Perry’s people say it ain’t so:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/perry-hits-back/2011/03/29/gIQAO5quuJ_blog.html

You gotta “adjust for population growth and inflation,” don’t you know.  Uh huh.

This guy reeks of crony capitalism. He spends money like water. He doesn’t even know what the word fiscal means. He was not the Tea Party candidate in Texas and was behind in the polls until Beck blindsided Medina and labeled her a “truther.” Texans held their nose and voted for Perry in the last governor’s race.
When did the GOP become the party of crony capitalism? We already have that with Obama. Crony capitalism is killing this country. Crony capitalism isn’t going to create jobs. It’s the same pay to play as the Chicago gang only it’s Texas style.
McCain you know you are one of the best in sniffing out a story. Cain is your dude. Why aren’t you helping him over the finish line? Just because you work for the Spectator and they are talking up this guy I can’t believe that you can’t smell how corrupt he is. You are no Erickson. You are your own man.
How is the Republican Party going to accept corrupt politician’s business as usual? This is the perfect time for a clean sweep. It’s time to take our country back. Millions of Tea Party peeps didn’t put their lives on hold for the past 3 years to protest for the first time in their lives to elect this good old Texas boy who is the king of the corrupt bastids club for POTUS. Get real. Give people a reason to throw Obama out. I have no incentive to go to the polls to vote for this cretin.
C’mon McCain. You’ve got children just like the rest of us. Is this what you want the USA to be the crony capitalist capitol of the world?
The Perry-krishnas Kool-Aid is just as potent as the Obamabots and I refuse to drink it no matter how the Republican thugs try to shove it down my throat. And I know that I’m not alone. This is BS. Perry ain’t lighting a fire under anybody’s butt to get to the polls.

Club for growth on the whole agrees with Perry.

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=953

I will have to actually study Bachmann and Perry some more.  So far, I  hear a lot of people alleging that Perry tain’t hardcore enough.

That is a problem.

We have serious problems. We need people who make the Left tee-totally flip out.  We need people who make RINOs weep loudly.  We need people who terrify even much of the Right.

Sarah is tough, very tough, but she’s kinda centrist.  Still, I’ll support her.  If she doesn’t run….we’ll see.

Oh yes, Mr. Romney, please go home.

Also, Rick Perry says “islam is a religion of peace”, that alone should disqualify anyone seeking public office. Ten years after thousands of us were murdered on our own soil for jihad, it is appalling how few Conservatives understand at all that islam does not hold good intentions for the United States or freedom loving people anywhere else in the world.

 I don’t know Zilla, the only frothing I’ve seen here in comments is those who don’t like Perry.

The “blame Tina Korbe” thing was a jocular way of hat-tipping her, since I found the video via her Hot Air post.

Yes I know, I know. I just thought that it would get me a quick answer to sound like I was threatening you with a cookin spoon. But now You ignored my actual question: Is that thing really Bachmann approved? 

No need for that language, OK?

Did you work at being jerk or were you born that way?

Then mustn’t be looking very closely. 
“Bachmann lies about her fellow republicans.. She can eat a dick for all I care.”
For example.

Ugh, all of this crap just helps the left. We have primaries and debates, let’s let them hash it out there.

Hopefully Charles will learn better manners soon, real soon.

She pulled the same crap against Pawlenty. She’s a goddam liar. We already have a filthy goddam liar as president. We don’t need a replacement  liar.

That’s how I feel about Mitt, I’m thinking if it were Huntsman then cthulhu is my guy. The only way we get everything we want in one candidate would be to combine two of them. This would require either high pressure, heavy equipment or strong chemicals but I suspect we still wind up with something very messy.

 No matter what we must fix congress, House and Senate. I’m as concerned about Perry’s positions on Islam and immigration as you are but am reasonably confidant he will treat the bureaucracy ugly. In the long run that might be more important. Unless he’s gaslighting us about regulation and making the federal government as insignificant in our lives as possible he might present a good possibility for eviscerating the departments. I’m not on his bandwagon and I haven’t decided on anyone yet. But we must entertain the probability that the choice will be between Romney and Perry. If that’s what we have to live with well I don’t know about you but I don’t have a passport.

OK, then maybe you can refute, you know, some actual facts….

And who was the Tea Party candidate? Hutchison?

Young whippersnappers . . . I remember when conservatives complained about Reagan’s lack of purity.

We’ve only run truly conservative candidates in two elections in the last century:  1924 and 1964.  Silent Cal had the advantage of being the incumbent (he had been Harding’s VP), and AuH2O took the worst loss up to that time.

We won’t run one this time, either, so get a grip on yourselves.  As Nixon observed over 40 years ago:  “You can’t win the [GOP] nomination without the conservatives, but you can’t win the election with just the conservatives.”

And if you don’t win, you get to sit on the sidelines and watch the other guy appoint 200 judges for life, the US Attorneys, and control the regulatory regime for four years.  Been there, done that, did not enjoy it.

The fact that the elitist Republicans want Romney makes me not want him.  Romney’s either a very good light liberal or a very bad RINO.  Even he’s confused.

But would that stop you from voting for him God forbid he gets the nomination?

If Romney would end up running against O, I would vote for Romney.  I wouldn’t like it,  but I would do it.  I’m sure that Romney loves our country, so at least we’ve got that going for us.  I think too that he would bring back some dignity to the White House.