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More on Perry’s Jobs Record and Immigration

The Perry campaign seems to have e-mailed around a hilariously inept reply to yesterday’s CIS report noting that newly arrived immigrants accounted for 81 percent of the 2007–11 job growth in Texas. (My colleague Steve Camarota’s NRO piece on the report is here.) Steve’s response to the critique, if you can even call it a critique, is very restrained and just-the-facts-ma’am, as is his wont; I would have been a lot more sarcastic.

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Tom in SFCA
   09/23/11 19:22

What Gov. Perry lacks in skill himself he compensates for by having an utterly inept campaign staff.

Lovely.

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   09/24/11 01:47

I think what is fascinating, is the responses to seeing the disastrous Perry on stage. The denial over who is clearly the best Candidate for the Presidency today on the stage remains. Many vocal elements are just not able to accept the sound Mr. Romney. We shall see if this changes over time.

For example, Mr. Kristol of the WS, seems to have a professional competition complex, unable to be fair-decent to Romney merely because National Review endorsed him in 2008. Mr. Kristol foolishly pushed the dreadful Maverick instead, and now cannot seem to get over himself in dealing with a proven Private Sector success. Erik Erickson has been playing some of the most tiresome fashion for so long. He foolishly debased so many of Our best interests by mindlessly equating the two Parties over the past few years, and has provided some awful judgment. He seems destined to push the image/identity game over a cliff yet again.

Bizarrely on FOX Special Report, (fair and balanced), they predictably pushed the idea for someone - anyone - to enter the Race, now that it is clear Perry is simply not up to the challenge - with so many vivid contradictions, problems, inability. It was all too obvious, as they seem to be overtly swayed by fashion as well.

Or is it something more? Is the bias due to the religious aspect? The Mormon question? Or is it simply a little class warfare in regards to this incredible Free Market success named Romney, which makes others insecure? When I study Romney's record, he just doesn't deserve the mindless treatment. He is ethical, moral, decent, with a fine family and a great record of accomplishment. A truly admirable American in every sense, hard working, very intelligent, very proven.

Ironically, much of the bias works towards Mr. Romney's best interest. If he is underestimated, his chances of being deemed a better President will grow with such low expectations.

The thing is, there is no doubt, just like in 2008, who is the best candidate for the Presidency right now in the GOP Race. National Review, Hewitt, Coulter, etc., had it right. The question is, just like in NJ when the fashion was cynical of Christie in the Primary and pushed Lonegan, will the stronger Candidate get a chance to succeed by taking the Nomination? Wiser - cooler heads prevailed in NJ, and did not follow the fashion to self destruction and another predictable enabling of the disastrous Democratic Party.

Only a few months ago on this very same "Corner" comment section, I maintained the fashion had it wrong, that Romney was a serious influence primarily due to his economic credentials in the Private Sector, when many were just interested in vilifying. I believed many Americans would simply overlook the State Mass Health Care mistake, and view Romney in total, especially his well earned, professional economic clout. I thought it would be foolish politically to treat Romney as the enemy. There are many very vocal elements amongst us, who are simply stuck in the fashionable game, but do not accurately represent the larger majority. Sadly, I still humbly believe some are not seeing things with the clarity or the basis which inspired the strength of conservatism.

But the rest of the Nation, outside the smaller vocal passions in Our Base is so deeply concerned about the economy for very sound reasons, after the mess Democrats have created, they simply are not seeing things the way many are inside the smaller arena devoted to the image/identity following.

Here is a prime example:
More Voters Considering Romney Than Obama, Perry

Folks want someone who can do the job. Romney may be the best, the right CEO offering at this time. Instead of living in denial, perhaps it would be better for some to let go of the personal grudge, and begin to try another fair review.

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   09/24/11 07:59

Another possibility other than bias or denial is that Romney is simply a Republican version of Bill Clinton, and many of us expect that he would be incapable of ever making the difficult choices needed to turn this country around. It's also a little rich reading a comment about how unfair poor Mitt is being treated on National Review Online. I didn't realize we were on AmSpec Blog.

And "he's better than Obama" isn't a selling point. Most sentient human beings fit that bill.

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   09/24/11 12:17

Yet, again, the obvious. The record does not support this contention Mr. Romney is merely a dishonest Bill Clinton, incapable of making serious decisions. That is rumor over reality. Myth and image over substance.

Romney's record is something one should study before writing "incapable of ever making the difficult choices needed to turn this country around" - as Romney has made numerous tough choices, and has repeatedly turned around failure with difficult calls. You reveal you simply are speaking about something you haven't studied. A huge mistake. Indicating your judgement is based more on image, which is the curse of all today.

Again, Romney is clearly for the Free Market, no change in this regard over his Private Sector offering or his Public Sector efforts. His platform from 2008 to 2012 is largely the same, a positive pro-growth capitalist endorsement, with strong national defense.

I never said he was "better than Obama" as a selling point either. That is simply absurd, as it was never ever mentioned in my offering.

Again, Romney is a product of the Free Market, a proven, sound, serious, CEO with great articulation and intelligence. His record is worthy of praise, and politically the fashion was foolish to make an enemy out of his existence.

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   09/24/11 22:10

No, the reluctance to support Romney is not due to the Mormon thing, or to a failure to appreciate his competence. It is because he is seen as a man of the status quo, happy to get the economy back on the FDR New Deal track it had been on before the Democratic Congress of 2006 and later the Obama catastrophe derailed the country. Conservatives do not merely want to restore the country to what it was in 2006, which was the slow comfortable path to smiley-faced fascist corporatist socialism. They want someone who is not just a competent economic technocrat, but someone who wants to restore the American Revolution and make the federal government adhere to the constitution without exceptions or excuses, and to make the liberty of every citizen the necessary precondition of every federal act. Romney is smart, competent, and loyal to the Republican Party as such, but he has not convinced many that he really "gets" what conservatives want, which is that we are fed up with New Deal slow comfortable socialism and "creative constructionism" that always rationalizes whatever the progressive agenda wants when the constitution getsnin its way.

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