Saturday, December 27, 2014

Rick Perry Retools His approach After 2012 Missteps

When Rick Perry jumped into the 2012 presidential race, he was overconfident and unprepared—and that’s an assessment from some of his supporters.
With the 2016 presidential field starting to take shape, the Texas governor and his advisers are offering blunt critiques of Mr. Perry’s past missteps in an effort to draw a contrast with what has become an unusually public preparation for a probable second bid.
Rick Perry has held meetings with policy experts and 
dinners with Republican donors as he prepares for a 
possible presidential run. Getty Images
The re-education of Rick Perry has included months of meetings with policy experts and a series of dinners with Republican donors aimed at showing them that he has learned from his mistakes.
Plenty of presidential candidates take a crash course on foreign policy and economic theory, but Mr. Perry has been particularly open about the process, addressing questions about how his first campaign went off track—most notably with a memory lapse in which he forgot a central element of his own policy platform during a televised debate—while pledging to step up his game.
“He’s been pretty plain-spoken that he wasn’t ready last time,” said Henry Barbour, a longtime friend and unofficial adviser to Mr. Perry. “He’s been very candid about it...and he’s not making any excuses.”
Mr. Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history, said leading a large state is “a foundation, but it’s nowhere near enough.” He said in an interview that he had made a commitment to spend the past two years preparing himself for a possible White House bid. He said he was confident that voters would see a candidate who has made strides since his “Oops” moment in 2011.
“People have seen for the last two years that there is a substantially more versed and capable individual than they saw in 2011,” Mr. Perry said. “We’re a country of second chances. We’ve given people second chances, particularly on the Republican side of the field.”
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