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Rick Perry’s Ketchup Campaign
In a popular 1960s movie, an aged President recalls the good old days when “we poured God over everything like ketchup.” That line elicited a laugh after John F. Kennedy moved a new generation into the White House and promised to send a man to the moon.
Today, ketchup will be back on the American political menu as Texas Governor Rick Perry declares his presidential candidacy in South Carolina and heads for Iowa and New Hampshire two weeks after holding a Christian prayer rally in a stadium back home.
Perry’s blurring of the line between church and state comes into the 2012 campaign with bundles of money from so many Super PACs that it has inspired an Iowa commercial by Stephen Colbert’s parody of the process.
But other GOP candidates won’t be laughing as the man who succeeded George W. Bush as governor of Texas enters the contest with convictions that make his predecessor look like a centrist. Perry was an early idol of the Tea Party when he delighted them with talk of Texas seceding from the Union if Washington didn’t mend its ways.
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7 Responses to “Rick Perry’s Ketchup Campaign”
The GOP has successfully used the cultural divide and through the sue of fear, turns Americans against each other to gain votes and political power. What Perry is doing is nothing different.
I watched the speech. It was full of direct and absolute lies. He blamed President Obama for everything President Bush did. More BS “fredum” rhetoric, salted with exaggerations about what he did as Governor. The Right Wing of the right wing has really gone wacko with this one.
I can’t see him getting any votes from the middle.
Meanwhile, Allen, in the real world, yes, he’ll likely get plenty of votes from the middle, which was repelled by what the Dems did in 2009-2010 (Perry obviously is less extremist than they were), and who remain disenchanted with ObamaCo amateurism, ineptitude, and with the revived campaign, stupid circus acts.
Perry is going to be popular merely because once again the GOP and conservatives have been left desperate.
I don’t believe Perry or even somebody better could beat Obama, but who knows, I can be wrong. (There’s a lot of ill will in the mainstream toward Obama and the Dems, who also know that the “tea party” House GOP or other Republicans in states of note since 2010 don’t characterize the whole party. And, 2012 could become an anti-Dem vote once more solely because of what the Dems have done so far.) Though the liberal media obviously won’t be helping Perry at all, it might be interesting, since he seems for real, unlike Romney (the “TV news anchor,” as I call Romney — Troy, the prime-time news guy, like so many other politicians with looks and little or nothing else), plus the liberal media has TEXAS, too, on which to feast.
(How many jobs minimum wage or low-paying? Why is he lax like Bush on immigration, at the same time the Texas business organization says the economy can’t work without undocumented immigrants, and Texas lets ‘em pay in-state tuition for college? Is that a way to make immigrants feel better about and more likely to come to Texas and keep wages down, perhaps?)
(Another aspect besides entitlements of so-called “compassionate” conservatism?)
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/immigration-gop-vs-gop-and-perry/
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20110728in-state_tuition_for_illegal_immigrants_could_prove_a_tough_issue_for_perry/
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Yeah, middle republicans. Swing voters will not go for him next year. So go ahead and nominate him, because he’ll never be president.
LOL
Bachman won the Straw Poll. Thats Bad for Republicans, Good for Democrats.
I am one happy camper.
@Allen: Bachmann as the GOP nominee is good for the GOP as well. It will push more moderate, compromise-minded folks to the forefront of the party, and silence the hard-liners.
P.J.B.: Shhh — you’re disturbing Allen’s dreaming.
Don’t worry, Allen, because Obama likely will win.