Rick Perry Speech Gets Rave Reviews at the Republican Leadership Conference (with video)

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Lawrence Person

Saturday Rick Perry gave his speech to the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, and he’s getting lots of rave reviews, further fueling speculation that he’ll make a Presidential run:

  • Here’s one from San Antonio.
  • Here’s one from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
  • Even the Statesman piece is mostly respectful.
  • He’s even attracting notice as far away as London, in the pages of England’s leading lefty newspaper, The Guardian.
  • Jay Root of the Texas Tribune puts in his two cents.
  • Carl M. Cannon on Real Clear Politics: “When he finished, the crowd rose to its feet and — in the loudest and most spontaneous demonstration of the three-day meeting — broke into a clapping chant, “‘Run, Rick, run! Run, Rick, run!'”
  • Roger Kimball praises his truth telling: “Conservatives do not win elections by pretending to be liberals.”
  • Reuters says he sounds like a candidate.
  • Perry aides say he’s still several weeks away from deciding.

    • You can judge the speech for yourself:

    You can see why liberals, in their frustration and inability to lay a glove on him, call him “Governor Goodhair”: He looks a lot younger than his actual age of 61.

    Other Perry news (several from Iconoclast’s weekend roundup:

  • Deroy Murdock is urging Perry to run.
  • Over at Real Clear Politics, Jonathan Gurwitz thinks he’s perfectly positioned to do so.
  • The Wall Street journal on Perry’s first 100 days.
  • Finally, just because this is a good place to stick it, here’s The Dallas Morning News on 50 things you need to know about Rick Perry.

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    One Response to Rick Perry Speech Gets Rave Reviews at the Republican Leadership Conference (with video)

    1. Earl Cooley III says:
      June 21, 2011 at 2:59 AM

      I call him Governor Goodhair because Molly Ivins called him that.

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