{"id":4074,"date":"2011-06-20T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2011-06-20T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:35:03","slug":"video-rick-perry-at-the-republican-leadership-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/video-rick-perry-at-the-republican-leadership-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Rick Perry at the Republican Leadership Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the speeches delivered at the Republican Leadership Conference last week the one delivered by Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the one you have to see:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r9dUMJyzjtA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The knock on Perry from the usual suspects in the commentariat is that he&#8217;s to Texas, that he&#8217;ll branded by the left as the second coming of George W. Bush. Which is probably true, but lets be honest here&#8230; there are no perfect candidates, they all have flaws and weaknesses that the left will try to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, whoever our nominee is he or she is going to be demonized like we&#8217;ve never seen before. Gov Perry is right &#8220;Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us, so let&#8217;s stop trying to curry favor with them&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the speeches delivered at the Republican Leadership Conference last week the one delivered by Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the one you have to see: The knock on Perry from the usual suspects in the commentariat is that he&#8217;s to Texas, that he&#8217;ll branded by the left as the second coming of George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-13I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2540,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/this-and-that-dodd-trails-obama-falls-boxer-struggles-perry-ready-for-showdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":4074,"position":0},"title":"This and That: Dodd Trails, Obama Falls, Boxer Struggles, Perry Ready for Showdown","author":"Jeff","date":"July 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Saturday, the weather is gorgeous and I have a date with a grill and some steaks so rather than spend my afternoon in front of the computer I thought put together a political blotter of sorts. 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