the dreaded ‘appearance of impropriety’ and all that. Did he not even realize how sleazy the cozy Merck deal would look (in which case, the quality of his judgement is kinda suspect) or did he not care (which would make him, well… improprietous!)
leilani on April 9, 2010 at 6:03 PM
Everyone has some baggage or some electability issues. If you’re looking for THE perfect conservative or THE perfect candidate for you, good luck.
I’ve known Rick personally since he was first elected to the legislature almost 30 years ago, as a Democrat I might add. That’s back when we still had conservative Ds.
But as the Ds were moving left more and more, Rick became less and less comfortable and switched parties.
While he and I have had disagreements over the years on specific measures and policies — including a knock down, drag out or two — he is still one of the most genuinely conservative candidates I know, and he’s learned a lot from the good and bad parts of our beloved W. I don’t see him repeating any of W’s reaching-across-the-aisle, big-spending types of mistakes.
And, he’s a real cowboy that grew up working a real ranch. Enough for me.
TXUS on April 9, 2010 at 6:05 PM
The vaccinations caused one hell of a ruckus, but at least they’ll provide some public benefit, unlike most everything else he did.
Dark-Star on April 9, 2010 at 6:07 PM
Bush can now be considered a fiscal conservative because of Obama. Anything would be an improvement over the fiscal ineptitude of our current administration.
Chuck Schick on April 9, 2010 at 6:18 PM
That would leave you out, you’re not second generation Texan!
belad on April 9, 2010 at 6:26 PM
We live in TX and we thank Perry for what he has done for our state. We hope a D is not elected in Nov. That being said, if the d’s get a stong hold here, our state will look like other states under this bho thumb. The d will see to it we get the state income tax, after all it is all about money. People here in TX get out and vote in Nov.!!! Our state is one of the last that might crater this bho and team! Is our state without problems, NO, but TX has a unique people living here! We do still have the 2nd and that is a problem for this bho and team.
For those on the left side that want to come here, we will know about you.
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letget on April 9, 2010 at 6:27 PM
If Perry runs for President, he will be mocked as another Bush. His speech patterns will be mocked, and again tied to Bush. The wonder is whether this country, with its media, could elect him.
AnotherOpinion on April 9, 2010 at 6:51 PM
By 2012, you could run a dried Dog Turd against Obama and win.
PakviRoti on April 9, 2010 at 6:51 PM
LOL…
Love it! I’m thinking… Air Force Pilot Governor from Texas??? Could be, could be. I think that was a winning combination a while back.
Sultry Beauty on April 9, 2010 at 6:59 PM
.LOL…
It keeps getting better!
Sultry Beauty on April 9, 2010 at 7:02 PM
LOL..
Being from California, I feel that!
Sultry Beauty on April 9, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Great speech!
tinkerthinker on April 9, 2010 at 7:11 PM
Nice, but not one of my top 10.
Perry/Palin 2012?
What is up with his hands drawing a house, over and over, when that has nothing to do with what he just said?
It is when those Californians move to Texas to escape the consequences of their votes, and vote for the same things again, that Texas will have problems. Reminds me of “You can’t fix stupid.”
AnotherOpinion on April 9, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Hey, go for it. That’s the kind of thinking that got Obama elected. That will sure teach Perry. I think it is time for Perry to as Texas governor, but no one as good stepped up. Medina, please, we have a neophyte as president and while I may accept one as governor, not while Obama is in office. You vote for White, you vote for an Obama supporter and know it. You help support Obama.
You are more knowledgeable than most on this issue. My wife and I are debating whether, or not, to get the vaccination for our daughter. I prefer that we are the one’s to make that decision.
There was a lot of eminent domain when it came to the unbuilt Super Conducting Super Collider, so much for that. With that kind of project, or the Trans-Texas corridor there will have to be. I was against it, but then I wouldn’t be traveling it. Now I just have to deal with all it’s traffic on I-35.
Look at the Gardasil and Trans-Tex debates, Perry took his lumps and told Texans he learned. Not something other politicians are apt to do. My favorite anti-Perry rant is his arrogance of using speeding convoys to get from place to place. As far as I know, he stopped that as well.
Perry’s a good guy as politicians go. As for president. he will have to deal with following W and all that entails. Show me somebody better, and I will support them.
He is already politicking the virtues of the tenth amendment and smaller government. While he be tied to W, he doesn’t have the negs of Palin and has more experience. Being older than her, I don’t see him as a VP choice for her. Maybe the other way around.
And I can see why he kept his name off the straw poll. Now is not the time for him to open himself up to the attacks that will surely come from the left. Once he wins re-election, he will go for a bigger audience with his “This is what works” speech that he gave today and will welcome the attacks as lefty’s defending what doesn’t work.
cozmo on April 9, 2010 at 7:21 PM
No, no, no. People are going to have to get this “Whoever/Palin 2012″ garbage out of their minds. She’s not going to be anyone’s scapegoat again.
Like I said, I remember hearing the same thing about Clinton before 1996. We know how that turned out.
ddrintn on April 9, 2010 at 7:23 PM
I agree! I really don’t get why some people think you can’t have any thought that deviates… are there any two people in the world who think exactly the same?
I was really tired of Bush and pretty down about him by the 2008 election.
And then Obama. And all the horrible things Congress has done.
Bush held things together very well considering he had to fight that congress! Pelosi and Dean and all those crooks flat out called Bush a liar over Iraq. How in the world did we allow that? Why didn’t we see what they were doing and counter it?
Yeah that compassionate conservative thing turned out to be a sneak attack by the left… but at heart I think Bush is very conservative, more than his father for instance.
But like so many Rs in government they try to work with Democrats and that is a fool’s game. Democrats will never deal fairly. They have a goal and they will do anything to push this country off a cliff.
Oh yeah, Perry? I’m keeping my mind open.
petunia on April 9, 2010 at 7:32 PM
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