Captain Rick Perry: Time for a Military Man in the White House?

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Ricochet : Captain Rick Perry: Time for a Military Man in the White House?

Larry Kudlow March 6, 2015 at 3:45 pm ( 21 hours ago )

 

 

“More than any election since 1980,” ace pollster Kellyanne Conway tells me, “2016 will be a national-security contest.” And she says former governor Rick Perry may have the best chance to convince voters that he can be commander-in-chief.

 

Let’s think on that. With the world in turmoil, who do you really want sitting across the negotiating table from Vladimir Putin, the Iranian mullahs, or the Chinese? How about a military man to command the war to destroy radical-Islamic jihadism?

 

Very few people know that between 1972 and 1977, Perry served in the U.S. Air Force, flying C-130 tactical aircraft in Europe and the Middle East. He is the only current GOP candidate to have worn the military uniform. And he rarely talks about it.

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Re Larry Kudlow:

“More than any election since 1980,” ace pollster Kellyanne Conway tells me, “2016 will be a national-security contest.” And she says former governor Rick Perry may have the best chance to convince voters that he can be commander-in-chief.

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Very few people know that between 1972 and 1977, Perry served in the U.S. Air Force, flying C-130 tactical aircraft in Europe and the Middle East.

Ooh A tactical aircraft!! How cool it that!!! Sounds so much better than a cargo plane. I don't want to sound snippy, but that it just the sort of this I would expect a pollster to say.


That said I really do like Rick, and I suspect he'll be around next spring, as a guy with a legitimate shot at the nomination.

 

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