Posts Tagged ‘William Murchison’
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Jonathan McClellan at The Right Side of Austin has the complete text of Perry’s press release, text message, and tweet.
Texas Iconoclast: “My early guess is that Perry will breeze through the GOP Primary with little difficulty and will continue to hone his anti-Obama message across the country…Perry is, by far, the strongest candidate with the strongest conservative record. Romney vs. Perry is all that’s left and I expect Romney’s support to start melting away.”
Andrew Klaven thought Perry’s speech rocked.
William Murchison: “Rick Perry loves business and the spirit of enterprise even more than Barack Obama seems to look down his nose at same….As a New York Times subscriber of many years’ standing, I can tell you Maureen Dowd, Frank Bruni, and the squinty fanatics of Andrew Rosenthal’s editorial page will come unglued at the idea of Rick Perry approaching unto the seat of Barack Obama. Likewise the Eastern bloggers — the Jacob Weisbergs, the Andrew Sullivans, and so on. Why do the nations so furiously rage together when a Texan comes in view? They just do.”
Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry over at NRO say that Perry will be a formidable candidate, but list five obstalces he will have to overcome. I don’t necessarily agree with their analysis (such as the necessity of winning Iowa).
Roger Simon: “Rick Perry only just announced his presidential run Saturday, but out here in the blue-blue City of Angels I am already detecting severe signs of PDS — Perry Derangement Syndrome.”
Michael Walsh at The New York Post says that it’s now a two man race between Perry and Romney.
Paul A. Rahe at Ricochet thinks Perry needs to tailor his audience more to national (as opposed to Texas) audience.
How the calendar stacks up for a Perry/Romney battle.
Last, and very possibly least, Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs insinuates that Perry is a secret jihadi sympathizer, or at the very least soft on jihad. To call it weak tea would be to suggest that there’s any tea at all; instead, it appears Geller has taken a picture of a tea bag, and then steeped the picture.
Tags:2012 Election, Mitt Romney, Presidential Race, Republicans, Rick Perry, Texas, William Murchison
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Here in Austin it’s suppose to hit 103º for the rest of the week. Insert your own “hot news” related pun here.
Some links:
Paul Burka’s list of best and worst state legislators is now out. Golly, what do you know? Every entry in the worst of list is a Republican? As the Church Lady is wont to say, “How Con-VEN-ient!”
The Texas Tribune insiders offer up their own best and worsts lists. Sen. Wendy “I’m going to force a special session, ensuring that we get our asses kicked by Republicans even harder than we would have otherwise” Davis (D-Ft. Worth) shows up on both lists…
Some analysts believe that our current debt crisis (including unfunded liabilities) is already worse than Greece’s crisis
Texas Senate passes anti-Sanctuary Cities legislation.
This Hendrik Hertzberg New Yorker piece on Rick Perry sounds exactly like you would expect a piece on Rick Perry by a former speechwriter for Jimmy Carter to sound. I would say he buys his smug by the pallet-load from Sam’s, but since the nearest Sam’s Club to Manhattan is in Secaucus, NJ, and we know no self-respecting liberal would think of crossing the Hudson for so crass a purpose as saving money, no doubt it’s hand-crafted artisan smug bought from a tiny, independent smug boutique down in the Village. Oh, and he’s wrong about Cameron Todd Willingham as well, since the real facts show that he was indeed guilty of burning his own two small children to death.
Bill Murchison says that Perry would make a good Presidential candidate, but maybe not the best. (Hey Bill, whatever happened to the Landrum Society? It’s been a long time since I received word of their get-togethers…)
Tags:Cameron Todd Willingham, Greece, Hendrik Hertzberg, LinkSwarm, Paul Burka, Rick Perry, Wendy Davis, William Murchison
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