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Perry Gains Support, Questions Remain

August 26, 2011 by  

Perry Gains Support, Questions Remain

A Gallup poll released on Wednesday puts Texas Governor Rick Perry at the head of the pack for the GOP’s 2012 Presidential nomination with 29 percent of Republicans saying they support the candidate. Following Perry are Mitt Romney, at second with 17 percent, and Ron Paul, at third with 13 percent.

Perry has publicly expressed support of lessening the reach of Federal governmental powers and has championed States’ rights, but many doubt the candidate’s sincerity. Doubts stem from Perry’s past denials of any interest to run for the office of President and his entrance to the world of politics as a Democrat on the Texas Legislature in 1984. Another issue involves past close ties to Al Gore. Perry has defended his past by saying that things were different when he worked with Gore.

“This was Al Gore before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming,” Perry said. “Growing up in rural Texas, I never met a Republican until I was 25. … In 1988 when you looked at the candidates, Al Gore was the most conservative candidate that was out there.”

Perry’s explanations, however, fall short for many people, including Texas-based Constitutionalist radio host Alex Jones, who has continually questioned the candidate’s motives and conservative values.

“Rick Perry has shown himself to be the most duplicitous, deceptive politician that I have ever studied in the history of the United States,” Jones said in a recent broadcast.

Jones also noted Perry’s 2007 decision to bypass the Texas Legislature and require school-aged girls to receive a human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), Gardasil, created by Merck & Co., which raised concerns about the Governor’s ties to the company predating his mandate. One of the drug company’s lobbyists and a consultant at The Texas Lobby Group, Mike Toomey, worked as Perry’s chief of staff; the Governor reportedly also received donations to his political action committee from the company.

Despite doubts, Perry leads all other Republican candidates against President Barack Obama in a recent Rasmussen report. The report shows Perry receiving 40 percent favorability to Obama’s 43 percent in a recent telephone poll.

 

Filed Under: Conservative Politics, Government, Liberty News, Staff Reports
Sam Rolley

Staff writer Sam Rolley began a career in journalism working for a small town newspaper while seeking a B.A. in English. After learning about many of the biases present in most modern newsrooms, Rolley became determined to find a position in journalism that would allow him to combat the unsavory image that the news industry has gained. He is dedicated to seeking the truth and exposing the lies disseminated by the mainstream media at the behest of their corporate masters, special interest groups and information gatekeepers.

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  • Flying Eagle

    KEEP AN EYE on Obumer and his henchmen (SEIOU, Acorn, AFL-CIO and the other unions, also de Black Panters, Louis Farrackan, etc.) re 2012 elections. Most likely they will start committing fraud, duplicating the ballots, waking up the dead and forcing them to register for voting in the 2012 election.

    Obumer knows we “The People” won’t give him a second chance to continue being the top “US commie” and therefore he will try all means to get reelected, but as I think President Lincoln said “you can fool people once but you cannot fool people all the time”. Please
    don’t let him fool you again and if so you’ll pay dearly for it.

    LAUS DEO
    SEMPER FI!!!!!

    • Concerned Citizen

      Don’t be so sure about Minister Farrakhan. I thought he was a nut for a long time, but in a recently posted video he is exposing the Federal Reserve and saluting Ron Paul in his efforts in Congress.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmt5-1yrwmQ

  • Garx69

    skyraider6
    The more people take a serious look at HERMAN CAIN the more people will realize he is the real deal. I am concerned about my grandchildren also.

    • newspooner

      Good man, but he clearly has some big flaws.

      • bob wire

        Cain is not equip to deal with the hill, A Cain vote would be a Carter, desperation, protest vote and end in much the same way.

        It’s sadden perhaps, but that’s just the way it is.

        A president must have some political equity to be effective. “O” is short equity himself and explains much of what we see happening over the last few years.

  • Garx69

    Rob I just pray you are wrong. The main purpose of this election must be to replace the O regime.

  • http://yahoo skyraider 6

    it’s been on my mind too bad obummer got in first it might hurt a good man Garx 69

  • Garx69

    skyraider6 I am a Texas transplant (been here 10 years) I think that Rick Perry is not concerned with the welfare of the general public. Rick Perry is just another politician. Please look at Herman Cain the man that CAN repair the change and return common sense to government.

  • Rob

    Unfortunately the Establishment Republicans just don’t get it, no matter how hard they try to overtake the Tea Party. Whether you like it or not, Pauls supporters won’t support anyone but Paul and the Establishment Repubs, won’t support Paul.

    This equals split vote, Pres. Obama wins, just as the Republicans did last election with the Establishment running a guy who couldn’t win, Juan McAmnesty, and Paul supporters, sticking to their principals.

    Like Terry Holt and another Republican Strategist claimed earlier this month on MSNBC, “Romney is the Establishment Republican and the Republican Establishment wants Romney and so that is who it will be”.

    Ever wonder why Paul got more voters and more financial support last elections (example, breaking 2 campaign fundinging records, IRS statement, etc..) yet the establishment ran McCAin (no support, firing staff, etc..)

    Establishments man vs. Peoples choice and establishment wins, no matter the spin they put on it. Remember what Terry Holt stated,”Romney will be the candidate because that is what the Republican Establishment wants”.

    Good or Bad, we will see if this is all correct next year and see, if the people really do have a say in the elections or if it is still controlled by the Establishments of the Parties.

    • bob wire

      “Establishments man vs. Peoples choice and establishment wins, no matter the spin they put on it.”

      enjoyed your posting but you are leaving out some of the “people”.

      when you say “people” I don’t believe that you are including people unlike yourself.

      I don’t believe that you represent all the people, I don’t believe that you represent half of the people but maybe only 18% to 22% of half the people.

      I’m a democrat and find Ron Paul worthy consideration depending on my options. ~ But it’s truth only the GOP can offer me that option.

  • Stunned at sunset

    I think that the media is manufacturing the evidence that Govenor Perry is at the head of the pack.

    While strictly anecdotal, most of the people I know and work with prefer Ms. Bachman or Ron Paul. I know of no one who will vote for the President. This is telling me that the propaganda machine hasn’t caught up with the public’s obvious mistrust. They’ve not researched this phenomenon to discover if, by default, their attempt to create an image of “momentum” might, instead, irritate everyone whose sensibilities are being offended.

    The press just doesn’t get it anymore. People have been beaten up so badly and disenfranchised so completely that their sense of the truth has become a lot more sophisticated. Propaganda is recognized for the hubris that it is and only motivates people to move in the opposite direction.

    In the meantime, Governor Perry is obviously talking through a hole in his hat in his attempt to become a George W. Bush Wannabe. It’s not working. I don’t believe a word that he says. If the plutocrats are engineering such a choice, I’d rather vote for a third party candidate and wind up with another four years of Obama.

    Obama likes to stumble and fall a lot. International leaders are beginning to see him as irrelevant. His re-election might bring on another four years of malaise but I’d prefer that to another decade of debilitating, bankrupting, war programs that might get us caught up into something to which we could not apply an exit strategy.

  • http://personalliberty.com fedup

    I have to admit, the more the media likes a candidate, the more likely I am to look elsewhere. Call me crazy, but everybody thought obama was the cure all for the country, and I just don’t see it.

    • bob wire

      No “fedup” , everybody didn’t think that and they have attempted to prove it wrong from the offset.

      It appears it worked on you.

      In someways, I wish Mc Cain had win just to see the GOP take a bath and drowned in their own poison. But I fear the pressure of the job would have killed him by this point and we’d be left with Palin.

      The GOP/Mc Cain had it to loose ~ and they did.

      There was no choice last election.

  • http://yahoo skyraider 6

    Three terms can the texans be wrong? Let’s hear from Texans

    • newspooner

      Well, let’s here it for one Texan — Ron Paul.

    • bob wire

      Hell yea they can be wrong! I trust you have heard of “voter redistricting”?

      It’s not so much that they are wrong ~ but the state is awash in people from somewhere else! and they come and eat the heart out of the watermelon, settle in our large cities. They don’t come here to be Texans, raise stock, plant crops and enjoy hog killing time. They come for harvest and to feed their face.

  • http://www.easyinvest.co.za peter

    Is Perry a close mate of Warren Buffet? Connect the dots……….. Perry/ Bank of America? Buffet lends Bank of America 5 Billion? What’s the connection. Another puppet?

    I wonder what’s going on here? Perry could’nt sell me water in the desert. He just looks like a phoney.

    • skippy

      Peter, he reminds me of JOHN EDWARDS….HAHAHHAHHA!!! :)

    • Iva Raggon

      Perry seems disingenuous. Once he wanted to secede and now he wants to be President. He is too fundamentalist in his beliefs. The last thing we need is an anti-science literal creationist who would send us back to the 19th Century in terms of education (note the efforts of Texas’ lunatic school board).

      Ron Paul wants to stop endless foreign embroilments and deal with issues here at home as the constitution allows. Compared to him Perry looks and acts like a game show host with a lot of faked enthusiasm.

      • Iva Raggon

        Remember that Perry also campaigned for Al Gore.

        Bachmann can take a hike also. She seems pretty artificial as well.

        Ron Paul.

      • Ronnie

        Creationists are not anti-science! They are anti-Scientism! Scientism is that Religious belief (Athiesm – No God / Agnostic – I do not know or can not know there is a God) that Matter is all there is, was and shall be – ala Carl Sagan. Therefore, anything metaphysical (that cannot be seen, touched or felt) does not exit. Therefore the God of the Bible does not exist.

      • bob wire

        “Scientism ” LOL! You made that up! There is no such thing.

        But I admire your attempt and effort to “create” ~ Now that you have created it, you can make it real for other like minded people.

        Science is a process and not an “ism”.

        There is a wall of thought that separates the two.

        But short of that, I enjoyed hearing your creationist defense and understand your view point.

  • don

    i agree with you ken. everyone need to check out the website the obama deception. it tells how clinton ism in with the bushes clintons and who knows how many before them. there was something about john kennedy in it about how he didn’fit in so he was assasinated. look out ron paul. you dont fitm in with this bunch. i still hope you win. we need real change if its not too late.

  • http://twitter.com/doitathometoday Ken

    Perry is like Obama, a bought and paid for politician. He is either there to take votes from other candidates or the money thinks he’ll make a better puppet for them.

  • Jeff

    Perry/Bank of America 2012

  • Bob C.

    The puppet known as George Bush almost destroyed the republican party’s name single-handedly, (he did have help from dad, and lots of RINO’s in the congress) the last thing we need is another war hawk in the white house that doesn’t understand or follow the constitution!
    calling it “just a piece of paper”

    look, we have to stop this destroying of the republican party, once it’s gone, it will be demonized not by it’s past leaders, but by the principles it supposedly stood by.
    they will say the constitution, free markets, capitalism, all failed us.
    even though we live by little or none of these things today
    we have government intrusions in all three, making them bastards shadow of the former self’s

    I think that’s what’s going on here.
    the republican party is NOT standing by our republics’ constitution.
    this will come back on freedom loving Americans.
    pleeaasee don’t vote for this guy, he does not stand with us, he stands with the UN (trans-Texas corridor super highway, NAFTA, huge land grabs), NWO, and the bilderberg group, look it up for yourselves

    Ron Paul is the only guy out there I think has even read the constitution.
    whether you think he has a chance or not, he is our only hope of freeing ourselves from endless, needless wars,
    bills like the “patriot act”,
    the stealing of all out wealth in this country through “corporate bailouts”,
    bubbles,
    ever increasing tax % on all the people
    needless regulations
    corporate taxes, =taxing people through the products and services they buy

    and inflation, …stealing what little you have left with the printing press.

    • Ronald W. Sprague

      to Bob C ….AMEN Brother, you are a wise man

  • Robert A Hirschmann

    Rick Perry? Is he a Tea Party er? Can his past voting record beat that of Ron Paul? Where does he stand on upholding the Constitution? I would have misgivings if he ever got elected president. Before Obama Bin Laden got elected I predicted that this country would be in a world of hurt if he ever got elected. Was I wrong?

    • newspooner

      You were certainly right about Juan Peron Obama. Many people who did not do their homework were fooled. Let’s hope that enough of them have the intellectual honesty to not vote for him again. And let’s give them a good alternative, not another George Quincy Bush, John McCain, Mittrhymeswith… Romney, or Rick Gardasil Perry.

  • Karolyn

    I think people just like Perry because he looks “presidential.” How sad!

    • bob wire

      I’m left to believe that It’s the hair. Crazy No?

  • SMSgt Z retired Nam 68
  • http://aol.com sean murrey ILLInio

    i never listsen to the lib media.

  • J.M.R.

    as i said before the men have been screwing up the works for years, then a bunch of brain dead morons let this (word removed) dick-tater get in the black house so i say lets let the women have shot at this mess and i bet they start a real clean up and given the chace they will finish the clean up

  • Lamar Carnes

    Going back to a persons past on political issues when they have dramatically changed over the last 20 years is absolutely nonsense. Ronald Regan was a Democrat socialists before he made a switch to Conservative understandings of politics. Perry did the same and to hold stuff like that against someone is absolutely WRONG! Get real folks! You know he wasn’t a Communist or a Islamist so get on the train and vote the man in he is well qualified and the best man for the job. But get Rubio on his team and he will have some much dust between Obama and his campaign it will seem like there isn’t a Obama running!

    • Doc Sarvis

      Ronald Regan also grew the size of the government (despite what he preached against) and gave amnisty to illegal aliens.

      • DonnieB

        That is true, he did grow the size of government and allow amnesty of illegals. Several things to keep in mind. He didn’t have GOP majority to help him get the votes to do much else. He did keep down a fair amount of spending that the Dem’s tired to do.

        In case you haven’t noticed, what Dem (of course the nominee will be BHO) wants to spend less than any of the Republicans or wants all of the illegals to become citizens, Democrat and get lots of welfare?

        You can always make the case that some politician didn’t do everything that you wanted them to do. But remember that the alternative may be MUCH worse!

    • Ronald W. Sprague

      Lamar Carnes, I agree with you that people do change and we should be willing to accept that, but when the American public become aware of Rick Perry’s involvement of taking Texan’s land by eminant domain to get a North American highway built just so we could have a North American Union, they just might lynch that freedom grabing traitor Rick Perry, who is a co-conspiritor to the One World elite run-its.

      • bud

        yes sir that sob wanted to steal my home and land for 10 cents on the dallor for that road to come through i own my place out right and could not even put a down payment on a place like the one i own for what he offered and they tried to slide the deal through under the radar so we could not fight them until it was to late i someone would not have caught them and put them in the legal eye alot of texans would have been homeless

  • Hiram

    I have always agreed that we should vet all candidates and know where they stand on the issues. But, long past associations are not always a good indicator. Remember, Reagan was also once a Democrat.

    • bob wire

      Hmmm? He turned into a republican when he could finally afford a riding mower.

      or to say, Reagan was cheaply bought and lured in with benefits.

      Reagan was a “big picture” man and did about as much harm as he did good.

      Sadly, the devil is in the details.

      Honor him if you wish, but the “supply side card” has limits on beneficial effects when over played.

  • newspooner

    If “Conservative” Republicans get fooled again and allow the Mainstream Media and their bosses to pick the Republican nominee for President again, it will discourage the casual Tea Partiers and Libertarians who are needed by the more dedicated and persistent ones among us to provide adequate numbers to be effective. Rick Perry is another George Quincy Bush. Our nation has been strong enough to survive this deception of Republicans for the past 83 years, but time is truly running out.

    • bob wire

      So? when was the last time “conservative” republicans fooled?

      It’s my belief they get fooled often, more often then not, with Jesus bait.

  • Free Mind

    Forget about brainwashed Liberals; even most Republicans are clueless imbiciles.
    We are Americans, we don’t need facts; just give us media glitz that tells us how to think. What a nation of morons.

    Example: Remember a few days ago when the Media told you Khaddafi was beaten? Hasn’t happened yet. Use your own head.

    • bob wire

      Oh! he is beaten alright. ~ It was decided many months ago. Maybe him and you just don’t know it yet. The mad sandman is looking for places to hide as we speak or already been found,dismembered and burnt to ash.

      Now where that is good or bad, I don’t know. ~ But for the record, he was not thought highly of by me.

  • Mike

    Do some research: If you want the world’s most powerful globalists, the Bilderbergs, choosing the president of the United States again – Rick Perry is your candidate.

    • Pam R

      All one has to do is look up The Rockfeller World Order and the High Priests of Globalization by Andrew Gavin Marshall. Everything you ever wanted to know about Americas’ past and let’s hope not our future. I love America. I want to keep America in tact for my children and grandchildren. Let’s get back to God and the constitution. Pray.

      • Firefly00

        I’m with you, Pam at the rate that things are going now we are taking the proverbial long walk down a short pier.

      • bud

        i am with you now how do we get the goverment to do what we would like them to do???

  • simian pete

    The Beavis and Butthead show is coming back to MTV. Mike Judge is producing some more episodes …

    Rick Perry’s nickname is “Crotch” … Governor Perry’s friends call him “Crotch” ….

    So “Crotch” Perry is running for President …

    I’m sure Beavis and Butthead will say that’s “cool” ! HEH HEH HEH HEH! HEH HEH HEH !!!!

    Just to show you who is running the Republican Party, why it’s Beavis and Butthead !!!!

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