Texas Gov. Rick Perry will make "a definitive announcement that he is in the 2012 race for the presidency Saturday," aides told Fox News.
In a time where America needs real leadership, voters want a candidate who can lead, balance the budget, preserve America’s Judeo-Christian principles, reform Washington, and maintain unwavering love for this great nation.
Thus far, President Obama has failed to deliver as Commander-in-Chief on all accounts.
Notable failures include the 800-billion dollar ‘stimulus’ package, Cash for Clunkers program, ObamaCare, continuing resolutions, surging unemployment, a fourth war in Libya, and the recent downgrade of our credit from AAA to AA+.
If Obama wins a second term, Americans can expect more failed policies, exorbitant taxes, and no prospect of economic recovery.
Come 2012, who will lead us in the right direction?
Michael Reagan is confident that someone Reaganesque will run for president. He believes that person is Rick Perry:
Gov. Rick Perry is the "Most Reaganesque" of all potential candidates (besides Michael Reagan).
Many people parallel Rick Perry to former George W. Bush.
Indeed, both men hail from Texas and were governors, but they bat for two completely different teams. The Bushes are part of the Texas Republican establishment, while Rick Perry is viewed as an outsider.
National Review Online’s Kevin Williamson dispelled myths about Governor Perry being Bush 2.0:
Speaking of presidents: Rick Perry has a complicated relationship with the Bushes, which is to say that he’s hesitant to criticize them and they hate his guts. W. stayed well away from Perry’s gubernatorial-primary melee against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose oatmeal-mushy Republicanism has a distinctly Bushian savor to it. But the mark of W. was all over the campaign against Perry.
Moreover, Rick Perry’s announcement will further irk establishment Republicans like Karl Rove. Politico’s Kenneth Vogel highlights their difficult relationship below.
He represents the status quo,” shrugged Rep. Ron Paul, whose third bid for the White House has been eclipsed for months by his fellow Texan’s shadow campaign, which finally becomes official this weekend.
And no, he said, Perry hasn’t outsmarted him and the rest of the field by avoiding the spotlight for so long. “Maybe he’s not up to the challenge,” Paul said.
Eight candidates shared the stage at Iowa State University for the third debate of the season, taking swipes at the president and each other, and sparring over the debt crisis, war and gay marriage . Most will return Saturday for the Iowa Straw Poll, the same day Perry will enter the race in South Carolina, as aides confirmed Thursday. So his specter was unavoidable.
“That’s just one more politician,” said pizza magnate Herman Cain, though others seemed to be saving their barbs for the next debate, after Labor Day.
“There’s room in the race for Governor Perry” or Sarah Palin , said Rep. Michele Bachmann , though Perry has signaled he’ll come at her hard, appealing to evangelicals with his prayer rally last weekend, and by planning his first Iowa stop in Bachmann’s hometown, Waterloo, on Sunday.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who lost his top campaign staff to Perry, called him a “very formidable person.”
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who like Perry has staked a claim as a job-creating governor, said Republicans should welcome anyone who “brings a little savvy on the subject.”
While Perry continued to reap attention with his lengthy political tease, rivals were left to sweat in the Iowa sun, shaded only by his long shadow.
At the state fair in Des Moines , national front-runner Mitt Romney spent part of the afternoon at the Iowa Republicans booth, chatting up volunteers and voters in plain sight of stacks of pro-Perry pamphlets with the slogan “a proven conservative who will win” — a clear swipe at him and Bachmann.
“We’re getting a great response,” said Jeff Brown, a volunteer from Michigan, standing nearby in a burnt orange Americans for Rick Perry T-shirt.
As for Romney, he was more noncommittal.
“A good man. A fine friend,” he said of Perry while walking the fairgrounds, shaking hands.
Later, in the debate, Romney touted the value of a long career in the private sector — an asset Perry lacks, though it was at most a veiled reference to the Texan. Still, the comment provoked a sharp retort from Californian Bob Schuman, Americans for Rick Perry’s national director.
“Being a successful governor as opposed to being a mediocre governor trumps being a businessman,” he said.
Much of the night’s fireworks came from the two Minnesotans on stage.
Baited by Fox News anchorman Brit Hume , Bachmann and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty engaged in a smack-down that left the half-dozen others looking like bystanders to a car wreck.
“In Congress, her record of accomplishment and results is nonexistent,” Pawlenty said. Bachmann shot back that, as governor, Pawlenty pushed a health care mandate and cap-and-trade policy “that sounds a lot more like Barack Obama” than a Republican president.
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