CNN Poll: 42% Of GOP Voters See Perry As Most Electable, 26% For Romney…
GOP elitist Karl Rove hardest hit.
Tampa, Florida (CNN) — Hours before the start of the first-ever CNN/Tea Party Republican debate, a new national survey indicates that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is maintaining his lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
And according to a CNN/ORC International Poll, what appears to be Perry’s greatest strength — the perception among Republicans that he is the candidate with the best chance to beat President Barack Obama in 2012 — seems to be exactly what the GOP rank and file are looking for.
The survey, released Monday morning, indicates that 30 percent of Republicans and independents who lean toward the GOP support Perry for their party’s nomination, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 18 percent. Romney, who’s making his second bid for the White House, had been leading the list of Republican candidates in the national polls, but since Perry launched his campaign a month ago he’s jumped ahead of Romney to capture the top spot. . . .
“Perry doesn’t simply have the most support in a hypothetical ballot — he also tops the list of GOP candidates on every personal quality tested,” adds Holland.
Thirty-six percent, for example, see him as the strongest leader in the field, with Romney second at 21 percent. According to the poll, 35 percent say Perry is the Republican candidate most likely to get the economy moving again, with Romney in second at 26 percent.
Nearly three in ten say that Perry is the candidate who is most likely to fight for his beliefs, with Palin in second place at 23 percent and, significantly, Romney in a distant tie for fourth at just 11 percent.
But Perry’s biggest strength may be the electability factor, with 42 percent saying he has the best chance of beating Obama next year. Some 26 percent say Romney has the best chance of defeating the president.
“That may go a very long way toward explaining his rise in the polls, since three-quarters of all Republicans say they would prefer a candidate who can beat President Obama over one who agrees with them on major issues,” says Holland.
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Fuck Karl Rove.
why does it feel like people vote for leaders, based on their physical appearance.
People are tired of DC insiders. Compare Perry to Romney as governors. …no contest.
Who’s Karl Rove and who cares?
I’m almost to the point I don’t care who runs against the muslim president as long as they can beat him but I am not sold on any of the less than desirable choices offered by the republicans though.
“Why does it feel like people vote for leaders, based on their physical appearance.”
By and large, that’s how humanity has rolled, and it’s more true now than ever.
Abe Lincoln’s opponents attacked his looks, but it was only because actual images of him weren’t ubiquitous that people could dismiss some of the grotesqueness of Lincoln as caracature.
I can’t imagine a bald man would ever get elected president again…amazing to think that McCain was on the ballot in 2008.
Go Perry! You all know where I stand……….
And not to repeat myself, but an opportunity is an opportunity.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/perry-and-profs_593055.html
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Andrew Ferguson inexplicably neglected, in his fascinating and entertaining piece on Rick Perry in the current issue, to raise the question that’s surely on so many readers’ minds: But is he good for the Jews?
To begin to remedy this oversight, I’d call your attention to two posts. One is by the estimable Kinky Friedman, who ran as a liberal third party candidate against Perry for the Texas governorship in 2006 (a race memorably covered for THE WEEKLY STANDARD by Matt Labash. The world’s most famous Jewish cowboy (or so he says) explains why he would vote for Perry for president:
“I have been quoted as saying that when I die, I am to be cremated, and the ashes are to be thrown in Rick Perry’s hair. Yet, simply put, Rick Perry and I are incapable of resisting each other’s charm. He is not only a good sport, he is a good, kindhearted man, and he once sat in on drums with ZZ Top. A guy like that can’t be all bad. When I ran for governor of Texas as an independent in 2006, the Crips and the Bloods ganged up on me. When I lost, I drove off in a 1937 Snit, refusing to concede to Perry. Three days later Rick called to give me a gracious little pep talk, effectively talking me down from jumping off the bridge of my nose….You might call what Rick did an act of random kindness. Yet in my mind it made him more than a politician, more than a musician; it made him a mensch….
“If the issue of the day is jobs and the economy, Rick Perry is certainly the nuts-and-bolts kind of guy you want in there.
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@fubar
It’s got nothing to do with what he looks like. At least for me it doesn’t.
He’s got the skills, the know how, the experience, the drive, the fiscal & social conservatism, the unapologetic religious beliefs, the common sense and very importantly, the belief that power should be returned to the states.
He loves his country and Israel and has nothing but contempt Al Gore’s man made global warming scam.
He also has the ability to unite the party. And the right-leaning independents like him along with what were once known as the blue dog Democrats.
He can win, and put his large texas boot up Obama’s ass.
Neither one is fit to serve in the White House.
This is scary stuff. I hope WZ posts my long post with all the ‘evidence’ in it and important links. Perry is a POSER…. and doesn’t deserve any connection with the TEA PARTY!
Wake up America, this is the NWO president – worse than Obama.
People who think Governor Rick Perry is some sort of conservative savior have NOT done their homework. FOX News has been promoting him as the ‘frontrunner’ ever since he was in the race for only 12 hours and had only garnered 4% in the Iowa straw poll, leading people to think he actually placed high in that poll. FOX still refuses to talk about his abysmal record as Governor. I guess they have their marching orders from those who own the press and have brought us Clinton, Bush, and Obama.
For example, do they know that after his party switch from Democrat to Republican in 1989, Rick Perry said “I will still vote the same principles, only with an R after my name.”
Or, that Rick Perry supported Hillary Clinton’s health care plan.
Or, that Rick Perry pushed for a federal bailout and stimulus funds.
Or, that Rick Perry supported welfare for illegal immigrants and health insurance with Mexico!
Relevant portion of the speech:
“Legislation authored by border legislators Pat Haggerty and Eddie Lucio establishes an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance. This study recognizes that the Mexican and U.S. sides of the border compose one region, and we must address health care problems throughout that region. That’s why I am also excited that Texas Secretary of State Henry Cuellar is working on an initiative that could extend the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border.”
[Link was from governor's website]
Or, that Rick Perry tried to forcibly vaccinate 12-year-old girls against sexually transmitted diseases by Executive Order.
Or, that Rick Perry raised taxes twice.
Or, that Texas’ state debt has more than doubled during Rick Perry’s tenure as governor – pushing Texas to the brink of our constitutional debt limit.
Rick Perry supported ALL of these bad ideas that are inconsistent with how most Republicans understand conservatism, but now is trying to swagger his way into the Tea Party.
But the Texas Tea Party nor the NH Tea Party does NOT support him:
http://www.insideriowa.com/index.cfm?nodeID=17818&audienceID=1&action=display&newsID=14393
Rick Perry was Al Gore’s campaign chair in 1988. When Gore lost, Perry then supported Mike Dukakis.
Read more about Rick Perry’s abysmal record and see that it does not square with his current ‘tea party’, conservative, and newly found religious rhetoric. The man is the most anti-liberty candidate in the lineup!
[Google liberal rick perry and click on the wordpress blog of that name for this info]
[Link to Rick Perry page on NH Tea Party Coalition website]
Thank You Katherine!
Perry 2012!
One link came through but be sure to search on the last link.
Perry opened his mouth in the last debate and confirmed that he sounds dumber than Dumbya… stating the obvious (SS is a ponzi scheme) makes him a genius?
Teacher!
Geez! That be old ‘news’
NOTHING will change my mind.
How about looking @ ”good things” Perry has done???
I don’t want either.
People will vote for Perry because he is the antidote to Obama.
Obama is a giant wet blanket weighing on America, stifling initiative, negating our belief in ourselves. Perry comes across as someone who will lift that blanket.
When will people realize you never get everything you want? You have to vote for the most conservative candidate—who can win.
Rove is a fat fuck and Paultards all need lobotomies.
Fuck em both!
A bunch of Rhino?NWO fags.
Hey sheeple want to see more about Perry/Romney Here ya go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlYG6vh2T-M&feature=player_embeddedyoutube
If rick perry is our answer then we are fucked. He’s no conservative, but he’s certainly better then romney (which is reaally not sayin much).
I’m still waiting for the conservative alaskan native to get in and show these boys how it’s done.
People who keep talking about the NWO…it’s going to happen and this has been all predicted. Nothing and nobody is going to stop it until Jesus comes back. Just stay close to the faith and be prepared to die for it.
That being said…I’m only supporting Cain or Palin.
Why can’t they ask us who we like, instead of telling us who we like or who has the best chance at winning.
It was said Ronald Reagan couldn’t win, guess what, he did!!!
Perry was a Dixiecrat right up to his major conversion at the age of 42.
There is a huge difference between having Dem registration & voting such to actually CAMPAIGNING for them in a professional & highly personal manner.
For a Texan to overlook Gore Family Tradition – in the context of LBJ vs Gore is to work with the enemy….bizarre.
Does Rick have better long term principles to be used in determining the man?
VERY WEAK ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION! GO WITH BACHMAN.