Rick Perry jokes about remembering cuts

That was a good laugh. He must have had his brains and eggs this morning.

I hate to see my candidate with only 1% in the polls, who does these polls? No one has ever asked me. Last summer I did get two calls both from the same GA number, asking if I thought Cain could be POTUS. I thought he did not have the experience to be POTUS.

Second look at Perry.

Great Job Rick Perry….you got all 3 this time. LOL

Rick Perry has much improved versus Iowa but I think he needs to drop the I am the outsider schtick because his record is not so squeaky clean. I think he needs to stay to his core of defense, religions, and energy. Those are his strong points and he needs to push those. He has got the record of job creation, he has the experience in energy and there were several opportunities to push those points. Why he did not fully take them….gosh I wish he had…because it would have been great!

The ”I am an outsider” is only good for a short time and then people look at his record and see conflicts.

Not that I don’t like Perry because he is one of my choices but just he needs to push his strong points because he is lowman on the pole with Huntsman. The I am the only one different won’t play because they are all Republicans.

I still can’t back Perry. Sometimes, decisions on governing come from the gut, and we see that Perry’s gut is often wrong. His decision to mandate health care in the form of injected pharmaceuticals, and his decision to coddle illegal alien criminals, as opposed to cracking down on them are just two examples. We don’t need a guy with those kinds of instincts in the Oval Office. Sure, he may talk a good game, sure has has a good idea, or two, but the negative aspects that necessarily accompany those good ideas just doesn’t seem worth the cost, to me.

Somehow I found Romney often beating around the bush when answering. People should advise him to be concise, direct, and to a point.

Ron Paul’s answer of letting the house of congress and senate deciding when a country goes into war, assuage me somewhat. However; he is still good in criticism only with no workable/realistic plan in place. He is selling the other side of a leftist’s utopia, thus the same type of shrill and hysterical supporters flock to his cause.

I may not like Newt, but somehow the other candidates differ and listen to him more than at any candidates. He has a potential to be a good leader if someone or if there are people around him who can make him focus, temper, as well as fight him on his over running ideas. I know of people like him who welcome and relish a good fight from anyone who is not afraid to face, debate, and fight them. At this point of crisis, your country needs a forceful man who can bark (not afraid to tell it as it is) at people into action in guiding your country to a difficult and painful but necessary actions and direction. Considering Newt as a candidate has been a difficult realization, it took a lot of debates and watching him answer and face difficult questions that would cut a lesser man.

As for Santorum, he could be a probable leader if and only if there are people who will make him and hold him to a promise of a way smaller government. This candidate should be properly vetted as not much is known yet of his past policies and affiliations.

Huntsman’s stance on pandering to China even knowing that there is a great trade imbalance unfairly favoring China will be his downfall. He is not a good negotiator and leader for the US, he will hand US to China in a silk lined basket. His fear of losing China’s trade is misplaced and unbecoming for a leader. With the nature of US trade imbalance, China should fear losing US trade. It is time for US and other western countries to learn how to negotiate well. If there is one thing the Chinese respect and have mastered well is negotiating, they expect it. If other countries are not prepared to walk out of the negotiating table with the Chinese, they will never budge and respect one’s negotiating technique. They will only give in the moment one is about to or on the process of walking out. That is how business is done in Asia. In this, Huntsman, no matter how well he speaks Chinese, has failed in his understanding of the Chinese and how they do business.

As for Perry, if he improves more and getting more calm and comfortable in answering questions, he could be the best of those choices. Please more of overtime for his tutors, coaches and advisers in getting him well on his way to viability.