CHARLESTON, S.C. ? He?s not even a candidate yet and Rick Perry has already accomplished an amazing feat of messaging.
Just about everyone here at the RedState Gathering of conservative bloggers and activists is familiar with one thing about the Texas governor: He?s a job creator.
Continue ReadingOn Friday night, the attendees were abuzz with anticipation of Perry?s scheduled Saturday afternoon campaign announcement, cautiously hopeful that he could be the candidate they?ve been holding out for.
?What I know about him is the fact that Texas is practically the only state that has created jobs,? said 81-year-old Doris Davidson, a retired teacher from Raleigh, N.C. ?Isn?t that what people need right now? Everything else is farther down the list.?
The conference, intended to be a low-key grassroots gathering, has turned into a full-blown media scrum since it was reported early in the week that Perry?s previously scheduled speech there would be his presidential kickoff.
Even though it?s happening the same day as the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, Perry?s 1 p.m. speech is slated to be carried live by CNN, Fox News and C-SPAN, according to RedState organizers. The number of media covering the event went from fewer than 20 a week ago to about 110 as of Friday night.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who appeared at the gathering Friday night to give a speech that was closed to the press, told POLITICO in an interview that he welcomed his fellow Southern governor to the race.
?I?m competing with him every day for jobs, and so far this year he?s generated a few more in Texas than I have in Florida,? said Scott, who hasn?t endorsed a presidential candidate. He said the two shared a philosophy of lower taxes, less regulation and limiting litigation.
?Whoever wins next year will be whoever has the best blueprint for job creation,? Scott added. ?We?ve generated 85,000 jobs in Florida this year, second to Texas. Every day I wake up and say, ?How can I generate more jobs than Rick Perry???
The activists gathered for the RedState confab had high hopes that Perry could blow the existing GOP field out of the water.
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