Interesting: Rick Perry won't rule out a 2016 run...

Interesting: Rick perry won't rule out a 2016 run...

Texas governor Rick Perry is recruiting gun manufacturers to move to Texas...

Good luck Rick...

Via Daily Caller:

Texas governor and former GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is rolling out a Texas-sized red carpet for Magpul Industries, the Colorado gun-parts manufacturer that has vowed to find greener pastures if a bill banning high capacity ammunition magazines, like those that Magpul makes, becomes law.

In a letter to Magpul founder and CEO Richard Fitzpatrick, Perry touts Texas’s business climate, citing such things as “low taxes, a fair legal system, reasonable regulations, a well-trained and skilled workforce and unmatched transportation and communications infrastructures.” [imagine that on a federal level, then think about what Obama is doing -ed.]

“There is no other state that fits the definition of business-friendly like Texas,” Perry wrote.

Perry mentioned gun rights only briefly, in a business context.

“While I support the efforts of law enforcement to identify, apprehend, prosecute and punish criminals who use firearms in the commission of their crimes,” he wrote, “I do not believe that imposing additional requirements or restrictions on businesses is the correct approach.”

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New Poll: Rick Perry with a solid lead for the GOP presidential nomination

Rick perry is holding on to a solid lead.

Via Political Wire:

A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Rick Perry with a solid lead for the GOP presidential nomination at 29%, followed by Mitt Romney at 13%, Rudy Giuliani at 9%, and Sarah Palin at 8%, Ron Paul at 8%, Michele Bachmann at 5%, Jon Huntsman at 5% and Herman Cain at 5%.

Rick Perry to decide in 2 or 3 weeks

Rick Perry is feeling a "call".

(Politico) — In one of the hardest indications yet that he’s a likely candidate, Rick Perry gave an interview to the politically important Des Moines Register last week, in which he said he is beginning to feel a “call” to run for president:

“I’m not ready to tell you that I’m ready to announce that I’m in,” Gov. Rick Perry told The Des Moines Register. “But I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I’ve been called to do. This is what America needs.”

Another big-name potential Republican presidential candidate who is still on the sidelines, Sarah Palin, told Fox News in May that she has “that fire in the belly” to run. It remains a question whether Perry does.

“I’ll be real honest with you, I don’t wake up in the morning — never did and still don’t today — and say, ‘Gee, I want to be president of the United States,’” Perry, 51, said by phone last week.

But his wife, Anita, and hundreds of people nationwide say they want him to run, he said. He said he would likely decide in two or three weeks. More here.

Who is Rush Limbaugh's Dream Candidate for 2012? (video)

Rush Limbaugh tells Greta Van Susteren that his dream candidate for 2012 is Texas Governor rick Perry.

Gov. Rick Perry Wants to Put TSA Gropers on the Border

But...but...Feeling up Mexicans "junk" as they cross the border illegally would be a violation of their rights. We are only allowed to do that to law-abiding citizens.

The Hill reported:

The incoming chairman of the Republican Governors Association suggested Friday that TSA screeners would be more help securing the nation’s border with Mexico.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday on Fox Business Network that states need to “push Washington back into that box that we call the United States constitution,” but said the federal government needs to follow through on its responsibility of securing the U.S. border.

“Just in the last two weeks, I’ve had five of my citizens who’ve lost their lives on that border with Mexico, and that is an irresponsible lack of focus by our federal government,” Perry said, calling the federal security an “abject failure.”

When asked if, in the wake of the TSA invasive pat-down controversy, he’d replace TSA screeners as states are allowed under federal law, Perry had an idea.

Republican Video AD Ties Democratic Opponent to Toxic Obama

This video ad by Texas Governor Rick Perry ties his democratic opponent Bill White to President Obama. The way the ad accomplishes this is interesting. Enjoy.

Rick Perry Wins Texas Primary

Incumbent Governor and conservative Rick Perry has won the Texas Republican Governor's primary with enough votes to avoid a run-off. He faced moderate Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and 9-11 'Truther" Debra Medina. Perry effectively used Sen. Hutchison's vote for the stimulus to tie her to President Obama who is very unpopular with Texas Republicans.

AP reported:

Hutchison was once seen as the candidate who could deliver Perry’s first election loss in a lifetime of public office, but the governor, a darling of the social conservatives, forcefully painted the senator as too entrenched in Washington politics.