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Rick Perry Leads Republican Field and Is Fixin' to Trounce Obama in 2012

Gov. Rick Perry officially declared his candidacy for the presidency on Saturday, August 13. At that time, he took his place among a handful of other candidates, the apparent front runners of which were conservative Michele Bachmann and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) Jr. Mitt Romney. Following his announcement, the MSM dutifully did their best to undermine the success Perry has enjoyed as governor and Romney criticized him for never running a private business.

But that was three days ago.

And today, August 16, Gov. Perry has an 11% lead over Romney in the polls and a 16% lead over Bachmann.

Let’s face it folks, since Perry announced we’ve had 72 hours of watching him shake hands in the heartland and giving speeches in the Texas dialect. The speeches have been focused on tax cuts, jobs creation, getting government out of the people’s business, and labeling Obama the greatest threat facing our country.

The speeches have also contained a heavy dose of Perry’s love for God and country (two things noticeably absent from the speeches Obama’s been reading off teleprompters since taking office).

Perry connects with Americans because he is an American. By that I mean he is salt-of-the-earth America. He wears boots, wears jeans, says grace before meals, and draws his own pistol to shoot coyotes if they bother his dogs during his morning jog.

Seriously folks: Can you imagine watching Obama or Biden or any number liberal democrats trying to figure out how to load a pistol, much less draw one and shoot? On the other hand, Perry can shoot on the run.

Again, Perry connects with Americans because he is one of them. He’s been the longest serving governor in the history of the state of Texas because he connected with Texans on a deeper level as well. (It’s been well publicized that 4 out of every 10 jobs created in United States in the last two years were created in Texas, that Texas enjoyed a surplus at a time when other states were considering bankruptcy, and that doctors in Texas have enjoyed the benefits of Perry’s institution of a “loser pays” rule to cut down on frivolous lawsuits.)

I remember Perry’s April 15, 2009 speech to the Tea Party in Austin, TX: especially the way he openly identified himself with them at a time when Big Sis, Eric Holder, and the rest of the DC crowd were maligning Tea Partiers as extremists and knuckle dragging hayseeds.

To the Tea Partiers Perry said, “I’m just not real sure you’re a bunch of right-wing extremists. But if you are, we’re with you.” And to the critics in DC he added, “We will not stand our pockets being picked, our children’s future being mortgaged, [and] our rights being taken away.”

Folks, I know that a lot can happen between now and election day 2012. But if the Republican field somehow remains the way it is at present, Gov. Rick Perry and his merry band of “right-wing extremists” are fixin’ to trounce Obama at the polls.


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