The Deacon's Bench
From The Daily Mail:
Rick Perry delivered a scathing indictment of Barack Obama on Thursday night in Washington, teeing up a presidential run with a speech that took little notice of presumptive Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton and instead castigated the president as feckless, clueless and gutless.
Just 16 days removed from the 10,000-square-foot Texas governor’s mansion, Perry is on the road and shaping the messages that will accompany a White House campaign. He stopped in Washingtonto deliver rhetorical red-meat to a friendly and very conservative audience.
The early going has been kind to the Texan: While reporters can’t let go of his calamitous ‘Oops!’ moment in 2011, he raised political eyebrows on Thursday by unveiling a list of 80 financial power brokers who will shake the trees and make rain for him.
One of those financiers, who requested anonymity, told Daily Mail Online on Thursday – in advance of the governor’s address to the conservative American Principles Project – that Perry is confident he can win.
‘He and his wife believe they are touched by God, and that this is his time,’ the donor said. ‘It’s like – they can’t lose – that’s the sense of it.’
‘I don’t know if he’ll win the nomination, but I’m absolutely sure he’ll be one of the last two Republicans standing,’ he added during a phone interview.
Photo of Rick Perry by Gage Skidmore via Wikipedia
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