At CPAC, Gov. Rick Perry denounces Romney, McCain, Obama and socialized medicine

[TexasTowelie]

OXON HILL, Md. – In a swipe at Mitt Romney and Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Gov. Rick Perry told a huge conservative gathering Thursday that Republicans can’t blame the right for President Obama’s two victories.

“The popular media narrative is that this country has shifted away from conservative ideals, as evidenced by the last two presidential elections,” he said. “That might be true if Republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 and 2012.”

The nation’s longest serving governor hasn’t said whether he plans to seek the presidency again after his disastrous bid last year. But the Conservative Political Action Conference at a resort near Washington has drawn a parade of 2016 contenders. And Perry’s 20-minute speech sounded like a manifesto, or at least a trial balloon.

The ballroom at the Gaylord National had hundreds of empty seats as Perry spoke, though — a far lighter crowd than the one that packed the house two hours earlier for tea party Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/03/at-cpac-gov-rick-perry-denounces-romney-mccain-obama-and-socialized-medicine.html/ .

[Thinkingabout]

1. OOPS might be thinking about taking Cronyn seat in the senate. Here's OOPS, too many drugs but

he qualifies as a republican.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I wonder what the other Republican governors think about Perry

since he accused them of accepting bribes.

[They_Live]

3. "The ballroom at the Gaylord National had hundreds of empty seats as Perry spoke"

that is making me crack up.