In a major development in the GOP nomination campaign, Governor Rick Perry of Texas yesterday became the first sitting governor in the nation to endorse a Presidential candidate. Perry’s choice: Rudy Giuliani. (Hat tip: GP Reader and Patriot Friend Dan Moho.)
As Governor of the great state of Texas, I know the value of experience and proven leadership. Over the last few months I studied all of the candidates, and in the end, I knew that Rudy Giuliani was the man most qualified to unite America and lead with a clear sense of purpose and vision for moving our country forward. The next four years will present our great nation with many challenges. To overcome those obstacles we will need an experienced leader.
Recently I have spent a great deal of time with Rudy, talking about his beliefs and his vision for America. I was fully convinced that Rudy is the one who will keep this nation safe, move our economy forward, secure our borders and put strict constructionist judges on the Supreme Court.
But don’t just take my word for it. This week both USA Today/Gallup and CNN came out with polls showing Rudy as the clear frontrunner and the only candidate capable of beating Hillary next November. Rudy’s double-digit lead demonstrates that his optimistic vision for change in America is resonating with voters all across the country.
I am proud and excited to do everything I can to make sure Rudy becomes our next President. I’m asking you to do the same. It doesn’t take much. Any support you can give will help Rudy win the nomination and defeat Hillary next November.
I’d also ask all of my readers to do their part to help Rudy’s campaign. Click here to donate or volunteer for our next President.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
A Perry endorsement is practically the Kiss of Death for Rudy. Perry is pretty well disliked here in Texas. The only reason Governor Good Hair still has a job is that he was the least obnoxious of the candidate this last time around.
Vic, seems like Perry’s low approval ratings are endemic to governors all over the US –irrespective of party, record, or progress. It’s the “I Hate Govt” ‘tude in hyperdrive. Even the newly elected NY governor Spitzer’s disapproval rating hovers at 57-54%.
Michigan has an even more unpopular governor in “Queen Jenny” Granholm (67% disapproval rating and rising) but of the voters who last voted for her in 2006, nearly 83% would make the same choice if the election were held today. She’s in the 1st half of her 2nd term and she’s been unpopular since 2003.
What’s important about endorsements of governors is that they lend their political machine –troops, money, connections– to the endorsee’s in-state effort… not that they translate their approval rating to the endorsee.
Here in Michigan, Queen Jenny will endorse Hillary in a few weeks and that pretty much will seal the State for Clinton. I’m not sure that Perry can do THAT for Rudy.
Rudy’s performance– and I use that word advisedly–in front of the NRA, I’d really rather see somebody trustworthy keep Hilary out of the White House. We really don’t need to elect a RINO to do that; perhaps it’s time to contemplate the old “Red State” logo that Gay Patriot use to run.
Rudy vs. Hilary is a bicoastal play, flying over the flyover states..and one we’ll regret no matter who wins.
I say it’s time to join “The Hunt for a FRed November.”
I confess, I care less and less about who wins with each passing day. As this campaign drags on and on and on, it just seems to reinforce how much all the candidates suck.
Great idea the parties had of kicking off one campaign as soon as the last one was over.
Vic, seems like Perry’s low approval ratings are endemic to governors all over the US –irrespective of party, record, or progress.
Sarah Palin’s approval numbers are the exception… as high as 90% in some polls. Why? Because she’s standing up to her own party (the GOP) in opposing corruption and waste.
Crist still has a 65% approval (60% among democrats). However, if the property tax kerfuffle doesn’t get solved, the honeymoon may end quickly.
Maggie writes, singing the conservatives’ “anyone but” song “Rudy vs. Hilary is a bicoastal play, flying over the flyover states..and one we’ll regret no matter who wins.”
Sorry to inform you, but Rudy and Hillary are both keenly watched candidates, well attended campaign stops in Michigan… a “fly-over” state in your estimation. If you think those two make an East-West coast-only battle, you don’t understand the Midwest Maggie.
Michigan used to be a centrist, constructive progressive GOP state and home to Gerry Ford, Fred Upton, Dave Camp, Bill Milliken and lots of moderate, indepedent-friendly GOPers. It’s only been the last decade+ that the BigTent folded up shop and started doing anti-RINO PurityTest. Most of those people you and others here would brand or tag RINOs are better, more loyal Republicans than those discredited conservatives like Hastert, Delay and company who led the Congress to bloated ruin.
Yeah, put your hopes in Freddie boi, his supposed but mecurial conservative bona fides and an unrealistic expectation he’ll stop being a lazy greedy lobbyist actor. What he really is to conservatives is a shallow, reedy reflection of RR and that’s who they’d prefer to run in 2008… RR risen from the crypt.
Sorry, but that dog ain’t hunting. RINOs. Bi-coastal candidates. Gheez.
Just what is a centrist, constructive progressive state?
I know what a centrist, constuctrive progressive political party is: One that plays nice with the liberals and is happy with the crumbs and an occasional bone. You know, the field hands who can scrub up and come onto the porch to look through the windows of the big house on special occasions.
Michigan used to be a centrist, constructive progressive GOP state and home to Gerry Ford, Fred Upton, Dave Camp, Bill Milliken and lots of moderate, indepedent-friendly GOPers.
And the great brainchild legacy of these moderate GOPers was the “Single Business Tax.” An ingenious job-killing device by which the state of Michigan managed to wring taxes even out of businesses that were losing money…. which in the case of start-up businesses, all but guaranteed they would continue to lose money and eventually fail.