My Take on Rick Perry

Rick Perry at Texas A&M

Rick Perry in San Angelo, Texas. SREC Member Jason Moore, National Com...

Governor Rick Perry’s visit to San Angelo last month grossed $20,000 for the Tom Green County Republican Party, says Tom Green County Republican Party Chair Russ Deurstine.

Rick Perry’s visit was billed as a fundraiser for the local Republican Party. Tickets were sold at a low end of $250 per couple.

At the event, Rick Perry was honing his stump speech techniques, now drawing praise and ire on the presidential campaign trail. He spoke about Texas and American exceptionalism.

My Take on Rick Perry

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In the coming months ahead, San Angelo’s evil corporate print medium, the San Angelo Standard-Times will likely malign Rick Perry. The frowning reporters, staring down their noses from their cubicled ivory tower, has endorsed Barrack Obama in 2008, and endorsed Bill White, the Democrat opponent of Governor Perry in the 2010 Texas gubernatorial campaign. Their editorial board, out of touch with their audience, will likely parrot Perry criticisms, as the national media “vets” the Texas governor in ways that Barrack Obama never was. It’s the liberal media’s double standard, and it will make Perry’s run for the White House the treacherous task of an underdog.

I am always for the underdog.

But more than that, I identify very closely with Rick Perry. We share the same roots. I followed his footsteps at Texas A&M. He graduated more than a decade earlier, and earned his U.S. Air Force wings after graduation, just like I did. Perry flew C-130s in the post-Vietnam military at a time that the Air Force was being gutted by the Vietnam drawdown and Jimmy Carter’s presidency. He was able to gain an early separation from the service to pursue entrepreneurial and political pursuits. I got stuck in the Reagan buildup and soldiered through a 14-year active duty and six-year reserve career flying bombers and T-38s.

I haven’t been as excited about a presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan ran in 1980. I’m “all in” with getting Rick Perry into the White House.

As the local paper runs my brother Perry down, I will respond. And compete. Stay tuned.