I happened upon Rick Perry’s speech this weekend in a manner typical of myself. I had just turned the TV on to program my DVR to record some obscure foreign cultural something-or-other when the Texas governor appeared onscreen to announce his candidacy for president. I had never seen Perry speak before. I’d asked my knowledgeable friends about him. Some loved him; some said he was a twit. I sat down to watch to see for myself. Here is what I saw.
The speech started out uncomfortably. I was put off by the mawkish tribute to the fallen Navy SEALs at the beginning. Our hallowed dead are worthy of every honor, but there was something ever-so-slightly unpleasant about a politician attempting to harness our grief and pride in order to serve a moment of career self-advancement.
Then came Perry’s life story. His childhood on a cotton farm in the tiny town of Paint Creek, Texas; his wooing of the childhood sweetheart who became his wife; his graduation from Texas A&M; his stint in the Air Force. I hadn’t heard it before and was interested and favorably impressed.
Next there was the red meat indictment of the current administration for its abominable failure on almost every score. I like red meat as much as the next man and I joined the crowd’s applause from my sofa. After all, Barack Obama’s failure is so abysmal and complete that he’s turned even the killing of Osama bin Laden into an asterisk. It can’t be told often enough.
AP photo composite from Politico.
To defeat Obama, we need someone who can beat him on both form and substance, that is a good orator who actually has something worth saying. He also needs to be straightforward and perform well in those circumstances where a teleprompter cannot be part of the play (hard to beat Reagan on that one!).
And what in world is wrong with a man of convictions?
We need to have people like Perry (and Klavan – and Bill Whittle) TALK about Kensyian economics and why it doesn’t work! Substance indeed. And why big government results in a lower standard of living (i.e. Europe) and WHY higher taxes means less economic growth. Our conservative pundits keep saying these things over and over – bless ‘em – but we need some solid “connecting the dots” on these serious issues for people outside the strict conservative fold to key in on “this is why” realities and not vaguely dismiss these phrases as the usual conservative political rhetoric.
(BS) ~ This guy is just one more piece of garbage politician…..
Rick Perry, the so called conservative Gov of Texas, signed a bill giving illegals the Dream Act. It was his idea and plan……… (all on the tax payers dime)
He said in 2001 in his speech he supports open border with Mexico.
After a few failed attempts he finally gave up on his Super Hwy. going well into Mexico, that would have cost the tax payers billions of dollars.
He was a strong supporter of letting Mexican trucks and drivers enter and work in the US. (taking thousands of jobs from Americans)
He kept trying to pass a bill making girls starting in the sixth grade, take some kind of vaccine that had to do with being sexually active….(It was extremely unpopular and he kept trying) ~ Later they found he had a strong connection with the company called Merck…….
He gave free medical to illegals and also to Mexicans on the Mexican side of the border. (all of this was on the tax payers)
Some of it is on Kerry Picket’s article in Washington Times, just type Kerry Picket in search and scroll down about three wks ago.
I know all of this is hard to believe so google it and do research then pass it on.
If push comes to shove and it comes down to Rick Perry, Ron Paul, I will vote for Obama…Man I hate to say that but it’s true……..At least I never heard Obama say he wants open borders with Mexico.
My pick for president is Sarah Palin with Sheriff Joe, Herman Cain, Jeff Sessions, Mitt Romney as Sarah’s VP.
“Drill Baby Drill”
Yes, some of his past is worrisome …..
“I’ll work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can.”
What would life be like if the grasping, heavy, erratic, punative hand of Washington was inconsequential?
Yes, it does stir the imagination, doesn’t it?
He promises to slay the monster.
How many times have we heard the same promise from the gifted orators who never deliver the goods when they are in power ?
It’s amazing how little it takes to entrance the masses,words and very little else and they are sold.
Just drooling for their chance at seat of power after they saw how easily the community organizer with a staple gun got into the chair they’ll promise anything to the easily duped masses.
Jim Jones would be impressed with these modern day gift of gab charlatans.
It sure takes a lot less sweetened Kool-Aid then he had to deliver to his devoted flock.
So, Marcel, I guess your answer is: “Yes, it does stir my imagination.”
No ,not really, all I see is another false hope, another sham by the backroom guys in the making. It’s easy to see that it’s all been staged like his gathering the Christian Right together in Houston a week before he declared.
You make their job so easy.
How can the voters never learn and be so naive ?
The only thing I’m not sure about is will he play the McCain role of fall guy so Obama can get another four years to rule over the oligarchy.
Perry tells it like it is. He doesnt need a teleprompter to tell you what is in his heart. It will be wonderful to see this president in the White House in 2013, a real President for a change
I’d say the tea party men and women are doing exactly what we sent them to do. It’s the establishment RINO’s we just need to get rid of.
I live in Texas – but have lived in two other states – Oregon and California, I’ve also lived in Japan. I’m not too excited about Texas from the point of view of weather, no mountains, and next to no water.
What I am excited about, is that the government here is not up in your life. I have never been in a place, where I don’t experience some daily frustration about the state government that makes life difficult, or makes you just want to ask “why?”
I’m ecstatic about Perry running – I feel that i want to get involved in a campaign, i’m so excited. We may have Reagan again.
Marcel,
I am a conservative in Texas. What you see and hear is what you get with Perry. He talks the talk, but walks the walk as well. BTW, when was the last time Obama shot a coyote dead that menaced his daughter’s dog while out on a jog?
Ah, but Obama squashed a fly! ‘Nuff said… Please get rid of him in 2012. He is the most boring speaker ever. Whenever he is on the tv, I switch it over or off. There’s so much that is negative about him that it’s simply not worth spending the time to write about it. I just hope that someone with some integrity, grit and responsibility gets into the White House next time around. And this is from someone who doesn’t even live in the USA.
Obama dispatched a fly with his bare hands. Perry needed a gun for the coyote.
(I am not exactly sure what my point is… but I don’t know what Marcel’s point is, either, unless it is… that we are wasting our time with elections?)
Well, perhaps we’re not wasting time on elections, but the situation is this: Leftists propose to eliminate your freedom and take your property. If you decide that contesting an election and abiding by the result, even if it is your enslavement, is a good idea, then go ahead. My impression is that men such as our Founders, and Andrew Jackson, were of a different mind. Try to make them slaves and I believe you would meet with violent opposition. Oh, King George did attempt to impose some (minor, by 2011 standards) restrictions on Americans and, dang, didn’t they go armed-postal all over his behind? I’m so glad we’ve advanced beyond all that ugly macho business today, with our women voters and poofter-friendly society. GIGO.
With your kind of cynicism we may as well not try at all. So not all promisses to reign in big gov are kept. Does this mean you want somebody that isn’t even willing to make the promise?? At least he is saying all the right things. That is a huge step up from RHINO McCain, or Bush and his “compassionate conservative” nonsense. And Perry’s record in TX indicates he doesn’t just talk, but actually delivers.
I definitely agree that his line about making the fed gov inconsequential was by far the best line in the speech. It will definitely terrify big gov leftists. One challenge he will face is when the leftist media begins attacking him for that statement, he must not back off.
The other worry I have about Perry is if he starts forgetting about this economic libertarian message, and goes to courting social conservatives full time. That would make it too easy to make him into another incarnation of Bush.
An additional worry is his TX folksy swagger may not play well outside of the South. He should make some detailed and intellectual policy speeches before some groups of conservative and libertarian intelligencia, to stave of the coming leftist charges of being a brainless swaggering TX hick, like Bush.
Perry has a very encouraging start, but plenty of coming pitfalls to avoid.
Marcel,
We may be fooled again.(By “we”, I do not mean me– I did not vote for the Marxist. I voted for the guy who “suspended” his campaign to rush back to Washington to vote with the ruling class…so I actually might sort of understand your point.)
If we need to make another change in 2016, so be it. But Obama must go.
Umm, dude, this time it’s different.
The country is finally awake.
What would it have been like if government had been inconsequential after 9/11 or after Katrina?
Inconsequential does not mean incompetent or non-existent. It means that it figures rarely into your thinking on a daily basis. 9/11 and Katrina were hardly “daily life” events. In other words, you are not constantly dealing with government agencies as would be the case with ObamaCare, unreformed Social Security and Medicare, and insane tax codes.
You missed all around on this one, didn’t you. Being open minded, for the win…
Marcus,
Well stated.
I concur.
Concise and cogent.
Thanks dude from a still optimistic old lady.
It just about was!
9/11; Defense is the rightful role off government.
Katrina; The worst state government this country has seen in a long time. And a dependent populace that could not take personal initiative.
I don’t want gov health care, I don’t want national government in my every day life.
It would have been like it always had been before big government got involved. Feds didn’t rebuild Chicago or Allentown or San Francisco after fire, flood, and earthquake,respectively–local communities did on their dime. Pearl Harbor was rebuilt because it was a military installation. The Honolulu community was not rebuilt by federal dollars in those areas attacked–the community did it on its dime. Our response was we went to war–globally. Which we should have done after 9/11.
Unfortunately, Gov. Perry might not be the “scandal-free candidate” you (and I) hope for. An article in Saturday’s (8/13) Wall Street Journal noted that the Texas Governor has something of a “crony-capitalism problem.”
Records from Texas’ “Emerging Technology Fund,” a state-run program intended to direct part of that state government budget into “a kind of public-sector venture capital firm” show that millions of dollars have been directed from taxpaying Texans into companies run by Perry supporters and high-dollar donors.
If Perry respects the free market, shouldn’t he be working to get government out of it?
I read that article, too. What was missing was any interview or opportunity to respond by Perry. Since he has made his tax returns public from day one, and has put every state agency on the web, making it easy to see what’s happening in Austin and in the local school district as well, most Texans would at least ask him about it. The mincemeat media have been trying to destroy him for 10 years in Texas, and now that he is running for national office, it has started of all places, the WSJ. We’ll see if they can destroy him as they have tried to do Gov. Palin. Because of the blatant lies now the usual fare of the MSM, I question everything. We deserve to hear Perry’s side of the accusation.
Why is it that leftist trolls invariabley select common single names as their User Names on PJM. It’s really an extraordinary pattern.
You would think they would pick names like Frothing Idiot, Hand In Your Pocket, or Bend Over and Smile.
I suppose, like Little Lenin, they try to slither under the radar and get you to read their posts in the hopes the YOU are the idiot.
If crony capialism is a problem – and it always is – how about we just compare the examples we can find in Texas right now with the examples we can find in Washington. Perry will look just fine.
What kind of name is proreason ?
Sounds like some new drug on the market since that is something so lacking in modern day America.
The more you blab the more you sound like the troll you are accusing everyone else of being.
You sure do have troll on the brain and not much else.
Many people who post on PJM are smart.
Here here! And Bravo!
With a wee defense of my own 4-letter nom de plume.
(I’m old…2 repeating letters…I can remember)
Obama has a crony problem. Every person he’s appointed, every one working on the last campaign and this one, every water carrier, every toady, every czar and czarina, is a socialist pal of his from way back.
Gee Dan, I’m more concerned with our little “spending the country into oblivion problem” caused by Barack “It’s Not My Fault” Obama!
Aww, “proreason” scared of trolls. How about this: Rick Perry whored himself to BP. Remember the Gulf oil rig blowout? Rick Perry was the first to yell “Act of God, Act of God” like he was a paid public relations flack for BP.
Act of God absolves them of liability, legally. Reality, it was an act of men, three different or more companies involved, to be hammered out in court. But Perry was there, yelling “Act of God” before any one else. This news was later drowned out by focus on Obama doing nothing because, the liberal media was confused, Obama too was in the pocket of BP: cap and trade and corn ethanol reasons.
I thought it funny Rick “Act of God” Perry recently is pretending to be evangelical. You know how to find a stupid Republican? He is the one who sees through Obama’s phony religion embrace, but thinks Perry is sincere.
This one is a Paulista.
You can tell because they are angrier, since other then the guy on icon on their altar, they have never won an election in history.
And never will win another one.
All they can do is work themselves into a frenzy over their failures.
I’m shocked !!!
You didn’t call him a troll, what happened ?
You’re going to have to come up with more than your lame 1 trick pony.
Instead of attacking those with the facts on the latest RINO to seduce the conservatives try something with more reason and substance.
Can you handle that,son of troll ?
If this election winds up between Paul and Obama I will vote for Paul in a heartbeat.
Which means voting for Perry will be as easy as letting a rainstorm water your lawn.
let me guess..your last has two F’s?
LOL!! Good one!
Time will tell I guess. The smart republican wil do some researc, instead of jumping on the best looking (as in chance to win) candidate so far.
I hope he is as good as pjm says
No, I don’t want a ‘scandal-free candidate’. There’s no such thing.
What I want in a candidate is someone who is real. Not a Messiah. I don’t want someone who will make the oceans cease to rise and peace to reign on earth. I don’t want someone whose background is hidden, who seems to have accomplished nothing but – it’s all hidden anyway.
I want someone with his feet firmly on this earth; someone who knows that decisions are always made within ‘reasonable grounds’ and acknowledging complex agendas – and that they can be wrong – and then, require fixing. Someone who can work with different groups and not vilify and smear those who disagree (such as Obama allowing his administration to call the Tea Party ‘terrorists’).
I want someone who can acknowledge he’s made bad decisions and been persuaded by data that might not, in the long run, be valid. I don’t want someone who laughs and says ‘Heh – I guess those projects weren’t shovel ready’..when we know they were Pork-to-Save-Public Union jobs. So, when Perry says he shouldn’t have made the HPV vaccine a requirement – I appreciate his integrity.
I want someone who respects Congress, i.e., The People..and doesn’t tell Congress to ‘pass the bill without reading it’..as was done with Obama’s Stimulus, when he threatened the economy would collapse overnight if the bill wasn’t passed. Remember Pelosi telling us we’d find out what was in the health care after the bill was passed?
Oh – and Obama refusing to take his Libyan war to Congress, because he redefined war to mean: Troops on the ground..ignoring Bombs From the Air.
I want someone who respects the role of Congress …and doesn’t consider that ‘things would be easier if I didn’t have to deal with Congress…as Obama told a Hispanic group.
I want someone who acknowledges reality. The debt, the jobs, the need to do something NOW. Not Obama, who declares that his Stimulus ‘worked’; who declares that ‘jobs were saved’ speaking at a factory whose jobs have been lost.
I want someone who doesn’t allow his Press Secretary to tell us that Unemployment Insurance provides a million jobs!…Somehow confusing tax money given to consumers with providing Investment money to private business; it doesn’t work that way.
I want someone who is honest; someone who makes 200,000 a year is not a millionaire, despite Obama’s putting him in that category.
I want someone who respects the vital role of small and medium PRIVATE businesses and is not taxing and regulating them to death – as is Obama. I want someone who knows the difference between INVESTMENT and CONSUMPTION and knows that an economy must allow the growth of the former over the latter.
I want someone who acknowledges that the entitlements need reform and isn’t afraid to tackle it; who acknowledges that taxes need reform and doesn’t simply vilify ‘the rich’ as some kind of Evil Greedy Set of People.
I want someone who doesn’t set up class warfare, with the utterly invalid images of Rich vs Poor; who doesn’t set up ethnic warfare – telling hispanics that Arizona police will be after you walking along eating ice cream. Who doesn’t set up false and vicious images of ‘doctors cutting off limbs for money’; who doesn’t vilify the Tea Party as ‘tea baggers’ and ‘terrorists’.
I want someone who respects all Americans – not just his sycophants.
I want someone who doesn’t insult our allies, doesn’t belittle America around the world.
I want someone who doesn’t spend his time on golf, parties, expensive vacations – while exhorting us to ‘put air in your tires’.
I want someone who doesn’t lie, misinform, manipulate and belittle us.
I want someone who can handle questions, complaints, different opinions – none of which Obama can deal with.
Again, I want someone real; and that means, they are not perfect but they are open, self-critical, analytic, respectful of others, and..deeply patriotic towards America.
["I want someone who doesn’t lie, misinform, manipulate and belittle us."]
Guess that disqualifies you from ever running as president, eh?
I would think only one word would encompass your qualifications for president….theorist!
T.T. thomas Care to elaborate with valid arguments, other than name calling. Where is ETAB wrong. Do a point by point analysis of ETAB ‘S critique. Typical Progressive B.S.
That sounds pretty good to me as well.
Enough of the ‘truth nuancing’ ruling elite of both parties.
We need some back to basics leadership and that means honesty.
1 term limits, two and out.
2 prohibition from seeking employment from any industry you helped
regulate during you service to your country.
3 lying to your employers (us) is punishable up to and including termination.
4 write on the blackboard 1200 times: it is not my money…it is not my money
it is not my money….it is not my money…..
Oh man! Music to my ears! Oxygen for my parched brain! Words that make my soul resonate with renewed life and, and, yes, hope. 01.20.13 cannot come too soon.
Thank you ETAB for your symphony. A true delight.
Now if any other adults out there can think … beyond the President, he needs a Congress he can work with and repeal all the crapola that has been shoved down our throats. Vote out the old farts, the RINO’s, and let’s get some patriots in there to work with the new president come the new day!
Etab:
Sounds very much like you are describing Mitt Romney as your preferred candidate. Makes me wonder why you and your pals have been so anxious to stop him with every opportunity to comment on a new posting on PJM. Have we finally found Mr. Stopper with Rick Perry? Are you now satisfied that the best qualified and probably most electable patriotic American to the presidency has been wasted by your scatter guns?
Do you honestly believe that Rick Perry with the support of mostly Christian Conservatives and Tea Party faithful can defeat Obama when Donald Trump jumps into the race third party as he will almost surely do if Obama is threatened?
If you are sincere in your position and belief that Obama must be defeated in 2012, please reconsider the horse you and your pals are relying on now to win the biggest stakes race in the history of this nation.
Please find me a company that did not support Perry, that applied for monies from the state of Texas in order to move their company here and was denied.
Go ahead. We’ll wait. While I wait do you mind if I go read this article about yet another video game company moving to Texas? http://www.gamefront.com/ea-sports-opening-texas-studio/
it’s uncanny
Tell me it ain’t so! Corporate and commerce government welfare enticements by the good evangelical governor? Sound just like the California model way back mid 20th century….or any States and the federal government today. California proved such a great model for the low tax, less regulation plan back in the day….but it was a democrat utopia plan back then. With a little more population infusion Texas will become the new ‘California of yesteryear’ and in the end, the new ‘California of today’.
Is that daniel the commie?
Perry has been forthcomimng. Someone said that he made a C is goat farming. I have not seen ANY of BHO’s grades nor heard from any of his college “friends”.
As for skeletons, who could have had more than BHO and still get elected?
Let’s face it. Obama was the not-Bush candidate, just as Perry will be the Not-Obama candidate. The idiots who voted for “change” in 2008, are now absolutely compelled to vote for “change” again in 2012.
All Candidates are flawed. So is Perry.
That said, there is nothing in his record so flawed to prevent his election, CONSIDERING that this election is going to about one thing and one thing alone: Did Barak Obama choose the best economic policies, and did they help and not hinder?
If the public answers that question NO, then the GOP can run a Dalmatian and win the election.
Yes, I read the Crony Capitalism article as well. The first thing I’ll say is it’s very easy for the media to cherry pick a couple of cases & characterize them in such a manner as to cast doubt upon the individual. The TEF has been extraordinarily successful, and it’s not difficult to look them up, move beyond the examples delivered to you in that article, and determine for yourself whether TEF’s checks & balances are fair and have delivered what they promised to TX.
The second thing I’d say is the author of that article worked on Susan Hutchisons campaign in her failed bid against Perry for governor in 2010.
That the author chose not to disclose that is worth considering.
Yeah, the man who wants government out of your life has signed hate crimes legislation.
Welcome to the world of being judged by your thoughts, not your actions.
Welcome to the world of differentiated justice based on politically correct victim groups.
Perry, a somewhat conservative democrat in RINO clothing.
That’s strange. I thought that the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act was about actions. Not thoughts.
It deals with criminal actions. It strengthens penalties for crimes motivated by a victim’s race, religion, color, sex, disability, sexual preference, age or national origin.
Nothing to do with thoughts or speech – which are both protected by the Constitution. It’s about criminal actions. Strange that you ignore this fact.
I respectfully disagree. Hate crime legislation has little to do with actions. Let’s take a hypothetical example: So two people in two separate bars, get the exact same injury, say a broken nose, by getting punched in the face. Same actions, same exact results. So how exactly do you determine if one was a “hate crime” WITHOUT divining the aggressors’ thoughts and motives? The actions and results were exactly the same. Hate crime legislation is brings in the government thought police, plain and simple. If someone assaults you, they should be punished for the assault, no matter what the motive was. Why should some groups of people be singled out for preferential treatment (tougher punishment of their aggressor) because of a different motive for the crime. The crime is the crime, and should be punished as such for everyone. It’s a perfect example of well-intentioned but very bad, and ultimately dangerous legislation.
Of course you can differentiate the two – and the hate crime legislation requires an action.
Admittedly, Bush refused to sign this bill when it was brought up by the Texas Congress during his tenure, saying that ‘all crimes are based on hate’. This is, as you point out, ‘the crime is the crime’. This is a very valid point, and Perry, faced with the same bill brought up by the Texas Congress apparently also hesitated but was convinced to sign it. I see both sides of the argument.
Your example is useless, because your two actions reveal nothing about the reason for the act. if both were simply ‘due to drink’ – then, they are identical. But if one was due to the agent declaring that he refused to allow blacks/gays/Jews…into his restaurant and attacked the person who came in…then, his reason for doing so, is based on their membership in an identifiable group.
He can’t use as his excuse that he was drunk; the ‘hate crime’ embeds intention within it while other causes such as drink, drugs imply simply an inability to form an intention.
Again, I see the validity of both opinions: the crime is the crime; and the other one that includes a particular a priori intention. They aren’t the same.
Here’s an interesting question. If it is worse to commit a crime out of hate than to commit it for some other reason, should we give contract killers a break on murder charges? After all, if the contract killer is just killing for cash and the victim is not supposed to take it personally – I’m sure we’ve all seen such dialog in TV programs – isn’t the contract killer less heinous that a killer who commits murder out of sheer hatred?
dw55
Snap out of it!
Get all tight-fannied and gimme a dozen reasons to dislike Perry.
OK done?
Because I can give you 54 reasons why we HAVE to 86 the Boy Who Would Be King.
If Mitt gets the nod so be it.
Ditto Bachman, Ryan, Cain, Tom, Dick or Harry!
In the meantime, let us remain somewhat open, eh?
If person A kills person B that is a crime. A “hate” crime goes directly to the thoughts of person A. Why did he kill person B. If the thoughts were not politically correct, if he hated the victim, the crime is elevated to a hate crime. Person B is just as dead in either case. Hate crime laws are about thoughts NOT about justice.
This reminds me of the person who seduced, drugged, killed and ate several young men he claimed to love. And perhaps did … in his own sick way. Is this a “love crime”? Using “hate crime” logic should he receive a reduced sentence? Or if the killer neither loves nor hates his victims but just enjoys killing them should he receive lessor penalty? My view is just the opposite of what I keep hearing. If person A hated person B the killing is not nearly so disturbing as if person A could care less about person B or loved person B. So if adjustments for thoughts must be made lets give the person who hates the lightest penalty. Or here is a novel idea … lets call murder “murder” and apply a penalty for the act NOT what we imagine to be the motive(thoughts of the killer).
I accept the view of both you and others who have pointed out, as did Bush, that a ‘crime is a crime’ and the intentionality should not enter into the prosecution. The focus should be on the result: criminal harm.
But this focus, although I recognize its legitimacy, does not deal with crimes that emerge beyond the individual intention. Is genocide a crime because of the deaths or also because the intention-to-kill was based on a belief about the genetic character of those killed?
Is telling a black child to sit in the back of the bus to be evaluated only on the act and not also on the belief that supports that action?
What about honor killings? Should only the act-of-harm be focused on and not also the cultural belief that says that a girl who behaves in such and such a manner, disgraces the Family, and must be killed? This is a situation that is being debated, with both views being put forth, in N. America now.
We cannot and must not regulate thoughts, but, can we legitimately say that thoughts cannot be linked to justify violent or repressive actions?
Single first name.
A pro.
The Paulistas get mad and sling mud. This one’s a Soros hand. They keep their cool and concentrate on their job. Their immediate job is sowing disinformation. The medium term job is destroying the country.
yes– proreason you are a bloodhound locking onto the various scents of perry bashers
interesting to note most of the “single/generic names” are quick to drop the “rino” attack/label
Governor Perry’s speech inspired something Obama claims he knows about, but has no clue, and that is H.O.P.E. Without teleprompter, without made up crowds, Governor Perry’s speech was a uniter!
And in the last two days we have observed that every single column dedicated to Perry has gathered hundreds of negative comments from Perry bashers: the subversives’ propaganda machine is working full steam.
They must be really afraid of him.
Maybe they know more about him than you do.
And what would that be?
Andrew, my heart stirred when I read Pam Geller’s reference to Perry being a big time Muslim supporter!
I agree. I might add that President Obama wants us to share the misery of a government controlled economy. We want to share the opportunity for abundance that a free and open market provides.
I found this site which has a good, well-sourced discussion of these issues.
The media will begin attacking Perry any minute now. One tactic they will use is to try to pre-censor him and his language. It’ll work like this. Somewhere, some whacko will say something that offends some anti-American, pinko socialist. The media will ask Perry “do you reject completely what the whacko said?” Then, the offending remarks will get mainstream but the media will demand that Perry reject reasonable positions. When he doesn’t/won’t, he’ll be labeled as uncivil, rigid or extreme right wing.
I’ve haven’t decided whether to back Perry or not and won’t decide until after I know who the democrats are going to run. The media, labor unions, black congressmen and the congressmen who have relatives who takes bribes and payoffs on their behalf, can not risk getting flushed with Obama. They have too much invested, they have too much to lose. They may realize that they may be able to salvage something with a better candidate.
Thank god this twit will never be president. What a crook, an absolutely corrupt politician of the first degree.
Sweet Dreams Baby – do you think Obama will be the next POTUS?
Even his base has deserted him.
The sad thing for democrats is that they have nobody better to offer than Obama, who failed at everything.
common first name. No links. No information. Ad hominum attacks.
Yep.
proreason your troll radar is en fuego!
If Perry is attracting this many after less than 2 days, he struck a nerve. As well as stirring some hearts (mine included).
I was immediately surprised to read that Andrew Klavan previously knew next to nothing about Rick Perry.
“I had never seen Perry speak before”.
I’ve been following him for several weeks http://is.gd/dexuso
And some governors claim not to know much about Perry who is the longest serving living govenor in the US.
The ignorance is shameful and certainly not encouraging
Andrew Klavan –
Please carefully check out Perry’s stand on growing Sharia influence and inroads into our nation. I’ve read some odd things lately. I doubt that it’s deliberate … but rather Bush-like misplaced good intentions.
I like Perry for president. He has the “presence” … he has the oratory skills. He has great ideas. He has an excellent chance. But not if he’s slack on studying up on the influence of stealth islamism, and plans to do something to impede it.
It is amazing that every negative post about Perry was written by someone using a single common name. Marcel, Daniel, Amy, Beth and Randy. Maybe proreason was on to something.
duh ,maybe thats because it’s our first name.
Would something more esoteric like first stage hand pseudo name ‘growreason’ be more acceptable to you ?
It’s no wonder why the gullible voters keep electing the same lying politicians pushing the same promises they never deliver.
Who do you like?
Don’t you just love it when libs talk about corrupt politicians?
It’s like when they talk about civility, intelligence, national defense, and morality (while still worshiping Teddy and Clinton).
They set themselves up for, gasp, comments about hypocrisy.
And where is th outrage for Obama’s illegal war, and the unprecedented expansion of the Patriot Act? Oh, but that would be hypocrisy, yet again.
I will vote for anyone who will take on this despicable, corrupt, dangerous ideologue who is destroying our country.
Obama won’t be that hard to defeat, if we have a forceful fighter of a candidate who will show him for who he is, instead of tip-toeing around him.
What’s the truth behind the death of those 25 SEALS and five other crammed onto that Chinook? Will we ever know the truth about who tipped of the Taliban, and why they were sent to aid an army ground action, and why Obama insisted on releasing the names of those SEALS who killed bin Laden, most of whom were on that chopper.
Very interesting to watch posters attack hard.
I am interested in Perry. I don’t know a whole lot about him. I like his 9th and 10th amendment awareness and his simple message about Washington being a lot less involved in our lives. That resonates with me. I have read he would like to dismantle a large swath of the expansion in government over the last 70 years. That interests me alot. The balance intended by the founders between the powers retained by the states and people, and the limited powers given to Washington is so out of whack as to be almost unrecognizable. If Perry wants to fix that I want to hear more, a lot more!
I am concerned that he is soft on illegal immigration, he is going to have to show me that is not the case.
The ferocity of the attacks on him tells me that there are people on the left and right who are very afraid of this man.
That interests me too.
agreed
Funny to follow this story the last couple of days. I’ve seen a number of items saying he’s too dumb, complete with Molly Ivins excerpts! Good thing we’ve got the “smart guy” in office now, huh? Then, they’re moving on to his faith. After all, if he has faith and it informs his views, then he can’t make reasonable judgements. The left fears Christians more than they do homicidal terrorists. But the main theme of the campaign was cast with the line about making Washington less intrusive. The very idea is completely misunderstood by the administration. This election is about whether the good things in life are earned or given out as entitlements.
We know Gov. Perry is the real deal when we see the libs/dems squirming! His announcement has scared them to death. Sure, I’ve seen the headlines, “White House looking forward to exposing Perry’s Record”, “Dems welcome Perry into Race”, they act like they are not worried, yet, they worry!!!!!!!!!!! And Worry. And Worry. Even if Perry doesn’t win he will expose this White House for what it is. If this nation has a chance it will be without BHO at the helm. I don’t think there’s much MSNBC, or NYT, or the other Obama cheerleaders in the MSM can do to prop him up this time, but, I’ve been wrong before. I hope I’m not this time. The scared dems/libs give me hope!!!!!
Hey you ardent Rick Perry supporters, how do you guys feel about the Confederacy? Rick Perry tried to secede from the Union. Doesn’t sound like a problem solver to me, sounds like a guy who runs to the media with his tail between his legs making empty threats (at best) or contemplated acts of treason (at worst).
You think Jeremiah Wright videos hurt Obama? Wait til some of these videos of this guy surface.
It’s a shame too b/c th ere are brilliant ideas and solutions on the right. Hey, based on his record, it seems like Rick Parry might actually possess a lot of those ideas and solutions. But the right is brought down by its AMP-its anger management problem. And i find it ironic that a political body who lashes out at the “Mainstream Media” so often basically relies on the mainstream media to outlet its anger.
So to all you secessionists out their, United State of Texas 2012.
Alex, why don’t you provide us with some documentation to prove you assertion? Or do want us just to take your word for it?
Hmmm… another common first name poster. Must be a leftie troll.
Wow such vitriol so early on. The topic is the writers positive reaction to Gov. Perry and a speech I question if any of you with such negative comments even watched.
Personal attacks usually mean no foundation for a real argument and lack of true objectivity . There is no perfect candidate folks, however there is a perfect candidate for this particular election cycle against Mr. Obama . Even so every candidate has challenges and Gov. Perry must prove that what he said in his speech is a doable proposition and not just campaign hype . His record appears to support to his vision for American based on his performance in Texas.
I actually watched the speech and agree that Gov. Perry is the anti Obama and w/o ever even having to attack Mr. Obama the contrast will be clear and consise as it was in Reagan versus Carter. Perry will be the Republican nominee and next president because in 2012 its all about timing and an anti Washington mood like none seen for many years .
Jobs , huge edge Perry.Mr. Obama has incumbancy and the media but Perry will have a boots on the ground campaign like none ever seen before thanks to the Tea Party groups, edge Perry.Obama care issue , edge Perry.States rights , edge Perry. Peace through strength Americans, edge Perry.Optimistic vesus pessimistic candidate , edge Perry.Fund raising is a draw Finally the experience to actually get the job done , edge Perry.Strong versus weak , edge Perry.
So in the final analysis this will be an interesting race however keeping it thought provoking and civil will make it a much more enjoyable endeavor for all.Lets play nice . After all we are all still Americans and some of these problems are American problems not Democratic or Republican ones.
You know it’s absolutely amazing. There has been more “vetting” of Rick Perry on this page alone than there was of Barack Obama by the entire media during the year-and-a-half he was running for President. Well this is the price you pay for actually having accumulated a record of experience in governance before you decide to run for President.
And yet, anyone who brings up issues for examination rather than simply worshiping Perry is being ridiculed and ostracized in each and every one of the Perry puff pieces on PJM at the moment.
If you dare to question if he is the best we can do you will be called a socialist, leftist, Obama Troll etc.
This isn’t vetting, it’s idolatry.
Rest easy pal. The dinosaur media will have Perry’s innards hanging from a barbed wire before you can say “Hope and Change.” He’s at least the co-front runner with Romney at this point and, as such, will be examined with the miroscopic intensity of the research team in “The Andromeda Strain.” Something that was certainly NOT the case with Mr. Obama.
As an added plus he’s from Texas and he’s religious. The MSM will eat this up. We can expect the twin mantras of “Texans are Dumb” and “Bush was from Texas” beaten into our heads on a 24/ basis. I hope Perry possesses the legenday “Texas Toughness” because he will need it.
You conveniently ignored the point, so aptly, being made!
President Rick Perry – real hope and change –
am so tired of wishy-washy politically correct talk -
Perry nailed Obysmal and will blow Obysmal away at every turn -
2012 – President Rick Perry, Republican control of government
and I can hear FREEDOM RINGING!!!
I don’t know a lot about Perry but I know all I need to know about him at this point, as I do about Bachman and Romney: They are not Obama. Enough said.
Yep, I’m right there with you. I’m registered as an independent and have never voted in a primary…and I really don’t have a dog in the Republican fight. But I do know that it doesn’t really matter much. I’ll wait and see what the Rs decide, and then vote for their guy/gal. Because whoever it is will not be Obama, and that’s enough. ANY of them would be a huge upgrade at the position.
Note also what Perry did NOT talk about. He did not talk about gay marriage. He did NOT talk about abortion. He did NOT talk about any kind of social do-gooding of the religious right variety. (Yet anyway.) If he can maintain this he will definitively win the middle, and the election.
Govenor Perry will cruise the Republican Party nomination and crush President Obama in a landslide. After Obamacare has been repealed, the economy will start moving in the right direction. Mitt Romney has an albatrose around his neck: Romneycare. I too was impressed with Govenor Perry’s speech. I hope he does well.
We already know it will be a tsunami against Obama, but who will ride the wave?
It’s quite something to see the images that Obama is floating around himself.
As I’ve always maintained, Obama lives within Words. Fiction. Words that he makes up for the occasion. He has no direct connection to reality – unlike Perry, Pawlenty, Ryan, West, Cain, etc etc.
Obama came on stage (and yes, for him it’s always a staged performance) as The Messiah. His inauguration saw him present Himself as Lincoln. Then, he tried to cloak Himself as Reagan (that one didn’t catch on very well).
Now, he’s The Victim.
The good-intentioned, pure, eager-to-do-good, Obama…a Victim of the evil corrupt Congress. Congress bickers and argues instead of doing The Good Things Proposed by Obama. Aw shucks.
And the evil Tea Party – aw shucks – they are terrorists, yes indeed.
Now, Obama is adding another fictional image floating around him. Care.
He said today – that he’s fine with people using the words: Obamacare..because, as he said…aw shucks…it’s true. Obama cares. Aw shucks.
I believe, unless there are closeted demons we are unaware of, that Rick Perry will demolish the paper thin Mitt Romney, and obliterate national embarrassment Michelle Bachmann. Jon Huntsman could challenge, but only if he can somehow live until New Hampshire, clearly he is way too moderate for the blood thirsty Iowa GOP primary voter. Still, Huntsman is an intriguing candidate, and could receive much moderate Republican support, and no, that is not an oxymoron. There are Republicans who realize that Obama has tried to work with the other side to fashion policies to move our country onward and upward, and that he has been vilified and blockaded by a petulant, party obsessed GOP. Obama’s only abject failure as President is his misjudgment that the GOP cares more about the country then their own political success, huge mistake. The guess here is that Obama v Perry could be grand political theater, with the outcome dependent on whether our economy can shake loose from the doldrums, and whether Gov. Perry can stop pretending that Jesus Christ would care one way or the other who wins a political race. He’ll need to stop with that before the caucuses, or the GOP might as well nominate a ham and cheese sandwich, Obama in a cakewalk.
Sounds like that gubamint job is working out for ya.
Are you paying taxes or have you gone Geithner on us.
Pro,
You need to be more precise in your description of profession. I say our poster friend is a college prof, maybe a TA. Tenure tracked. Pays taxes, recieves a pension and benefits package a private sector employee couldn’t imagine. Plenty of time to offer analysis, classes don’t start until end of August.
I posted this at Frank J.’s site may as well just say the same here:
I just don’t get all of the Perry gripes. After so many years in office, you get a record. People get to see that record and don’t be confused –there will ALWAYS be problems of one sort or another. Despite all of the smackdowns of liberalism and the restoration of American pride, even Reagan had tax hikes, Iran-Contra, and Simpson-Mazzoli (amnesty without border control).
I voted for Perry all three times because I live in the real world; the one where he was the best of all of the available options. Barring some kind of campaign implosion, I will vote for him again in the GOP primary for the very same reason.
To Matthew Roman…
You sir, are completely and utterly clueless. Jon Huntsman? Really? Jon Huntsman is NOT well liked within any entity closely resembling the Republican Party. He is an afterthought. Don’t worry, no one here expects the clueless, i.e. you, to ever vote for any Republican. It is people, such as yourself, that put us in this situation by voting for current dimwit occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave! So thanks alot! By the way, I hope you drown in that koolaid you’re drinking.
No matter who is elected next time, it is the Obama media machine against the American Citizens.
We won’t be electing a President; We will be defeating, or being defeated by, the Obama media.
Obama is nothing but a small particle of the media power in America.
If the media can’t be defeated, then America is lost to them.
It’s them or US!
Simple.
As long as I keep hearing “unexpectedly” from the MSM in America, I’ll know that all is not lost.
Andrew, I love you, bro. Your books are exciting. You are clever and witty and your Klavan On The Culture is magnifique. However, you need to read this article. Now I know that people can change but, as we have all found out much to our chagrin, politicians are GREAT at saying one thing and doing another:
http://bit.ly/la1sfj
Don’t for a minute think that beating Obama will be easy. Obama is a Performer. That’s all he is.
His 2008 campaign was a smash hit, and this campaign will also have him as the Star. But in 2008 he was the Messiah. This time, following the biblical metaphor, he’s the Victim. Who is crucifying him? Why..the Ones-in-Power, the bureaucracy in Washington, the Rich Elite, the …
Obama is distancing himself from Washington and from power. He’s distancing himself from Congress. From politics. He’s above and beyond politics.
He’s presenting himself as powerless, as a victim whose only thought, whose only care – is to Help You People. Obama Cares. Who is stopping this kind, gentle man from Helping You? Why…the professional politicians, the career politicians, the rich…the Washington crowd.
Don’t underestimate the Oscar Prize winning performance that Obama can play. He’s a disaster as a president but he’s a great performer on stage.
Superior insight. The victim. Excellent reinforcement for his base, The Thieves, who all consider themselves victims. Excellent linkage to the True Believers, who honestly bleed for the oppressed.
It’s a chillin way of blaming Bush without blaming Bush. He’s above the fray and doesn’t have to point out the horrible hand he was dealt, and played so well. He’s just a victim of circumstances beyond any mortal’s control.
It contrasts his statemanlike persona with the mean people who are out to destroy him and the country. The Boehners, and Paul Ryans; cruel Simon Legree’s who bash him without mercy because he has prevented them from bashing their normal victims.
You’re the first to spot it that I’ve seen. Again ETAB, well done.
Obama-as-Victim, as you say, fits in with the 2008 Bash Bush campaign, for Obama is now a victim of Bush..and the GOP…and the Tea Party.
As well, it continues on, in a ghoulish metaphoric manner, with his 2008 campaign performance as The Messiah. Now, he is The Victim, being crucified by The Forces-of-Evil…who are the same he was so bravely fighting before..the militant, the bureaucrats, the wealth moneylenders…
Of course, in this Performance, and Obama is only and nothing but..a Performer..FACTS disappear. What facts are being ignored?
-His stimulus was Pork-for-Democrats, in particular, the unionized public service; he pushed it through Congress with great contempt for Congress, insisisting that they pass it without debate or reading; and it didn’t keep unemployment below 8%..increased debt by 821B
-His 2012 budget proposal added 10T over 10 years and did nothing to deal with the debt; defeated by Senate 97-0.
-no budget passed since he began as president; no plan for dealing with debt; borrows 4B a day vs Bush’s 1.6B a day;
- same thing with Obamacare – pushed through without reading by his majorities in Congress; many companies feel it’s breaking their fiscal backs; adds 1.4T in new spending;
- Obama claims he ‘cut taxes’. Heh. No he didn’t; the GOP took the House and insisted that the Bush tax cuts remain. Obama wanted them to expire.
-Two million-private sector jobs have been lost. Created 100,000 federal jobs
-Unemployment jumped from 7.8 to 9.2 percent with a simply terrible 2011 first-quarter economic growth rate of just 0.4 percent.
-A record 1 in 7 Americans is on food stamps.
-Gasoline prices more than doubled, from $1.83 to $3.74 per gallon.
-National debt increased 35 percent, to $14.5 trillion, or $137,000 for each taxpayer.
-National unfunded liabilities increased 47 percent, to $114.9 trillion, or a cool $1 million for each taxpayer (and this does not yet include Obamacare).
-America losing its AAA credit rating- and this was due not to the rigid focus of the GOP but to the rigid focus of Obama – who threatened to veto Cut,Cap and Balance, threatened to veto Boehner’s plan..had no plan to reduce the debt and simply wanted the debt ceiling raised to provide him with campaign slush money to buy votes;
-contempt for Congress, which is the VOICE OF THE PEOPLE; Obama rejects Congress; eg, in his stimulus and health care, he insisted on passage of bills without reading. Cap and Trade failed – Obama runs its programs anyway by his unelected EPA, whose regulations are strangling business;
- his govt is suing Boeing, a PRIVATE company, which wants to set up a new plant in S. Carolina. Obama is fighting this because the state is a right to work state (no union) and Obama is bonded to Big Unions.
-ignores the illegal immigrants, does not protect the borders – causes great economic harm to the border states;
All of these facts, and more, are the reality which Obama, Performing On Stage as The Victim, is charming you into ignoring. And Obama is nothing but and is only, A Performer. Nothing else. He’s a pathological liar, a master manipulator…and playing Victim comes as naturally to him as breathing.
He’s distancing himself from all factual realities, and setting himself up as the angelic messiah…being victimized by the moneylenders and Roman authorities.
That’s Obama.
Yes, ETAB. Thank you and well done … May we add to the list the destruction of contract law, the essential part of any commerce — remember those preferred holders, completely dismissed during the car company fiasco.
To this president’s true believers — you people and your ‘leaders’ like to ridicule those who disagree, you even call them names like terrorist, flake, stupid. When you wonder what happened in 2012, no one will call you stupid, but stupid is as stupid does.
ETAB
siscinct and accurate on all points
One small add on
Starting in 2013 there will be a tax of 3.7% on ALL income
Dividends,interest,passive income,rental income
The only exempt item will be tax free munis
This is the Obamacare tax
I’m sure this “revenue” will help kick start the economy………
From an independent — naysayers, you’re too late. Your money-machine, the citizens of America, made up their minds long ago. It didn’t take long. Spew your venom, spin your lies, people just don’t care anymore. They don’t even hear you. Alinsky is so yesterday. We will take our country back. As Michael Ledeen says, ‘Faster please!’
It will be interesting to watch the MSM and left-wing elites condescendingly ridicule Gov. Perry, from his hardscrabble Texas upbringing to his tough-talking demeanor (LBJ got a pass, being a liberal and all). He’s basically cut from the same mold as W, only totally Texas through and through. If they were tough on Bush for being a mediocre student at Yale, just imagine how these credential snobs will relentlessly harp on Perry’s middling grades at “pedestrian” Texas A & M (which, by the way, I think is a great American institution of higher learning).
That being said, a Perry (or Bachmann)nomination would be like giving re-election to Obama in a gift-wrapped box with a bow on top. He may be the darling of evangelicals and Tea Party voters, but liberals and many moderates won’t vote for him under any circumstances, and Obama will win in a landslide. Of the Republican hopefuls only Romney can garner enough moderate and independent votes, while the conservatives will hold their noses and go along.
I agree with your point about Romney (from what I see right now) having the best chance, but Perry is immediately hot stuff in the Republican field, and I’d make him at least 50-50 to win the nomination. He’s obviously a tough campaigner, is going after Obama’s lack of military service already, and he has all that job creation. The campaign just got a lot more interesting, that’s for sure.
You can’t chase moderates, and you wouldn’t want to if you could. Show some spine and stand on principle. If we can’t win on our values, it’s not worth winning.
How can anyone vote for four more years of President Obama? How can anyone look at the state of our economy and say that he made it better? I believe it is time for a Lyndon Baines Johnson moment, in which he faces the camera on national television and announces he won’t run for a second term. I have no doubt he is a decent man who tired his best and did what he thought was right. But how can anyone look at our economy and say that he made it better or ever would make it better given four more years to try?
Obama “a decent man”? You’re kidding, I hope.
Decent people do not, on four separate occasions, stand up in their state Senate and defend the practice of infanticide: abandoning born-alive babies in dirty-linen closets to die of exposure.
Decent people do not count among their closest friends – let alone have as their main mentor – a revolutionary who planned to exile everyone who disagreed with him to “re-education camps,” and to slaughter 25 million Americans (10 percent of the American population at that time) for being “reactionary.”
Decent people do not subscribe to something as diabolical as the Cloward-Piven strategy, which entails deliberately collapsing the economy and civil society, and purposely causing as much social chaos and misery as possible in effort to get people to join a revolution.
If Barack Obama is a decent person, then V.I. Lenin was a nice guy. The man is a hateful, vengeful, malevolent sociopath. He’s a monster.
“I’ll work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can”
Bingo, that’s the money line. That’s the core principle that will bury Obama.
President Obama’s single talent is to read a speech from a telepromter in a way that leads his followers to think he actually saying something. It’s tho old “you can fool….” He’s been in office long enough to cause all but the most deluded to see that he is an empty suit pushing hard left bromides that have been discredited the world over. Governor Perry wouldn’t be my first choice – that would be Gary Johnson – but from what I’ve heard he is a serious guy who has been consistent in pushing a small government agenda, AND, as a former AF pilot, he knows which end of the tube the projectile comes out of. It will be interesting if the nation is ready for an Aggie yell leader, though.
I think it’s interesting that every negative point mentioned has already been brought up in governor Perry’s Texas election and re-election battles. Also note that all three of Texas’s big newspapers are virulently anti-Perry and have dug for dirt for over a decade. And yet when it comes time to vote he wins the electorate every time.
Even his enemies state that he is a ferocious campaigner who has made a successful political career in no small measure by being underestimated.
In his last primary Karl Rove and the Bush organization went against him and he wiped the floor with their candidate sitting senator Hutchinson.
Everything negative listed in this stream has been used in attack ads and we all know how well that’s worked. If that’s the best negative material thus far then his opponents do really need to get to work digging fast – and find something that all the media and his many Texas enemies haven’t been able to find.
As for me, I’ve yet to see him change anything but party affiliation, unlike governor Romney who’s changed on life, guns, government et cetera. And if changing party affiliation was fine for president Reagan that’s it’s fine for governor Perry.
Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, and Steve Brown R the same kind of Republicans! They seem to vote with the democrats at certain times!
OK, I’m open to Perry. As a Christian I appreciate his stand for the Lord. There are two things though that I’ve read recently about his views on illegal immigration, the Arizona Law, and his views on Islam that disturb me. They may have been written by liberals trying to stir up some crap, or even disgruntled conservatives. As far as a record, his “presence”, the intangibles, he looks like a winner, would beat Obama like a cheap drum. Can’t wait to here more about his positions.
Take away roads, take away medical research, take away educational Pell Grants, take away infrastructure, take away air traffic co rollers, take away all military spending, take away food stamps, take away every legal protection, take away FIDC savings protection, take away all mortgage support from government, take away child labor laws, take away every environmental protection.
Reduce the country to hunger, ignorance, and poverty.
And live in a waste land of the misery you wish to visit on everyone else.
You mean like New England? Oh, wait, it’s a wasteland of unemployment and debt WITH all those programs still in tact.
You sure can tell old Tom is from Vermont. His “analysis” of what happens when you free up capital by reducing the role of government is so shockingly ignorant of economic understanding that it is not surprising in the least the author would hail from one of America’s greatest bastions of progresive advocacy.
Tom, why don’t you do a careful analysis of what our economy was like in 1900 when the Feds consumed 3.8% of GDP. We had the most powerful economic engine the world had ever seen which employed skilled labor at high wage rates. The country easily absorbed millions of immigrants who came here seeking a better life. Liberty abounded. It was a rough and tumble economic atmosphere that produced a high standard of living.
Contrast that scenario with today where the Federal government consumes 26% of GDP. Good luck with that.
It’s ironic that progressives like Tom are actually the mortal enemies of economic progress.
Tom in Vermont for President! Great platform!
Well, the Pell grants can certainly go…they are just a massive fraud-filled ripoff of taxpayers. Also, the government has no proper role in “mortgage support.”
But the rest of your comment is right out of the Obama playbook. It is known as the “straw man” argument. You have chosen absurd extremes in attempt to make your argument seem reasonable. (Except that you seem to think Pell grants are some kind of wonderful. Pell grants are a government operated scam. There are better ways of redistributing wealth, if that is your goal.)
Nobody is arguing the nonsense you have offerred up. Nobody.
Okay, Andrew, I was a third of the way through that video clip when I realized it wasn’t Perry’s announcement speech. Is that your clever way of getting us to listen to MORE Rick Perry than we bargained for? Heh. It worked. Now I’m off to find the video from S.C.
The video of the announcement speech is at CSPAN:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/RTX
Hey Rick,
Do you feel like you broke the logan act attending the Binderburg meetings? If you are not for open borders, and destruction of American culture why are Austin, and other large Texas cities sactuary cities? Do you favor the North American Union the cfr pukes love?
Just questions I have folks. Don’t get you liberal panties in a bunch.
This guy is as much the real deal as anyone…and definitely more than most. I like that he turned away from the Dems after seeing…with his own eyes…what the left really is about. He experienced the hard left that runs things today, with the charliton Gore. Like Reagan….the party left him. That will and should be the only response he will need to that.
The conversation changed forever with the 2010 elections, thanks to you TEA Party, we are grateful for your voice.
Gang, reading this April 16, 2009 missive I wrote here at PJM about Rick Perry and bad boy Obama made me smile. Partly for my Perry prediction, and partly for my three o’clock in the morning weird, dire thoughts about Obama’s darkest side; the lengths he’d be willing to go to, to win in 2012. Thought I’d share my perspective of two years ago with you. Rachel
31. Rachel Peepers
In case not everybody knows who Rick Perry is let me enlighten you.
He’s the odds on 2012 Presidential nominee of the Republican Party. About six months ago, I was tipped off about this, and Perry’s implied message of succession can be interpreted as a shot across the bow of the Obama administration.
Obama’s attack on the Republican Party, calling the tea bag demonstrations the equivalant of terrorists, is really an attack on the first amendment.
Obama, like a true Leninist or Hitlerite, detests any group or person who voices the slightest disagreement with his spend-like-there’s-no-tomorrow policies. Obama is totally aware that his spending spree, effectively
bankrupting this country’s future, is a tremendous vulnerability that is and will be used against him.
Partly it was intended as a payback to supporters who wanted to be instant zillionaires. Which is the greed component of his administration. But there’s also a power component.
Together, though, they just may prove to be Obama’s downfall. However, Obama’s twisted me is banking on something else to save him, something as insidious is a dirty nuclear device hidden in a suitcase.
Homeland security now won’t even use the term, terrorist. They’ve buried their heads in the sand, making this country vulnerable like it was Sept. 10 to a legitimate terrorist attack.
Now for the eye opener.
Obama hopes a terrorist attack, albeit a small one, will take people’s attention away from all the spending and the tea bag opposition, and will cause the country to rally around him
This line of reasoning is just how deviously sophisticated Obama and his staff of leftist Harvard lawyers really are.
To me, they represent a clear and present danger to the United States of America. This is no longer a matter of me chastising anyone who voted for Obama. It’s now a time when we all have to realize the perpetuation of the U.S. as we know and love it is not Obama’s objective.
The Tea Bag people aren’t the threat to the U.S.
The Texas govenor who implies succession isn’t a threat.
You know what the the most dangerous threat to this country really is. So do I.
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That’s worth repeating? The only interesting point that I hear is that Perry can use “the Dem party left me” line. The rest is boilerplate Rachel ranting.
Gee D-White, are you going through Pick It Fence But Separation Anxiety?
You now discern that the Mr. Wonderful President might not make it. This has upset the balance of the known Pick It Fence Enclosure.
The Ping Pong Tongue has come out of the Mystical Faculty Lounge Closet, and now in the bright sunlight of reality, has shaken off the Tweed induced cloud of manufactured feel good centrism, and is now showing the Nasty Modern Liberal that inhabits that husk of protective misdirection.
Interesting how the husk usually begins as a protective path, but then becomes a non-maintainable burden. Much like Mr. President.
Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is…
Are you a child? I’m not. In my lifetime I have experienced the elections of Nixon, Reagan, and GWB. Did my life change much? Not that I noticed. You and Rachel are excitable types, me less so, which also seems to push your buttons. If Obama flops, he flops. Life is complicated, checks and balances etc. Americans will try one thing, and if that seems not to be working, try something else, over and over. I suspect that such will continue.
“Did my life change much? Not that I noticed.”
Then why bother D-White? Or is this a tacit admission that habitation has an effect? Such as, living in a Faculty Lounge Wonderland, where the most important thing is to get along. Otherwise, you are Other. You know precisely what that is. Other. Such as the Pet Righty. The days and days of indoctrination, to the point where 2+2=5. No scars though, just a get along go along Joe. Ever here that tune Walk Away Joe? Something like that.
It hasn’t worked. 70+ years (pick your timeline) of hammering It into the souls of the populace. And what? Mr. President is the culmination? It, is a massive world-wide failure. Clinging to It, and pretending that It hasn’t had an effect, denies much of what you have posted on PJM. You’re not alone, Wasilla excursions notwithstanding. The results are everywhere. D-White-ism is the central problem. Need some greasy gin?
“You and Rachel are excitable types…”
Easy D-White, you come close to a Mortal Sin of the Past. Think “excitable” in the context of a Negro and a White Girl circa 1961. Dangerous usage. But that is the past that now. Along with Liberal Fantasies.
“Not that I noticed.”
I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more
No, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more…
I suppose that I should add (not to rub it in) that despite some rough patches, my life has gotten generally better as the right and left have whacked away at each other for 65 years. Had either side, “won,” life would not be as good, I think. Apparently, your enemy and the “problem” are all the people in the same boat. But there is hope for you; things may be falling apart. Buck up. One lives his or her own life, not someone else’s life. Your obsession with my “tweed” life, blah, blah, despite the fact that there are so many non-tweedy things about me, implies what? That I should be/have been a musician?
O Wise Beyond the Beyond D-White.
A large part of It is that you and so many have defined as the “The Center” and the Holy Grail of “Compromise” squarely in the realm of past/present failure. Being in the center of failure and/or compromising with failure will yield… Well, take a long look around. Take off the tweed colored glasses.
Right and Left? Old thought. For sometime it has been your life is my life. The notion of collective vs. the individual. Altruism vs. Freedom.
“One lives his or her own life, not someone else’s life.” That’s right. Break out the Freak Flag and wave it high. Check out Rand, her essays, something other than her novels. You actually may find some common ground. Or is that statement window dressing?
Oh yeah, “But there is hope for you…” On no. That really cool smart guy with the Big Black Bus Entourage is chasing after me again.
Hope…
Rachel,
THANK YOU for sharing that. You were prophetic.
I did not foresee Perry’s candidacy two years ago – but I was saying the very same things you were about Obama, and am encouraged by the fact that so many others also see through him.
“Obama’s only abject failure as President is…”
Everything he’s tried that didn’t copy George Bush’s policies to the letter. Barack Obama is one of the most blatantly incompetent presidents we’ve ever had.
I can think of people I would support over Rick Perry, but if it’s Perry vs. Obama…it’s Perry all the way.
Perry is not perfect he is an advocate of illegal immigration. The first state to offer in sate tuition to illegals. But right now whatever it takes to get the leftists children out of the white house and congress.
I’d vote for a mangy dog over 0bama. Just as competent as the incumbent and a good deal less dangerous.
So if Perry’s the nominee… Perry it is. Bachmann is unelectable (and so, thank G-d, is that kook L. Ron Luap); I’d vote for Romney if he were the nominee but without much enthusiasm (even “McCain with better hair” is an improvement over BHOzo).
It’s fitting that Mr. Perry confesses to be Republican, and Conservative at that. As a Son of Texas, he has form : Texas the ONLY state of the “57″ originally an Independent Republic. Operative words independent and Republic.
Would it be rude to remember that Martin L. King, who “had a Dream”, was also confessed Republican. Also Abraham Lincoln who induced ordinary Americans to fight and die to destroy slavery as official policy in any part of the USA? Their different racial origins apparently not interfering with admission as Republican. Each identified himself as American – no hyphen. Honoured the principles as American – no hyphen? Worked to ensure principles of America guaranteed to EACH American, no special privilege /non-privilege.
The principles witnessed in the founding documents of that USA. Stll extant and available for review.
To which each man and woman representing Americans in Legislature, Judiciary and Executive swears or affirms oath to Uphold and Defend. Not manipulate, ignore and dismiss when expedient to abrogation in service of unlawful power grabs.
Sorry, Andrew, you’re a fine entertainer, but Rick Perrty’s an Islamic dhimmi. Go here for the awful truth, on Jihad Watch.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/geller-rick-perry-the-stealth-jihad-candidate.html#comments
He’s approved, for example, the brainwashing of Texas schoolchildren by Islamic “outreach” Muslims. Where are your brains? Is the right going to be as evasive about a candidate’s qualifications and background as the left was about Obama’s?
Besides, I no more want an evangelical Christian for a president than I’d want a Muslim.
Yep, them Christian suicide bombers are getting to be a real problem, aren’t they?
Please.
If you conflate Focus on the Family with Hezbollah, the Family Research Council with al-Qaeda, the Southern Baptist Convention with the Muslim Brotherhood, then you are one hopeless case.
If people had to leave their own state and relocate elsewhere, I bet most people would choose Texas over any other state. Attitude matters a lot, people are fed up with the “mamby-pamby” pc utopia and federal government intrusion being forced on them at every turn. European socialism is not a good fit for America.
Can we please have a Republican candidate who is not soft on Islam?
Hear, hear!
We need someone who really understands taqiyya – the Muslim precept of lying to the infidel in order to advance Islam – and how it is therefore impossible to take Muslims at their word.
We need someone who knows the principle of abrogation, whereby earlier (more peaceful) passages of the Qur’an are superseded/replaced/abrogated by later (more violent) ones.
We need someone who recognizes that most of the mosques in the U.S. are funded by the Saudis, linked to terrorist groups, and/or display and distribute violent jihadist materials on their premisese.
We need someone who knows that CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MPAC and the Muslim Students Association are all offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The only candidates I see who “get” all the above are Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. The other person who obviously “gets it” is not running, and that is Allen West.
If the Republicans insist on going after healthcare they lose my vote.
It’s good to know what you’re willing to sell your vote for. Not really interested though.
I see the concern trolls are rolling in from the sewage pits of the left. Ozzy, here’s a hint: Empty drool-cup before posting.
“some obscure foreign cultural something-or-other”
So, Die Hard or pro wrestling?
I too was uplifted when Perry officially entered the race. Here was a guy, a Republican Governor of the 2nd biggest state in the union with an impressive record of growth, prosperity, job creation highest in a country still embroiled in a recession, corporate friendly, low taxes with no intent to raise to correct the ubiquitous budget shortfall; the opposite of Obamanomics. And a guy with the macho charisma sorely lacking in the ranks of the Republican front runners, Herman Cain the one exception. Yeah, I said “macho.” If you don’t think that’s going to be a factor in 2012, against Mr. Joe Cool, Barack Obama, you’re mired in La-la land.
Then, in this mornings email stack, came this little gem: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/perrys_problematic_pals.html
Like Chris Christie, another favorite of the Republican Party and George W. Bush, Perry has disturbing Muslim connections. So what the hell are we to do?
I suspect, with absolutely no supporting evidence, that Bush, Christie, Perry and the majority of politicians in Washington and State Capitals around the country and, more importantly, virtually all of the major news media, don’t have a clue how they’re being cleverly and surreptitiously exploited by subversive Muslim organizations that have successfully infiltrated Americas institutions of influence and power over a period of decades. Some of these organizations have been investigated, high ranking members charged for their participation in various seditious acts, prosecuted and are currently serving long jail terms. These same organizatioins remain overt and operational in politically correct, multicultural at all costs, America. CAIR, ISNA, MSA, MAS, IIIT, an alphabet soup of not so stealthy subversives diligently maintaining a smoke screen of victim-hood over Muslims, the most protected class in America and around the world while it quietly spreads its doctrine of Muslim hegemony in, what for it is, a world of infidels.
Remember the statement made by General George W. Casey, Jr., Army Chief of Staff, after Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 American soldiers while shouting the Islamic mantra, Allahu Akbar: “Our diversity, not only in our Army, but in our country, is a strength. And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse,” So, “diversity” uber alles.
Remember Senator Joe McCarthy’s investigation into Communist infiltration in America, an investigation successfully labeled as a “witch hunt,” so successfully the term “McCarthyism” found it’s way into the American lexicon meaning the “unfair accusation or investigation of people:” When the Venona Papers were released in 1995 (http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1375/article_detail.asp) Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, “The Venona intercepts contained overwhelming proof of the activities of Soviet spy networks in America, complete with names, dates, places, and deeds.” (http://www.conservapedia.com/List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_papers). If interested, read M. Stanton Evans “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies.”
Fast forward to 2011 and consider the accusations of “Islamophobia,” defined as “an irrational fear or prejudice towards Islam and Muslims.” Odd, is it not, how history has a habit of repeating itself but getting back to Rick Perry, Chris Christie and all the rest. Are they stealth, Muslim subversives or just innocent dupes? Either way, can America’s security be protected by such a President in a country currently conducting three wars in the Middle East and still oblivious to the nature and identity of the enemy?
The best line in Perry’s speech—“And I will work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your lives as I can”—will no doubt thrill conservatives and give liberals fits. It is a line Mitt Romney and most candidates would not have the courage to speak, but it may end up defining the campaign—and sealing Obama’s fate.
A RINO like Romney cannot win; he can only hope Obama loses. That is why the media will go all out to make Romney the GOP candidate; it knows that “Democrat-lite” cannot is less likely to beat full-blown leftism. (Why vote for mere big government when you can have biggest government?)
But a campaign on the role of government in our lives is where Obama cannot succeed – without vote fraud, deceit, and dirty tricks. Perry can defeat Obama… and Obama knows it.
From those wonderful folks who brought you Mein Kampf…(read the tagline)
METROPOLITAN BOOKS TO PUBLISH BITING, SATIRICAL ACCOUNT OF RICK PERRY’S RECORD AS GOVERNER OF TEXAS
BY JAMES C. MOORE AND JASON STANFORD
NEW YORK, August 16, 2011 – On the heels of Rick Perry’s announcement to run for president, Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, announced today it will publish ADIOS MOFO: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush. Scheduled for an early 2012 publication, the book is a sharp, critical narrative of Rick Perry’s political career in Texas and his record on religion, guns, family values, and the economy. The book will be written by Austin-based journalist and commentator James C. Moore and Texas political consultant Jason Stanford and was acquired by Riva Hocherman, senior editor of Metropolitan Books.
ADIOS MOFO will track the current governor of Texas from his hometown in West Texas to his run for the White House, challenging his competence as a leader and laying bare the hollow truth of Perry’s “Texas Miracle.” Moore and Stanford will reveal a radical ideologue with scant interest or success in governing and present a picture of a country under his leadership. The title of the book, ADIOS MOFO, a phrase Perry used to mock a Houston correspondent has become shorthand in Texas political circles for the governor’s unchecked arrogance and incompetence in the Texas statehouse.
James C. Moore and Jason Stanford have deep contacts with numerous operatives in the Perry campaign and will detail stories the public has not yet heard. Moore, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, has been writing and reporting on Perry since the governor first came to Austin as a political client of Karl Rove in the 1980s, and Stanford, whose keen political insights have helped dozen of Democrats win public office, has run campaigns against Rick Perry. Their decades of experience as Texas journalist and political consultant will combine for an outrageous portrait of the presidential candidate.
“People need to know the guy behind the smile,” Moore and Stanford said. “Trouble often comes in attractive packaging. Rick Perry’s politics make George W. Bush look like George McGovern. We’ll give readers a very startling insight to what Perry’s ten year administration has done, not for Texas, but to Texas, and we’ll help them envision a country led by Perry. His heartless politics and ineptitude are as funny as they are frightening.”
Metropolitan Books acquired North American rights from Ellen Geiger of The Francis Goldin Literary Agency, Inc.
About Macmillan
Macmillan is a global publisher of books, magazines, textbooks, scientific information, and digital content and services. In the United States, the group includes Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Henry Holt and Company; St. Martin’s Press; Tor Books; Picador; Macmillan Audio; Bedford St. Martin’s; W. H. Freeman; Worth Publishers; i-clicker; Hayden-McNeil; Palgrave Macmillan; and Scientific American magazine.
Macmillan is a subsidiary of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, GMbH, a global media company based in Stuttgart, Germany.
Please look up the facts on Rick. He looks good and sounds great, but check him out carefully. Here are some topics to start with ; 1-his connection to Merck and support of mandatory Gardasil vaccinations 2- how the Tx state legislature had the votes to stop the TSA but still failed 3- Cintra We all need to do our homework on these very important candidates.
The Texas legislature’s failure to stop TSA is not a ding on Governor Perry – it’s a ding on the legislature. Anyone who judges Perry by the legislature’s actions or inactions is not a credible information source.
My problem with him is not the recent appearance of shadiness with businesses. It is that he is just a Republican big brother, never understood why so many people liked Huckebee he was more liberal than both Bushes.
Some of the things Texes does to families is outrages. The whole forcing every girl who goes to public shools to get the HPV cancer vaccination makes him the enemy of parental rights as far as I am concerned. I would vote for him if he got the nomination though, which I would not with half the current crop. Third party is what I would vote.
I would advise Mr. Perry not to be the next RINO lying son of a bitch who will say anything to get elected and then turn soft commie once in office. We’re pretty much done with the slow track to perdition too.
In the coming months, what Perry says will be measured against what Perry has done. It is a real stretch for a guy who actively supported Gore’s candidacy to convince me that he’s got religion on the Constitution, limited government, fiscal responsibility, and giving America the opportunity to regain her place as the true leader of freedom. After McCain, my bullshit detector sensitivity gain is set way up.
Andrew – thank you so much for writing this. Interesting to read your reaction to Perry. Guess research about him is definitely in order.
Perry’s gonna wipe the floor with Obama. That’s my prediction for 2012.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/08/perryaga-curriculum-shocking-example-of-islamic-propaganda-forced-upon-unsuspecting-students-attendi.html – This is worrying! – Rene