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Romney remains the GOP’s best bet
One year from today, the 2012 Republican National Convention opens in Tampa, Fla.
Today’s question is: Whom will the GOP be nominating during its four-day extravaganza?
No beating around bushes here: Mitt Romney.
Yes, I know about that latest Gallup poll showing Texas Gov. Rick Perry zooming into first place among rank-and-file Republicans. He topped Romney 29 to 17 percent, with Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann emerging as the only other candidates in double digits.
Perry is all sparkle and glitter — a brand new candidate with a brand new candidate’s appeal. His strength among tea partyers is something to behold. That same Gallup poll showed Perry topping Romney and Bachmann among Republicans who identify themselves as tea party backers by a solid 21 points.
That’s formidable.
But the Gallup poll came as Perry’s much anticipated announcement had reached its zenith. Gallup went into the field just four days after Perry kicked off his campaign with his “It is time to get America working again” speech.
Perry’s numbers may never be higher.
Romney’s standing has been on the wane for weeks. But his prospects remain strong because of timing, his own record of executive experience and Perry’s penchant for uttering the kinds of quotes that quickly undercut poll numbers.
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Romney, remember, is not only a one-time governor. He was co-founder and head of Bain Capital, a highly profitable private equity firm that became one of the largest in the country.And he pulled the 2002 Winter Olympics’ fat out of the fire.
That type of successful executive experience will contrast well with so many Americans’ doubts about Obama’s leadership.
Perry has his own economic credentials, although critics are calling his achievements paper-thin. Many of those Texas jobs created in recent years don’t come with benefits and don’t pay well either.
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All the hoopla about Rick Perry entering the GOP presidential contest is like telling kids a new breakfast cereal is in the cupboard and it has a shiny trinket inside. The kids go wild, pounce on the box, dig-dig-dig through it, and after finding the prize, discover it wasn’t as cool or useful as they hoped.
Stay tuned. More to come on Perry…
H/t Frank
► Jayde Wyatt
Please do more to expose Perry for what he is! He’s a fraud!!
This guy balanced his budget with stimulus funds. He gets credit for Texas being Texas not because he did anything to manage his state’s funds appropriately. You guys are going to have to get your hands dirty. Perry has a lot of people fooled.
Of all the candidates who are now in the race or are likely to get in the race in the future, I feel that Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are the most qualified and the most Presidential. Today a friend of mine asked me why I was choosing Mitt over Rick. After explaining my reasons to him, he told I should write them down and share them. I will preference my reasoning by stating that I feel these are both men of good motive. I believe either would be better than the man serving in the office presently. If you get a chance to speak with either man you will get a sense of genuine and selfless concern for what is happening in our country, which I do not get from the narcissist presently running our country.
The reason I choose Mitt is the scope and range of his executive function experience during crisis gives him the edge in a head to head matchup with Obama. The office of the President is the senior executive function within our nation. Although Mr. Perry has a great deal of executive function experience running the state of Texas, I feel that Mitt has performed a greater scope and wider range of executive functions as Governor of Massachusetts, the CEO of Bain and Company and co-founder of Bain Capital, and the CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics. One could argue that successfully running a state the size of Texas gives Mr. Perry more government executive function experience than any of the other candidates, and puts him far ahead of our current President. I will say that he has been successful even with the bad economy. Much of this success however, I feel is due to the fact that Texas is an oil state. The high price of oil, and record sales revenues and profits, in the oil industry gave Texas revenues and job growth that most of the other states have not seen during this economic downturn. I am not saying this made his job easy, but it has let him leverage resources that most states could not. I feel that the current situation in Washington, with excessive spending, high budget deficits, and ultra-partisanship, is much closer to situation Mitt walked into and successfully dealt with when he became Governor of Massachusetts than it is to the situation Rick walked into in Texas. In addition his experience in venture investment demonstrates his ability to choose enterprises worth backing and gives him first hand knowlege of the obstacles they face, something that will help in the development of policies that will actually create jobs.
I also feel Mitt has the edge when it comes to a general election against Obama. His positions on the issues are a little bit less extreme and a whole lot more inclusive. There are a lot of independents that are extremely disenfranchised with the direction Obama has been taking our country. Many voted for Obama because they were so anti-Bush. Although they don’t like what Obama has been doing, they hate Bush more. I believe Mitt Romney has a much better chance of picking up these voters than Rick Perry does. I believe the similarities that Rick shares in his background and his policies with George Bush will work against him in a general election. Make no mistake as bad a President as Obama is he will not be easy to beat. We need every vote we can get. I am backing Mitt not only because he is the best qualified and right man for the job, but because I believe politically he has the best chance of beating Obama.