Gov. Rick Perry: America Needs New Leadership (Full Text of Announcement Speech)
Howdy. Thank you, Erick (Erickson, editor of RedState). It is great to be at RedState. And I’ll tell you what, it’s even better to be governor of the largest red state in America.
It’s sure good to be back in the Palmetto State, in South Carolina. I enjoy coming to places where people elect folks like Nikki Haley, true conservatives. And also where they love the greatest fighting force on the face of the earth…the United States Military.
And I want to take a moment and ask you to just take a silence, think about those young Navy SEALs and the other special operators who gave it all in the service of their country. Just take a moment to say Thank you, Lord, that we have those kind of selfless, sacrificial men and women. Their sacrifice was immeasurable, their dedication profound, and we will never, ever forget them.
I stand before you today as the governor of Texas. But I also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers, Ray Perry, who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there, and Amelia who made sure my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, including hand-sewing my clothes until I went off to college.
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn’t have a zip code. It’s too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn’t farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.
Around the age of 8, I was blessed – didn’t realize it, but I was blessed to meet my future wife, Anita Thigpen, at a piano recital. We had our first date eight years later. And she finally agreed to marry me 16 years after that. Nobody says I am not persistent.
There is no greater way to live life than with someone you love, and my first love is with us today, my lovely wife Anita. We’re also blessed to have two incredible children, Griffin and Sydney, and they are also with us today, and our wonderful daughter-in-law Meredith. I’d just like to introduce those two. Thank you.
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. But it wasn’t until I graduated from Texas A&M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130’s all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, I realized that the United States of America really is the last great hope of mankind. What I saw was systems of government that elevated rulers at the expense of the people. Socialist systems cloaked maybe in good intentions but were delivering misery and stagnation. And I learned that not everyone values life like we do in America, or the rights that are endowed to every human being by a loving God.
You see, as Americans we’re not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights. As Americans, we don’t see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. And as Americans, we realize there is no taxpayer money that wasn’t first earned by the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.
That’s why we reject this President’s unbridled fixation on taking more money out of the wallets and pocketbooks of American families and employers and giving it to a central government. “Spreading the wealth” punishes success while setting America on course to greater dependency on government. Washington’s insatiable desire to spend our children’s inheritance on failed “stimulus” plans and other misguided economic theories have given us record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.
But of course, now we’re told we are in recovery. Yeah.
But this sure doesn’t feel like a recovery to more than nine percent of Americans out there who are unemployed, or the sixteen percent of African Americans and 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions more who can only find part-time work, or those who have stopped even looking for a job.
One in six work-eligible Americans cannot find a full-time job. That is not a recovery. That is an economic disaster.
If you think about it, for those Americans who do have full-time jobs, they aren’t experiencing economic recovery with the rising fuel costs and the food prices that are going up. Recovery is a meaningless word if the bank has foreclosed on your home, if you are under water on your mortgage, or if you are up to the max on your credit card debt. Those Americans know that this President and his big-spending, big-government policies have prolonged our national misery, not alleviated it.
And what do we say to our children? Y’all figure it out? Don’t worry, Washington’s created 17 debt and entitlement commissions in 30 years, but the fact of the matter is they just didn’t have the courage to make the decisions to allow you to have the future that you actually deserve? That Washington wouldn’t even make modest entitlement program reforms in this last debate? And the President even refused to lay out a plan, for fear of the next election? How can the wealthiest nation in the history of civilization fail so miserably to pay its bills? How does that happen?
Well, Mr. President, let us tell you something: you can’t win the future by selling America off to foreign creditors.
We cannot afford four more years of this rudderless leadership. Last week, that leadership failed, and the tax and spend and borrow agenda of this President led to the first ever downgrade of the credit rating of the United States of America.
In reality though, this is just the most recent downgrade. The fact is for nearly three years President Obama has been downgrading American jobs. He’s been downgrading our standing in the world. He’s been downgrading our financial stability. He’s been downgrading our confidence, and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children. That’s a fact.
His policies are not only a threat to this economy, so are his appointees – a threat. You see he stacked the National Labor Relations Board with anti-business cronies who want to dictate to a private company, Boeing, where they can build a plant. No president, no president should kill jobs in South Carolina, or any other state for that matter, simply because they choose to go to a right-to-work state.
You see, when the Obama Administration is not stifling economic growth with over-regulation, they are achieving the same through their reckless spending. Debt is not only a threat to our economy, but also to our security.
America’s standing in the world is in peril, not only because of disastrous economic policies, but from the incoherent muddle that they call foreign policy. Our president has insulted our friends and he’s encouraged our enemies, thumbing his nose at traditional allies like Israel. He seeks to dictate new borders for the Middle East and the oldest democracy there, Israel, while he is an abject failure in his constitutional duty to protect our borders in the United States.
His foreign policy seems to be based on alienating our traditional allies, while basing our domestic agenda on importing those failed Western European social values. We don’t need a president who apologizes for America. We need a president who protects and projects those values.
Look, it’s pretty simple: we’re going to stand with those who stand with us, and we will vigorously defend our interests. And those who threaten our interests, harm our citizens – we will simply not be scolding you, we will defeat you.
“Around the age of 8, I was blessed – didn’t realize it, but I was blessed to meet my future wife, Anita Thigpen, at a piano recital. We had our first date eight years later. And she finally agreed to marry me 16 years after that. Nobody says I am not persistent.”
Boy does sound like GW Bush! Same story with Laura, and he was persistent.
My questions is, how do we know this is not another GW Bush?!
One way Mr. Perry is not like Dubya is that he is not the son of a national politician. His upbringing had no silver spoons in it.
But: I would rather he were more like Dubya than Obama.
A Bush imitator with a Hope, Arkansas type background. Do Americans ever tire of watching reruns?
Yes, it depends on what. We want our constitution run again and again. Our American value run again and again. Our freedom run again and again.
We had better hope to Hell that this may become neuvo rerun !
Perry is nothing like Bush. Bush was a moderate. Perry is a conservative. Perry and Bush have a very different upbringing and different views. I was not a Bush fan but I am 100% behind PERRY.
Let’s see.
From 84 to 90 he ran as a Democrat for the state legislature. He chaired Al Gore’s presidential campaign in Texas in 1988. It was until 1989 that he announced that he was going to run as a Republican.
Perry’s a fine guy and I wouldn’t have a problem voting for him. However, like Romney, Perry has a past that must be confronted. While Romney was fairly wishy washy as a Senate candidate in Mass Perry was a DEMOCRAT who endorsed Al Gore. That seems about a million times more objectionable than anything that Romney has ever said.
There are plenty of people who woke up and smelled the coffee, and went on to do great things for the conservative cause. Reagan for one.
He was a Democrat, but like most of us, grew up and realized he really wasn’t. It happened during the time when people were leaving the Democratic party because the Democratic party had left them. Perry is a good man. He’s pro-life, anti-illegal immigration, pro job growth and wants you to have more say about your life than Washington does.
Of course you can’t bring up Al Gore the presidental candidate in 1988 without also mentioning that he was much different than the Al Gore we’ve seen since he went “national.” Gore — and Texas Democrats — were much more conservative in 1988, and Gore was A-rated by the NRA, and opposed federal funding for abortion, among other things.
Many Texas Dems made the move from D to R when the D party started lurching way left.
Go Perry.
So, what you’re saying is, a vote for Rick Perry in 2012 is like a vote for Al Gore was in 1988?
Take the DeLorean back to 1988, vote for Gore, and we’d never need Rick Perry today?
Rick Perry was Al Gore before Al Gore changed, and then Rick Perry changed, and he’s better now than Hope and Change?
Rick Perry was for Gore, before he was against Gore?
How many Republicans were ever for Gore? What kind of Republican would ever do such a thing?
THe Gore Perry was involved with is not the idiot thet Gore became after becoming VP.
Last time I checked, Gingrich and Romney were all aboard Al Gore’s global warming bandwagon. But maybe next week, they’ll “change”.
Did you know that Ronald Reagan started out in life as a Democrat too?
Hence his famous line, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. It left me.”
He was president of the Screen Actors Guild too.
People change.
The GOP is not MENSA. There’s no entrance exam you have to pass to become a Republican.
The Al Gore of 1988 was a small government, pro life, pro second amendment conservative democrat. Al Gore has changed much in two decades and is now a blubbering liberal that drips socialism.
Sounds like Al Gore and Rick Perry still have a lot in common.
They both sure know how to “change” to try to get new suckers to vote for them.
The Al Gore of 1988 was a small government, pro life, pro second amendment conservative democrat.
He really wasn’t BUT he did pretend to be.
Anyway, I totally forgive Perry for being fooled as a lot of people were.
Rick in 2012.
Bill Lawrence,
So Perry is just what America needs — another fool in the White House, eh?
Ronald Reagan, Winston S Churchill, both changed from Labor to Conservativeparties. My first vote in college was for Jimmy Carter but by 1980 I was a Reagan Democrat and was even elected a local YR officer before I changed party affiliation. I like Ron Paul by Rick Perry gets my support. Texas stands apart from the Obamination disaster we are all experiencing…enough radical progressive disasters. POTUS and his cronies have nary a clue
So what! I voted for that nit whit Carter. Everyone deserves the right to make mistakes. My opinion has changed drastically over the years on many political subjects. I once thought I was liberal & my gosh I’m so conservative it freaks my family out lol. People do mature & your thoughts & outlooks on life change & Perry is no different. I also voted for Bush as gov & president. He spent a little to lavishly at the end but I look at his service to our country over all & it was not horrible. As far as whether he & GB both met & married the only girl for them so what. It is wonderful they are mature enough to be happy with their wives. As far as religion he could practice voo doo in a pink bra & panties & I wouldn’t care as long as he stands up to those rotten bully liberals
Has to explain to me, despite all that rah rah patriotic troop-supporting language he opened with, how come he was willing to make a deal toe expropriate property of Americans so that a foreign (I believe Spanish) combine of financial interests could build then LEASE BACK to Texas a road thru the heart of the state?
I can never GET the willingness of conservatives to prate “patriotism” while at same time being so willing to cede sovereignty, jobs and all sorts of other goodies to purely global interests? NAFTA to put it succinctly and all the other un fair trade treaties they love? And this Tex-Mex road Perry wanted? What ever happened to Pat Buchanan economic nationalists? That’s what I want economic nationalism for 20 years to counter devastation of 20 years of economic globalism foisted upon us by a combination of Republicans (mostly) who call themselves conservatives and patriots, but don’t act that way when it comes to global trade AND Democrats (subordinate role because of unions).
In the 80′s in Texas, Democrats were 90% of the state. There was a conservative and a liberal wing.
The complaint is specious. If Perry had been a wild-eyed lib, or if Gore had been a wild-eyed lib at the time they encountered each other, the claim might have merit. If you claim it still has weight, then you are basically calling Perry a liar. He probably lies his share, but on the matter of being conservative. Get real.
Romney shouldn’t be held accountable for stuff 20 years ago either, unless he was still defending ancient views a year or so ago.
That’s an absurd argument. Ron Paul didn’t have different positions 23 years ago. Unlike Perry, Ron Paul has principles.
Perry was a grown man when he supported Al Gore. Perry didn’t just vote for Al Gore — he elbowed his way to the front of the line.
What’s absurd is fools who claim people’s views can’t change and that they have to defend stuff that happened 25+ years ago when it doesn’t align in any way with their current adamentaly stated positions.
No go back to your Ron Paul shrine and leave us alone.
Great! Ron Paul has been consistent for 23 years! You know, a long time ago, a lot of people died with the belief that the Earth was the center of the universe. The lesson here is that consistent belief is no guarantee against being dead wrong!
There’s something to admire about stubbornly standing on principles and I find myself agreeing with Ron Paul on a great many things. But it’s his few enormously bad ideas that he refuses to entertain debate of that make me extremely wary of him. He’s an effective town crier but he’s so inflexibly entrenched at the most extreme right that he’s essentially staring at the backs of those on the very extreme left. To me, that makes him not much different than the wild-eyed libs!
Yes, Perry is a conservative. But he’s not so far to the right that he’s circumnavigated the globe and finds himself standing next to the left, much like Ron Paul has.
Klaus- you are without a doubt one of the more stupid people arguing your point. I say stupid because you aren’t ignorant…. I could at least understand that. You just tried to say it’s not okay to learn from your mistakes and change your point of view. You just tried to say that a person can’t grow as an individual. I once believed in Santa Clause…. then I grew up. It’s about time you did, too. Perry 2012!
tim0629, the time is far to late for a President fresh off the Bilderberg casting couch who is still growing as an individual.
We need a grown up in the White House. And the only grown up in the race is Ron Paul.
proreason….knowing a tad bit about the political demographic conversion of the Southern Plains States may I respectfully disagree with your premise.
I can honestly say that until I left and went into the service, I had never known a republican…or at least one who would admit it, though the election board at the courthouse always had a few GOP vote tally’s.
But back to the seeming more recent transformation. The GOP brought energy and agri subsidies/expansion to the southern plains states with promises to expand and diversify industry recruitment. With the exception of Texas, not much else has changed over the many decades in any of the Plains States. They represent an aging population and a majority that still hovers around the poverty line. Rest assurd they are paying attention to whomever wishes to mess with their historic social benefits. Most of the Plains States vascilate from democrat to GOP administrations. At best, there is a very fragile line that allows the GOP to gain office some times. Government subsidies affects on the economies and religion are at best, the only things that determine a party’s longevity in office. The other variable is the big cities grow larger around energy, agriculture and banking/finance which brings in GOP transplants from around the country. Subsidies, promises and to a degree, religion is all that determines what party gains an advantage for a time.
As for Texas. Check out their poverty rate if nothing else! A state cannot report and distort that number since they don’t collect the data and do the analysis. A states poverty rate tells the truth about its government.
Aw heck! Let me throw out this bit of bait. In July 2011, Texas’ unemployment rate is higher than that of all four states bordering it.
And what is poverty? Who defines that? Why does the poverty threshold keep changing? How is it that a family who’s in poverty can still have air conditioning, 2 cars, 2 TVs, an XBox and a cell phone, and another family in poverty might only have cold running water yet we define they with the same word?
How is it in these two examples, only one is suffering outright deprivation yet you choose to define them all by the same standard?
Sounds like perhaps you ought to check you’re premise as well.
Texas has a high Hispanic population. Nothing wrong with that when they are legal. Texas alsmost certainly has the highest percentage of legal Hispanic polulation in the country.
You know how it’s possible to do anything with statistics. Well, when you have a lot of first generation citizens whose native language is not English, then it’s going to distort a lot of statistics like poverty and education, and that happens in Texas. The futher south you go, the more of a distortion there is.
You need to put things in context TT. You mean well, but you are too susceptable to leftist propaganda.
Can you please supply links to the portions of the Constitution of the United States or of any one of the states that mentions “poverty” as any of the government’s business?
Thanks,
Speak for yourself down there in Baja Oklahoma texan. But we Okies are doing fine ourselves. We ridded ourselves of democrats and for the first time in history we have decent government. We have a 5.3% unemployment, Baja Oklahoma.. your State has what 8 or 9 % unemployment? Oklahoma in 2008… not one county voted for President Downgrade.
Plus we have a better football team as well.
BOOMMER SOONER!
Don’t forget, Perry also eats dinner and Obama eats dinner too. How do we know he’s not another Obama?
And both Perry and Obama inherited an economy from Bush.
Which one did a better job with their inheritance?
Ron Paul.
Obama eats Kobe Beef with his union guests in the People’s House.
Many of America’s unemployed legions would be lucky to have MRE’s to eat in 2011 !
If you were from Texas you would know the two men did not see eye to eye.
Rick Perry was Al Gore’s campaign manager in Texas in 1988.
So, think of him as a Bush-Obama blend.
B’Rick O’Perry 2012!
Did Anita Thigpen kill her previous fiancee by running over him with a car after partying, too?
MODERATORS.
Get rid of this guy.
He’s sick.
American politics is for the big boys. If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Not every candidate is hand-selected at a Bilderberg conference by foreign interests, like Perry was.
what is rick perry’s stance on legalizing meth and heroin?
how does he fell regarding a nuclear armed iran?
daxypoo, I will respond.
Afghanistan accounted for 10% of the world’s opium production before the U.S. invaded their sovereign nation. After the U.S. invasion, Afghanistan opium production increased to now over 90% of the world’s supply. As FoxNews reported, U.S. troops not only protect the opium poppy fields, they import fertilizer to help the fields grow.
As President, will Rick Perry stop U.S. troops from facilitating opium production in Afghanistan?
Wachovia/Wells Fargo was recently caught laundering $370 billion in drug money and was slapped on the wrist with a $100 million fine (that’s less than 3% of profits), with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge they won’t do it again.
As President, how will Rick Perry crack down on drug money laundering by the Big Six banks?
It’s about time we talk about real issues in this campaign, instead of nonsense like who’s for legalizing adultery or polygamy.
Klaus, you are so right. Ron Paul is the greatest American of all time, greater than Washington who should have known that if he had just ignored the British and followed strict libertarian principles the red coats would have gone away without a shot being fired. In fact, I would rank Ron Paul on a par with Jesus and Buddha, perhaps somewhat higher than Buddha because Gautama was, as you know, of noble lineage and therefore had a leg up that Paul never had. Continue with you persuasive postings. You are making many new friends for Ron Paul. By the way, don’t believe the rumors that he was a follower of Aleister Crowley. They were created by his enemies. And if people call you a cultist, wave your index finger at them and chant the traditional incantation of the great Ahman Ra: “Asunt, Asunt, Asunt.”
Roger L Simon, your anti-Liberty comment is gibberish. The Revolutionary War soldiers did not wear uniforms and brought their own guns. The Second Amendment is the only Defense this country ever needed or needs. Anything wearing a uniform is a socialist institution, police and military obviously. Uniforms require the submission of the individual to the collective, which is an anti-Founding Fathers as it can get. Ron Paul might be the greatest American of all time. He learned well from the Fathers. Respect your elders and learn your history. Rick Perry loved Al Gore.
So what if he is? My god anything is better than what we have now
I don’t know but the good news is we KNOW he is not another Obama Disaster.
He is not another Bush. He and Bush do get along and didn’t when Perry was Lt. Governor, because Perry is far more conservative. Rick Perry grew up the way he descibes it, the son of tennent farmers, and I believe he did in fact meet his bride when they were eight. He is a politician and he has done things I don’t agree with and he has done a couple of stupid things, but I trust him to do what HE THINKS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, based on his research, knowloedge, and understanding. Of course there is always Jerry Brown in California waiting for the call.
Bob Lee
Smithville, Texas
Actually he is NOT sounding like Bush, and that is all to the good. No RHINO talk about “compassionate conservatism”. He correctly recognizes that gov is never “compassionate” and gov charity does more harm than good. I especially like his line about making gov as inconsequential as possible, and I also like his emphasis on cutting spending. I love him bringing up the appaling Obama Boeing NLRB decision, along with dodd/Frank and Obamacare, since it also indicates he is sound on stopping overegulation. I also like his quoting Thatcher, the best conservative leader in history other than Reagan. That is both anti Bush and anti Obama. I also like that he did NOT emphasise any social conservative BS, and kept the emphasis on where it needs to be, cutting gov.
I had been worried that he would be another Texan like Bush, but this speech gives me some confidence that he is NOT. If he keeps talking like this, he will have my vote.
he is Bush reincarnated,wHERE DOES HE STAND ON BORDER CONTROL? AND HE LIVE IN tEXAS HE SHOULD BE BRAGGING ABOUT THAT. Dont drink the coolaid he is an internationalist like obama
He has my vote!
Is Perry another W when it comes to illegal immigration?
Is he another “compassionate Conservative”?
Is he an AGW advocate?
Yesterday, Gov. Perry accurately referred to the AGW fiasco as a “phony mess”.
That’s true regardless of which side of the debate you’re on.
The observation sharply separates him from Mitt Romney who has declared himself an AGW believer.
He also said he thinks the major cause of global warming is when Al Gore opens his mouth and all that hot air spills out.
Which ya gotta agree with
I believe Perry can and will win. His record of success and obvious disdain for the central planners stand in stark contrast to Obama and his cadre of statists. If Perry chooses Marco Rubio for VP then the contrast between youthful ideas and worn out old men like Joe Biden and his ideas will be glaring. The Democrat party is old, gray, and stuck in the 60′s.
Rick Perry IS a central planner. Rick Perry was all about confiscating private land so a Spanish company could build a “trans-Texas corridor” to more easily flood north America with Chicom goods.
Rick Perry was the first to speak out AGAINST Arizona. . .”not the right kind of law for Texas. . .” until he read the polls that handed his head to him. Rick Perry is proud to offer in-state tuition to illegals, not to other Americans, just illegals, “Dream Act” anyone?
Rick Perry had no problem over ruling a parent’s right to make decisions about their child’s welfare by mandating HPV vaccinations for teenagers.
Rick Perry apparently doesn’t think the tenth amendment means anything as he wants new amendments to outlaw abortion and gay marriage. Abortion, homosexuality, substance abuse etc., all existed when the framers (much brighter folks than Rick Perry)chose NOT to make ANY of them federal issues.
Can anyone point out any plan Rick Perry has to make the federal government smaller, less intrusive, and more in line with the Constitution?. . . anyone?
Rick Perry is a master panderer, to the illegals, to the evangelicals, to anyone who he thinks he can fool.
The best candidate currently announced won the Iowa straw poll today. The only thing that puts Perry ahead of Romney is the second amendment. . . maybe.
Bilderberger.
Rick Perry, your Bilderberg brand will be exposed for all the world to see. You will fail.
AMEN JUSTAL
“Rick Perry apparently doesn’t think the tenth amendment means anything as he wants new amendments to outlaw abortion and gay marriage.”
If he thought it didn’t mean anything, he wouldn’t support amendments to outlaw abortion and gay marriage! He clearly thinks that if the Constitution doesn’t allow federal laws on a particular subject, then the Constitution needs to be amended. That is at least the right way to fix a deficiency–not pretending that the Constitution is a living, breathing, constantly mutating critter.
From what I can find out, Perry has a ‘commonsense’ outline to illegals.
Palin and Romney, for example, would deport them and make them re-apply for entrance – an almost impossible task given the sheer numbers and length of stay of many of them.
Reagan was in favor of amnesty.
Bush’s 5-part plan was: increase the size of the Border Patrol and use 6,000 temporary National Guard; issue temporary worker cards; strict immigration enforcement by employers; require immigrants to learn English; and was against mass deportation. He supported long-term illegal residents be allowed to apply for citizenship from within the US – This bill failed when the Democrats took control of Congress…and Harry Reid scuttled any such agendas.
It appears that Perry’s outline is somewhat similar…
Perry requires proof of legal status to get a driver’s licence while other states are forbidden from asking; but allows illegals to pay in-state tuition fees at educational colleges (i.e., these fees are lower than that paid by out of state or foreign students). There’s a very large hispanic population in Texas.
He’s against a wall/fence for border control and considers that it should be a federal responsibility and with massive manpower.
So, I view it as a commonsense approach.
How does Perry’s plan differ from the Panamanian Juan McCain’s amnesty approach when he was the Republican standard bearer in 2008?
Pretty words, but how much of it is for real? He’s saying all the right things but will he really do anything? I do like his stance on education but in my opinion he left out the most important study, History. We can’t learn from our mistakes if those that would change our way of life first rewrite the history of our country. Students being told all the wonderful things that was done in the past were wrong and we should go out and apologize to everyone in the world for being us. Oh, and don’t worry about getting a passing grade, we don’t want to offend you so we will just give you one. We don’t want to leave you behind so we will just bring everyone down to your level.
Welcome to the race & best wishes, Rick Perry.
I look forward to you signing the health care compact as President.
Power back to the states
Just what the country needs another RINO, clone of G.W.Bush.
Another Globalist Wolf in sheep’s costume.
I had a feeling when Gov. Perry gathered the Christian Right in Houston for religion lite that he would use them as the last Texas Governor did.
The desperate Christian right have found their latest false messiah to save them and their no longer promising Promised Land.
Could you substantiate your opinions?..That is, your RINO opinion, ‘globalist wolf’ (what does that mean?); and ‘the Christian right’. These descriptions, as I’m sure you know, are unsubstantiated. So – could you provide clarification and evidence? Thanks. I’m sure you don’t want your comments to be viewed as irrelevant babble.
Google Rick Perry and New World Order or even better Google ’14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really,Really Bad President.
I should be surprised that so many naive voters don’t do their homework and are so easily seduced by the smooth words of the chameleon politicians but it’s not longer the case.
perry just entered the race a few hours ago– no need to have “researched” him until now
what is curious is the speed of the seminar haters showing immediate hate
Dax,
You sound like the seminar hater whose working for another RINO.
My guess is you also worked for Mc Lame whom the ‘useful idiot’ Republicans of Arizona re-elected.
A week before Perry decided to run I saw what was coming when he pulled his little religious stunt in Houston and wrote about him using this same Bush strategy
Marcel is a marxist troll. We don’t see many trying to strum our racist hearts though.
ETAB, this flavor troll will never substantiate anything, other than to become abusive and more inflammatory. He’s probably flown away to feebly attempt to sow discontent elsewhere anyway.
If this one’s a pro, he’s a real slow learner. Save your breath for one with better moves.
Joseph appears to be the team leader, btw.
Your lie is hard to sell if people see my blog which has been going straight since 2005.
Jesus said all liars go to hell,Did you know that or are you employed by a politician ?
The truth is that I am a Christian Zionist who was not duped by Bush from the start or Hucksterby or Perry.
God always gives a wicked nation under his judgment wicked leaders and not even Perry can save America.
oh, your just a nut.
ok then.
Nut ?
No I think the voters who get seduced every time by the latest sweet talker are in that family tree.
You almost admitted that you spoke out of your arse.
Keep trying, nutter.
*sigh*
I just read your reply to proreason and it makes me sad to think that you’re a “Christian”. First of all, religion should have no place in a political debate or in speculating a candidate’s character. Secondly, by your own admission you assume that Christians are “Right”. Please explain how a religious doctrine magically aligns with the right side of the political spectrum.
I’m certain that there are Christians who are “Left” as well. So long as your faith does not infect the judicial process with mysticism, it can be tolerated. However, if it does take hold of the judicial process then we are now a theocratic government. Assuming that religion directs either political side is insanity at its finest.
Also, please explain your “assumption” about Perry being a “RINO”. Your statement clearly identifies one of two possible fallacies that you made:
1) Gov. Perry has done something that you personally disagree with, either past or present. If this logic is your reason for your statement then it is slander because you have substantiated no proof, only personal sentiment.
2) The “Christian Right” are made of fools who don’t their heads from their butts. That is the other implication you made in your statement. Again, you substantiated no evidence or factual figures, only an implied logic that they are sheep being herded mindlessly to “the next George W”.
Use your head before speaking, please. Your assumptions were flawed and vague, not to mention slanderous.
ETAB Google Rick Perry and New World Order or even better Google ’14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really,Really Bad President or click my name above.
He’s another classic ego driven politician aka liar.
I should be surprised that so many naive voters don’t do their homework and are so easily seduced by the smooth words of the chameleon politicians but it’s not longer the case.
Oh come now, I’m hardly going to be persuaded by your personal opinion. I want facts. And I’m not into conspiracy theories about ‘new world orders’.
Some people of reasonable mind might ‘bypass’ the politcal rhetoric and do a little solid research to rely upon. I for one, happen to believe among other things that a states leader can be measured by the states poverty and unemployment.
Maybe check out the poverty rate in Texas. Maybe check out the unemployment rate in Texas such as in July 2011, Texas’ unemployment ‘rate’ is higher than that of all four states bordering it. As others have suggested their is more legitmate information for those who are not led and fed party or special interest zealots.
I understand, man/woman ? with strange name,
A committed ‘useful idiot’ voter,the facts would just get in the way and NWO is just your devils brew.
Gov. Perry gave a magnificent speech….it was so comforting to
listen to him. He spoke for 33 minutes and it was outstanding
and uplifting. He said all that needed to be said to encourage
the people of this country that our future will not be bleak
our best years are ahead of us. I loved it!
Geez, are they going to try to beat up on him, they got nothing else. They have NO accomplishment of any kind other than claiming to have assassinating Osama and ObamaCare.
First thing Perry must do is set up a mechanism/spokesman to prevent thug censorship. Every time a true American says anything that offends a left-wing commie pinko, Wasserman-Putz or some other hack often from the media, will demand, I say, DEMAND, that Perry reject those comments immediately and completely and require that the speaker be dismissed/exiled. Again, they got nothing else!
A good research team will bee able to turn each claim into a wonderful counterclaim because the lefties are foul mouths, themselves. Every attempt at censorship, thus, turns into, “I hear what you are saying but isn’t a change from what Bidden said on……?”
Censorship? Sounds like you are endorsing censorship of uncoverd facts. Furthermore, why does somebody have to be some opposing ‘label’ who does their homework and uncovers facts that maybe you don’t like to see or hear.
Maybe you’re more of the ‘led and fed’ poltical zealots?
I’m not sure what to think of the Perry. Texas is doing great as a state, but how much of that is due to Perry and how much of that is just because it’s a state full of Texans?
Honestly glad to see him, and if he makes it to the General election he has my vote (duh) but until then I’m looking forward to vetting him.
I am a Texan and your question is a good one. “Was it Perry or just that Texas is full of Texans” that made it successful? The truth is it is both. And that will be the truth if Gov. Perry gets elected. Leaders, no matter who they are, are only as good as the people they lead. None are perfect, even Gov. Perry, nor Pres. Obama. If you have a populous that wants everything handed to them; that’s the kind of leader you will get. If you have a hard working population that wants to take care of themselves (food, clothing, health-care, right to carry and property rights; like most Texans) then you will get those kind of leaders. Gov. Perry wanted to do a few things, non-conservative things, that Texans didn’t want. The Texans pushed back and Gov. Perry eventually listened. That’s the difference, when it was based on conservative values (property rights) he listened. Every President is a citizen president. I believe Gov. Perry knows that.
The only problem I have, as a Texan,is I don’t know if I want to loose him as Governor. Y’all didn’t treat the last one we sent you very nicely. He wasn’t perfect either, but he was a decent man.
To answer your question, the Texas legislature voted 138-0 to make TSA grope downs a felony, but Rick Perry had his Lt. Gov., David Dewhurst, stop the bill from reaching Perry’s desk.
Rick Perry and George Bush have never seen eye to eye on a number of issues. He has been a good governor in Texas and I believe he would bring the same common sense approach to the White House. He’s a good guy. AND he’s a stronger man than Bush.
You mean Perry wasn’t a cheerleader in college?
Are you saying that Rick Perry renounces Bush, and all his works?
Or are you saying that Perry is Bush Lite?
A kinder, gentler Bush; like Bush was a kinder, gentler Reagan; like Reagan was a kinder, gentler Barry Goldwater, who Hillary supported?
I’m confused how B’Rick O’Perry is not more of the same?
By “stronger than Bush”, do you mean Perry won’t have to wear a codpiece when he hops out of a fighter jet to announce “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq?
Stop scarring the sheep please. If you pull the plug out of the back of their head too fast they go into permanent shutdown.
I’ll work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can.
Whether he truly means this I do not know. But to the ‘progressives’ such a statement, if believed, is total and utter blasphemy.
The complete reversal of how the “progressive” view of government was the part of Perry’s just delivered South Carolina speech I cheered loudest.
But back at the ranch…
Mean-spirited, conniving Davey Axelrod has already been assigned the role of chief Perry destroyer.
While seminar bloggers and sundry alleged journalists are already at work at their assigned task of Perry destruction.
He represents the biggest threat to Barry, to his minions & his backers, and they will work as hard as they can to ruin him.
That’s definitely THE best line in a pretty good speech.
Indeed, that line should become his catch-phrase for his entire campaign, something he begins and ends EVERY speech with.
When Rick Perry says he will work to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential as he can, he means he will replace it with the North American Union.
“But of course, now we’re told we are in recovery. Yeah.”
Sold.
While I’m not the biggest fan of Rick Perry, he is definitely no George W Bush. In fact, they don’t even care for one another. Bush was a blue blood with a name and big money, who liked the “uniter” montra. Perry is a cunning politician who would rather out manuver his opponents than look at them. Great article in Texas Monthly (big lib publication) on this same topic.
By “cunning politician”, do you mean he would push his grandmother in front of a speeding car, rather than have his wife do it?
Viva!
He has my vote!
It’s a great speach. “America is great, I grew up in the dirt with nuthin and I’m proud to be an American, the government has ruined the economy, we have to stand with our friends, we have to get the government off your backs.”
I think he may have done some work in his life, and he made it clear that he has a moral center. What concepts those are.
He slammed Obama by clearly stating the alernative vision that we want our candidates to state. There was nothing mean or petty about it. He simply stated the facts and a better vision.
He bragged on his success as the multi-term governor of America’s most successful state, but reminded us that he is an American first.
It’s a great speech.
Perry is a hard nosed politician. He wants to win, not have drinks afterwards. He is a politician, so he’s not perfect. But have no doubt that he believes what he believes and he is his own man.
He will punch Obungo in the mouth, and ask him if he wants some more. I know many around the country have a bit of Texas Fatigue, but I will offer you this…W was not the Texan that Perry is, W grew up here, but he was never from here.
Your about to learn a lot about a real Texan, and I think you will be impressed.
He will punch Obungo in the mouth
And that, more than anything else, is I think the key. We do not as of yet have a declared candidate of any stature who’s willing to verbally slug it out with our adversaries or speak strongly on the issues of the moment (e.g. it was noted “Where were the Republican candidates when the debt ceiling mess was happening?”).
It takes certain things to win against the kind of people who makeup Team Obama and the greater liberal/progressive/socialist galaxy. Perry just might have what it takes.
I am also a 5th generation Texan, although I have lived in the midwest for the past 26 years. The values I learned growing up are the ones I live by–hard work, straight talk, reverence for our military men and women, loyalty to friends–and are some of the things I heard in Perry’s speech.
I’ll keep it short…Governor Perry, where do I sign up to help you campaign in flyover country? The American people have what it takes to create a brighter future. Let’s get working together on a real recovery.
Is flyover country where y’all say, “He got purdy hair”?
what, no teleprompter, no condescension , no smirk, …. NO PROBLEM!!!!
GO RICK GO!!!
I hope, Tcobb, that he truly means it with “I’ll work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can.”
Oh, that gladdens my heart like nothing I’ve heard from a politician since, “Government is not the solution to our problems. Government IS the problem.”
The icing is that he was a C130 driver delivering beans, butts and bullets. Not glamorous but essential duty, nonetheless.
Hooah!
USA born and bred- check
American (judeo-christian) values- check
business experience- check
military experience- check
family man- check
executive experience- check
demonstrates real leadership- check
no Chicago and union thug links- check
Looks good to me.
In regards to foreign policy, the acid test for me this coming election will be the candidate’s views on nation-building. If Perry utters any excuses FOR nation building, then I will never vote for him. Nation building has had tragic consequences in both Iraq and Afghanistan and will never, ever, work. Nation building is just another term for imperialism, because we of course want all of the countries we invade, sorry, “assist” to look just like us, even if they are a backward Muslim tribal wasteland like Afghanistan. So if Perry is one of these “compassionate conservatives” who feels the need to spread democracy all over the world by using the US military to do it, then you can keep him. After almost 10 YEARS of constant warfare in the Middle East, I think it’s about time for a little self-preservation here at home with guarding our own borders our top priority.
Seems like I am always Libertship’s “Barney Fife”-ha.
(Proud to serve, Andy.)Yes, it’s time, past time to
put the brakes on that sort of wasteful spending and
thinking -example- Afghanistan and Iraq. We have
spent a bloody fortune – for what?
“Nation building has had tragic consequences in both Iraq and Afghanistan and will never, ever, work. Nation building is just another term for imperialism, because we of course want all of the countries we invade, sorry, “assist” to look just like us, even if they are a backward Muslim tribal wasteland like Afghanistan. So if Perry is one of these “compassionate conservatives” who feels the need to spread democracy all over the world by using the US military to do it, then you can keep him. After almost 10 YEARS of constant warfare in the Middle East, I think it’s about time for a little self-preservation here at home with guarding our own borders our top priority.”
I believe your fears about counterinsurgency,…what you call “nation-building”, to be based in an inaccurate worldview. We are not engaged in several different wars, but in one World War IV. The opponent is the International Islamic Front, as they call themselves. They have a strategy that counts on a war that goes beyond US political endurance. “10 YEARS”, as you put it, is a minor part of that. Indeed, since they first published maps on recruiting websites as early as 1996, the khomeinists and the salafists both have described their 3-phase plans as lasting 50-100 years.
Phase 1 is to build bases in agrarian culture countries, where they can be in “the places in between.” They then plan and execute strikes against industrial society, specifically its leading nation the US, to demonstrate they can survive what they thought would be a few more cruise missiles. They would then gain recruits across the Ummah of Islam by the “bandwagon effect”, or in Arabic culture, “the strong horse.” Stop that phase 1, and you stop the majority of the bloodshed they need to bring about their “Caliphate”.
You say that nation-building, i.e. counterinsurgency, will never work. Yet the majority of times that counterinsurgency has been persevered with in the real world, it *has* worked! You say that it is counter-insurgency that has brought tragedy to Iraq and Afghanistan, but tragedy was there, and more intensely than now, long before our counter-insurgency strategy was.
You speak as if self-preservation at home were not linked to the preservation of industrial society around the world. You speak as if we can leave societies with agrarian cultures, and “places in between”, where agrarian culture reactionaries like the Islamists can gather and train to their own devices. That was what we did throughout 1993-2001, the years when Al Quaeda was gaining its first strength. We should not return to return to that “strategy”, if you want to dignify it as strategy.
The wave of reaction against industrial society that the Islamists are the leading elements of is not finished, though counter-insurgency successes *have* placed their “places in between” in severe jeopardy. It is not the time to retreat from those successes, leaving those who sided with us unsupported against our common foes.
As to “imperialism”,….that is an agrarian culture concept. We are no longer an agrarian culture. Industrial society gains nothing by controlling farmers and extracting taxes. That is what *real* empires do. Creations that do otherwise are totally misnamed, often for propaganda reasons. By contrast, industrial society’s leading nation must use several strategies around the world, to preserve itself against agrarian cultures’ waves of reaction, whether racist, socialist, or Islamist. we’ve been doing that for nearly a century, now. Counter-insurgency is only one of those strategies in play.
The growing industrial culture around the world inevitably undercuts agrarian culture’s oligarchies. It is no surprise they are assaulting us to preserve agrarian culture positions as industrial society grows into every nation on Earth. That doesn’t mean it will be either quick, easy, or cheap to defend ourselves against them. This is especially true when we must keep them off balance by offensive action that keeps building contacts with those interested in the benefits of industrial society, even as that offensive action denies “the places in between” to the reactionaries. Those contacts are the most crucial part of “nation-building”.
The term “nation-building” really describes only a small part of that. Yes, it means agrarian cultures will die. But that was going to happen in any future in which industrial society lives and keeps supporting the 6 out of the 7 billion people on this planet that it does support right now. Even if industrial society is defeated, agrarian culture dies when the ice returns in the next glacial advance. The result then, however, will be far less pretty than industrial society at any time in its history.
Please cease to rant about “nation-building”, and “imperialism”. Your beliefs about them are loose and inaccurate constructs that do not reflect the world we all live in. Don’t muddy the waters we all must look through.
nice post; thanks. You know your stuff – shades of Braudel and ‘la longue duree’. Nice to see an informed and deep analytic perspective.
Yes, I agree with the agrarian-industrial fight – which includes a conflict between a tribal and civic political mode. But, as you also note, to support 7-8 billion population, there really isn’t any choice between the two economic and political modes. It has to be industrial-civic.
Yes, it’s not three wars, it’s three of the early fronts in a multi-decade war. Wishing it otherwise doesn’t make that go away.
And victory is inevitable in this war. Islam simply cannot survive in the modern world. Too archaic, too primative. They can’t build and maintain the weapons needed to win without the help of other cultures; nor the economic infrastructure.
The only question regarding the long-term survival of Islam is who will finally decide to pull the plug on the barbarians. At this juncture, it’s hard to say, since the marxists might be able to pull the plug on Western civilization and thereby earn the honor of destroying Islam. That is the quickest way to get rid of Islam, by far.
But, there is still a chance that sanity will prevail when it comes to Marxism, which would mean that Islam could survive probably for decades longer. In that scenario, it will take a nuclear attack by Islam before it is destroyed.
The third option is for either China or India to lose patience and wipe Islam out. From a timing perspective, that would take longer than if Marxism destroys the west, but less time than if the United States somehow rides out the marxist subversion we are dealing with. China and India aren’t as civilizationally stupid as the Western social democracies and won’t wait on a nuclear war to destory the religion of insaity.
“You say that nation-building, i.e. counterinsurgency, will never work. Yet the majority of times that counterinsurgency has been persevered with in the real world, it *has* worked!”
Really? When did it work and for whom? The British? The French? The Germans? Us?
Aside from brutally putting down the insurrections in the Philippines at the beginning of the last century I can’t think of a single time counterinsurgency has worked. Particularly when it’s carried out with kid gloves.
Your response may be well reasoned and well written. But in the naked light of day it is simply wrong. No world power has ever survived because other nations loved or respected it, only because other nations feared it. I dare say the “Arab Street” whatever that is, held us in much higher regard as the Republican Guards tanks were burning than they do today. Tehran was a very quiet place when they felt the earth move from the B-52 strikes in Iraq. Switch to “nation building” mode and the Iranians not only send weapons into Iraq but occasionally send in covert operatives to kill Americans directly.
Fear and a certainty of destruction is what we need to foster in our enemy’s minds. It’s very simple, if they screw with us we break everything they have into little pieces, if they do it again we make the little pieces radioactive.
My view may be simplistic, but yours is academic and removed form human nature.
Libertyship….though we disagree often…THANK YOU for:
["If Perry utters any excuses FOR nation building, then I will never vote for him."]
I hope this guy means what he says. If he does, he’s got my vote.
He has a lot of us on his side.
Sure. He’s noted for having a big libwit fan club.
We love him!
A.B.O.
Anybody but Obama.
We will be praying for you to victory!
Brings me back to 1980 when Reagan announced “It’s morning in America” I haven’t been this optimistic since he retired. Gipper RIP
Ex-CIA head George Bush had Reagan shot 1 month after his inauguration and assumed power immediately thereafter.
Morning was replaced with Darkness.
Reagan wasn’t the Great Actor — Bush was.
Uh oh … the Obama camp just went into convulsions. What can I say? I’m going to enjoy watching Perry clean Obama’s clock.
Many news sites in the last few days had reported a lot about Texas because of Perry’s entry to the presidential race. Unfortunately so many of those reports were totally wrong and even ignorant. As a former New Yorker whose second hometown was southern California, I could not thank enough that my family moved to Texas more than 10 years ago and we are very lucky to live in Texas. I am now proudly calling myself a Texan. Politics and ideology aside, we are pleased about Texas in just about every practical way:
(1) Economy. As an individual, I can clearly feel that Texas’ economy is doing well and our unemployment is not as bad as so many other states. One way to judge it is that this mid-class Texan has never cut back vacations even during the past 3 years! Yes, we the Texans are still able to take vacations without going broke because our jobs are still intact. So do many friends here. My children’s classmates are all out of town vacationing somewhere! Compare to that, “staycation” is the new normal for many American now.
Some people are saying that Rick Perry is taking too much credit for Texas’ economy. As a Texan, I think Texas’ low taxes and small govern philosophy has lot to do with our thriving economy. Rick Perry is not only a staunch preacher of such philosophy but also he practiced it thought out his 10+ years as governor here. He does deserve a lot of credit for it.
(2) Housing. Our real estate is weak but not broke. Our home value is about flat or only had small decline. When your home still worth something, you feel good about yourself! Because home is not only your base but also your biggest investment. More importantly, housing is so affordable here. The price for a 5 or 6 bedroom home in Texas is about same as a starter home in California.
(3) Healthcare. Like everywhere in the country, healthcare here is expensive. But I am very impressed and pleased to see the high quality and many choices in Texas. In other words, the medical business is very competitive and thriving here. As the result, consumer have more and better choices. My family and I are very happy with the quality medical care that we received in Texas. Also Texas’ CHIP program which provides extremely low cost of medical insurance to low-income children is still available. I hear it on radio every day.
Education. This is the main-stream media’s most mis-informed area. I saw many reports trashing Texas as one of the most dropped out state or cut education spending or so. As a parent of two children who are currently in Texas’ public schools, let me set the records straight. Firstly, the high drop out rate is due to our high percent of non-English speaking population. That’s not Texas’ failure but the failure of our nation. Secondly, The education cut under Perry is not a bad thing. Remember, like all other places in the country, the public sectors have become too big and heavy, and there are many “fat” that can be cut. As a parent, I have first-hand experience of going though the Texas’ education budget problem here, nothing like the media has portrayed. Like many other public sectors in the country, when there is a budget shortfall, the first thing in the public employees’ minds is to raise taxes which our voters rejected 2 in 3. Then they threatened to cut critical programs that cause huge backlash among parents. At the end, I think Texas’ schools realized that they need parents’ support. Remember our school board is elected. So, it turned out our high quality education programs are all intact and schools only cut those non-essential things. The result is that schools had to learn to achieve same high quality of education with less money. Isn’t it a wonderful thing?! I wish we can do that in Washington. Now, what is the education is Texas really like. As a parent, I could not be more proud of our public schools. Our campus is beautiful and spacious. (Because we have so many newcomers, our city has built so many new schools and renovated so many old one in the last 10 years.) Our educational programs (both mandatory and selective) are excellent in both creativity and competitiveness and as well as college readiness all tuition-free. I could not thank enough for our local public schools. 3 years ago, I visited one of the most highly-regarded private schools in San Diego, CA area whose annual tuition is more $40,000 for elementary student. I am proud to say that my children’s public schools in Texas are even better than those high-tuition institutions on the coasts. Another thing I like our schools is that our schools are very accountable (Thanks for the no-child-left-behind) and our teachers care about teaching.
(5) Quality of life. As a former New Yorker who also spent a lot of time in California and also visited many places in the country, I have to say there is no other place I rather to live now. My 6-bedroom home here in Texas is what I could never even dream of in NY and CA. (By the way, 5 or 6 bedroom homes are very common here. You don’t need to be rich to live in a 5/6 bedroom in Texas.) Our road conditions and traffic are far better than NY and CA. (By the way, I get very cranky every time when I go back to NY or CA and you know why.) The most impressive thing about Texas is that it has made tremendous improvement in culture and leisure areas. It’s not just in the big four (Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio), it’s also in small town. Example, one west Texas town with population of 700,000 recently had a large scale French Impressionist exhibit. That’s what you do when you have money! Crime is very low in Texas (we feel very safe here) and home invasion is almost unheard thank to Texas‘ love of firearm. Even city like El Paso which is on the board, believe or not, has one of the lowest crime rate in the country! I particularly want to mention that it’s totally inaccurate for some in the media to suggests that we have least or worse public services. Let me set the records straight. After more than 10 years living in Texas, I have not found our public services are less or worse than other states. Overall, I feel quality of life is far better in Texas. Once I calculated that to maintain the same living standard that I have in Texas, I need 5 times of income if I was in NY or CA now which is not going to happen. NY or CA’s wage (for same profession) is not 5 time higher than Texas. You’ll be lucky to get 5% more, but every thing costs you 5 times more.
Texans overwhelmingly voted for Perry’s 3rd term and we are lucky to have Perry as our governor! I will vote for Perry for president in a heart beat.
Regarding Hispanics for Perry, hooray and thank you! This is what we need to hear, a person with knowledge of what has been going wrong with America and right for Texas. I feel the same way! Onto DC Rick, end the madness! Nobody says this but until the Democrits took over Congress, we had a record peacetime growth economy under W. He was just too much like his daddy in government solutions…
Gov Rick sounds like what America needs, cause it’ll take 8-10 years to fix this Obamination’s cluster BHO and Senate has going on right now.
Yes, Texas is a great place to live. . .always has been. Texas has weathered EVERY economic downturn better than ANY other state. . .but Rick Perry didn’t have much to do with it. The Texas Constitution protects us from politicians (including Perry)the way the Federal Constitution is supposed to protect us at the Federal level.
Giving Rick Perry, or any other politician credit for the Texas economy is like giving a fisherman credit for the tide because he lives near the shore.
Everybody quotes the statistics, nobody points to specific ways Rick Perry is supposed to have actually helped with the exception of tort reform that the GOP legislature would have pushed through no matter what.
As one blogger said earlier, Perry has kept us happy for 10 years so we’re not stupid to keep re-electing him (for the national record for that) and he’s doing a lot right. Texas is continuing to survive the OweBama-Pelosi-Reid-Dem Congress Recession so well because of Texans’ intelligence and Perry’s leadership. The rest of America is noticing it.
As for the cute little fishing parallel, Perry gets credit for not putting a moratorium on fishing as our disloyal job-killing Commander-in-Defeat would do and has indeed done with drilling, etc.
As an aside, hats off to intelligent, informed Hispanics for Perry! You are so right and are the kind of Texans and Americans that give me hope.
JustAl:
If we apply your logic (Texas’ economic success has nothing to do with Perry) to our national situation, we’ll come to this conclusion: our country’s current economic mess has nothing to do with Obama. That’s totally non-sense. A leader (either of a country or a company) can make things better or worse. It’s obvious to me and many American that Obama has made things much worse. Otherwise his approval rate wouldn’t have dropped from 50% or even 60% to 40%. Meanwhile, Rick Perry did not mess with Texas. I am glad that you mentioned Texas’ constitution which Rick Perry respected during his 10+ years as the governor. Compare to that Obama and Democrats are actively trying to get around or even step on our constitution. What a difference!
Rick Perry has never presented himself as the saver of all people. Instead he made it very clear that he wants lower taxes and less government regulations, so American people are free to pursue their own happiness! Aren’t that our country’s founding principal? You said that it’s hard to say anything that Perry did benefited Texas’ economy. It sounded to me that you judge politicians by how many solutions they can come up with. I judge them by how LESS solutions they have. LESS IS MORE. Our federal government has tried just about every so-called social safety nets. Social security, medicare, medicaid, food stamps and unemployment benefits and on and on. What’s the results? We have LESS safety net than ever. Social security, medicare and medicaid are all insolvent. Some even call them “Ponzi schemes”. More and more people are now on food stamps and unemployment got even worse.
What amazes me is that when you carefully look at the governments around the world. From Europe and Asia to US, the MORE the governments try to take on, the LESS powerful and effective they become. Look the Euro debt crisis. The European governments look utterly powerless in the face of the huge debts. They can only apply some bandaid. Also look at all the countries with government care. All ended up rationing care. “Rationing care ” is a cover for no care. Someone told that when you call UK’s emergency line, none answers! That how government care works, I guess. Then look at Japan. More than 10 years ago, Japan quickly recovered from the devastating KOBE earthquake. Now it’s really struggling after the latest quake, because the Japanese government with debt that is more than 100% of its GDP has few solution left. Let’s look at US. We have done bailout after bailout since the 1990′s. The more we bail out, the more frequently bailout is needed and less bailout works.
To be clear, I am not advocating no government. Quite contrary, government has important role in civilized society, but not as everyone’s nanny. After decades of full time and non-stop legislation, this country now has nothing but regulations. Last month alone, Obama administration is said activated more than 600 regulations! No wonder business can not function any more. It’s very simple. The more workers protections put in place, the less workers are hired or companies just simply move to somewhere else.
American people need to make choice in the coming election.
Sorry HforP,
It doesn’t work that way, the office of governor of Texas is not analogous to the office of President of the US. The state Constitution of Texas puts far more limits on government (including the governor) than the US Constitution puts on the POTUS, additionally, what controls are put on the POTUS by the Constitution have been watered down or ignored for decades.
Giving Perry credit for the Texas economy is like saying FDR won WWII. Anyone who was governor of Texas through this downturn would look good compared to Obama, and a determined United States defeated the Axis and would have regardless of who the POTUS was.
Perry says many good things.
The two problems I have are :
1) he says different “good things” to different people, he’s all for defending the border but also all for in-state tuition for illegals and against the AZ law?, he’s for limited federal government but wants it to be in charge of who can marry whom?
2) his “experience” bear little if any similarity to the job he wants, and, aside from those who like him because he prays a lot, many think his “experience” sets him apart (in a good way).
One of the most conservative fellows I know and one who has actually taught political science before told me a Perry nomination is the one thing that might make him vote for Obama. That from a lifelong Texas conservative Republican. I’ve only been in Texas for 22 years myself, but my home state of Oklahoma is the only one Obama didn’t carry a single county in. I’m no liberal, I’m no troll, what I am is a very cautious buyer of candidates, especially considering the bait and switch ALL of the establishment GOP candidates have been in my life.
Did Rick Perry actually recommend that “intelligent design” be taught along side evolution in Texas schools? Or is this just another of the left wing’s media hype? I liked his speech and so I’m looking into what he’s really all about.
Thanks for the info,
By the way, this former New Yorker thinks that if we adopt the “don’t mess with Texas” attitude in DC, our country will be in better shape.
I saw news article making fun of “don’t mess with Texas”. But after living in Texas for more than 10 years, this former New Yorker thinks that’s the attitude our country needs. “Don’t mess with Texas” means Texas does not take B. S. There are too much B. S. going on in this country.
Texas Leadership Fails Texans
http://texas.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/07/tex…
Texans already know the pillars of deception these three so-called leaders have and will do to the people!
Pillar 1: The TSA bill is only one of the pillars.
Pillar 2: Better watch them as they wiggle through the super highway deal!
Pillar 3: Watch them as they support more of the Agenda 21 principles
Pillar 4: Maybe the real goodie will be, God forbid, if Ricky Perry runs for prez and talks a good talk but shafts the people like he has done with the TSA bill!
What else will Perry do to Texas? The corrupt band of brotherhood has been misleading We Texans!
Amendment 10 – Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The facts you list should be learned by everyone.
Rick Perry cannot run away from his record.
Texans know Rick Perry is a globalist traitor just as Californians know Arnold Schwarzenegger is a globalist traitor.
Truth is rising.
I ran the 400 in 48 seconds in the 9th grade.
Who are you freaks who are always the first to blow out horrible comments? Who are you ? You are not Americans ! You are freaks, from where, I do not know.
This was a fabulous announcement speech. Perry is the one who will bring this thing back toward manageable American governance….. and you freaks , go back into your basements and quit rioting will you please? We have a nation to return to rationality.
We’re here with the shears to reveal the 666 on Rick Perry’s scalp. PTL!
By the way, crazies, you do realize that almost no one reads these comments anywhere…. maybe one or two…. you are almost totally wasting your time..
Freaks. READ THE MAN’S SPEECH….PERRY….AND THEN GO HAVE A LIFE AND IN NOVEMBER 2012, JUST VOTE ! YOU ARE INFLUENCING NO ONE. AND GET OUT OF YOUR SPOTTY PAJAMAS. GO GET A LIFE. !! Out….. comment people seem to be angry crazy people with no life….so this is my one for this year, just wanted to say. PERRY !! ReRead his speech, people. Awesome. The Reagan for 2012. He’ll get it done and get the wagon back out of the ditch and down the road.
Rick,
So we’re supposed to be dumb enough to fall for just the one speech ?
And that would make you happy instead of rude and abusive ?
Sorry dude ,some of us don’t believe these devious lying politicians who always say one thing and do the exact opposite and with no accountability to their base!
Fool me once, shame on you,fool me twice,shame on me.
Marcel huh! Sounds French to me, why don’t you go back there?
Don’t get too worked up over the sad and mostly pitiful people who spew out the kind of hair-trigger, intemperate and supremely paranoid drivel and dross to which you refer. Believe me, I know people like the commenters you are reacting to. These are the die-hard, Black Helicopter, New World Older, Jewish Bankster, Bilderberg conspiracy devotees who can only play one tune and it’s on infinite repeat. They are mostly personality-deficient, poorly groomed, lonely, angry and have few friends outside their narrow political sphere. The Texas humorist and film-maker Mike Judge constructed the perfect composite of the breed: The character Dale Gribble from the animated TV series “King of The Hill.”
Their paranoid style demands from all politician what can best be described as “ideological immaculate conception;” i.e., to have never held an opinion or view in one’s entire life that may have changed even one degree. As such, there are no candidates that will EVER meet their purity test… perhaps Ron Paul being the single exception.
so it begins…
Shocking… NOT!
I know that he was ripe to announce after his nationally promoted prayer rally LAST WEEK! Anyone that uses their faith to political ends is a bad person. He would be just as bad for the country as the unAmerican semi-Muslim pseudo-Christian (secular humanist) that we have in office now.
Seriously, Perry is just another slick-talking RINO, dirt-bag politician. Check out his escapades on the Al Gore POTUS campaign trail, that was all I needed to know about him.
Nope, no more compromises, we need principles over politics.
You people are out of your minds. Rick Perry was Al Gore’s campaign manager for Texas! You call him a conservative? He tried to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for little Texas girls. How conservative is that? The list goes on. Read the background on people before you throw your support for them. If you are too lazy to do that then do what is natural to you and vote Obama.
Ronald Reagan was also a Democrat before he became a Republican.
So that makes being a clueless hypocrite good? Reagan’s short stint as a so-called conservative ended when he caved in to accept NWO-shill George H. W. Bush as his running mate. What a wimp Reagan was! Then 1 month after his inauguration, Bush family friend Hinckley shoots Reagan. What a coincidence! Reagan never cut spending, never cut borrowing. So Perry is the next Reagan, eh? So you say.
You obviously is clueless. The Democratic Party for long time was suppose to be the party for the working people. That’s why many people with working family background NATURALLY align themselves with Democratic Party. But things have changed a lot in the last couple of decades. The Democratic Party is now party for the super rich and super elites.
You must have been living under a rock not to know that super riches from Hollywood to Wall Street to Silicon Valley to major corporations are ALL BIG Democratic donors and supporters! More, super elites from academy to news media to government are ALL pro-Democratic Party! Also look at the congress. The Democratic Party is home to some of the richest congressional leaders (John Kerry and Nancy Pelocy, etc.) Harry Reid, a democrat, is said living in a pentahouse in the super luxury hotel Ritz Carlton of DC. (Wonder how much does it cost and how does he pay that with his congressional salary?) Why are these super riches and super elites all supporters of Democratic Party? Because they all want a centralized government which is easy for them to manipulate and control. A bigger government gives these people more power.
One example, Wall Street fully paid for (sorry, I meant lobbied for. But how do you lobby if you have money?!) the derivative law which specified derivatives are not insurance (even though they essentially are insurance for investment), therefore not subject to state insurance regulation and over-sight. Wall Street rather work with a centralized government in Washington than every state which is chaotic for them. As result, you know what happened to our financial market. American people are paying dearly for Wall Street’s derivative frenzy.
I started out as a Democratic supporter, but quickly I realize the party is wrong on many things. I left the Democratic Party when Bill Clinton was in charge. I consider Bill Clinton the best Democrat in modern time. But even during the Clinton years, I thought many things about the party were fundamentally wrong, so I left and became an independent. Today’s the Democratic Party is worse. It’s George Soros’ party and Hollywood’s and Wall Street’s party.
I know someone whose father was an electrician and an old time Democrat, so he naturally align with the Democratic Party. But one day he said wait a minute. What do I have in common with multimillionaires John Kerry, Nancy Pelocy and Hollywood super stars? He said why am I in the same party with them? What’s there for me when these super rich people control the party. That was it for him.
Back to Rick Perry’s party switch. I completely understand it. The entire south and many in heartland have switched from Democrat to republican! Just look at the blue states and red states map. The Democratic Party now only controls few big cities and few coastal states.
You call Reagan a wimp? Get out of here and leave you tard. You sound so stupid and you can’t fix stupid so just go away!! The more you post the more you reveal your character. Your a paid media matters hack collecting part time mininmum wage is my guess. I feel sorry for you, you must hate your life, life is way too short to live in the misery you do. But as I stated earlier, you can’t fix stupid.
Reagan was a wimp. The proof was Reagan, and no Reagan supporter, ever wanted Bush to be his running mate. The powers that be sat down and told Reagan he will accept Bush as his running mate, and Reagan caved. We Reagan supporters in 1980 were heartbroken, but we overlooked it because of our love for Reagan. We were played as fools. As history showed, even the diehard Rush Limbaugh renounced Bush the Elder in his re-election bid in 1992, choosing Pat Buchanan instead. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to vote Perry.
Rick Perry is a 61 year old Texan. I’m a 71 year old Texan. The things we know about old time Texans are that up until the late 1980′s and early 1990′s, the majority of Texas was solidly “D”. A southern “D”, in those days, aka a “Dixiecrat” was really a very conservative critter. Rick Perry has proved himself worthy of the job as senior governor.
We Dixiecrats didn’t just up and change parties in the middle of the night, the Democratic party left us. LBJ was a forerunner to this change, most educated Texans viewed him as an embarrassment. After LBJ we started to ask hard questions and were not given satisfactory answers. It was not that we abandoned our values, it was that our values were not given the respect we were due.
Rick Perry is not a “D” or “R”, he’s an American of the same Dixiecrat heritage that I believe in. He has my vote.
So all Perry’s talk about Texas seceding from the Union was B.S., I take it?
Even under LBJ, Texas led the nation in that export.
No, but all your idiotic comments reek to high heaven. We Texans recognize BS when we hear it, and it’s usually imported from Washington. At least our home-grown BS comes from cows and not donkeys. It stinks less and does have some uses.
There are a lot of Texans here who cock-a-doodle-do about how it’s “Texan” for Rick Perry to be duped to support Al Gore.
My question to the Rick Perry herd is, were you dumb enough to be duped to vote for Al Gore in 1988, too?
Maybe all of Texas supported Al Gore in 1988. Or did only the dull-witted Texans?
Is Klaus and Marcel one in the same? I think its funny that neither of these nitwits have an option for our votes. Sooooo should we just keep our concerns about this nation to ourselves? And continue to vote for Obama?
Fat chance! My vote will go to anyone not nameed Obama. Hell, i would even vote for a clinton if that was my only option. Hispanics are ultimately hard working family oriented christian people. Obama does not seem to relate to that. So Klaus, who are you voting for and why?
Klaus is to Mercel as Perry is to Gore. We’re not the same person, but we have similar beliefs.
Just as Perry and Gore do.
I wish your illusion was true sadly Perry is a supporter of amensty who opposes a border fence and wants a guest worker program (because wages are just booming!). He will disposses you while fools are satsified by his ability to read out bland cliches about “limited goverment”. Sure the goverment will be so very “limited” when Perry brings the third world to our shores en masse and become the majority, America turned into one big southern california in total decline b/c PC sell outs like Bush and Perry sold us out and embraced the mass immigration thats destroying our country. Import the third world don’t be suprised if we get more 3rd world. Perry is a Chamber of Commerce Republican (i.e. he doesn’t give a shit about you, he just wants those big donations from the CEO’s who want the borders open and cheap labor (until open borders brings latin american style socialism here in time),
Interesting how Perry announces and suddenly, on conservative blogs, we find a lot of irrational wild hostile posts – all similar. Short, non-factual, superficial, hostile, personal ad hominem.
Weird.
rick perry forces ron paul supporters to jump ship if they truly want a horse in this race
whew – talk about mixed metaphors…
haha– yes it was poor but it is tough to get a specific articulation into the mo’s of the various flavor of this particular perry hate
yep, the Paulites are a big part of it.
But the more rational and effective subversive posts will be coming from Soros sponsored libwits. The Paulites are too passionate to bother pretending to be rational and they are usually amateurs who don’t grasp the concept of effectiveness.
The only irrational posts I’ve seen are Rick’s juvenile name calling rants. . . in support of Perry.
Texas democrats, especially twenty years ago, are to the right of 50% of the national GOP, even today. They have participate in a balanced budget every two years. Dwell on that before passing judgement. With that said, Perry has an uncanny ability to actually learn from his mistakes, call it humility, whereas our President does not.
Hmmm, I like his accomplishments…..
- a former disillusioned Democrat…just like me
- a conservative…just like me
- somebody who believes in Capitalism…just like what I believe in
- came from a poor family where the value of hard work is taught…just like most Americans
- somebody who believes in not abusing one’s credit card esp if you don’t have money to pay for….just what I believe in
- somebody who believes in God…just like me
Perry is very main stream.. like him although need to learn more about him and do my research….I don’t believe the negative things the Kool-Aid drinking Obama’s minions are saying.
The polaraization of America is almost complete. A house divided cannot stand. I am pretty sure if you can focus for a moment here then you will see the forest though the trees. Bush…2 wars, hyper spending, bailouts with no accountability. Obama…3 wars + unreported activity in Yemen, super hyper spending, credit rating downgrade, more bailouts leading to nationalization. Call me crazy but aren’t they pretty darn similar! If you like the trajectory we are on then I encourage you to vote for Perry. He’s the man who has been tapped. Why do you think the media has made him instant front runner and branded him a conservative although his record speaks volumes against that? Why do you think he is the only one who can raise funds like Obama raises? Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
I just hope somebody clues him in on how to pronounce Israel. T’aint that hard.
I can only imagine how he pronounced it at the Nazi Bilderberg conference.
If only all mankind would embrace the Rambam and the Spirit of 1776, we would bring Moshiach now. May it happen speedily in our days …
Personally, I hope Perry/Bachman or Bachman/Perry win the primary. Its time we reincarnated Aquaman and the Bumstead’s (Dagwood and Blondie), Baby Dumpling, Cookie and Daisy to occupy the Whitehouse and Number One Observatory Circle. Problems? What problems?
JAMES GREEN….What ridiculous questions you ask! You’re an adult with some education I assume and you really don’t know how poverty is measured?
“The U.S. government measures poverty by a narrow ['income'] standard that does not include other aspects of economic status, such as material hardship (for example, living in substandard housing) or debt, nor does it consider financial assets (including savings or property).”
However, using the national formula the poverty criteria is flawed. For example, Food now comprises only one-seventh of an average family’s expenses, while the costs of housing, child care, health care, and transportation have grown disproportionately. Thus, the poverty level does not reflect the true cost of supporting a family. In addition, the current poverty measure is a national standard that does not adjust for the substantial variation in the cost of living from state to state and between urban and rural areas.
Hope that helps answers your …… questions!
SOME INTRESTING FACTS ABOUT “CONSERVATIVE” RICK PERRY
He says he wants to get Americans back to work. so how does that match up with this:
1. RICK PERRY SUPPORTS AMENSTY FOR 20 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LIKE BUSH
2. AT A TIME OF 18% REAL UNEMPLOYMENT, PERRY NOT ONLY SUPPORTS THE CURRENT LEGAL IMMIGRATION LOTTERY SYSTEM WHICH BRINGS US OVER A MILLION LARGELY LOW SKILLED 3RD WORLDERS PER YEAR (for jobs we don’t have) and who go straight onto the welfare and food stamp rolls
3. PERRY ALSO SUPPORTS A GUEST WORKER PROGRAM (because american wage’s are just booming so some more foreign labor won’t hurt a bit~!)
4. In other words, Rick Perry is just another PC coward who calls themselves “conserative” cause they repeat vague cliches about taxes (which can always be changed) while ignoring the most crucial issue which is the DEMOGRAPHIC TIDAL WAVE WHICH WILL MAKE AMERICA A NON-MAJORITY EUROPEAN NATION BY 2040 thanks to the work of “conservatives” like Bush and Perry.
Please, do not let Rick Perry make you think he is a conservative whose looking out for America’s national intrest. I believed it till I actually learned that Rick Perry has all the positions of the worst kind of Republicans.
He does not support amensty because he thinks it will benefit America.
He doesn’t want a guest worker program to help American wages.
He doesn’t support the current mass third world invasion of the west because he thinks it good for us. He is a PC coward who will gladly sell our future out to get on the good side of the Chamber of Commerce. DOES A PATRIOT SAY THAT BUILDING A BORDER FENCE WOULD BE “NONSENCE” AS HE DID TO THE HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RECENTLY?
Is it conservative to spend billions on scholarships for illegal immigrants in Texas?
Oh and I’m sure he loves affirmative action and the EEOC too. And while he sells out like a good Davos Man all you naive females looking for a pretty face to worship will convince yourselfs he’s so conservative because he tells you bland cliches about “limited goverment” just ask yourself how limited the goverment will be when Perry turns all the illegals into voters overnight.
http://vdare.com/washington_watcher/110810_rick_perry.htm
It’s not just naive females who are looking for a pretty face to worship. There is a lot of “man love” in the Republican Party. Tom Foley, Larry Craig, Lindsey Graham, John Boehner, the list goes on and on.
My error. Mark Foley, not Tom Foley. Tom Foley was a Democrat. Mark Foley was the Republican Congressman from Florida during the Jeb Bush regime who resigned because of his involvement in a gay pedophile scandal. Of course, a “family values” Republican will tell you Tom Foley was worse than Mark Foley. My apologies to Tom Foley.
Klaus: I knew you were a socialist and I said so and now you reveal.
So Daniel, who has a better solution on illegal immigration? If this is the biggest issue the Gov. has against him, who can better him? What is the solution? Who can see 50 or even 5 years into the future? What policy should our President put forth?
I think he pretty well said it. It resonates with my heart. Good job, Gov. Perry, and good luck!
That loud thump we just heard was Mitt Romney being thrown under the bus.
Do you see what happens when you sell your soul to the globalists?
Rick Perry, why do you think your fate will be any different?
As you sow, so shall you reap.
I, for one, would rather vote for someone who came up from being dirt-poor…than vote for someone who seems hell-bent on making us all dirt-poor.
a commenter wrote: “My questions is, how do we know this is not another GW Bush?!”
Perry said:
” we have led Texas based on some just really pretty simple guiding principles. One is don’t spend all of the money. Two is keeping the taxes low and under control. Three is you have your regulatory climate fair and predictable. Four is reform the legal system so frivolous lawsuits don’t paralyze employers that are trying to create jobs.
Over the years, we have followed this recipe to produce the strongest economy in the nation. Since June of 2009, Texas is responsible for more than 40 percent of all of the new jobs created in America.
Now think about that. We’re home to less than 10 percent of the population in America, but forty percent of all the new jobs were created in that state.
I’ve cut taxes. I have delivered historic property tax reductions. I was the first governor since World War II to cut general revenue spending in our state budget. We passed lawsuit reform, including just this last session a “loser pays” law to stop the frivolous lawsuits that were happening.”
I agree with Gov. Perry in most of his remarks, except we need “new” leadership. We need leadership period.
All i will say is this. . . . he seems to be the MSM’s new GOP “golden boy”. . . if those bastards like him, watch out!!
“Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss” The Who.
Can we expect more pro-Perry columns from Pajamas media? How soon till it becomes Perry bias?
Texas loud and Texas proud, please not another Texan blowhard, L.B.J. and Bush, both Texans got us into wars and left the following administration mile high financial problems, no no no Texan presidents ever again. Say it as your mantra ,……….NO BLOWHARD TEXANS FOR PRESIDENT EVER NEVER EVER NEVER AGAIN!!!!!………………..
Klaus and every other nay sayer: Easily 50% of the Republican Party and Ind. who vote conservative were Democrats when the were younger. I worked on the JFK campaign and then later on James Roosevelt’s congressional campaign, so does that make you more conservative than me? Quit blathering and come up with good info . . . say I bet you, “Perry was a Dimocrat”, are liberals, progrssive socialists, and deadbeats trying to help Obama.
Bob Lee
Smithville, Texas
JFK was far to the right of Rick Perry.
JFK opposed secret societies. Rick Perry attended Bilderberg.
JFK wanted to end the Fed. Rick Perry wants to stay the Obama course and keep the Fed.
JFK accepted blame for the Bay of Pigs. Rick Perry campaigned for the guy dressed as ManBearPig.
Add me to that list, Bob. I first voted for Jimmeh as President. Less than a year later, the scales had fallen from my eyes, and I became a Conservative, where I remain to this day.
“Change.” Nothing is ever good and works well, it’s always “change.” Endlessly.
The entire damned Party is neurotic. They’re just like those people who rearrange their furniture three times a week.
STOP profiling Texans, unenlightened fools! Texans are no more all blowhards and all alike any more than Hispanics or Blacks are all alike. Remember your liberal mantra, hypocrites! Among other things, this was back
before we knew that the ass media would sell its soul to the devil and quit investigative journalism, indulging instead in becoming
the mouthpiece of a particular party in Soviet Prazda- like fashion. This was before we followed the evolution of the segregation-
supporting George Wallace breed of Dems into the “figure out the newest mob, then jump in front of it and ‘lead’ ” style of. This was before We the People figured out–on our own without benefit of an objective media–that our government would actually use our tax dollars to pay dishonest scientists who lied about Global Warming, and unobjective socialist-leaning “news outlets” like NPR who cite Mao and Guevarra as heroes.
Keep reading the Old Media, ye fools like Klaus above. Stay in the past like aging hippies who refuse to learn or grow up. Keep being the Left’s useful idiots and reading Gov. Palin’s emails and trolling conservative New Media with lies and distorted facts. Follow the out-dated Left’s marching orders.
Conservative bloggers, QUIT wasting your time on such drones. The worst insult is to ignore their existence. They are insignificant and stuck in the past.
Right. But there are two tactics to deal with ignorant malice: one is to ignore it and the other, to laugh at it.
The Democrats have nothing to run on in this election campaign; they can’t defend Obama’s record of deficit and debt, the lack of job creation, the increase in govt jobs and spending, the fear mongering tactics etc..
So, they are going to run on smear tactics: petty, false accusations, ad hominem images. Oh – remember Obama’s famed Tuscon speech that we should all get along and not reduce politics to smear tactics? Heh – he himself has been the frontrunner in such tactics…
But, laughter and mockery at their tactics is another approach. People like Klaus should be ignored and/or mocked and laughed at; same with the Bigelows and the others in the Dems who are ignoring economic and political facts and focusing instead on water-cooler gossip.
The 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Candidates
One of the trends I find “exceptional” about the USA today is the number of religious sects and cults participating directly in the electoral process. The leading contender for the Republican nomination for President, Gov. Mitt Romney, is a Mormon, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a religion considered heretical by many mainstream Christians like nearly all mainstream Protestant Churches and the Catholic Church.
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas began his Presidential campaign by organizing a “Christian only” evangelical, and “dominionist” prayer meeting called “The Response: a call to prayer for a nation in crisis.” “Dominionism” is the belief that holds the Holy Bible as dominant over laws made by man. For an examination of the relationship between Gov. Perry and the controversial “New Apostolic Reformation” movement, see the Texas Observer’s article “Rick Perry’s Army of God” http://www.texasobserver.org/cover-story/rick-perrys-army-of-god. “The Response” was a gathering of the different tribes of American fundamentalism – Christian Zionists, prayer warriors, apostolic and prophetic types, etc. – under the umbrella of political and spiritual revival, see Rachael Maddow’s special report: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/44098787#44098787
Like Governor Perry, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann espouses a “dominionist” religious perspective and spent her student years in law school studying the “dominionist” approach to society, law and government, see John Chait’s article in the New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/90014/michelle-bachmanns-worldview.
Gov. Sarah Palin is a member of a “The Wasilla Assembly of God.” The “Wasilla Assembly” is a member of the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in 1914, in the United States. The ‘Four Core Beliefs’ of the Assemblies of God are Salvation, Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Divine Healing and the Second Coming of Christ. A dramatic insight into Pentecostalism is found in the 1997 film, The Apostle written, directed and starring Robert Duvall, as a charismatic “Pentecostal” preacher. Pentecostals are known to “speak in tongues:” see a clip from Duvall’s movie, The Apostle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FwMu9WW_bg.
The Apostle’s main character” Sonny” is what social scientists once politely referred to as “Other Protestants.” Sonny was actually a preacher in the traditional holiness movement, distinct from the Pentecostal movement, which believes that the baptism in the Holy Spirit involves speaking in tongues. Many of the early Pentecostals were from the holiness movement, and to this day many “classical Pentecostals” maintain much of holiness doctrine and many of its devotional practices, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiness_movement.
Modern “dominionism” is largely unknown to most Americans. The list of unknown schismatic sects, cults, groups, exotic beliefs and churches, which the contenders for the Republican nomination belong to or are in agreement with, is “exceptional.” The religious fringe, it seems, has become the Protestant mainstream.
Today’s Republicans could be rebranded the “Christian Republican Party.” The center core of Protestant faith has migrated from “Liberal Protestantism” to an entrepreneurial-style, evangelist and fundamentalist faith, which votes heavily on the Republican Row. It was once believed that such sects originated mainly among the religiously neglected poor. Clearly, this is now no longer the case. It has been argued by social scientists that insecurity, differential status and anxiety characterize these religious movements. The effects of the Great Recession and the affects of geographic relocation and workplace displacement have contributed to a sense of anxiety and anomie among the American middle-class.
Ernst Troeltsch, the major historian of sectarian religion, has characterized the psychological appeal of fundamentalist religious sects in a way that might as appropriately be applied to extremist politics. A direct connection between the social roots of political and religious extremism has been observed in a number of countries. It was observed by the American sociologist S. M. Lipset, as early as the 1960s that, “the point here is that rigid fundamentalism and dogmatism are linked to the same underlying characteristics, attitudes, and predispositions which find another outlet in allegiance to extremist political movements.”
Many western democracies have “Christian Democratic Parties,” the US, because it is “exceptional,” has a “Christian Republican Party.” The candidates for the Republican nomination have made their religious views of scripture known, by degrees. To discover what these candidates deeply and sincerely believe requires the investigative work of a “large metropolitan newspaper.”
The ascendancy of the “nouveau fundamentalist Protestant elite” to high leadership positions in the Republican Party needs to be understood as a serious step toward a profound redefinition of church and state in America. The ascendancy of hard-core chronic “know-nothing-ism” and “anti-intellectualism,” so eloquently written about by Columbia historian Richard Hofstadter, and sectarian belief systems, is undoubtedly “exceptional” for a modern mass political party with governmental responsibilities. While it is argued that Europe is experiencing a “crisis of faith,” the United States is experiencing a revivalism parallel with the Second Great Awakening of the 1800s.
The decline of mainstream Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Episcopalians as forces affecting the direction of the Republican Party, has been statistically significant, and the rise of “Other Protestants,” and sects, has marked a realignment of voting patterns and political commitment.
Is it possible to image Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy organizing a 30,000 person “Catholics only” prayer service as a campaign launch? One of the famous quotes from Kennedy’s address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, during the 1960 national election, was, “I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President who also happens to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my Church on public matters — and the Church does not speak for me.”
While I agree that using religion as political theater is in poor taste. I think the dominance of the religious right in the republican party is overstated by you. . and overestimated by them.
Interesting to note how often RINO is being used in reference to Perry. Has it occurred to any of you who worry about the RINO thing that only a RINO is electable? Without widespread support from the Indies & a not-so-anemic showing of Dem voters as well, no Pub presidential candidate stands a chance.
Albeit I don’t know Perry all that well yet, I pretty much like what I see so far. Regardless of whatever flaws he may harbor, he will make a much better POTUS than the incumbent.
Should Perry (or anyone of similar beliefs) be elected president, at his/her very first day on the job, national security advisers are going to say:
How would President Perry handle this tough situation? Because Perry is going to see maps like this every day … unless he follows the utterly disastrous practice of America’s worst presidents (of both parties), namely, the practice of firing everyone who brings him unwelcome news.
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Daily Updated AMSR-E Sea Ice Maps
URL: http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/arctic_AMSRE_nic.png
Well Physicist, as a chemist, I challenge you to show how any statistically significant trends can even be calculated based on what, maybe 200 years of actual data (excluding the fact that there was no control about calibration, instrument type, location, etc.) and the fact that the original data is GONE.
I will remind you that we are talking about a 4.5B year old, highly dynamic system. It is extremely doubtful that we even know what all of the variable in climate are, let alone how they interact.
Are you a graduate student maybe? I got my degree over three decades ago and have worked closely with other scientists and engineers ever since. And I have yet to meet ONE, who believes the global warming scam, not ONE.
JustAl, in all of recorded seafaring history, from 1553 to 2005, there were zero years in which the Arctic passage was wide open. Since then six-of-seven years have been wide open. And this year is certain to be the widest-open in history.
Are ya’ll noticing a pattern?
Maybe your friends are changing their minds?
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97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real
URL: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/scientists-overwhelmingly-believe-in-man-made-climate-change/1
I notice a phenomenon with no provable link to anything other than natural causes taking place in the blink of eye in geologic terms.
Or do you propose that the western industrial nations are also responsible for the receding ice caps on Mars?
Out of curiosity, do you think it’s a coincidence that back in the ’70′s when it was the man made “ice age” that was the rage that both the cause; western industrialized nations, and the solution; redistribute vast wealth from western industrialized nations to third world nations, are the same today?
Perry has his faults, but come on. We’re not going to get Jesus in this election (as we certainly didn’t get Jesus in the last one, despite what HIS supporters believe). The fact remains, Rick Perry has been a long-time, experienced governor who has done extremely well for his state. Compare that to bumbling Barack Obama, who has almost run the rest of the country into the ground. That’s reason enough for me to vote for Perry.
I have grown tired of three lies permeating the media with fierce tenacity. Lie #1) RIck Perry is a conservative. Lie #2) Rick Perry is the only one who can beat Obama. Lie #3) The Texas economy is far superior to anywhere else and that is because of Rick Perry. Time to debunk.
Lie #1: Would a conservative take your land and liberty from you? Of course not. Rick Perry thru his massively opposed Texas Trans-Corrridor project plans to use eminent domain to displace millions while leasing the roadways to a foreign company out of Spain. These aren’t even useful highways to ordinary folk as there are NO EXITS. It is meant simply for the trucks coming up from Mexico. Un-American in every way. Gardasil. Next, he bypassed TX legislature and mandated all 6th grade girls be vaccinated with this new, unproven and in many cases harmful vaccine. Each vaccine cost $120 and yes Merck was one of his biggest campaign supporters. That turns my stomach. Would a conservative watch his state debt become twice what it was since he took over? Well Perry inherited a 47 billion dollar debt. Today it is more than twice that. Fiscally conservative? Hardly. Illegal immigration. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth. But what do his actions say. Well last year he passed legislation that allows illegal immigrants to attend TX state univesities at seriously discounted rates. As well he distanced himself from Brewer of AZ and has done absolutely nothing to secure his own borders or quell the violence. NOT CONSERVATIVE! I don’t care how many times the media try to drill it in your brain that he is, don’t buy it!
Lie #2: It is true that Perry can fundraise with Obama. But do you really think it is grass roots conservatives. Nope. It is Big Pharm and the energy companies pouring money in his campaign coffers. Just imagine if he can have everyone vaccinated in the whole U.S. or God knows what else he might do. He doesn’t care about liberty as I stated above. So he will have as much money as Obama to buy whatever he wants. That should scare you. But Obama is highly beatable anyway right now. He has broken numerous campaign promises. He has lost his independent voters. A TRUE conservative with an error free campaign could beat Obama. Heck even in true blue NY state, Obama’s approval rating is well below 50%.
Lie #3: It is true the TX economy is performing above average. But look closer. There are 22 other states with lower unemployment ratings. TX (tied with MS) has the highest percentage of jobs that pay minimum wage. Yes, businesses are relocating to TX. Why is that? There is no state income tax. It was like that long before Perry took over. But he will have you believe that he is the reason TX is supposedly booming.
I could go on with TX lowly education, his shady meetings that violate the Logan Act, or the fact that he is a Christian who doesn’t seem to understand Matthew 6:5 at all. Anyway please look into this man before you blindly follow him.
Since you are such a fountain of opinion, please state your preferred candidate and why. My money’s on Obama, but Ron Paul is a close second. Their followers seem to use similar strategies.
How about refuting what you disagree with with facts, or hell, even a reasonable theory instead of grade school innuendo and misdirection?
By the way, if you’re interested, my #1 would be Allen West if he ran, Palin if she ran, then Bachman, then Cain, then stay at home before I’ll vote for another establishment GOP elite.
Now, IF Perry actually sticks to his stated positions on social security, and medicare for more than a month I might be swayed to his banner. But so far he seems to turn with the breeze.
I’m not interested and why you posted is a mystery to me, unless you were too embarrassed to label the post I answered with your new neme.
But keep trying.
Maybe sometime I’ll read something you write to see if it makes more sense than this off the wall comment.
Same name I’ve used for years. But it’s interesting that you answer with yet another misdirection and innuendo. Very interesting. If this is the all Perry supporters have maybe I will get to vote for Bachman in the general.
Rick is my choice unless he screws the pooch sometime in the next 18 months. But his statement “And that’s why, with the support of my family, and an unwavering belief in the goodness of America, I declare to you today as a candidate for President of the United States.”, is too mealy month. The last phrase should be a plain declarative sentence: I am a candidate for the office of the president of the United States of America.
If he does “screw the pooch”, all he has to do is switch to Democrat. He’ll force Obama out!
Win/Win!
The people, if they pay attention to their future, will have to clear out this group. Rick Perry must do it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM2MzlKURW8
“…while he is an abject failure in his constitutional duty to protect our borders in the United States.”
One of the severest criticisms of Perry is his soft stance on illegal immigrants. He did, for instance, support “in state tuition” for the children of illegal immigrants. So what are his views on the illegal immigration/open border issues? Is this criticism of Obama an indicator?
Like Romney, Perry has the stature and the experience to go up against what will be an Obama campaign Juggernaut once the Republican nominee is selected but, by all appearances, Perry seems to have the cojones that Romney lacks, at least so far.
The Republican horse race just got a lot more interesting.
Someone please explain to me how Rick Perry could be anything BUT better than the Socialist that now occupies the Oval Office. I for one believe that he is the only Republican out there that has a 100% chance of defeating Obama….all the others are just second-tier talent, at best. I, for one, could care how wealth Perry is, and just the fact that he promises to make the Federal government as inconsequential as possible in the lives of Americans is good enough to earn my vote. He can and will win next November!
Don’t worry about the comments of so many “true conservatives” here: the campaign has already started and the stalinists use ANY and EVERY trick to create confusion.
The speech is clear: lower taxes, fewer regulations, small government.
And the guy has a lot of experience.
After the primaries, our front must be united, America cannot survive four more years of internationalist subversives at work to destroy our economy and our might.
Well, one thing we’ve seen for sure with the announcement of Perry. The Democratic reaction is going to be malicious and irrational with all sorts of grievances coming out of the closet.
We’ve got the Conspiracy Nuts – such as Klaus who see shadowed agendas in every word and action within the GOP. (Strange – they don’t see such among the Democrats).
And, the anti-Texan ‘racists’..I know this is a misuse of the term of racism but it’s meant to suggest the assumption that ALL who are from Texas are genetically evil and must not be allowed in as President. But these types ignore factual context and cherry pick their data to align ‘Being a Texan’ with..
And the usual fanatics who focus on their obsessions, such as AGW.
The only comparison in terms of emotional hysteria, misinformation and fanatical rejection is what arose to greet Sarah Palin.
Strange.
The WH, since they can’t run on Obama’s accomplishments which are all disastrous, have several tactics. After all, even though many on the left are saying: ‘look at his accomplishments – he got through his health care, he got through his stimulus, he got through buying out car companies, he..
Ahh..it’s easy to pass legislation, even if it were to approve picking your teeth, if your party CONTROLS the House, the Senate and the Executive.
Why, Obama even instructed ‘his’ Congress not to read or debate the health care bill (as Pelosi said – we’ll find out what’s in it when we’ve passed it). He instructed them not to read or debate his stimulus (and now we know it was instead a huge bail out pork bill for his unions and the Democrats). Once Obama lost the House, things haven’t been so easy. Since he has no arguments for his bills, they aren’t passed…and he’s reduced to ignoring Congress and setting up unvetted unapproved govt agencies such as EPA to do his dirty work.
So – what are the Democrat tactics to reelect Obama?
First, is pork. Why do you think that debt ceiling was raised? We can pay our debt interest, social security and medicare and defense from monthly incoming taxes. So..what’s it all about?
Obama now has a slush fund to use to buy votes. He’s already declared special bonuses to companies that hire returned veterans…Obama knows the military isn’t fond of him..he’s buying their votes. Watch for more..
Second, is the personal ad homimen…how’s that for a principled argument against someone??? But a lot of the water cooler left operate only within this realm.
Third, is misinformation – they are defining the GOP as ‘immovable, unwilling to compromise’. Hmm. Wasn’t it Obama who rejected Ryan’s budget, who threatened to veto Cut,Cap and Balance, who threatened to veto boehner’s plan, who insisted that there was only ONE debt ceiling increase that he would accept – one that lasted until after his re-election? Hmmm.
So – bribes, ad hominem smears, and gross hypocritical misinformation. That’s the Democratic election strategy.
With regards to many troll remarks above that are represented by the following from Just Al:
“Giving Rick Perry, or any other politician credit for the Texas economy is like giving a fisherman credit for the tide because he lives near the shore.”
Cute metaphor. Get that from your Leftist bosses whom you Leftist non-thinkers follow like zombies?
At the very least, Perry has had the good sense (and the PATRIOTIC desire) to be a job creator rather than a job destroyer) i.e. he has not placed a moratorium on fishing, raised taxes on “millionaire” fishermen, shackled them with impossible regulations, or built sea walls at sea in order to siphon our natural resources into foreign countries’ corrupt dictator’s pockets.
He’s left the fishermen alone. He is doing his best to make Big Bumbling Dumb Government as inconsequential in our daily lives as possible. Amen.
Your hate for Obama has made you blind just as the leftists’ hate for Bush blinded them. How else could someone like Obama become President? Perry is NOT conservative one bit. Not on illegal immigration, not on debt reduction, not on property rights, hell he even knows best for everybody and bypassed his own TX legislature to force all girls to get vaccinated for STDS. Merck was a big supporter of his. You are not a conservative. Do not slander us TRUE conservatives. I emplore you to find out what conservatism truly is. It is sad how polarized America has become.
With regards to many troll remarks above that are represented by the following from Just Al:
“Giving Rick Perry, or any other politician credit for the Texas economy is like giving a fisherman credit for the tide because he lives near the shore.”
Cute metaphor. Get that from your Leftist bosses whom you Leftist non-thinkers follow like zombies?
At the very least, Perry has had the good sense (and the PATRIOTIC desire) to be a job creator rather than a job destroyer) i.e. he has not placed a moratorium on fishing, raised taxes on “millionaire” fishermen, shackled them with impossible regulations, or built sea walls at sea in order to siphon our natural resources into foreign countries’ corrupt dictator’s pockets.
He’s left the fishermen alone. He is doing his best to make Big Bumbling Dumb Government as inconsequential in our daily lives as possible. Amen.
If your entire argument is name calling maybe you should google my handle here and at other blogs before you spout off about somebody being a “leftist” because they don’t automatically accept an establishment blessed, ex-democrat. . .then you can kiss my conservative but.
OFF TOPIC but hilarious
After posting I realized that on the top right corner of the page we have an ad by the Democratic Party about “voter suppression” in PA (a new law that could stop the poor and disenfranchised from ….voting multiple times).
They pay for PJM !!! Wonderful !!!!
This is fair and balanvced as I mean it: they pay, we campaign against them. Perfect.
The Paulites are about 50% of this thread. Ron Paul says some good things about the economy. What it is about him that creates so many frothing nutcakes? They’re worse than the Obamites, and even more vicious.
You would think they would have enough sense to know their guy can’t win and to not attack the people who are closest to themselves philosophically. Instead their actions, if anybody actually takes them seriiously, help Obama.
Beyond frothing. Beyond nuts. Cult worshippers.
I wonder though if they aren’t really Obamites posing as Paulites for cover. That might make more sense because if they are actually for Ron Paul, they make zero sense.
Really? We let one alcoholic, divorced, wildly leftist woman into the governor’s mansion- Ann Richards- and we’ve had the good sense to never make that mistake again. We still kind of cringe about those years. I’m not good at research, but the metrics sucked raw eggs, the divisiveness, the shaming, the weird, bizarre parade of terrible, corrupt people in government….it was like Obama junior,in drag. We haven’t made that mistake again. Oh- the deficit spending, the hectoring, the lecturing, the sexual obsessions, the private court business- even Molly Ivin’s biography reeks of the corruption, and she’s supposed to be the standard-bearer of fair and honest advocacy reporting.
Governors make a difference. Presidents make a difference. Bless Perry, may he win. That’s the best political speech I’ve ever heard.
The speed at which serial trolls and the MSM tells me that they have been working and studying hard since 2008 when they tried to do the same to Governor Palin.
Perhaps the best possible outcome would be for Governor Palin to loudly and publicly endorse Governor Perry and run out the base; the Left would never be able to put down an insurrection like that (far too many targets) and Governor Palin’s “Kingmaking” abilities (displayed during the 2010 midterms) would be the most valuable asset to the TEA party movement and the GOP in general.
Governor Perry needs more than a personal electoral victory, he needs dozens and dozens of solid TEA Party members sitting in the House and Senate as well. As a Canadian, I see the damage President Obama has done to my nation (our economy is being dragged backwards by the disaster in the US economy) so wish you all the best. Get out there and do what has to be done.
JustAl…..
["Can you please supply links to the portions of the Constitution of the United States or of any one of the states that mentions “poverty” as any of the government’s business?"]
Al, I’d be happy to answer your question…thanks for asking as the answer gets ignored all to often.
Article I, Section 8….
["The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for..................................
the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States"]
The United States consists of land mass, sovereign borders and the people. There is much written and even Supreme Court decisions over our long history concerning your question in particular. So long as “tax” is the vehicle, the law of the land is pretty much settled on this issue….in so much as, should a congress establish/enact such tax for some matter pertaining to the welfare of the nation.
All that said, the government all to often circumvents the “taxation” clause by legislating the private sector commerce/employers to provide welfare benefits such as workers compensation, unemployment subsidy, health care, and on down the complex list that directly and indirectly benefits the welfare of the people, their environment and the nation as a whole society. I will continue to submit that, its the people who lost their way long before (the past 50+ years) the government lost its way. The government is nothing more and nothing less than….by the people and their special interest groups of today.
So, your siting the “common welfare” clause that FDR stretched out of shape but blaming the people rather than the government. Will, I guess technically it was people (politicians) buying the votes of other people (recipients). And I can certainly see how over taxation can cause poverty.
If I interpret your response correctly the “common welfare” clause is the excuse, hopefully your not saying it’s a legitimate one for government anti-poverty programs.
Al….I’ll leave you to the constitution and long standing constitutional debate in the highest court, to mean whatever you want it to mean.
I think the Democrats would like to see the GOP nominate either Bachmann or Romney; I suggest they think they can beat either one of them.
Bachmann? She’s savvy, she’s focused on the economy and tax reform, but, has little knowledge of foreign affairs and no executive experience outside of the committee room. Oh – and when will she ever, ever stop with her ‘I’ve raised 5 children and fostered 23′… I don’t care, I don’t, care, I don’t care.
Romney? Same thing but he has the executive plus business experience. But he’s slippery and changes his opinions too much – like Obama. Oh, and he accepts AGW. Heh. He gives me the impression he belongs in The West Wing.
And both give as their answer to the illegals – deport them all. Look, Israel had a terrible time removing 9,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip; can the US remove 12 million illegals? Get real.
I think that Bachmann would have a strong role to play in a government administrative position…but not as the President.
And Pawlenty would make a great VP.
Require proof of legal residency or citizenship to get ANYTHING from the government, send the first hundred or so CEO’s who hire them to prison and the illegals will be gone within a month.
That’s called self deport.
I am a socialist! There I said it. Marcel is my lover and I don’t apologize!!!
Like Rick Perry, the previous poster is an imposter. I am the real Klaus who pasted the above messages under my name, save the last.
Name calling is the last refuge of a Rick Perry-supporting scoundrel.
Socialism is when Rick Perry mandates that Texas girls be forced to submit to dangerous Gardasil shots at the behest of the UN’s Agenda 21, and when he grants legal immunity to the drug’s producer from liability for the risks of the dangerous shots.
What is not socialism is ending the Fed and restoring the value of money to a free market system, not a rigged market system like we have today.
What is not socialism is ending the IRS, the EPA, the FDA, the Dept. of Education, ObamaCare, and the military industrial complex.
What is not socialism is replacing the Dept. of Defense and the DHS with the Second Amendment.
Rick Perry supports none of the above policies, because he is a socialist.
You Bastard my wife reads this!!!!!!
For the Tea party Alyskyites and zealots!
Heres one of your problems! You jump on the bandwagon of politicians for which you’ve never known nor had any personal relationship with or to. You have nothing more than a politicians political and selfserving, superficial rhetoric for which you’ll attatch your souls to, for God only knows, what crazy motive(s). You blindly become the ‘led and fed’ minions of some slick politicians and their operative networks. Every two, four and six years you folks do the same old thing over and over, looking for a different outcome and where the nation is today.
Heres another of your problems! Regardless of whether you’ve annointed yourself as an intellectual or not, you fail to see and understand that a ‘career politician’ does NOT choose a political career as a humble peoples servant. First and foremost, they are career politicians because of their somewhat flawed ego personalities seeking 1) power and 2) the enormous social and financial rewards of being a career politician today. You folks, the ones who consume their ‘tailored’ simplistic and superficial rhetoric are nothing more than their door mats….ooops, I mean hope for a majority of votes to propel them into another term or new office….before slithering away and enjoy the social and financial wealth you’ve granted him/her.
If any politicans really had the individual capacities to frame viable solutions for the nations problems they would have been doing so and working day and night as the ‘peoples servant’ with those who reign over the power to legislate. Show me one legislative draft of resolution from the desk of Gov Perry to the leaderships of the congress! Guess what! Common citizens do just that all the time and what a shocker, often times a part or all of their suggestions if viable, gets attention.
How many of you Tea Party folks…or others on here, have a long record of working with your legislators on proposals in conference and committee? How many of you even knows whats being worked on or why by your legislators at any given time?
I suspect not many if any of you! Yet, you come on some internet site in anonymity, making zealot fools of yourselves over some politicains slick simplistic and superficial rhetoric for which you consume bait, line and sinker and demand you be given respect and creditiblity. And if someone is more substative and disagrees you go into the Alinsky mode sub human behaviors.
Three questions:
1) Anyone else notice that over the last so many years Rick Perry’s accent has dramatically changed to that of Bush’s? I live in Texas. Maybe the rest of the nation thinks this is just a Texas accent but to us he sounds like he’s trying to immitate Bush – even down to his mannersisms. This really turns me off on top of all the liberal things he’s tried to do – like insisting on all Texas girls have shots. It was so bad, people had to sign petitions to put a stop to it. Was just a deal between Perry and the Murka (sp?.
2) Does anyone think Bush could be re-elected? Then, how could Rick Perry? Is this why the media seem so energized when they talk about Rick Perry getting in the race? They don’t seem threatened at all by Perry.
3) Would Rick Perry have the edge over Mitt Romney if he were not an “evangelical Christian?” Is this his biggest edge over Mitt Romeny? Does it sound fishy about the Day of Prayer and fasting right before he announced?
With any Republican candidate I figure the odds at better than 50/50 he or she will do a good job. With Obama it is a 100% certainty he will do a disastrous job.
Anybody but Obama.
FANTOM….May I suggest you remind yourself you haven’t a clue who you’re communicating to on such sites. Half of my family tree settled in OK Territory in 1831 and the other half in 1843, more than a little before OK became a territory and ‘formally’ claimed land in 1893 during the land run. So, I’m hardly a Texan..more Native American and German and then I came along on 1929. Now, you shouldn’t have any excuse for such wild inaccurate comments directed towards me next time.
You people can argue all you want about perry being a Democrat in the past (he was a very moderate one in a conservative state) or about Romney’s shortfalls with the true conservatives. None of it will matter.
Either one will select a strong conservative as a running mate (Rubio most likely because the monority vote as well).
PLUS, both know how to create jobs and growth and both are good leaders: all things Obama has failed miserably at.
Perry or Romney – I don’t care because either one will absolutely destroy Obama. Obama does not stand a chance. Jimmy Carter’s 2nd term is almost over.
Que the brids chirping and the sun rising… In 6 years America will be an economic power house again.. especially if the conservatives can take the Senate along with it.
Will Rick Perry or Mitt Romney renounce Al Gore and pledge to end NAFTA and GATT?
Or will they agree that Al Gore was right. and tariffs are bad?
That giant sucking sound you hear is the working men and women of America stampeding to vote Ron Paul.
If you want protectionist style tarrifs, then Ron Paul is not your guy either, since I beleive his libertarian positions would favor completely free trade.
Not so fast. After Ron Paul eliminates the IRS, where will the taxes come from?
Same place they came from before 1913.
The power to levy Duties on imports is given to Congress in our beloved Constitution, Article I, Section 8.
After hearing this speech, I prefer Perry to Romney, but I agree that either is better than Obama, and that both are more electable than Paul or Bachman.
Anybody but da black man, eh?
Perry supporters, take off your white sheets, and wave the white flag.
Very strong speech. He hit all the right notes on small gov conservatism, and didn’t throw in any social conservative garbage. I don’t much care whether Perry was a dem 23 yrs ago, when his whole state was dem. Many dems back then were not the idiot leftist dems of today, especially conservative southern dems. Reagan used to be a dem too, and a union leader. I care about what he is saying NOW, and whether as governor he actually implimented the free market, less gov, policies he is talking about now. And all signs indicate he did. If he keeps talking like he did in this speech, he has my vote. This is not the speech of a trimmer like Romney, or a “compassionate conservative” like Bush, and unlke Bachman or Paul, this is a guy that was actually able to practice and impliment what he preaches, instead of just talking about it.
Rick “ManBearPig” Perry will be run out of town on his NAFTA Superhighway.
From the wonderful publishers who brought you Mein Kampf…
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.
Believe it or not, they were at the same Bilderberg meeting as Perry, where he was hand-picked to be Obama’s successor.
If you want to do some investigative reporting, find out where Diebold is hiding the USB stick pre-programmed with the 2012 election results.
Reagan was a liberal before he was a conservative. I think I’d rather have it that way. Like David Horowitz; he was a radical son and now he’s a total anti-Marxist. Like the man says, ” know your enemy.”
it seems like most of the people in the USA would like to see Obama reelected considering what opponents he might have in the Presidential elections 2012…