Rick Perry Is Running For President

August 11, 2011 3:25 PM

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AUSTIN (KRLD 1080/AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry is running for president.

That’s the word from Perry spokesman Mark Miner.

Perry will announce his intentions to run for the GOP nomination on Saturday as he visits early primary states of South Carolina and New Hampshire.

Perry’s candidacy is likely to shake the GOP field.

His announcement that he is joining the field will come two days after a debate in Iowa and on the same day as his rivals participate in a test vote in the leadoff caucus state.

Perry admitted he also has a plane ready to go. Some of my sources in Austin say the jet in a hangar at an undisclosed location with “Rick Perry for America” emblazoned on the sides that’s pre-positioned in South Carolina, ready to fire up as soon as Perry’s done speaking at Red State on Saturday to take him to Iowa.

The governor’s money machine is said to be ready to take off as well. Dave Levinthal at Politico says Perry is the “Sam Houston of political money.”

Levinthal talks with Braddock about Perry:

So how long before Perry’s Republican rivals begin to attack him? I sought out two of the best political minds in Austin: Democratic Strategist Harold Cook and GOP Consultant Ted Delisi.

Ted thinks the other Republicans in the race will leave Perry alone, at least for now. But, Harold thinks they’ll be gunnin’ for Perry pretty soon after he’s officially out of the gate on Saturday.

Braddock, Cook & Delisi’s roundtable on Perry:

helen

Well, another jerk running. Just like Bush, got himself voted for Governor, now handing it over to some else and running for President.

Bunky

Well Helen,
at least you’re not running.
Enrique

Kind of like the Junior Senator from Illinois did back in 2008?

Daniel Maldonado

PERRY = OBAMA = BUSH …. neo-conservatives and liberals are all bowing down to the establishment.

PERRY IS A SOCIALIST. Go do you research.

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Fred

Helen- speaking of Jerks, we currently have as a President the biggest jerk that ever stepped foot in the White House. Perry has done well for Texas and will do the same for America. Helen maybe you should move to Boston to be with your twin John Kerry

helen

You are not as funny as you think you are. I am a born Texan and I didn’t say I would vote for Obama, but then you would probably vote for Mrs. Palin.

robert

helen – I’ve heard of two people who claim to know everything. One who does (God) and one who doesn’t, you.
travis

Is that you helen thomas
vh

ooooh Helen you got Fred…haha NOT.. Grow up

Rj

very well put!!!
ZZ Toppings

You’re ALL pathetic losers. Step away from the PCs and Macs and look at yourselves in the mirror. You’re all man-children and women-children making trite and banal comments to one another. Sad.

Fred

ZZ Obviously you do not embrace the value of free speach …. you probably are not even a registered voter It is surprising you have a computer and know how to type.

Kaysa Lacy

Obama is a jerk face. Very true. However, Perry is just as big of a jerkface.

Fred, you must be one of those people who see “Republican” and vote for whoever without knowing anything about them.

Rick Perry SUPPORTS illegal immigration. Do you remember the “DREAM ACT” in 2001? Or how about when he slammed 1070?

This man is a RINO and you fell for it. Dont make the same mistake twice.

Pine Box

Perry have not did anything for Texas! Where have you been the last couple of years!! Fred!!

Hemroidious

Pine box you are so upset you cant write coherently. I have been right here in Texas for the last 62 years. Rick Perry is a good man. He has been a very good governor and has done many good things for Texas. He will be a great President. More than anyone can say for Obama, who plays the game of blame. What has Obama done?…?…?
drew

Speak english?
Enrique

Well, he apparently did not fix the education system.

oldman69

I hope he keeps running and running and running when this is over-I mean running in the opposite direction away from Texas-look what the last bozo from Texas did to tjhe country-Perry wouldn’t be any better.

Hemroidious

What did he do ?

Tara L. Briner

1. Mandated Gardasil shots for all 12-year-old girls.
2. Signed in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
3. Wanted to use eminent domain to build the Trans-Texas Corridor, to be run jointly with a foreign country.
4. Pro-TARP.

Just a smattering.”
Enrique

Jesus. How many elections are the Dems going to try to win by comparing Presidential candidates to GWB?

Bunky

Liberal logic, if you are a resident of Texas you can not possibly offer anything better than the previous president.
After all the current one has done such a magnificent job.
Heck he got that unemployment rate up. From GWB’s 5.6 % to 9.1 % now. Way to go!!! Hell Yeah
Get that annual deficit way up there too!!! GWB’s worst was 450 billion. No way that would work for our obama. We need it to get to trillions!! Woo-hoo!! Yeah!!
Hey, lets cheer for that AA+ debt bond rating while we’re at it. I mean what the hel, l that Bush didn’t have any plusses behind his AAA bond rating.
AA+ must be like handing in a term paper. OOPS, sorry I didn’t mean to bring up obamas scholastic record.
All right, all together, now cheer O_B_A_M_A.O_B_A_M_AO_B_A_M_AO_B_A_M_A
v

Old man 69?? Your screen name tells me everything.. I LOVE BUSH.. and beg for him any day over OBamanation

Paul Gonzales

Sounds like Fred has been drinking that fermented Tea.
helen

Thank you everyone for you anti Perry comments, maybe Fred can learn from all of us. Seems his is the only good comment about him yet. does that not tell him something.

Bryan

I would be glad to join Fred with a good comment. Perry has done well and would do well as the President. We need someone in Washington to focus on 2 things and only 2 things reducing the government and creating jobs. He would do both.

Daniel Maldonado

PERRY is a globalist and a socialist. ITS RON PAUL OR BUST!

dealemilyn

I’m not a huge supporter of Perry….but fellow Texans…look around you when driving in your car. How many out of State license plates do you see? In the DFW area I see a handful every day. So knock Perry and Texas if you want, but it’s alot better here than elsewhere in the USA!
Charles

Perry isn’t perfect however he is much better than anyone on the GOP ticket at this time. He is much better than the current president. Obama has the lowest approval rating in history including Nixon and Carter. The silver lining is that the only thing good that came out of Carter was the two terms of Ronald Reagan. Obama is history ….. and a Republican will win in 2012 …. and in my opinion the only current GOP candidate that is worth anything is Rick Perry. We do not need the Tea Party or their hand picked candidates and we sure do not need anyone from the liberal democratic party. They have shown that they are unable to handle this country’s current problems.
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James

FYI- 63% of all jobs created in the United States during the last 12 months are in Texas
Texas is one of the few states remaining that does not have a state sales tax
As dealemilyn stated, many people from all over the country are flocking to Texas … is it our weather …..no ….. it is our economy, a reduced cost of living and a higher quality of life.

Joe

we do have state sales tax, no state income tax.
Tara L. Briner

This is a half-truth. MORE jobs were lost. It’s almost as ridiculous a claim as Obama’s “jobs saved” mantra.

Philip Vincent

THE OBAMA COOL-AID DRINKERS ABOUND, THE ONLY THING THAT MAKES ME HAPPY IS THAT THERE ARE FAR FEWER HELENS AND OTHERS WISHFUL OBAMA SUPPORTORS THAT BELIEVE THE COUNTRY IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
HE AND HIS PARTY OF WHICH I AM A MEMBER HAVE DONE TERRIBLE THINGS TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT NATIONS.
JIMMY CARTER IS ELATED…..THE REST OF US ARE SADDENED AND SCARED.

Tara L. Briner

To be anti-Perry, one does NOT need to be pro-Obama.

Think about it…It’s primary season.

Stacey

Obama is like every other liberal democrat …. he inheirited this problem ……he believes in entitlement …. and does not accept personal responsibility when he fails much like Pelosi, Reid and Kerry. Their handling of the recent debt crisis issue shows how incompetence on both sides of the aisle is governing our country……
Marco Rubio

Won’t shake up the gop field but Obama

Perry-Rubio in 2012

tim

Rubio is as gay as Perry so that might work out

Rob

People who own private jets don’t represent me.

PERRY/RUBIO

LOSERS ON WELFARE DON’T REPRESENT ME EITHER!

Tara L. Briner

WHY would the GOP want to elect a former Democrat who led Al Gore’s Texas campaign in 1988?

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/jan/16/debra-medina/debra-medina-claims-rick-perry-was-democrat-and-al/

CWA worker

They probably don’t employ you either.
Enrique

Yes, they do. Their names are Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they used not one but two separate private jets during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Did you vote for them?
vh

I would love to be a CEO with a jet one day.. That would make my story more interesting than some nasty pot smoking hippi scratching their arse and waiting for a welfare check… Atleast a jet owner has done more in their life than you can ever achieve in a lifetime..

Tara L. Briner

With his past as ALGORE’s Texas campaign chairman in 1988, maybe his jet should read “PERRY/GORE 2012.”

Brook Ashby

Reagan was once a democrat also
Suburbob

You need to do a little more research Tara. Perry was a Democrat, and he was heralded as probably the most conservative democrat elected in Texas in the last 50 years. He tried to bring the party back to some sense and was not able to, so he switched. I am a 48 year old lifelong Texas Conservative, and he will beat Obama because I suspect that there are alot of people in this country that believe the Democrat Party has left them Too.
Philip Vincent

MANY OF THE REAGAN DEMOCRATS ARE STILL DEMOCRATS READY TO VOTE FOR PERRY. OR ANY REPUBLICAN. HELL, I LIKED AL GORE BEFORE HE DID A 180 DEGREE CONVERSION TO THE FULL LEFT OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. GORE WAS A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT ONCE, MANY OF US DEMS ARE STILL CONSERVATIVE AS WELL.

Christi

Whose jet was owebamAA flying around in when he was campaigning before his election, you know the one with that weird logo, perhaps it belonged to the real puppet master soro’s?
tom

Adios MoFo
W.C. Welch IV

This is the real Rick Perry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTqSp6r1QP8 living high on the Texas taxpayers’ money
callen

You think the nation will want yet another Texas president? Really? REALLY? The two Bushwhackers we have had so far have gotten us into three wars, quadrupled the national debt, and given tax relief to the tiny fraction of wealthy Americans who control almost all of our national wealth. Want to finally destroy America? Vote this clown into office. Don’t forget, during his campaign for governor, he claimed time and time again that there were “billions” of dollars in state budget reserves. Less than three months later after being elected, it somehow turned into “billions” of dollars in debt. Obviously, he is a liar. Do you really want another liar in the White House?

Stuck In NYC

We already have a liar in the white hiphophouse.
What I want is a straight shooter.
Perry would be fine.

callen

What, exactly, has Obama lied about?

Mms

If Bush was sooooo bad why has Barry doubled down on everything that Bush did, 5 wars now without congressional approval, blowing TRILLIONS printing TRILLIONS and socializing this country, destroying the economy with his freakish obamacare.
Barry scared this country and until he is gone there will be no recovery.
All you have on Perry is that he is from TX really, REALLY? Idiot

callen

Well, no. Duh. Duh. Moron. Perry is a liar. Do you really want a president who is a liar? If so, why? (Also read other posters who unlike you do have a grip on reality.)

texasteacher

You are right on the money!!!! Perry is an arrogant, lying, self-serving, corrupt jerk!! I am a teacher in Texas, and let me tell you, Perry has our educational system in a mess! He lied about our state budget to get re-elected & a few months later said we were in a budget crisis! Now he and the Republicans have cut BILLIONS of dollars from Texas schools. We are feeling it big time! Bigger class sizes, less teachers, no pay raises, programs being cut… Yet they somehow found the money to create a new standardized test for us to give – the STARR! I can’t stand that man!!!!

Suburbob

Well at least he found a way to shore up the budget. I think Texas teachers should be paid based on performance, and I live in Texas and I have seen the stupid little uneducated brats running around. Maybe if you did a better job you could command more, just like with any other job in the real world.
vh

A teacher who is for pay raises and says their system is a mess hahahhahahha says it all.. you should not be a teacher.. thank god for private schools … a standerized test to find out what teacers are actually good…If you are so good what do you have to be worried about??? YOU DISGUST ME

Christy

Perry is a fake and a phony. I hope people don’t fall for this, but it looks like they already have.
Leisa Less

Ron Raul doesnt have a snowball chance of winning.. He has great ideas but no backbone to get the job done. I rather see his son in office.
Mike

Next time you run a story like this SHOW A PICTURE OF THE PLANE!!!!!
Founders1791

What a Palin Cabinet Could Look Like?
Constitutional Succession of Presidential Power
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1789 (00) President: Sarah Palin (R-AK)
1789 (01) Vice President: Marco Rubio (R-FL)
1789 (02) Speaker of the House: John Boehner (R-OH)
1789 (03) President pro tempore of the Senate: Richard Lugar (R-IN)
1789 (04) Secretary of State: Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
1789 (05) Treasury Secretary: Mitt Romney (R-NH)
1947 (06) Secretary of Defense: General David Petraus (R-NH)
1789 (07) Attorney General: Michelle Bachmann (R-MN)
———————————————————
1849 (08) Secretary of Interior: Tim Pawlenty (R-MN)
1889 (09) Secretary of Agriculture: Rick Perry (R-TX)
1913 (10) Secretary of Commerce: Gary Johnson (R-NM)
1913 (11) Secretary of Labor: Rick Santorum (R-PA)
1979 (12) Secretary of Health and Human Services: Dr Oz (R-NJ)
1965 (13) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Trump (R-NY)
1966 (14) Secretary of Transportation: Alan Mulally (R-MI)
1977 (15) Secretary of Energy: T Boone Pickens (R-TX)
1979 (16) Secretary of Education: Jeb Bush (R-FL)
1989 (17) Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Herman Cain (R-GA)
2003 (18) Secretary of Homeland Security: Rudy Guiliani (R-NY)
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1913 Federal Reserve Head: Ron Paul (R-TX)
1972 Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms: Ted Nugent (R-TX)
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Back to Ambassador to China: Jon Huntsman (R-UT)
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callen

Get a grip, dude.

Black Eagle

I’d vote for nearly anyone but Obama, but Perry will test my moral scruples mightily. He is no authentic conservative, but is very much like Bush in being a Big Government Republican. He claims to be for family values, but for one example signed into law an executive order forcing all young girls in Texas to get a mandatory VD vaccine, whether the parents object or not. He’s also pro-gay, cloaking that from his conservative peers, but slipped up recently about it. He also is a bit too “better than thou” wearing his religion like a giant flag out in public, finger pointed to the heavens and so on. Do we want to swap a communist Islamist for a statist fundamentalist Christian, who is pro-illegal immigration, pro-Big-Medicine (will he really recind Obama-care, while supporting police to force parents to obey on questionable childhood vaccines?), etc.?

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