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Perry Leads Republican Field in National Poll

The average of all current polling still has him 2 points behind Romney, 8-points ahead of Bachmann.
 
Its because people don't know him yet. Perry doesn't stand a chance once he is exposed. He is way too evangelical and right-wing for the vast majority of America outside the radical south. His record in Texas is not good. He touts his "job creation" but the reality shows that Texas standard of living has fallen dramatically and has the highest percentage of minimum wage and below minimum wage jobs in the country.

He would be worse than the last Texas Governor Disaster in the whitehouse.
 
Unless something comes up that I am not aware of, there is a real chance that he will turn out to be the nominee. He passes most of the Tea Party's purity tests, and he has the experience to appeal to mainstream Republicans and some independents. His softness on immigration and the HPV vaccine fiasco, however, may cost him votes.
 
For those of you who didn't like George Bush because you thought he was too intellectual, Perry is your guy!

Oh wait, that's most Conservatives, isn't it?
 
For those of you who didn't like George Bush because you thought he was too intellectual, Perry is your guy!

Oh wait, that's most Conservatives, isn't it?

Eh, not every conservative thinks that way. But a disproportionate fraction of them do.
 
It's looking more and more like Perry or Bachmann will get the nomination. It makes me wish there was some credible 3rd party candidate because I really, really don't want to have to choose between one of them and Obama.
 
It's looking more and more like Perry or Bachmann will get the nomination. It makes me wish there was some credible 3rd party candidate because I really, really don't want to have to choose between one of them and Obama.

this is a post-announcement bounce ; Perry shrewdly stole the thunder from Bachmann's Ames victory; and currently Republicans unhappy with the field (which is a significant percentage) are able to project their preferences onto him since he's relatively new. He will ebb after this.

But it's a very strong position to be ebbing from. I think he wins because he can appeal to some portion of all of the Republican Party, whereas the other candidates appeal largely to one segment or another.

which is excellent. of the choices available, much better that he replace the current President than the others.
 
this is a post-announcement bounce ; Perry shrewdly stole the thunder from Bachmann's Ames victory; and currently Republicans unhappy with the field (which is a significant percentage) are able to project their preferences onto him since he's relatively new. He will ebb after this.

But it's a very strong position to be ebbing from. I think he wins because he can appeal to some portion of all of the Republican Party, whereas the other candidates appeal largely to one segment or another.

which is excellent. of the choices available, much better that he replace the current President than the others.

I agree that this is just a post announcement bounce. However, I still think he is the strongest candidate going forward. I believe he has the ability to compete well in most of the primary states. He should have the south locked up, and due to his economic record in Texas he should be competitive with Romney in the Pacific Coast and New England. He also has the benefit of probably being the last major candidate to jump in the race, so some of his new supporters might not find someone else to latch on to. Overall, I think he beats out Romney as the favorite.

That said I'm not sure I'd vote for him in the general election. I'd have to way my liberal social and foreign views against my conservative. I'm not sure I am confident enough in his ability to resurrect the economy to vote for him when I'm sure I'd be against pretty much everything else he does.
 
Never trust MSN to give a nonpartisan story.

From 2008 to 2010, Texas added more than 165,000 jobs, and over 100,000 of them were from Califormia do to high taxes and over regulation.

Thanks for your opinion. I've seen your opinions before, so I will stick with the statistics that show the great majority of net job gains in Texas since 2008 have been public jobs, not private, and were funded with the Federal Stimulus money that Rick Perry badmouthed, but accepted more of than any other Governor except for California and New York.
 
Perry 'created' jobs by stealing them from other states. Not sure how that translates nationally, unless he plans to steal jobs from Mexico and Guatemala.
 
For those of you who didn't like George Bush because you thought he was too intellectual, Perry is your guy!

Oh wait, that's most Conservatives, isn't it?

I know, I rolled over laughing when he said “I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.”

Is he trying to say that he's not as 'smart' as Bush? :lol:
 
I know, I rolled over laughing when he said “I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.”

Is he trying to say that he's not as 'smart' as Bush? :lol:

Only if you want to distort it to make it look as bad as possible. The more obvious implication of that statement is, "Bush is a rich-kid, out of touch with the people of this country. I was a normal, farm-raised kid who attended a plain 'ol state university".
 
I know, I rolled over laughing when he said “I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.”

Is he trying to say that he's not as 'smart' as Bush? :lol:

Why was the Aggie two hours late getting home?

The escalator got stuck.:2razz:
 
It's looking more and more like Perry or Bachmann will get the nomination. It makes me wish there was some credible 3rd party candidate because I really, really don't want to have to choose between one of them and Obama.

I haven't lost faith yet but I do conceed that it's lookin' more and more like were gonna have to deal with Obama for another 4 years. Unless the GOP in congress get's kicked to the curb, I doubt Obama will be able to achieve any more than he did in the first term. The GOP has made their intentions quite clear. Their biggest goal is not the economy, education, healthcare or any other issue that would benefit the people. Their primary objective is to get that ****** out of the Whitehouse so the fat cats filling their campaign chests can continue to get their free ride while the common folk keep bending over and taking it up the ass.

Have a nice day everyone!
 
Only if you want to distort it to make it look as bad as possible. The more obvious implication of that statement is, "Bush is a rich-kid, out of touch with the people of this country. I was a normal, farm-raised kid who attended a plain 'ol state university".

People who attend Texas AM may be normal by Texas standards. But then again, in a state where high school football is the most important thing in the world, lots of things that are normal in Texas don't translate well outside of Redneck country.
 
People who attend Texas AM may be normal by Texas standards. But then again, in a state where high school football is the most important thing in the world, lots of things that are normal in Texas don't translate well outside of Redneck country.

Pssst...your ignorance is showing.
 
It's looking more and more like Perry or Bachmann will get the nomination. It makes me wish there was some credible 3rd party candidate because I really, really don't want to have to choose between one of them and Obama.

I don't, either. I wish there were a decent choice. And now some conservatives are jumping for joy that it sort of, possibly, maybe looks like Sarah Palin may be thinking about, perhaps, getting in, at some point in the undefined future. Heaven help us.
 
People who attend Texas AM may be normal by Texas standards. But then again, in a state where high school football is the most important thing in the world, lots of things that are normal in Texas don't translate well outside of Redneck country.

Most of America is, as you so condescendingly put it, "Redneck country."
 

digging into the laughably foolish abuse of numbers inherent in that claim:

With the latest Gallup poll showing that just 26 percent of Americans approve of President Obama’s performance on the economy, liberals have little choice but to try to distort what is happening in Texas. To do so, they will have to rely on sleight of hand.

Krugman continued:

In June 2011, the Texas unemployment rate was 8.2 percent. That was less than unemployment in collapsed-bubble states like California and Florida, but it was slightly higher than the unemployment rate in New York, and significantly higher than the rate in Massachusetts. . . .


change_in_unemployment_texas.jpg


But things in America are a lot worse than the unemployment numbers indicate, for the simple reason that many people have given up looking for work altogether, thus completely removing themselves from the labor force. This complicates the numbers, as people do not fall out of the “unemployed” column only when they get a job, but also when they stop looking for one. If we are to see a recovery, we will need to lower the unemployment rate by returning Americans to work. Unfortunately, job seekers’ simply giving up has been a hallmark of the Obama administration. During the Obama “recovery,” about 2.8 million Americans have given up and completely stopped looking for work.

This is why, even though Texas has created lots of jobs, its official unemployment rate is similar to those in “blue states” like New York and Massachusetts. It is a superficial similarity. While Texas’s labor force has grown by 350,000 since the recession ended in June 2009, Massachusetts’s has remained virtually unchanged, and New York’s has fallen by 140,000.

change_in_labor_force_texas.jpg


Keeping a similar unemployment rate to Texas’s isn’t quite the wonderful accomplishment it seems to be when so many people have given up looking for work...
 
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Shakespeare wrote a play all about this ....... MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Perry is merely the new girl in school coming in in late October and is getting all the attention. As the attention of what the ridiculous Texas miracle really is comes to light, he will fade.
 
Shakespeare wrote a play all about this ....... MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Perry is merely the new girl in school coming in in late October and is getting all the attention. As the attention of what the ridiculous Texas miracle really is comes to light, he will fade.

Memories of the dashing Fred Thompson come to mind.
 
digging into the laughably foolish abuse of numbers inherent in that claim:
Krugman continued:

In June 2011, the Texas unemployment rate was 8.2 percent. That was less than unemployment in collapsed-bubble states like California and Florida, but it was slightly higher than the unemployment rate in New York, and significantly higher than the rate in Massachusetts. . . .
Oh.. was it Krugman who wrote that. No suprise there!

Never trust any article written by Krugman. His articles are very decieving and dishonest. He believes that the end(promoting his ideology) justifies the means (decieving).
Super-Economy: Krugman criticism from Rajan
 
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