Republican kingmakers in Iowa: Support for Perry’s candidacy is weakening

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Republican kingmakers in Iowa say that support for Rick Perry has weakened as he struggles to gain traction among social conservatives and proponents of border-control reforms.

“When Perry came in, a lot of people were leaning Perry or at least looking at him very hard,” said Bob Vander Plaats, a 2010 gubernatorial candidate who heads the socially conservative umbrella organization Family Leader.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-presidential-primary/184715-gop-kingmakers-in-iowa-support-for-perry-is-weakening

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1. Wait till Christie jumps into the race

Perry is going to drop like dead weight.

Get this new piece of Perry stupidity coming back to bite him in the ass:

Yahoo News 10/2/11
Wait. Rick Perry's Hunting Camp Was Called What?

Rick Perry's day began with these words, on the front of The Washington Post:

In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.

"Niggerhead," it read.

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There is no definitive account of when the rock first appeared on the property. In an earlier time, the name on the rock was often given to mountains and creeks and rock outcroppings across the country. Over the years, civil rights groups and government agencies have had some success changing those and other racially offensive names that dotted the nation’s maps.

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But the name of this particular parcel did not change for years after it became associated with Rick Perry, first as a private citizen, then as a state official and finally as Texas governor. Some locals still call it that. As recently as this summer, the slablike rock — lying flat, the name still faintly visible beneath a coat of white paint — remained by the gated entrance to the camp.

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