my conspiracy theory about Rick Perry

[bubblyandblue]

"If Rick Perry wants to run, he should. If he doesnt he should not. But the press should shut up about it."
Problem is, the press these days informs us like its a soap opera. I have not seen the press dig deeper into issues beyond the polls. Seems like our representatives and the press think we are stupid based on the reporting and politics. I know the financial institutions count on our ignorance - if they think we are getting wise they get out and dis-inform us.

[marshabar1]

The Propaganda Arm of the Democratic Party expects to hand us a turd candidate in 2012 as they did in 2008. Hopefully conservatives are awake to this scheme. Whichever conservative or moderate the MSM praises is by definition a turd in the punchbowl. They don't like ANY conservative or moderate. They like liberal progressives and want to destroy conservatives and moderates. Don't be fooled by all the pretense.

[Deleted]

They are scared of Perry because Texas is kicking butt in this pathetic economy as leading job creator. Of course Obama wants to get rid of him. They don't want jobs, they want dependents that will vote Dem in 2012 and praise Obamacare.

[bubblyandblue]

Amazing.

[marshabar1]

Jun 22, 2011 14:58:48 GMT -5 @bubblyandblue said:

Amazing.

Truth is amazing.

IT is certainly no secret that Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is a darling of the news media. Reporters routinely attach “maverick,” “straight talker” and “patriot” to him like Homeric epithets. Chris Matthews of MSNBC has even called the press “McCain’s base” — a comment that Mr. McCain himself has jokingly reiterated. The mainstream news media by and large don’t cover Mr. McCain; they canonize him. Hence the moniker on liberal blogs: St. McCain.

What is less obvious, however, is exactly why the press swoons for him. The answer, which says a great deal about both the political press and Mr. McCain, may be that he is something political reporters really haven’t seen in quite a while, perhaps since John F. Kennedy.

Seeming to view himself and the whole political process with a mix of amusement and bemusement, Mr. McCain is an ironist wooing a group of individuals who regard ironic detachment more highly than sincerity or seriousness. He may be the first real postmodernist candidate for the presidency — the first to turn his press relations into the basis of his candidacy.

Of course this is not how the press typically talks about Mr. McCain. The conventional analysis of his press popularity begins with his military service. If campaigns are primarily about narratives, he has a good and distinguished one, and it would take a very curmudgeonly press corps to dismiss it, even though that is exactly what a good portion of it did to Senator John Kerry’s service record in 2004. Reporters also often cite Mr. McCain’s bonhomie as the reason for their affection. As Ryan Lizza described it last month in The New Yorker, a typical campaign day has Mr. McCain rumbling from one stop to another on his bus, the Straight Talk Express, sitting in the rear on a horseshoe-shaped leather couch surrounded by reporters and talking “until the room is filled with the awkward silence of journalists with no more questions.”

The Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, citing the conviviality during the 2000 campaign, wrote that “a trip on his bus is, well, a trip.” And as the party master, Mr. McCain is no longer the reporters’ subject. He is their pal.

While other candidates have tried to schmooze reporters this way without success, what has made Mr. McCain’s fraternization so effective is that it comes with candor — or at least the illusion of it. Over the years, reporter after reporter has remarked upon his seemingly unguarded frankness. In 1999, William Greider wrote in Rolling Stone that, “While McCain continues examining his flaws, the reporters on the bus are getting a bit edgy. Will somebody tell this guy to shut up before he self-destructs?”

Imagine, reporters protecting a candidate from himself! But, then again, since the reporters on the bus liked Mr. McCain too much to report on his gaffes, he really didn’t need protection. His candor was without consequence. It was another blandishment to the press.

Yet however much his accessibility, amiability and candor may have defined the news media’s love affair with him in 2000, and however much they continue to operate that way in 2008, there is also something different and more complicated at work now. Joan Didion once described a presidential campaign as a closed system staged by the candidates for the news media — one in which the media judged a candidate essentially by how well he or she manipulated them, and one in which the electorate were bystanders.

www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/opinion/26gabler.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


Right up until he got the nomination. Then came the beatings.

[txbo]

Jun 22, 2011 14:56:32 GMT -5 @krickitt said:

They are scared of Perry because Texas is kicking butt in this pathetic economy as leading job creator. Of course Obama wants to get rid of him. They don't want jobs, they want dependents that will vote Dem in 2012 and praise Obamacare.

[marshabar1]

Cant argue it so must roll on floor laughing. Nice ploy. That'll change minds for sure.

[txbo]

Jun 22, 2011 15:39:02 GMT -5 @marshabar1 said:

Cant argue it so must roll on floor laughing. Nice ploy. That'll change minds for sure.

Has anyone here ever changed their mind?

[Deleted]

I've modified my ideas many times from things I have learned on the board. We can all giggle here, or we can offer up things some people may not know, and may read. Heck, I always thought I was liberal until I started reading political boards and found out I am really center right.

[marshabar1]

I've changed my mind on some things. I used to think that Republicans were all good.

I still think liberals are all bad in terms of ideology and policy and even in terms of morality as displayed by the political modus operandi in all aspects. The more I learn the more strongly do I want to see liberalism defeated in this country. So I've changed in that way. Grown stronger in my commitment to speak out against liberal leaders and liberal policies.

[txbo]

Jun 22, 2011 16:20:25 GMT -5 @marshabar1 said:

I've changed my mind on some things. I used to think that Republicans were all good.

I still think liberals are all bad in terms of ideology and policy and even in terms of morality as displayed by the political modus operandi in all aspects. The more I learn the more strongly do I want to see liberalism defeated in this country. So I've changed in that way. Grown stronger in my commitment to speak out against liberal leaders and liberal policies.

Therefore, 50% of the American population is morally corrupt and bad to the core, and 50% are good, kind, and loving citizens. This is the reason for

[safeharbor37]

Rick Perry is probably the strongest of the [potential] candidates. The problem is that he's waited so long to express an interest. Texas has very nearly the best economic record during this latest recession and that is his strongest point. Also, he doesn't have to deal with the resistance of some conservatives to vote for a Mormon and he hasn't initiated a state run universal medical plan. Otherwise, he's similar to Romney, but still, he is at least perceived as more conservative than Romney.
Superficially, Perry looks like the best choice for a conservative Republican, but Romney might very well stand a better chance in attracting independent, moderate voters. Since this thread is about Perry, I'd just suggest that his strength to liability ratio is about as good as anyone, the fact that he's a Republican Governor of Texas is probably his biggest liability.