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Subscribe to RSSBACHMANN: Per NBC’s Jamie Novogrod, Bachmann will make only one campaign stop today, to a company called Competitive Edge, in Clive, Iowa. A printing and branding business, the company’s website says it offers “imprinted promotional products and custom imprinted products for all of your advertising specialty needs.” The campaign has also released the schedule for the start of next week’s tour of South Carolina. Bachmann will appear in Spartanburg ,and Greenville, S.C., on Monday.
Speaking of next week, the campaign has pulled out of a town hall event that had been planned in Windham, NH, Sunday night. The Eagle Tribune, a North Boston-area newspaper, runs a piece on the cancelation. According to the newspaper, the campaign attributes the move to travel issues, and tells local Republican Party members it will return to the Granite State after Labor Day.
The Des Moines Register reports that Iowa’s Tea Party leader, Ryan Rhodes, has endorsed Bachmann.
And the Newsweek controversy continues to provoke conversation. At Salon, liberal writer Joan Walsh writes the photo isn’t sexist, disagreeing with the National Organization for Women.
GINGRICH: GOP 12: “When asked about his viability as a candidate, Newt Gingrich points to last week's ‘Eastern Iowa Picnic and Rally to Meet the Next President.’ ‘I think of the people who have been active, if you go and look at the press reports of the Johnson County picnic Friday night -- where every single reporter from Fox News to the Des Moines Register to the local papers to MSNBC – every one of them said that with Pawlenty and two other candidates there that I clearly dominated the three of them, and I clearly was the winner of that particular event.’ The other two candidates were Rick Santorum and Thad McCotter.”
HUNTSMAN: He gets the endorsement today of Jeb Bush Jr., who writes an entry on Huntsman’s campaign blog.
PERRY: Per NBC’s Carrie Dann, the Texas Tribune digs up a 2009 interview in which Perry, talking Texas history to a group of tech bloggers in his office, jokes about secession. “When we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation,” the governor can be heard saying. “And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we’re kind of thinking about that again.”
Perry did a fundraising letter for Citizens Against Government Waste, in which he slams government spending on Amtrak and arts programs.
Gallup finds Perry would debut in second place in the 2012 field and would boast the highest "positive intensity" score of any candidate.
Perry last night to a reporter who staked out a fundraiser he attended in Austin: “I’m back in the boots!”
Perry strategist Dave Carney talked to the Des Moines Register about accusations that the governor's suspected rollout is stepping on Iowa's straw poll: "Many of the fine folks have been in the race for months and some years and have been waging a pitched battle leading to this point. Their efforts will be rewarded Saturday in Ames."
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"And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we're kind of thinking about that again."
You can't speak for all Texans, Perry. But, you are welcome to leave - anytime.
Richard348249 remember there are lots of us Natives who would invite you to leave as well...we are ready to get out of the mess that politicans have made in Washington and would welcome the thought....hummmm now what did they call it...or better yet as Davey Crockett said, I am going to Texas and the rest can go to hell....
We know how that worked out of Davey.
You'll forgive us, Governor Perry, if we don't leave the light on for you.
"After questions were raised about his remarks at the April rally, Perry repeated his contention that Texas had the right to secede, but historians say Texas has the right to break itself into five separate states — not to form an independent country."
I've posted this before, during Texas' annexation into the United States they had the right to break into five separate states in the future. This would allow the US for future annexation of western and midwestern territories that could be admitted as free states. It was a way to evenly balance free vs. slave states in the union.
Perry should know his history better, Texas doesn't have the right to secede even a Texas transplant like me knew that. Another note despite the majority of history books, the Texas revolution was not a battle for freedom and independence. The Texans, at that time Mexican citizens, rebelled against Mexico to avoid paying taxes and to allow slavery, illegal in Mexico, into Texas.
Oh well Rick, you know what they say: You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave! (Hotel California, the Eagles).
However, please, please Texas boot scoot right on out of here, got to be the ugliest state I've ever been in by far, and yes, I still hold a grudge against Texas for the way they treated two of the finest musicians ever - Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughan, if they can't even appreciate great music you know they don't have enough sense to do anything else right.
So Rick and company - please don't let the back or front door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya on your way to Mexico.
And it was transplants who fought and died at the Alamo for Texas.
Rick Perry is a fraud and a liar. He does not have an inside track to "GOD", He is using that as Campaign stratedgy. Texas is facing a shortfall in the budget of $24million dollars. Healthcare and education ranks near the bottom of all States. He is part of the "good ole boy gang" Check out his college transcript. He is not intellectually capable of leading the Nation. He would be the perfect puppet for the Tea Party. Do we really need that? No President is a superman, nor can they work miracles. Speaking of miracles, Perry prayed for rain and we are still in a severe drought. Perry prayed for our Nation and on Monday the dow dropped 634 points. I am not saying that Perry caused any of this, I am just pointing out that he has no special powers.
This Yahoo, Perry, is a discredit to the Texas governorship!
MEMO to all voters:
Perry's greatest accomplishments in Texas:
A 34 billion dollar budget deficit
Texas Ranks #1 in population living below the poverty line ( 17.2 % ).
•Worst environmental record in the United States
•Ranks #1 in illiteracy
•Ranks # 1 on the poorest gun regulations in the US and highest per capita gun murder rates in the US
•Ranks #1 with the highest real estate taxes per $1,000 value of a home in the United States
•Ranks #1 in the lowest high school graduation rate
•Ranks #1 with the highest interest rates “pay day” companies can charge
•Ranks # 1 in those making below minimum wage
•Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in Teacher Pay
•Ranks # 1 (26.5%) who lack health insurance
•Ranks # 1 (20.3%) of children who lack health insurance
•Ranks # 1 in the highest per capita executions in the world
•Ranks # 50th in $ spent for Medicaid for the poor and children
•Ranks 50th ( dead last ) in $ spent on its citizens
•Ranks # 1 in the # of food insecure children.
•Ranks 49th ( the 2nd lowest ) in Medicaid $ given to nursing homes
•Ranks 2nd highest in teen births
•Ranks #2 with the highest home insurance rates
•Ranks #2 with the highest sales tax
•Ranks 49th in $ funded for the mentally ill
•Ranks #1 with the highest overall pollution rate
•Ranks #1 in adults under correctional control
•Ranks #1 in adults under probation
Thank you, Soros Monkey, for your spam.
Rick Perry and Texas can leave....maybe, I am not sure of that. However, if they can leave, there are many considerations that the Texas windbag should consider. For instance, whose currency would they use? Certainly not ours, as they would be a foreign country, they would have to make their own, does TExas have that much gold? Then there is the problem of immigration, the border between Mexico and Texas, and if Mexico, or drug runners wants to take TExas does TExas have the military resources to stop them, as our military would have to leave.
As with all wind and Tea party members, they talk a great talk, but have no real iea as to what it is they are doing.
Perry was joking about secession. Zealots have no sense of humor, that is clear.
As a native Texan I didn't find anything funny about Perry's "joke". I love my state but have no intention of living in the country of Texas over the USA. The thing is, he wasn't joking he was trying to score political points with the tea party, maybe he did. But he also pissed off a bunch of texans who consider themselves americans before texans. Saying it was a "joke" now is the same thing as when some dumbass says something insensitive and then says oh I was only kidding, no you weren't you just forgot who your audience was.
Perry has stated this before, and it did not sound like a joke. Zealot Tea party extremeists do not joke, and that is exactly what Perry acts like.
Lets get this straight. It's a joke when he's talking to 85% of the country, he's serious when he's talking to the 15% of tea people. Just depends on who his audience is. Just like everything else with poor old Rick.
Like I tell my kids, it's a joke when everybody laughs. Somethings we don't "joke" about.