Rick Perry, Erick Erickson and Georgia maneuvering
Erick Erickson, the former Macon city councilman and current night-time talk jock, may finally be making his mark as a next-generation provocateur within Republican ranks.
A Saturday annual gathering of RedState.com, a conservative web site edited by Erickson, will be the site of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s entrance into the 2012 GOP presidential race. From Politico.com:
Rick Perry intends to use a speech in South Carolina on Saturday to make clear that he’s running for president….
According to two sources familiar with the plan, the Texas governor will remove any doubt about his White House intentions during his appearance at a RedState conference in Charleston.
It’s uncertain whether Saturday will mark a formal declaration, but Perry’s decision to disclose his intentions the same day as the Ames straw poll — and then hours later make his first trip to New Hampshire — will send shock waves through the race and upend whatever results come out of the straw poll.
Erickson, the night host for AM 750 and 95.5 FM News/Talk WSB was already having a good day. A Washington Post history of the debt-ceiling debate named him a supporting player on the side of House Republicans:
Erick Erickson, editor of RedState.com, a conservative blog with a large following, attacked the House leadership’s apparent willingness to compromise. He implored rank-and-file conservatives to stand strong.
“Fear has no business entering into your negotiations,” he wrote. “There is no fallback. There is no alternative. Hold the freaking line.”
But Erickson aside, a Perry candidacy raises the pertinent question of what his Georgia operation is likely to look like. We’re picking up some talk of some Capitol heavyweights entertaining the idea of backing the Texas governor. Possibly Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle. Maybe Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
Former state senator John Douglas of Social Circle appears to be the current coordinator – and operator of the Georgians for Rick Perry page on Facebook.
Among those who have hit the “like” button: state Sen. Ronnie Chance, R-Tyrone, and First Lady Sandra Deal. Whose husband is still – at least formally – a backer of GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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unpossible
August 9th, 2011
6:36 am
he’s dumber then gw
Ga Values
August 9th, 2011
6:55 am
Perry is just another Bush/ LBJ Texas politician.. I don’t trust Newt but would vote for him before Perry.
Beau
August 9th, 2011
9:22 am
The demagogic politics of the 21st century may have limits. There are in every society, goods and conditions to which every person feels they are fairly entitled. Such an expectation may include safety, satisfying employment, food, little government interference or it may include broad government social programs depending on the relevant political history of the regime.
When these value expectations are not met, societal dissatisfaction can have grave consequences. The riots we are seeing in the UK may be an example of the playing out of such a theory.
Let’s hope that our leaders are keeping a mindful eye and heart to the expectations of the US public and that they cast votes for policy that will avoid the relative deprivation between the voter’s expectations and the ability of government to meet them.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
August 9th, 2011
10:28 am
With the UK’s masses awareness of the infamous treason of their “7/7″ subway bombing’s twin to Bush’s and Cheney’s “Northwoods” 9/11 for false war and Big Oil, England and its “royals” are getting what they deserve.
We must head off the same development by establishing Righteousness before the fact and bringing Bush’s and Cheney’s Anti-Christ Fifth Column faction to justice and full expropriation.
Rick Parry, like his “good buddy” George W. Bush, is no man. Any watching his fraud and not recognizing the same sociopathy that found Bush entertaining various gay lovers in the White House has some wisdom to achieve.
Erick Erickson is a flack for the same evil, born and raised as a scion of Big Oil “planted” in Georgia to be groomed as an apparent real American: he is not one of us.
Grover Norquist and Newt Gingrich have recently been publicly identified as homosexual lovers on national TV. Have there been any lawsuits by those one would think might otherwise have been damaged, were it not true?
A false spirit is on America and those who count themselves servants of G-d must expunge it by casting the Beast of the identified Fifth Column of the Roman Anti-Christ, and it minions like Erickson, Perry, Gingrich, Norquist, Boehner, and Pelosi, into the Pit. If we don’t “they” will destroy our Nation and our covenant.
Dick Cheney
August 9th, 2011
12:14 pm
I’d like to amend my earlier statement that ‘deficits don’t matter’ — what I meant to say was that deficits that are incurred by GOP Governors/Presidents don’t matter. Just cause Texas’ debts have doubled under Perry means he’s like my favorite President, also from Texas.
Thanks for your time.
Now please turn off that microwave, it makes my heart go pitty-pat a bit to fast.
DJ Sniper
August 9th, 2011
12:50 pm
Rick Perry as president? Give me a break. This guy needs to stay right where he is. First of all, people need to realize that a lot of these jobs that have been created in Texas are minimum wage jobs, so it’s not like people are making the type of money they should be. Also, he talks about state’s rights and what not, then turns around and says that there should be a federal ban on abortion. I’m very skeptical about any politician that wears their religion on their sleeve like he does. That prayer event he had last weekend was clearly pandering to the right wing evangelicals. How this guy keeps getting elected is beyond me.