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Chuck Todd: GOP Establishment May Not Love Him, But Rick Perry’s ‘Built To Last’

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Does the establishment GOP “like” Texas Governor Rick Perry? That’s what the team at Morning Joe sought to find out. Second on the agenda was, of course, “How many talking heads can we fit onto the screen at the same?” The answer is seven.

White House correspondent Chuck Todd kicked things off with a little football talk and discussion of how Perry’s announcement that Social Security is a “violent” attack on “core American values” might lose him a few votes from older Republicans, particularly in Florida.

Capitol Hill correspondent Kelly O’Donnell, meanwhile, is interested to see how Perry will fare in next week’s debate, particularly when it comes to balancing his tendency to speak off the cuff with having to answer for his statements in front of the other candidates.

But what do establishment Republicans in Washington think of Rick Perry? Todd attempted to sum it up:

You look at this primary calendar, and Rick Perry is built to last to make it through a Republican primary. So, you know, there’s sort of… the Republican establishment may not be able to stop him. When you look at just the order of the primaries, the Southern shape of the early part of this calendar. And we’re gonna know a little more, potentially this weekend. Arizona might decide to move up this weekend and that’ll trigger a whole bunch of things. But that in itself, I think, it may not matter what the Republican establishment thinks, even though they’re not crazy about him. But it’s not as if they’ve flocked to Mitt Romney. You know, and that’s been the Romney problem, right? He didn’t unite the establishment. The establishment views him as “…ok. Yeah, I’d be ok with him. He won’t get us killed.”

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  • Anonymous

    “How many talking heads can we fit onto the screen at the same?” The answer is seven.

    Funny ! Big Eddie approves .

  • Anonymous

    Gee, the establishment doesn’t like him? Yeah, I’m OK with that. It would worry me if they did.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I disagree with Chuck on this matter. I tend to believe Tollbooth is going to follow the honored pattern throughout the Republican nomination process. The hot air balloon. Announce tossing raw meat from the basket to the assembled crowd. Rise spectacularly. Plop down spectacularly. Willard. The Donald. Mad Michelle. I’m aware there are exceptions. If the Half-Baked Alaskan announces, it will be the Lead Balloon phenomenon. But, she is not going to run, and Tollbooth is not exceptional.

  • Football on the mind

    Is that 7 people on the screen. Its like a NFL pregame show.

  • Really weak

    Your made up nicknames aren’t funny. And I’m a liberal it just makes you look like a child.

  • Darladoon

    yeah, that chuck todd.  oh so liberal.  

  • Anonymous

    Robert ticked off Barry’s speech is next Thursday .

    That ‘s the night he takes BFD to the dogfights in Austin .

    BFD never wins , but all contestants get much needed grooming supplies .

  • Anonymous

    Who’s sitting next to Mort in that shot? It doesn’t look like Stein, who is a frequent guest.

  • Anonymous

    However, they’re MSNBC guests/hosts, so it’s really like 2.5 persons.

  • Anonymous

    He’s beyond liberal. And beyond a joke.

    Chuck – What soup is the White House serving today?

  • Anonymous

    Cream of Teanderthal.  Campbell’s.  Tastes like chicken.

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s Peter Alexander , a newsman .

  • Nature Freak

    “And I’m a liberal”

    I just looked at your posting history. All you do is bash liberals and the left while promoting Conservatism. Really Weak. You lie! Big time.

    You lie like a child. At least have enough integrety to be honest about your political beliefs.

    Lame.

  • Nature Freak

    You are not a Liberal and you know it!

    How old are you?

  • Anonymous

    Someone’s a stalker.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds delicious.

    Who will be the guest of honor? Trumka? Or is that just when Obama’s announcing a new economic adviser?

  • Nature Freak

    If catching someone lying by looking at their posting history makes one a stalker, so be it!

    I guess you have no problem when someone lies? How Conservative of you.

    Have fun with my posting history. I have nothing to hide. I do not play games like “Real lame” does.

    BTW, How about Dick Cheney?

  • Nature Freak

    Take it up with Disqus.
    This is a public forum BTW.
    Nature Freak at least keeps it real. He is what he is. No games.

  • Anonymous

    Whether or not the “establishment” or The Real Royal Emporer approves of Perry or not, unless they find him in bed with a dead girl or live boy, he’s gonna be the nominee and that’s going to be a bloodbath for Ol’ Hopey Changey come November.

    Ol Hopey can’t catch a break lately..this just dropped too:

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/02/buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-owes-1-billion-in-back-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-4876695

    Just get’s better and better.

  • Moosenuts99

    There goes his victory…

  • Republicans are Liars

    Nobody is going to put that bible thumping stupid ass cowboy in the white house and you can take that to the bank, you illiterate piece of crap.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve never tried it myself.  I’m allergic to teanderthal.  No idea about a guest of honor.  And I was wrong about it being Campbell’s.  It’s actually Progresso.

  • Republicans are Liars

    Let’s face the facts…. Rick Perry is a traitor. He wanted to succeed from the union and he doesn’t like the federal government. Our country is our government. If you don’t like the government then you don’t like America. If you don’t like America how can you be a leader of America. Screw Rick Perry and all you Teaturds that would sit their and listen to this fairy tale believing bible thumper.

  • Anonymous

    Who is ‘ Obama crotch face ‘ Chuck Todd to say who the Republicans back or not? Love isn’t an appropriate term regarding common sense Conservatives.

    Now all you left wing zealots on the other hand worship and will die for Obama….sick ain’t it…..even after he’s purposely put this country through our worst 3 years since it’s birth…… sicker & sadder, bordering on criminally insane in the membrane even.

  • Anonymous

    You clearly haven’t been a liberal very long, if you haven’t noticed the hateful spew the “teas” throw out. I wrote this before I looked at your name,….. funny. “Tea” all the way!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bonnie-McGuinness/100002588403595 Bonnie McGuinness

    I’ve got beer and popcorn, and am waiting for the comic-con GOP debate.  I can’t wait. . . .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bonnie-McGuinness/100002588403595 Bonnie McGuinness

    “crotch face”. . . you shouldn’t call yourself these names. . . but you can call rowe, hannity, perry, cheney, and can’tor crotch-face.  It fits so well.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    To put it more correctly: Libs and MSMedia Establishment May Not Love Him, But Rick Perry’s ‘Built To Last’

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Facts aren’t what YOU make them, facts are what they are, “facts”. Perry “wanting” to secede from the union is not an act of treason… and he can’t do it alone (other than just leave the country).

    Memo to Obama: “Our country is our government. If you don’t like the government, then you don’t like America. If you don’t like America, how can you be a leader of America?”

    I rest my case.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    Mika gives ‘Dumb Blondes’ a bad name!

  • Anonymous

    And Football on the mind is somehow “sensible”?

    Made up screen names are part of the fun, and if we take ourselves too seriously here, we would all be in mental institutions by now. Some of us clearly belong there, IF we talk like this on the job or in non-political gatherings.

  • Anonymous

    Just what America needs right now. W on steroids.

  • Anonymous

    Jon Stewart watching a video clip of Perry. After it plays he says:”Isn’t that Josh Brolin doing Bush?”

  • Anonymous

    It’s called Entertainment. You know like Glen Beck or Hannity. It’s not “hard news”

  • Anonymous

    You had a case?

  • Hugo Daun

    Yes, the “made up nicknames” are funny…you’re just humor-challenged.

    Which means…you ain’t no librul!

  • Hugo Daun

    He clearly has a severe case of stupidity…tragically, it’s terminal.

  • Nature Freak

    Katy Perry, Joe Perry, Luke Perry, Perry Farrell and Perry the Platypus would all make better Presidents of the United States than Rick Perry.

    By far.

  • Anonymous

    Unlike the USA under President Obama for the last two-and-a-years, Texas has hung in there pretty well under Rick Perry for the last 10 years.  That may be because Rick Perry has done something besides run his mouth for the last 30-odd years.

  • Anonymous

    The Republican Establishment is not going to have much to say about who is the Republican nominee for President in 2012. First it was Pawlenty who was the “he can be elected” guy, then Jon Huntsman, and Chris Christy, and Mitch Daniels, and Rudy, and Patacki.  Pawlenty and Huntsman are DOA, and the rest are not going to try.  The primary electorate want red meat, not milquetoast.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve already said that you will vote for Obama, therefore your political thoughts are ripe with hypocrisy.

    Continue to stalk. It’s beyond creepy.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve already said that you will vote for Obama, therefore your political thoughts are ripe with hypocrisy.

    Continue to stalk. It’s beyond creepy.

  • Anonymous

    Nature Freak speaks in the first person, which is beyond odd.

  • Anonymous

    I actually prefer Progresso to Campbell’s so even better! Progresso makes one of the yummiest French Onion soups! :) And their Light soups are also impeccable.

  • Anonymous

    Chuck Todd is entertainment? Uhhhhhhh……….no.

  • Richie

    Hearts over minds. Exactly. Perry will win the nomination. Obama will defeat him decisively in the general election.

  • Anonymous

    Wow- you are such a child- change your diaper!

  • Anonymous

    He is so gay!

  • Anonymous

    Come on, ChuckieCheese, tell us all about how great Huntsman is!

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    More liberal bigotry from our lib bigot boy!

  • Anonymous

    You are such a racist.

  • Anonymous

    Your postings show you drank a case!

  • clever

    How do you keep a Libtard in suspense.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t watch.That’s why they have buttons on your remote. So you can change the channel.

  • Anonymous

     Possible.  Not likely.  There are 14,000,000 Americans unemployed in the USA, by some counts.  By any count, things in the workforce are not good.  Fairly or not, the president gets credit or blame for the economy.  57% of Americans don’t like Obamacare.  President Obama’s negatives in a lot of core constituencies are high and getting higher.  He just stopped the EPA from imposing some new smog regulations, which is going to annoy a lot of ‘Greens.I’m not saying blacks and radical environmentalists are not going to vote for him, but it won’t be the high turnout it was last time.  Almost 50% of young minorities are unemployed.  Overall minority unemployment is at 16% overall – and my guess is that it is actually much higher.  Hard to get people excited about voting.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    And here I thought Bush was the biggest idiot of a politician that I ever saw… that is until I heard about Perry!!

    Perry may give Bush a run for his money!!

  • StephenRichieKaren lol

    I intend to vote for him with every one of my sceen names too !

  • Anonymous

    I don’t watch Chuck Todd. I never said I did. You keep talking to me. Stop.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, it’s Peter Alexander, but Sam Stein was on this morning and I swear he looked like he was going to start crying when Scarborough started saying what a bad job Obama was doing. Poor child, he looked miserable.

  • ElJeffyBovido

    You hold a gNOpig “debate” and have Ron Paul “win” again.

  • Republicans are Liars

    And you are such an idiot… That still doesn’t make us even you ignorant piece of Santorum

  • Republicans are Liars

    And you are such an idiot… That still doesn’t make us even you ignorant piece of Santorum

  • Republicans are Liars

    You’re an idiot as well. Wanting to succeed from the union is a treasonist act. There was a war 150 years ago to prove this you simplton.

  • Anonymous

    Not real hard to figure out..teddybobbyjohn  lol

  • Anonymous

    once again I can post what I want and when I want to. This is a free forum of ideas. Don’t like it, flag me or tell it to the administrators and or moderators

  • Anonymous

    Crow soup

  • Anonymous

    “I don’t watch Chuck Todd. I never said I did” You made the soup of the day comment.

  • Anonymous

    Would that make you a contard?

  • Anonymous

    Only in Texas.

  • Anonymous

    You ment no sense Conservatives didn’t you?

  • Anonymous

    How is anything Rebulicans are liars said in his post you answered racist?

  • Anonymous

    Just another conserative cyber bully. never has anything of substance to say. just read any of her thoughtless post

  • Anonymous

    Just a laugh riot. bully

  • Anonymous

    Another powerful thoughtful & insightful post from the sites cyber bully

  • Anonymous

    Homophopia is gay Queenie

  • expatpatriot

    I think Obama is playing a very dangerous game. See Salon’s multiple articles on the “adult in the room” strategy, which the White House has been playing for some time, and which doesn’t seem to be working:

    (http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/30/obama_deficit_adult/index.html)

    I also agree that the enthusiasm gap could easily sink Obama in 2012.

    However, what’s likely to save him (and at this point I think *will* save him) will be pure naked fear on the part of the electorate that one of these nutbag Republicans might actually get into the White House. Knowing that such a president would bring in his or her wake a Congress-ful of bull goose loony Tea Party fanatics, who would start tearing down the building and feeding pieces to a bonfire — that’s got to give any sentient person pause, even if they’re tired of Obama giving in to the wingnuts over and over again.

    It comes down to ‘do you want a moderate Republican like Obama in the office, or a certified maniac somewhere to the right of Alpha Centauri?’ Obama is betting *that* will give him his second term.

  • expatpatriot

    Perry Como! You forgot Perry Como. Just because he’s dead shouldn’t disqualify him any more than any of the Republicans who are actually running and are only brain dead.

  • Nature Freak

    Interesting take. I will tomorrow read the Salon article.

    I always thought Obama played chess while the opposition played checkers. Seems lately Obama is playing checkers as well. And losing.

    Obama needs to step up his game. Now. This whole issue of having a jobs speech on the same day as the debate was a debacle for Obama. Why propose a speech on the date of the debate if he was willing to back down?

    Obama needs some serious fire energy, Kundalini fire, Pita, or whatever you want to call it. He needs some righteous passion as well. Being all mellow and chill at this point I question. I want Obama to slam his fist on his desk and explain things straightforwardly.
    The campaign strategy may end up being “vote for me if you do not want to go right of Alpha Centauri.”

    Sad it comes to this. Frustrating. Perhaps replacing Biden with Hillary Clinton may help.

  • expatpatriot

    I don’t think Biden is the problem. Somewhere along the way, Obama has convinced himself that the opposition wants to do their job and govern, when it’s obvious all they want to do is win, and then start the looting later. It worked for Alaric, and Boehner figures it’ll work for him.

  • Anonymous

    Wingnuts.  Like, you cannot borrow 43 cents of every dollar that the federal government spends for an extended period of time?  Or, that the federal government is limited by the Constitution to certain enumerated powers, and everything else is left to the states and to the people?  Like, maybe it is not a good idea to allow the security agencies to conduct warrentless searches of our homes and data because some person in the government wants to?  Like, someone thinks it is a bad idea to be involved in several wars, at least one of which is being conducted without Congressional authorization and in defiance of Federal law?  Very radical.  Want to blame President Bush for some of that?  No problem.  He piled up a lot of debt with tax cuts and creating entitlements (Medicare drug benefit) and keeping us in Afghanistan and Iraq long after we should have been out, and the so called Patriot Act was promulgated and passed under his watch.  President Obama has doubled down on all Bush did and spent at a rate that would embarrass even Bush.

  • expatpatriot

    I’m not sure Bush is capable of being embarassed.

    And I disagree with much of what Obama has done, particularly in those areas where he inherited terrible policies from Bush and didn’t immediately toss them overboard. He’ll have to answer to history for that.

    However, the spending is mostly a red herring if the world economy were emerging from recession instead of on the brink of a double-dip. We need more of it, better targeted, not less. States rights and support for the Libyan rebels (now known as the “interim government”) are also red herrings.

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  • Republicans are Liars

    With all of the oil money in Texas, if you couldn’t keep the economy going, you would really have to be a moron.

  • Anonymous

    There is only oil money in Texas because oil companies are allowed to drill there.  Unlike California, where there is oil but the oil companies are not allowed to drill.  And off the coast of Louisiana, where are the oil companies are also not allowed to drill. And in the section of ANWR set aside for drilling.  But, you get the idea.  Maybe. 

  • Republicans are Liars

    Yes, old Rick has knocked it out of the park with Texas ranking last in the number of adults with high school diplomas and 47th in infant mortality rates. Great job there, Ricky! Most of the jobs created in the last 10 years are minimum wage jobs, but don’t get me wrong. I think this guy is absolutely the best choice the GOP could make to run against Obama. Get this guy the nomination!!!

  • Anonymous

    My guess is that the problems Texas has  in the areas of graduation rates and infant mortality have to do with demographics.  Texas graduation rates for Asians is 85%, for non-Hispanic whites 79%, for Hispanics 55%, for blacks 53% and Native Americans 52%, and Texas has few Asians and a lot of Hispanics and Blacks.  Even wit h this disadvantage, Texas ranks 43d, not 47th in graduation rates.  Whatever, IMHO, in 2012 the election is going to be a referendum of President Obama’s presidency, not a comparison.

  • Anonymous

    LOL—reading these comments of Right Wingers about Perry—-says so much about them !   Here’s a guy who thinks yo Momma’s SS and Medicare are abominations and should be eliminated, and yoou should show some of that Personal Responsibility and take care of them from now on, and a blowhard who is Anti American enough to want to take his State and secede it from the USA, etc, etc, and THIS is who they probably gonna hafta settle on for their candidate.     Oh, how proud you will all be of this blustery cowboy.   Just like the other TX cowboy who swaggered into the WH, created the worst Recession in 26 yrs, took a surplus and turned it into the largest deficit in history, Outspent every Democrat in history, Lied us into an invasion that he put on a Chinese Credit Card and killed 4400 US troops for, Created the least jobs of any other President in history.  Yeah, you boyz have a lot to hope for with this pick.      Remember this—should January 2013 find Perry being sworn in as President—-and this country’s destruction from a Republican starts again—I hope never to see a single one of you on these boards howling in dismay !

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