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Proxies.
Actually, Huck endorsed Dewhurst months ago — a minor surprise, since Dewhurst is also supported by Huckabee friend-turned-enemy Rick Perry — but he’s starring in a campaign ad for him that was released just this afternoon. Palin’s endorsement is brand new, though, and will help boost Cruz’s profile with early voting set to start in [...]
Plus, "people coming out of the woodwork" to donate to Romney.
Remember the kerfuffles over book editions and “vulture capitalism”? Water under the bridge. Rick Perry announced his endorsement of Mitt Romney last night, after confirming with Newt Gingrich that his campaign will roll to a stop next Tuesday: Texas Gov. Rick Perry endorsed likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday after campaign aides to [...]
Obama's War on Women's Health.
When the Texas state administration first considered a rule to ban Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from participating in the Texas’ Women’s Health Program, which is jointly funded by the state of Texas and the federal government, the Obama administration retaliated by threatening to cut funding to the program entirely. Texas Health and Human [...]
Floating a Gingrich-Perry ticket for Southern voters?
The critical primaries this week take place in Alabama and Mississippi tomorrow, and we can expect one last flurry of polling in both states as the pollsters make their last bets. PPP has decided not to bet at all. In its final surveys in the two contests, they predict a dead heat in both states: [...]
TGIF.
Texans are all fired up today because it’s Texas Independence Day — Gov. Rick Perry tweeted that he’s already eaten a burger in celebration — but, when the 50 states are ranked according to the happiness of their residents, Texas doesn’t crack the top 10 (sorry, Texans … Oklahoma doesn’t register very highly, either). The [...]
Don't mess.
At CPAC, Texas Gov. Rick Perry quipped, “I haven’t left the fight; I just went home, reloaded my Mag and am fighting on a different front.” Clearly, he wasn’t kidding. Texas today cut Medicaid funding to abortion providers — even though the administration threatened to cut the state’s funding if it did so. The Daily [...]
Plus, a message for the current President.
Earlier today, Governor Rick Perry visited Blogger Row at CPAC to chat with the group just before giving his speech to the general assembly — a well-received speech that shows that Perry has not lost the affection of conservative activists after a hard-fought but unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination. In between his visit [...]
Still no quitter.
Don’t know what it is about the guy, but Rick Perry inspires me. Remember the day after his apex-of-awkward “oops” moment? He hit the morning shows to say, “This ain’t a day for quittin’.” Talk about a motivating moment. Yesterday, he repeated his demonstration of the power of positive thinking. In his first public appearance [...]
"Strategic alliance"?
While Michele Bachmann remained in the race, her choice of targets in the debates raised a few eyebrows. The Tea Party favorite went after Rick Perry and later Newt Gingrich with abandon and regularly jousted with Ron Paul, but seemingly took only a few shots at Mitt Romney. People wondered whether Bachmann and Romney had [...]
Haven’t you figured it out yet… if it wouldn’t be so rude, the GOP convention would be nominating OBAMA in 2012, right?
That’s why they’re running Newt, Santorum, Bachman, the black guy with hundreds of sexual harassment suits filed against him that he supposedly knew nothing about, what was his name? He was awesome. Rick Perry, another Texas Governor who can’t talk? Ron Paul isn’t even a Republican, so don’t even go there.
There was Gary Johnson, or was his name John Garyson? Jon Huntsman was Mormon 1.A. And Tim Pawlenty had a cup of coffee in the race, took one look around and had to get back to running Minnesota.
Oh wait, I forgot about Thaddeus McCotter? But then, so did you.
I think the inside joke was that no one told Mitt Romney that the whole thing was a giant gag… that they actually wanted Obama in 2012. So, Mitt thought the others were actually trying to win. So then, remember when The GOP debates were in Nevada? And they asked Mitt what to do about foreclosures and someone told him to say that he thought they needed to happen faster? In Nevada? Foreclosures need to happen faster? Come on now… I was rolling on the floor.
I just know I’m right about this. What about Newt’s plan for 9 year-old janitors in poor neighborhoods? And you want me to believe that he’s seriously campaigning for president? Come on now… and Newt’s in first or second place? Sure he is. The man asks his wife for an open marriage, consults for Freddie Mac and bounces ten grand worth of checks… and then wins in South Carolina? Look, I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night.
And the Godfather’s Pizza guy… Cain? That was like a Saturday Night Live sketch. Every day two or three more women show up and start yelling about how he sexually harassed them. He had no idea that might happen? Uh huh, sure.
Don’t even get me started on Bachman… I mean, who would have ever thought that Palin’s job could have been at risk. But along came Michelle and she said, among so many other zingers…
“Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.”
Or what about when she was in South Carolina and she said “Happy Birthday” to Elvis on the anniversary of his death? She was like watching Phoebe on the television sitcom, “Friends.”
And wasn’t Donald Trump in the race at the beginning too? People, this is a show for sure. “Candidate Trump, if you were president, what would you say to the leader of Iran.” And Trump responds: “I’d simply tell him… You’re Fired.” (Insert laugh track here.)
I knew something was up for sure when Huntsman started making sense, and they got rid of him immediately.
Golfing with Boehner…
Ask yourself this question: Why would the Republicans want Obama out? He does everything they want and more.
He gave Wall Street untold trillions with no conditions… never closed Guantanamo, is still rearranging rocks in Afghanistan, made Bush look good by winning in Iraq… said he was going to spend $75 billion on helping homeowners but only spent $2.4 billion… let the bankers pay themselves whatever they wanted… threw out health care reform and replaced it with a gift to health insurance insurers…. didn’t regulate derivatives… what more could Republicans ask for?
Obama even alienated enough Democrats and Independents to hand the House back to the GOP in the midterms. Four more years of Obama and the Republicans will have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate too.
I’m sure the GOP wanted to just go ahead and campaign for Obama in 2012, but how rude would that have been. I mean, if Mitt Romney had come out saying what a great job Obama has been doing? That would have been a total ‘no respect.’
So, they had to run someone who they could be sure had no shot whatsoever. They put the word out and so may showed up, that they just said… “Go ahead, you can all go at it. We’ll just book a hundred debates so you can all have a chance to pretend you’re running for president. Just make sure you don’t start making sense out there.”
Mitt’s not sure what’s going on, so he just keeps changing his positions on everything. They must have someone working with him every night so he knows how to cover the issues properly.
What’s wrong with business in America, Mitt? “Too much regulation.” What do we do about immigration? “Build a fence.” What’s your number one priority? “Repeal ObamaCare.” And, Iran? “Nuke ‘em.” Abortion? “Only in certain cases.” Noooooo. “Oh yeah, I’ve got this one… “ Okay, let’s try again… Abortion? “Over my dead body.” Good, very good.
Of course, every time Obama goes on television they have to send Newt back out there to make sure he doesn’t actually win.
Hey, you can believe what you want. I’m just saying…
Mandelman out.
No mass transfer of allegiance to Gingrich.
With the lone GOP “outsider” truly out, his supporters now have to decide: Which insider will they back? In a sign that not all of Rick Perry’s pals will transfer their allegiance to the officially endorsed Team Gingrich, a prominent Perry backer has already declared his support for Mitt Romney: One of Rick Perry’s most [...]
But it doesn't take a Messiah to beat The One.
As Rick Perry said when he endorsed Newt Gingrich, the guy is “not perfect,” but whose name are we looking for on the ballot anyway? Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), a Gingrich supporter, reminds us we’re not gonna find that name, anyway, because it’s not there. “All of us have baggage, but Jesus is not on [...]
Republican debate -- party of four?
CNN reports that Rick Perry will withdraw from the Republican presidential race today, based on information from two sources in the campaign. No one who followed the polling can be surprised by this decision. Perry has not come out of the mid-single digits in South Carolina for weeks, and his debate performance on Monday was [...]
Endgame.
Hard to argue. South Carolina’s the last stand of the Not Romneys. Join or die. Erickson: For a generation, Rick Perry was undefeated. Now he will go back to Texas and everyone who ever lost to Rick Perry will seek to settle old scores. It will be a tough, bloody fight. He will have to [...]
There. Satisfied?
Why the obsession with Mitt Romney’s tax returns? It’s not because curious voters are worried they have a “flawed candidate,” as Rick Perry suggested last night. (a) We already know we do (no matter who we choose!) and (b) Mitt Romney is not a tax evader. No, curious voters want to know two things: (1) [...]
Just when things are getting interesting ...
And here we thought the big question on debate attendance would be whether CNN lets Rick Perry on stage this Thursday. Byron York reports that Mitt Romney has yet to confirm his presence at any of the scheduled debates in Florida, and the campaign says that’s no accident: After a debate in which Republican frontrunner [...]
In which Romney keeps milking the criticism.
It’s already been established that Newt Gingrich’s and Rick Perry’s attacks on Mitt Romney for his record at Bain Capital flopped — but that doesn’t mean Mitt Romney won’t continue to use them to gain whatever mileage he can from their missteps. The latest video to come from the Romney campaign features the voice of [...]
But will Mitt Romney be there?
At least four of the five GOP candidates will be present at a pro-life forum in South Carolina Wednesday, LifeNews.com reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Congressman Ron Paul, and Texas Governor Rick Perry are scheduled to participate in the Presidential Prolife Forum at the Hilton Hotel in Greenville, South [...]
Clarifying.
How exactly has Mitt Romney managed to attract a polling surge in the middle of the attacks from Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry over his Bain Capital days? According to a new Rasmussen poll, it’s because Republicans appear to be ready for a downsizing artist in the White House. And Republicans don’t appear to be [...]
"He wasn't a good speaker."
If nothing else, Rick Perry — in all his imperfection — remains likable. In fact, he’s arguably even more likable now than when he entered the presidential race with all the apparent arrogance of a man who had famously never lost an election. Chastened by his own mistakes, he’s learned to take himself lightly but [...]
Morale boost.
At a major meeting in Texas this weekend, a group of 150 Christian leaders and conservative activists defied expectations and actually managed to coalesce around a single candidate. Surrogates for Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum (no one for Jon Huntsman) made their pitches; the evangelicals considered them. [...]
Champion?
As The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis tweeted, “Who is this guy and why doesn’t HE run for president???” South Carolina is Rick Perry’s last-ditch effort and he’s not even polling in the top three there. The outlook is bleak for Texas’ jobs governor, and we’re very nearly left with the thought of what might have [...]
"I don't think you can be on both sides of free market capitalism."
Rick Perry has been campaigning in South Carolina since the Iowa caucuses, looking for a game-changer. He may have found one, but not in the nature he was seeking. As a consequence of joining Newt Gingrich’s attack on Mitt Romney over his private-equity experience, one of Perry’s big donors has quit — and switched to [...]
War.
“‘I don’t want America to be a nation that’s primarily known for financial speculation,’ the president said during the event in the East Room. ‘I want us to be known for making and selling products all over the world stamped with three proud words: ‘Made in America.’ “To be sure, the president made no mention [...]
Newt: an "angry warthog emerged, snorting across the public stage, unable to control his emotions."
Roger L. Simon, author, editor, director and pundit, has an apology for his readers. (Full disclosure… Roger pays me from time to time on a freelance basis.) He would like everyone to know that he may have made an unforced error with his early jump onto the Rick Perry juggernaut. I fell for Rick Perry, [...]
Old Dominion, make way.
The Virginia primary isn’t until March 6; who knows what will happen between now and then? Perhaps one or more candidates among Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum will have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure their names will appear on the Virginia ballot only to be out of the race by [...]
What does "smaller government" imply?
I’ve been a little mystified by the argument, advanced by Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman this week, that Mitt Romney’s experience as a “corporate raider” disqualifies him for the Republican presidential nomination. Put aside the fact that the attack is based on an absurd exaggeration of Romney’s track record at Bain Capital. One [...]
"They apparently looted the companies."
Go look at the headline at National Journal. It has, it seems, come to this. Card-carrying Romney critic Philip Klein, who’s spent years writing posts dumping on RomneyCare, can’t believe he’s being forced to defend you-know-who: It’s nothing short of disgraceful behavior from Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman and Texas Gov. Rick Perry… Romney’s rivals are [...]
"he was worried that he’d run out of pink slips”
Newt may have started the trend of going after Mitt Romney for his work at Bain Capital, but it looks like Rick Perry is sensing an opportunity and hopping on the bandwagon. At a recent appearance he unleashed some quotes of his own, going after Mitt for being heartless enough to lay off workers. Texas [...]
time to uproot and overhaul Washington
Rick Perry is clearly pulling out all the stops as a candidate who needs to engineer a “re-surge” in the primary process. In a recent editorial at Redstate, Perry is calling for an immediate and significant halt to any insider trading by members of Congress.. including throwing them in jail. It’s not enough members of [...]
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