*Bumped for correction. Rand Paul and Ron Paul have stated this was a friendly exchange, and completely misinterpreted.

“Listen Crazy Pants, you pull that sh!t one more time and I’m gonna whoop your ass”…. Nah, he really didn’t say that, I saw the picture and couldn’t resist. But they did have a little heated exchange during one of the commercials. If you want to know what happened.   Correction.   No they didn’t.  As Rand Paul explained on the Sean Hannity show the exchange pictured above was a courteous and humorous greeting among friends.   The concerns of adversarialism were considerably overestimated, actually fabricated by the media. (more…)

Dr Crazypants speaks again….  (ABC NEWS) — Republican presidential contender Rep. Ron Paul had some tough words for his Republican opponent Texas Governor Rick Perry, calling him “candidate of the week” and said his poll numbers would fall once voters get to know him better.
“He was the one saying, ‘Oh yeah, I’m all for secession,’ and that kind of talk,” Paul told the Associated Press referring to a 2009 interview in which Perry said there was no reason for Texas to secede from the union, but suggested it was a possibility if Washington political leaders continued to “thumb their nose at the American people.” (more…)

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday drew nearly 700 residents of the Granite State to two house parties, demonstrating that the newest GOP presidential hopeful’s drawl and socially conservative message isn’t dampening his drawing power in this state of famously flinty Yankees.
Stumping for votes in a state that will hold the nation’s first presidential primary early next year — and is home to one of his top advisers, David Carney — Perry drew a link between the culture of individualism that exists in the Lone Star State and New England. (more…)

This is a topic that bears keen research and identification of Perry’s ideological position.  His previous positions on Immigration, specifically illegal aliens, was/is a considerable concern of mine.   (more after article)
MANCHESTER, N.H. — He may have been 2,000 miles from the border, but Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s immigration record in Texas quickly became the focus in New Hampshire Saturday afternoon.  Speaking to hundreds of Granite State voters at a private reception, the Texas governor was asked whether he supported a fence along the Mexican border.
“No, I don’t support a fence on the border,” he said, while referring to the long border in Texas alone. “The fact is, it’s 1,200 miles from Brownsville to El Paso. Two things: How long you think it would take to build that? And then if you build a 30-foot wall from El Paso to Brownsville, the 35-foot ladder business gets real good.” (more…)

Washington (CNN) – A new national survey is further proof that Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s entrance earlier this month into the race for the White House has dramatically altered the battle for the Republican presidential nomination.
According to a CNN/ORC International Poll of Republicans and independent voters who lean towards the GOP, Perry now sits atop the list of Republican presidential candidates, with strong support from most demographic groups. (more…)

As Texas governor, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry has presided over 234 executions. It’s a record number, which, The Washington Post reported last week, bestows on Perry “a law-and-order credential that none of his competitors can match — even if they wanted to.”
Watch how pundits will try to turn that statistic into a political negative — and paint Perry as the governor with blood on his spurs — even though American voters overwhelmingly support the death penalty. (more…)

Perry Zooms to Front of Pack for 2012 GOP Nomination

(USA Today)…Just days after launching his campaign, Texas Governor Rick Perry surged into the lead of the race for the Republican nomination, according to a new Gallup poll released today.  Perry leads former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the previous front-runner, by 12 percentage points, 29%-17%. Texas Rep. Ron Paul places third with 10% support from those surveyed, followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann with 10%.
Romney maintained a fragile lead in Gallup’s polls for months and Perry’s ability to surpass him after only one full week of campaigning, at the time of the poll, shows how vulnerable Romney’s frontrunner status continues to be.  In addition, Perry’s entrance into the race has slowed Bachmann’s steady rise in the polls despite her straw poll win in Iowa. (more…)

(via Washington Examiner) Any incumbent wants to define his opponent before the opponent defines himself. The Obama campaign seems intent on painting Rick Perry as a Southern white racist — a tired line of attack that is angering conservatives and inspiring them to rally behind Perry.
Last week, liberal pundits charged Perry with racism, offering no evidence or falsified evidence. While the baseless racism charges surfaced on MSNBC, they might have originated in the Obama campaign. (more…)

Yessssss !
(Boston Herald) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, campaigning in the Granite State next door to Mitt Romney’s home state and Barack Obama’s preferred vacation spot, fired broadsides at both of his top rivals yesterday — with a jab at Romneycare and an unrepentant vow to keep speaking his mind no matter what the president thinks about it. (more…)

(RealClearPolitics)...In New Hampshire this morning Gov. Rick Perry responded to President Obama’s suggestion that he “be more careful” about what he says.