Things got interesting for Camp Newt today. He is apparently surging in the South Carolina polls. Rick Perry dropped out and endorsed him. And, as Rich noted below, wife Number 2 is set to give a TV interview dishing on all his personal scumbaggery. I’ll let Rich’s post address the Marianne Ginrich thing, but I thought I’d post a quick thought on Perry.
This is not unexpected and I think his withdrawal speech was actually … Read more
It seems like overnight the Republican also-rans have figured out that attacking Mitt Romney might be more profitable than attacking each other. Huntsman opened with a great defense of being Obama’s ambassador to China. Rick Perry, Mr. Oops himself, had a great line about Romney’s fear of pink slip being a fear of running out of them. And Romney, bless him, handed them a great line all on his own:
Now to be clear, this … Read more
I skipped the debate last night for the sake of my sanity and apparently missed something fun. Perry and Romney got into it something fierce:
There were other exchanges as well. Santorum hit Romney pretty hard on Romneycare (and also provoked Romney to ask for the rules to be enforced.
Curious what our readership thinks of the above exchange. Who got the best of that?
It’s more than just a disconnect, lately it’s almost like they are speaking a different language. Are they just going through the motions and playing us for fools? Here, you be the judge. It seems like every time Rick Perry opens his yap, all I hear is nonsense, is it just me?
Ice cream, pretzels, gas jets? Are they even trying?
And this isn’t party specific, even our president is making less and less sense… Read more
The big fireworks in Monday’s debate were about Rick Perry mandating the HPV vaccine for girls in Texas. Bachmann basically accused him of taking a bribe, Perry admitted the policy was mistaken, lots of applause lines were had.
Did Perry make a mistake? There’s a lot to untangle on the HPV question, so I’ll break it down.
On a personal level, I’m very much in favor of the HPV vaccine. I intend to have Sal … Read more
Couple of things before I start citing the article to which the title refers:
1) I have no problem with taking a candidate’s religious views and practices into account. In fact, I always do try to discern the veracity of the stated views that their actual practices expose. But I tend to do that privately, as my personal religious views and/or biases will always win out in reaching conclusions about a candidate over what others’ … Read more
One thing we learned in 2008, the Obama machine, that accumulation of believers that craft the image then put that image out to the folks through various media venues, is formidable. And given what an empty suit he has turned out to be (turned out? OK, always has been) the presentation deserves even more accolades. The 2012 machine will have more cogs dedicated towards destroying the opposition. Hope and Change won’t work this time around, … Read more
I am not a huge fan of Rick Perry, but I love the drama his warning to Obama and Bernanke, whom he basically warned not to straddle hard working and worried Americans with even more economic damage from the inflation that is sure to be caused by the feds simply printing dollars and spending them – in the hopes of temporarily fooling enough people about the economic disaster they have left us with and squeaking … Read more
Tim Pawlenty is dropping out after yesterday’s disappointing result in the Iowa straw poll, which was won by Bachmann. I’m surprised. Pawlenty wasn’t too far back in the non-crazy division of the GOP field. But it’s become clear that he’s not going to overtake Romney. I suspect there are structural problems within the campaign as well.
However, as the GOP field lost one governor, it gained another in Ricky Perry. Perry’s appeal is mostly due … Read more
Oh, just great. Following in the steps of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry claims he is hearing God telling him to run for President. If he’s hearing God’s voice, that means he’s in. I can’t imagine Perry hearing “the call” and deciding not to run.
I could throw out some boilerplate on church and state, but I’m sure you’re already thinking that. I want to go in a different direction with this, however. This being called … Read more
