Interview with Rick Perry
01/15/2012 ABC News This Week with George Stephanopoulos
Governor Rick Perry visits ABC News This Week with a host, whose last name is too long to mention, so I just call him by his first name George. Rick Perry tells George that he is going around South Carolina, persuading voters that he is the ideal candidate because he is both a fiscal and social conservative.
However, George drops the news on Perry, saying that a big group of social conservatives meeting is Texas actually sees him as a non-electable candidate. Perry responds by saying it is not over. He compares this opinion on the opinion on Ronald Reagan, that he was thought to be unelectable, yet he became president.
His message is about getting jobs back. He implies that he has the formal quantification because he was governor for 11 years in his home-state of Texas. He said that he has created plenty of jobs in Texas, keeping the taxes low, which is important because "Texas has the 13th largest economy in the world."
George then tells Perry that he has taking some heat from Republicans about his statements on Mitt Romney. He used the phrase, "vulture capitalism." The question is, is Perry sabotaging his on party? Will this help the Democratic Party?
As many of you may know, vultures are scavengers that feed on rotten carcasses. The term, "vulture capitalist" means people who spot a dead or dying business and uses it for profit. This creates distortions in the economic food-chain and would affect a free market economy.
Perry says that it is best to bring that flaw up now rather than in the fall. "We are going to get tested by Obama's groups. Better to be prepared now than September."
George concludes with a final question. He asks Perry if he does not come out to be successful in South Carolina, will he drop out? Perry says that he cannot answer that question and he will have to wait on Saturday to figure out. I guess we all will have to wait...
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