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By Christy Hoppe
Morning-News Austin Bureau | Published Saturday Aug. 13, 12:43pm
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Rick Perry said Saturday he’s running for president to “get America working again” and to bring Texas’ economic success and vision of limited government to Washington.
“That's why, with the support of my family, and unwavering belief in the goodness of America, I declare to you today my candidacy for President of the United States,” he told a crowd of conservative bloggers meeting in South Carolina, the first southern state that will vote in the Republican nominating contest.
“It is time for Americans to believe again -- to believe that the promise of our future is far greater than even the best days of our past,” he said.
Perry, 61, the longest-serving governor in Texas history with more than a decade in office, took direct aim at Democratic incumbent Barack Obama more so than any of his rivals for the Republican nomination.
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Results in voting of the Ames (Iowa) Straw Poll for Republican presidential candidates is held today (Aug. 13) from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The winner is expected to be announced in a ceremony at 6 p.m. Rick Perry is a write-in candidate.
Streaming info and video is at www.caucuses.desmoinesregister.com.
Sure, if you can't wait to live under a Christian monarchy, Perry's your guy. Things being as they are, maybe that would be the perfect thing for the ignorant masses and the corporate cardinals of America.
Here are the results of today's (Aug.13) Iowa Straw Poll for Republican presidential candidates:
Bachmann 4,823 votes - 28.55%
Paul 4,671 - 27.65%
Pawlenty 2,293- 13.57%
Santorum 1,657- 9.81%
Cain 1,456 - 8.62%
Perry (write-in)718 votes- 3.62%
Romney 567 - 3.36%
Gingrich 385 - 2.28%
Huntsman 69 - 0.41%
McCotter 35 - 0.21%.
Some of you may recall that Perry was once Al Gore's Texas campaign leader... '88 or so. Since then he's changed parties, but he's still the same statist, Bilderberger sellout.
Ron Paul finished 2nd, less than a point back of Bachman with 27.65%.
Pawlenty was 3rd with 13.57%. Santorum, Cain, Perry, Romney and Gingrich were single digits, and in that order.
The R3voLution is underway...
The worst one on that list would be better than what we have in the white House or the golf course now. Perry is a very viable candidate and that is what has the liberal's panties in a bunch. Perry is no more likely to turn our great country into a Theocracy than Obama is to turn it into a Socialist State ... wait ... maybe that wasn't a good comparison, comrades.
Celtic Man is obviously not an intelligent man.
If he thinks Perry wouldn't be a whole lot worse than Obama he has been smoking too much barley.
No, Perry would not usher in a theocracy; he would help create the End of Days.
Sorry Christian nutcases, but your children and grandchildren do not deserve human extinction because of your insanity.
Debunking Perry's Texas Governor achievement con job and spritiual scam is actually guite easy.
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics found that Texas' jobless rate has crept up in recent months, not plunged downward as Perry would have the lazy incompetent media and nation believe.
Unemployment was over 8 percent in June. New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Wisconsin and a slew of other states beat Texas on the employment numbers.
Louisiana? Perry should be ashamed.
Moreover, New York and several other states that outshined Texas did it without gutting environmental and labor protection regulations, and with bare boned spending on education, housing, unemployment benefits and health services, as here in Texas.
Even the 8 percent plus figure on Texas unemployment, though below the national jobless figure pf 9.2%, is misleading. In Houston, the jobless rate matches the national figure, and in rural, impoverished areas, the jobless rate rises into double digit figures.
As a result, more and more people in the state have sunk into or never risen out of poverty.
And an increase in the number of poor people invariably translate to more children in poverty, greater income disparities, especially with minorities, a dearth in quality prenatal care, and higher teen birth rates.
Texas ranks in the bottom ten in every one of these areas and is a rock bottom number 50 among the nation's 50 states in the number who graduate from high school by age 25.
Then there are the types of jobs that have been created. Perry never talks about that. Nearly forty percent the jobs he created are bottom rung, minimum wage retail and service industry jobs.
This high figure makes Texas, along with Mississippi, one of the two hands down state leaders in the number of minimum wage workers.
Yes, Texas is a rock solid right to work state. Unions are treated like pariahs - and worker rights away from unions are treated with elitist disdain by Perry and GOP state officials. The result is minimal to nonexistent labor protections and pension benefits.
The same holds for health care. Texas is again the national leader in having the highest number of residents without health insurance. Only slightly more than half of the state's construction workers that are exposed to the industry's obtrusive heat and other high hazards and incur the highest rate of injuries and fatalities, is covered by workers compensation.
Sorry Perry lovers, the truth is the truth. Vote for him as you choose. But he will not be President.
America is not that desparate yet, and hopefully it will never be.
Perry is George W. Bush on steroids made by prison labor.
Rocky said ... "As a result, more and more people in the state have sunk into or never risen out of poverty.
And an increase in the number of poor people invariably translate to more children in poverty, greater income disparities, especially with minorities, a dearth in quality prenatal care, and higher teen birth rates."
It looks like the poor and minorities should move to Mississippi or Arkansas!
The national media never questioned the lie that Bush's brain promoted that he was "the Education Governor."
Now, the corporate media are calling Perry the "Jobs Governor."
If he is not called out by the media on that lie, the media may be the real underlying problem with our nation.
Politicians will always lie. The job of media is to catch them in their lies.
If they don't, what is the point of watching them? They are entertainers then, not journalists.
Perry and many of his followers and supporters are NOT Christians in the true sense of the term.
Perry is simply another political sociopath, whose ambition exceeds his capabilities.
Too many here in Texas and in other states have bought-into the Perry hype because they have not researched the man's history.
Farmers and ranchers have discovered that Perry is not really one of them as he so often tries to point out. The Eminent Domain bills prove that if anyone cares to truly read through them. Perry refused to sign the one that would have made certain that property owners would receive honest value for homes and land taken by the state under the term "in the best interests of the community."
The latest is that Perry is touting his military experience and holding it over Obama's head.
I don't want Obama to be reelected, but there are so few intelligent and rational choices to replace him that it's actually frightening.
Yet Perry has a way of misleading and scamming many of the public who buy into his psychotic aura.
There is a lot of information out there to eliminate the Perry myth and stories he floats around, but too many people don't review it.
It is very concerning that so many people will follow such a disturbed person.
Americans really need to wake-up fast. Our once great nation is rapidly disappearing into the man-made muck we have permitted.
Unemployment figures for July have been released. For the U.S. as a whole, there was a very slight improvement: from 9.2% in June to 9.1% in July. But for Texas, unemployment rose from 8.2% to 8.4%.
Texas unemployment now is at a 24-year high.
-Austin Chronicle, Aug. 26, 2011
Perry's first nationally-televised debate will take place at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA on Sept. 7. It will be interesting to see how he fares in a debate in which he was not able to dictate all the conditions as he did in Texas.
www.race42012.com has a list of all Republican debates, straw polls, caucuses, and primaries that
are known to date.
Rasmussen poll of likely voters, taken Aug. 23-30, of various Rep. candidates against Pres. Obama:
Rick Perry - 44%
Barack Obama - 41%
Barack Obama - 43%
Mitt Romney - 39%
Barack Obama - 46%
Michele Bachmann - 38%
Barack Obama - 42%
Herman Cain - 35%.
It's WAY too early to be making predictions about the Electoral College voting, but www.race42012.com has done just that. Go to that website and click on "2012 Electoral College Projection" on the right side of the page.
The poll currently puts EC votes at:
Obama - 247 votes
Republican candidate - 191 votes
Tossup - 100 votes.
270 EC votes are needed to win.
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