Texas Gov. Rick Perry announces today that he is running to become the 45th President of the United States. Perry, who has been governor of Texas for ten years, has overseen a state that has weathered the recession better than any other large state. Accounting for 37% of all job growth nationwide over the past few years, Perry’s Texas stands in stark contrast to California, New York and the other large blue states. Its story is one that he intends to tell a nation that has seen our economy flounder and our national credit downgraded as President Obama has failed to turn his big government visions into economic growth. Under Perry’s watch, Texas is one of three states that boasts more jobs now than when the recession began. The Lone Star State also has one of the nation’s most stable housing markets, one of the lowest tax burdens, and is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state.
Rick Perry has built up a record not only of standing for free markets and a stable regulatory environment, he has also built up a record of going toe-to-toe with the Obama administration. He has battled the administration on its offshore oil drilling policies, its energy policies, its border policies and its Washington-centric approach to governance. Where Obama’s Washington sees every chance to gather more power to itself, Rick Perry sees a chance to let states decide and innovate for themselves. His candidacy gives America as clear a choice as possible between the state-centered and moribund status-quo, or a dynamic American economy unleashed from Washington’s heavy hand. A Perry vs. Obama candidacy will be about first principles, to the extent that the Obama team allows the real issues to enter the campaign. They have already signaled that they will go deeply personal against whoever the GOP nominee is.
Perry is announcing his run at the RedState Gathering in Charleston, SC. That state’s primary tends to determine who wins the GOP nomination, and Perry’s entry into the race in South Carolina signals that he intends to make his strongest primary stand there. After today’s official announcement, the GOP presidential primary is a whole new race.
Update: Perry has updated his official website. Here is the first new item on the site.
Update: Gov. Perry’s speech has concluded, to a rousing reception from the RedState audience. We’ll have the text here as soon as possible.
Update: Ace was in the room for Perry’s announcement speech. It was the first time Ace had heard Gov. Perry speak in person, and he’s impressed.
I heard that he was a good speaker, could charge the room, channel emotion, speak clearly in appealing themes. This is the first time I’ve actually seen in him action. Early reports were accurate; he’s very good on the stump.
Update: Belladonna Rogers shreds liberal Michael Tomasky for his fear and loathing of Rick Perry.
Praise the Lord, we have a candidate that can actually win!
It is a “given” – the Republican Vice Presidential candidate -will
be a woman.
(BS) ~ This guy is just one more piece of garbage politician…..
Rick Perry, the so called conservative Gov of Texas, signed a bill giving illegals the Dream Act. It was his idea and plan……… (all on the tax payers dime)
He said in 2001 in his speech he supports open border with Mexico.
After a few failed attempts he finally gave up on his Super Hwy. going well into Mexico, that would have cost the tax payers billions of dollars.
He was a strong supporter of letting Mexican trucks and drivers enter and work in the US. (taking thousands of jobs from Americans)
He kept trying to pass a bill making girls starting in the sixth grade, take some kind of vaccine that had to do with being sexually active….(It was extremely unpopular and he kept trying) ~ Later they found he had a strong connection with the company called Merck…….
He gave free medical to illegals and also to Mexicans on the Mexican side of the border. (all of this was on the tax payers)
Some of it is on Kerry Picket’s article in Washington Times, just type Kerry Picket in search and scroll down about three wks ago.
I know all of this is hard to believe so google it and do research then pass it on.
If push comes to shove and it comes down to Rick Perry, Ron Paul, I will vote for Obama…Man I hate to say that but it’s true……..At least I never heard Obama say he wants open borders with Mexico.
My pick for president is Sarah Palin with Sheriff Joe, Herman Cain, Jeff Sessions, Mitt Romney as Sarah’s VP.
“Drill Baby Drill”
Good speech, good delivery, good hair, nice family and a resume too! He framed the debate with President Obama very well and articulated the reasons their progam isn’t working.
Best of luck to Governor Rick Perry!
Let’s pray for him, let’s pray for ourselves, that we can get rid of the caviar-soviets, of all this administration of enemies of America and of Freedom.
God speed !
Well, Perry has rolled the dice, that’s for sure.
Read this interview:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/12/rick-perry-newsweek-interview-transcript.html
I love it and you probably do to, but his distance from Washington politicians couldn’t be more pronounced, and his distance from the other announced candidates is nearly as extreme. I wouldn’t have touched the 3rd, 4th and 5th rail of SS, Medicare, and States Rights, but he didn’t just touch em, he embraced em…..so here comes demagogueing on steroids squared. If Ryan inspired Granny being pushed off the cliff, what can Rick inspire, granny in a meat grinder? Mad coyotes eating grannies?
It will be interesting to see what the make believe media says about this interview in the short term. If you don’t hear about it shouted from the rafters asap, you will know that they want him to get the nomination because they think they can rip him to shreds that will make shreds blush.
High stakes politics. Not sure I like it, but it will make things interesting if he continues in this vein.
An interesting interview. IF he was to actually stick to those positions (note the BIG IF), I’d be willing to re-think my opposition to him. Time will tell if this is the real Perry or if in-state tuition, the AZ law “isn’t right for Texas” is the real Perry.
Is he really an advocate of the Constitution or just a panderer? In the interview he specifically defends the role of the 10th amendment and specifically says now isn’t the time to repeal the 17th.
Yet, just this week he said he was in favor of Constitutional amendments on abortion and gay marriage, both of which are clearly covered by the tenth amendment, neither of which is as critical to regaining smaller government (in fact, both would concentrate MORE power with the federal government)than repealing the 17th (which badly needs to be done).
Great speech/announcement.
Some great lines, resonating deeply, about the size of the federal government and the federal government’s role in our lives.
I love the fact he’s been after Obama on several issues. How can he loose the economic debate vs any Democrat ? Look for the MSM to tar and feater the guy as he represents the biggest threat to the Democrats. Also like the fact he’ll fire back on issues which Bush never really did.
What will be the tagline by Dems ?
Bush 2
Bush Light
Don’t know why, but he sets off my spider-sense.
Rick Perry should easily beat Barack Obama. The central campaign theme should probably be something like “Perry=jobs.”
RicK Perry: “The White Obama”
Yeehaw! An Aggie for president, I love it! (Texans will understand this)
Rick Perry: Al Gore’s campaign chairman. Long time Statist, Globalist.
Texan Robert Morrow states, “Rick Perry is a Trojan Horse of statism cloaked in Tea Party rhetoric and Bible Buzzwords.”
Research, people.
Nobody could out-statist and out-globalist Barack Obama.
Ya don’t need research to get that, chaise lounge.
you forgot to tell us to vote for Ron Paul
In my blog article on Perry jumping into the race, my first commenter was similar to this one. I suspect Obama-bots of searching out Perry on the web and leaving this kind of comment. Being from Texas and having written extensively on Perry, I KNOW he will be not only a better candidate, but a better President than the current occupant of the White House. Game, set, match!
There is a very good chance that “sofa” is a George Soros plant pretending to be a conservative. We are going to see a lot of this from now until Election Day.
for sure
We have already seen a lot of it on PJM. Libwits who pop in to throw out a couple of quick (usually unsubstantiated) items to discredit a canditate or issue, and then zip away. They don’t get mad and don’t argue. The ones who argue, like Dwight, aren’t plants. They are True Believers.
The guys like sofa are pros.
I think they will ramp up their game as well. I expect to see a lot more content, prepared offline by researchers, with links to backups that aren’t the usual screaming in your face nutter websites. They will find Heritage and Cato snippets that they will package together and/or twist to undermine candidates and arguments. 2 or 3 such people could handle PJM, using multiple usernames and addresses to avoid detection. Multiply by 20 and you would have covered a healthy chunk of the conservative blogospheres. 50 people for 12 months time 5K a month is only $3M. They see that as a drop in the bucket.
I also suspect that there are probably some routinely conservative posters who will “flip” as the campaign goes on and begin to see the error of their ways. Plants as well.
I agree; I think we’ll see a lot of left-plantar warts on the blogs and elsewhere, with unsubstantiated and out-of-context comments. I’m not sure that they will succeed; I think that the issues are far more serious and deeper than that tactic of rhetoric.
Obama is only rhetoric; all he can do is give speeches whose words are empty of facts, bereft of reality, emotionally loaded. So, the attacks against the GOP will be similar – heh – boy, it sure didn’t take Obama long to drop the rhetoric of his Tuscon speech. Remember it? How he, in his preacher’s exhortation, begged ‘his people’ to ‘be nice to one another? And a few weeks later, he openly insulted Paul Ryan to his face, allowed a TV ad showing Ryan flinging granny off a cliff, and has allowed his administration to call he Tea Party Americans – terrorists. How’s your promise of civility doing, Obama?
And now, he’s blaming Congress for all the problems of the nation. Not himself. He, Obama, is merely the Community Organizer. It’s his activists whom he oversees who go out and activate…who are doing it all wrong. Not Obama, the Community Organizer.
He’s also comparing himself to Martin Luther King. It’s hard to keep up with his self-descriptions. He’s the Messiah who will make ‘the oceans cease to rise’. He’s Lincoln arriving by train to his inauguration. He’s Reagan during some debate. Then, he’s a Victim of Evil Events, such as the Japanese earthquake, the Arab Spring, the… And now, He’s MLK. Does Obama exist as a stable identity? Or is he whatever works for the day.
I feel very much like Rick Perry is a GW Bush clone, in as many ways as you can imagine. I feel like he is establishment in the sense he will be bought, persuaded and make poor decisions when he has the enormous pressures as POTUS, just like Bush did. I’m not saying I won’t vote for him, just saying, I think that someone who has stood up to some incredible pressure already like Michele Bachmann would be better. Also, Ron Paul is very misunderstood and mis quoted. Don’t believe anything you hear about him unless it’s an original source in context. I started doing that and realized he really could be our countries saving grace. Just sayin.
Perry is a liberal commie. He tried to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for Texas girls. How conservative is that? Perry was Al Gore’s Texas campaign manager. AL GORE! Get a clue people.
How tiring. Get a new phrase Ago, this one is getting old. Besides, in ’88 Gore was running as a conservative. Sheesh!
Bilderberger.
Adjust your tin chapeau and watch out for those damn black helicopters while you are at it.
How about The Logan Act?
By the way, ever try peeling back the layers of a onion? The outside almost always looks polished, firm, almost perfect. Then peel back the layers and you start to discover something different after a few layers. Maybe you will try it sometime, rather than taking it at face value.
I hope in the research on Perry it comes to light that he is for free schooling for illegals, the Trans Texas corridor, hates SB 1070 of AZ e-verify.
If he is elected and everyone states how he supports small business, I am quite sure that many small businesses will have illegals being paid under the table.
With Perry as president, in the long run nothing will change.
Welcome aboard, Governor. We don’t know much about you. My suggestion to you for winning our affection is this: Go after Obama with hammer and tong. Do not let up. Do not allow the Entertainment Media to distract you by trying to pit you against a fellow conservative, like Bachmman, Palin or whomever they fear at the moment. Keep your eye on the prize: Kicking that pencil-necked, academe-Marxist, out of the office of President of the United States of America, of which he NEVER had the bona fides to attain to begin with. He’s a fraud! A freak of PC-tainted History. TAKE IT TO HIM WITH BOTH BARRELS AND DON’T ESCHEW THE BOWIE KNIFE. Figuratively speaking, of course, Oh, wait, that would shock the Mainstream Media (who bend over backwards to say nothing about the terrorist-inveighing rhetoric of the Reid/Pelosi Left) to the very core. … Yeah. They will go ape sh*t. So, anyway, my sincere recommendation to you is to GO AFTER OBAMA: HIS DECEITS, HIS FALSE PROMISES, HIS ABUSE OF THE TRAPPINGS OF OFFICE, HIS SHEER LAZINESS, and, most specifically, HIS ADMINISTRATIVE RECORD! Don’t pull any punches. Sic ‘em! If you do, you will win.
From those wonderful folks who brought you Mein Kampf…
METROPOLITAN BOOKS TO PUBLISH BITING, SATIRICAL ACCOUNT OF RICK PERRY’S RECORD AS GOVERNER OF TEXAS
BY JAMES C. MOORE AND JASON STANFORD
NEW YORK, August 16, 2011 – On the heels of Rick Perry’s announcement to run for president, Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, announced today it will publish ADIOS MOFO: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush. Scheduled for an early 2012 publication, the book is a sharp, critical narrative of Rick Perry’s political career in Texas and his record on religion, guns, family values, and the economy. The book will be written by Austin-based journalist and commentator James C. Moore and Texas political consultant Jason Stanford and was acquired by Riva Hocherman, senior editor of Metropolitan Books.
ADIOS MOFO will track the current governor of Texas from his hometown in West Texas to his run for the White House, challenging his competence as a leader and laying bare the hollow truth of Perry’s “Texas Miracle.” Moore and Stanford will reveal a radical ideologue with scant interest or success in governing and present a picture of a country under his leadership. The title of the book, ADIOS MOFO, a phrase Perry used to mock a Houston correspondent has become shorthand in Texas political circles for the governor’s unchecked arrogance and incompetence in the Texas statehouse.
James C. Moore and Jason Stanford have deep contacts with numerous operatives in the Perry campaign and will detail stories the public has not yet heard. Moore, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, has been writing and reporting on Perry since the governor first came to Austin as a political client of Karl Rove in the 1980s, and Stanford, whose keen political insights have helped dozen of Democrats win public office, has run campaigns against Rick Perry. Their decades of experience as Texas journalist and political consultant will combine for an outrageous portrait of the presidential candidate.
“People need to know the guy behind the smile,” Moore and Stanford said. “Trouble often comes in attractive packaging. Rick Perry’s politics make George W. Bush look like George McGovern. We’ll give readers a very startling insight to what Perry’s ten year administration has done, not for Texas, but to Texas, and we’ll help them envision a country led by Perry. His heartless politics and ineptitude are as funny as they are frightening.”
Metropolitan Books acquired North American rights from Ellen Geiger of The Francis Goldin Literary Agency, Inc.
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