Posted on 08/28/2011 10:01:59 AM PDT by The Bronze Titan
What’s more, he made the jump with Phil Gramm, and we see how that turned out (Gramm-Leach-Bliley: thanks for the economic collapse guys).
Well, it is two words, and it depends on who is credited with starting it, because to some it was about the expanding debt/spending policies, then people started showing up with “Taxed Enough Already” posters, then it became about government intrusion in all aspects of life.
Once you get that close (Gore) and you see the ignorance of the candidate as well as his hairbrained ideas, the only answer is to get the he** out of dodge (dummie party)Nice try.
From the link:
11 years before Perry chaired Gore’s presidential campaign in Texas, in 1976, Gore held the first Congressional hearings on climate change. Gore’s reputation on environmental issues was so solidified by 1988 that the first President Bush took to the habit of calling him ozone man.BTW, No matter how hard you try, Perry couldn't match a pussy pimple on Reagans ass.
Sounds like a pretty low bar you're holding on to.
Judge Napolitano wouldn’t get 10% in NY state.
well, i want to see what he has to say when questioned about some of his flip flops and questionable decisions.
right now, i like what i see but you know at this point Bill Clinton looks good. We survived Clinton’s, i doubt if we survive another Zero presidency.
Melissa
Anything that tries to point out some concern about Perry is a “hit piece”. Oh, but wait, I see you’re not opposed to “vetting”, just so long as the “vetting” is all “positive”. I get it now.
You willing to throw the election to Obama because there’s something about Perry you don’t like? Maybe it’s a low bar, but I would vote for the local dogcatcher before I’d see Obama take the office again.
Bump to read later
Good. There's still hope. Hang in there. It's going to be a fun ride. All the cars are not yet in the race.
GG, that's ok. I'm not in the least worried. If you really want a candidate you can trust, I can't think of anyone better to try to hold up their end of the bargain when they go up against the cronies of either party.
Hang in there and have faith. I'm not saying who you are going to ultimately throw your support for, but just wait and see who this is all going to play out soon. It's gonna be exciting to watch.
Give us a break. You're not vetting. You're a hatchet man. Plain and simple.
Or maybe you'd like to explain to us exactly what you're "vetting" when you post hateful DU-style cartoons you steal from left-wing websites?
Sory but the only propoganda around here is your brand of delusional Rick Perry Kool-Aid.
Gasp google image search is the evilz.
Interactive 2012 Electoral Vote map
The GOP needs to flip the equivalent of five sizeable states. Based on the 2010 results, VA is pretty much a given. We need FL, it is hard to stop an Obama win without it - so this is where we need to be on closest fraud watch. Other major winnable states for 2012 based on 2010 results are OH, NC, IN, MI, PA. There are some smaller states that may be a factor, like MN, WI, NH, IA, WV), but by and large those seven states will be the battleground in the election.
I think Judge Nap would have an excellent shot at flipping many of those. This country, outside the parasitic large urban centers, has a huge mass of people who are totally and completely fed up with the way government takes everything it can from them and screws everything up and lies lies lies lies all the time about everything, a process I refer to as Sovietization.
Judge Nap is totally loyal to the people of the United States of America. You don't need to watch him much to understand this. The same cannot be taken as given for some other candidates, e.g. Perry championing a project designed to bypass the people of his own state in favor of providing a route facilitating foreign goods to enter the United States. He understands the concerns of regular middle-class people at their wits' end with the lack of economic opportunity and broken markets, the lies about unemployment and the lies about inflation.
And it's these people - not political activists - whose frustrations gave rise to the Tea Party. It is these people who sat out in 2008, having no one to vote for (or alternatively, just rolled the dice on Obama because they were sick of Bush); it is these people who came out big time in 2009 special elections, and again in the 2010 midterms, producing a historic wave of GOP victories.
They're ready to turn out again, but not for another establishment candidate like McCain was. They're also ready to sit out again if that game is played once more. They can't be fooled for very long - they see the evidence of what is going on in their wallets, and as long as their standard of living continues to drop they will know it.
Either the GOP will serve this constituency (and it is massive as 2010 showed) - or it will get shown the door. As more jobs are lost, more wages cut, more credit is cut, more benefits run out, this group only continues to become more potent as an electoral force, as people start choosing their wallets over whatever ideology they thought was important when times were good.
They're not going to buy a handed-down-from-on-high social conservative or a neo-conservative wrapped in the Tea Party banner. They will take someone who puts their pocketbook issues first, and if they happen to be socially conservative, they'll take that as part of the package.
Napolitano is that person. He is experienced in the media and can clearly express fundamental issues in ways that everyone can understand and relate to. He has his priorities in order, and that comes through when he talks. He is not fake, he is not a professional politician - but he does know the how law and government works. He is exactly what this country is looking for in a President for 2012.
LOL,
I agree completely with your post.
I want to read any useful information about any candidate here on FR. Anyone running for President of this great country is applying for a post that is still the most powerful in the world. I say "post whatever you have about him/her, and let the chips fall where they may."
I read every post I come across about all the candidates for exactly what you stated: "That's what I come here for!". I'll leave it up to the site owner and his moderators to determine if something is "posted too many times".
It's way too early to determine who I will vote for, there are still possible candidates to declare themselves. All the postings that say "the polls PROVE that candidate X or candidate Y is going to win and candidate Z doesn't have a chance" make me laugh. American elections just aren't that easy or straightforward (regardless of what the pollsters and various FR posters would like to have us believe).
Perusing many posted articles gives a good familiarity about those posters who have an agenda, those who flow back and forth between truth and deception about their positions, and those who are honestly trying to learn about the various candidates.
FR is always a riot to read for snark, counter-snark, wit, witlessness, truth, falsehood, reasonableness and unreasonableness. And lately, it is humorous to watch those you and I would consider noobs, calling others noobs. Nothing like a good you're-a-noob battle to get the juices flowing here at FR.
Thanks for your post, I have been thinking along the same lines for a while now, but I seldom post since, by the time I formulate what I would say, somebody has already said it -- better.
So falsehood caricatures like that are OK, eh? And it’s a good idea to spread hateful (and false) caricatures about conservatives generated by leftards? All’s fair game?
Is that what you’re saying? I just want to make sure I understand you.
“hateful”? That’s an oddly leftist way to describe something.
That pic looks pretty accurate to me. What gives you reason to expect that this Texas governor is going to produce different results than the last one?
How do you suppose Rick Perry will do in the general election with all the dirt he’s got on him and the hypersensitivity of his followers.
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