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November 16, 2007
Iowa Meets Rick Perry
Wayne Slater has a great piece in today's Dallas Morning News about our own Texas Governor Rick Perry traveling to the presidential hotbed of Iowa, on behalf of his new best pal, Rudy Giuliani. (Hat tip to Burnt Orange Report for bringing it to our attention.)
The guv seems to prefer spending his time outside of Texas, rather than here, which is just fine by many of us in the Lone Star State. Turns out folks in Iowa like him well enough -- after all, he's pretty and makes a nice first impression -- but then they don't know Rick the way we do.
Though Perry did his level best to sell Rudy to Iowa Republicans, apparently many are not buying. Questions about immigration, abortion, gays, etc., persisted, but Governor Rick didn't have the answers that pleased them. His sunny optimism about Giuliani's conservative bona fides was received with skepticism, to put it mildly, by Iowans.
And the guv, ever modest, even floated his own name as Rudy's possible number two, only to quickly shoot it down. Subtle, huh?
Anyhow, read Slater's piece. He exposes Rick Perry in ways we Texans can really appreciate.
Posted by houtopia at November 16, 2007 11:06 PM