2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

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Teen4Christ said:
Where’s the love for Huntsman?

And Perry really needs to cut down with the far right stuff or he’s going to share the same fate as Huckabee. Someone as conservative as him has about as much chance as Barney Frank has at being nationally elected.
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Huntsman? Seriously? His campaign is in disarray. Staffers have been bailing out in droves and worse they’re trash talking him. There’s another piece on Politico by the CEO of Overstock.com (some kind of online discount store) that really takes him to town as being somewhat two-faced for lack of a better term. This is also in-line with something I read about him a while back when he first announced and I wanted to get a base of knowledge about him and his record. The word was that he had campaigned on a public mandate for healthcare reform in Utah. However, as the debate was raging in the State Legislature, he was conspicuously unengaged. Said it wasn’t a big deal and he was indifferent as to whether it passed or not. Ultimately, I came away feeling that he was a candidate that was unwilling to bet his political capital on an issue unless it was a sure winner. IMO, this kind of approach just won’t work on the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party and they are in control of who will be the nominee. I think they want someone that will breath a little fire. Rick Perry will be the nominee.
 
estesbob said:
My daughter is going to their home opener so I’m looking for some great pictures! . After enduring the Astros season. I am more than ready for college football season to begin!
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Unless its played by girls with a large yellow ball, I know nothing of this baseball you speak of sir. 😉
 
Big_Ro said:
firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/05/7266944-is-this-man-invincible-perry-eyes-the-gop-nomination

Is this man invincible? Perry eyes the GOP nomination
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Who knows? The closet anthropologists will be digging out everything he ever did from first grade on. Environmentalists, of course, will be lathered with hatred of him for blowing that coyote away. Anti-gun people will hate him for owning a gun at all. Bush haters will hate him because he’s from Texas and has the same accent Bush has; perhaps even more than Bush. Redistributionists will hate him for not being one, and worse still, for being wealthy himself (like Obama, but without pretending to feel guilty about it). Advocates for “the poor” will hate him because there are so many employed people in Texas. The anti-religious will hate him for being religious. And the leftist who don’t fit into any other category will hate him for running against Obama.

But he could still pull it off.

Texans might be hated in the East for being Texans. Might be hated in parts of the Midwest and the West coast for the same reason. But they’re not hated everywhere. Most definitely not in my state where almost everybody south of the Missouri River is related to SOMEBODY in Texas. I don’t think they’re hated in Oklahoma, either. That’s not much of a non-hate constituency, but it’s a start. 🙂

In the primary, then, the possible lineup is composed of Pawlenty, Palin, Bachmann, Romney, Paul, Cain, perhaps some others, and Perry. Unless there’s something more negative about Perry than MSN came up with, I know what my choice would be.

Yeah, he could still pull it off.
 
Dr. Ron Paul, 2012
No one else holds a candle.

I find it amazing that a so-called “Catholic” forum actually has a poll which people would vote for a Democrat Flip Flopper like Perry who is an ANTI-CATHOLIC.
truly bizzarre…
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If anything this poll proves the sockpuppets wrong on their whole “electability” bull-whonky.
Yet again, Dr. Paul proves that he is perfectly electable.

Who is the next candidate you are going to prop up ya war mongering pinko’s?
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USNCorpsman said:
I’d vote for Giuliani!

For many reasons: 1. I lived in Brooklyn
2. He did a lot for NYC (lowered the crime rate significantly during his mayorship and brought NYC in to the green)
3. He’s proven himself to work well under pressure (look what he did during 9/11)
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I agree since I used to live a block from Gracie Mansion and would run into him at Tower Records from time to time. Under Giuliani, the crime rate in New York was dramatically reduced, and is even lower now with Bloomberg. And the former is the only mayor who successfully cleaned up Times Square, so that it now looks like Disney World. Of course, he’s unelectable as a Republican and would in fact have a better chance challenging Obama as a Democrat. But, as a liberal Democrat, he’s the only Republican I would vote for, with the possible exceptions of Romney, who is electable, and Paul, who is less so. Perry, though quite competent, is way too socially conservative for me, as is Bachmann, who may not be as competent but is no fool either.

Fellow New Yorkers (and ex-New Yorkers) unite!
 
ETEXAS said:
A PERRY/PAUL TICKET…👍
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Good alliteration! But doesn’t anyone else beside me think that Dr. Paul is getting a little too old to **credibly **run for President (he’ll be 78 in 2013)?
 
Young_Thinker said:
Good alliteration! But doesn’t anyone else beside me think that Dr. Paul is getting a little too old to **credibly **run for President (he’ll be 78 in 2013)?
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How old was Cheney when he was VP for Bush? With all his heart problems everyone knew he wouldn’t run in 2008.
 
What evidence is there that Perry is anti-Catholic? That is a ridiculous and irresponsible charge.
Three Catholics (I believe) are in the race and I would not vote for any of them. The reckless personal lives of Giuliani and Gingrich would play a role in keeping me from supporting either. As for Santorum, he aliens moderates and independents and I could never support him, either.
 
JMJSHJ said:
How old was Cheney when he was VP for Bush? With all his heart problems everyone knew he wouldn’t run in 2008.
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Dick Cheney was in his sixties. And Congressman Paul seems to still be in good health, but most of a candidate’s electability resolves around people’s perception of him. And he is older than John McCain! It is obviously a good thing that the Pope is elected by the College of Cardinals rather by direct election by Catholics at large!
 
Roy5 said:
What evidence is there that Perry is anti-Catholic? That is a ridiculous and irresponsible charge.
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Three Catholics (I believe) are in the race and I would not vote for any of them. The reckless personal lives of Giuliani and Gingrich would play a role in keeping me from supporting either. As for Santorum, he aliens moderates and independents and I could never support him, either.
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It is probably based on some of the pastors who were invited to his August 6th prayer event "The Response" (C. Peter Wagner, John Hagee).
source: urbanchristiannews.com/ucn/2011/07/rick-perry-doesnt-back-all-beliefs-of-ministers-backing-his-prayer-summit.html
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For what it is worth:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Monday that he doesn’t necessarily subscribe to the beliefs of some of the ministers coming to his prayer summit next month.
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