Rick Perry for President 2012?

In the liberal Texan blog, The Burnt Orange Report, blogger Katherine Haenschen gives her reasons as to why she believes, despite an official announcement, that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will run for President in 2012. Her article, gives reasons and signs that Rick Perry is gearing up for a presidential election campaign.

The first reason is that after speculating all the details, Perry seems to be one of the best candidates to go up against Obama. He is capable of bringing together most of the conservative groups like Christians and members of the Tea Party, which was a successful strategy used in the Bush campaign. His upcoming prayer rally is also a sign of an interest in presidency, for it's a prime opportunity to meet and gain support from religious right-winged groups and leaders. The release of his new book, Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington, gives Perry lots of publicity as he travels through swing states promoting his book and meeting potential campaign sponsors. Haenschen also pointed out Perry's recent attempts to pass harsher anti-immigration laws, once again to gain more support from Republican voters. Her last reason that she believes Perry plans to run for president, is that he has been attending pro-life events that are outside of Texas, with it being well known that abortion is a major deciding factor for many voters.

The Burnt Orange Report is a liberal blog whose overall topic is Texas, mainly politics and government. Therefore, the intended audience would liberal Texans. This is made evident by the author's word choice, like anti-choice rather than pro-life, or GOP nope-fuls instead of hopefuls. The Burnt Orange Report was started up by students, which I am going to guess Katherine Haenschen is also. It seems as though she must have some sort of college education, but I'm not sure how credible she is since her Twitter page has a lot to do with her likeness of beer. Nonetheless, her blog post on Perry running for president has plenty of evidence behind it to make her conjecture plausible.