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When did Rick Perry turn into... this guy?
dangus | vanity

Posted on 09/23/2011 5:46:34 AM PDT by dangus

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To: TexasFreeper2009
"Sorry, I meant Mondale, it's early and i'm old."

So, you are old, yet still think Mondale beat Reagan?

Well, I won't hold your age against you, so I guess you're just stupid.

81 posted on 09/23/2011 10:18:30 AM PDT by diogenes ghost
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To: RandallFlagg

1. THIS is the reason there’s been so many of these debates. To flood people with so much that they can’t stand ANY of the people running.

2. To get these people to stumble, than blare it out to everyone at maximum volume.

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Well sure. But at least the same will happen when the Democrats have their primary debates. Oh, wait...


82 posted on 09/23/2011 10:22:24 AM PDT by 21twelve (Obama Recreating the New Deal: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie; All
Perry didn't lie on lobbying. He was lobbied to fight for the EO by the women. ABC reports, in their "gotcha" fact check, "he met Burcham while she was lobbying the Texas legislature to uphold the governor’s executive order."

his illogical subsidies of illegal aliens

I'm against in-state tuition. I've pushed against it here in Calif.

That said, since he's unable, let me lay out the rationale for Perry.

Supreme Court decisions require benefits be given to illegals, including education K-12. The Feds have been willfully derelict on the issue for 20 years and stuck the states with the fall-out.

What does a state do with these new grads? As a defensive policy, Texas decided if they've been 3 year state residents, were Texas grads, and working on legalization so they can legally work, they'll be treated as other Texans on tuition.

Texas policy only requires one year residency for Americans to be eligible for in-state rates.

The governor supports a policy passed with 4 no votes in the legislature in 2001, and zero no votes when updated in 2005. No veto was going to stop this.

In-state tuition, offensive as it is in the abstract, needs to be seen in context of the bills he's signed on tighter employer sanctions, tougher penalties for document fraud, developing the Ranger Recon patrols on the border, pushing for Predator drones (Texas's border got its second one this year), asking the feds for National Guard and more Border Patrol on the border, calling out Bush's Republicans and Obama's Democrats on the federal level on their failure to fix this mess. He's never supported the Federal DREAM Act amnesty, never supported worker visa-linked amnesty.

He supports securing the border with personnel, assets and some fencing but not wasting billions on the fence everywhere just to build a fence. The Rio Grande is 1,100 miles of border. Another Freeper pointed out yesterday, Israel doesn't wall out the Jordan River; they patrol it.

Securing the border should not be simplified down to a checklist item of "the full fence." The issue is too important, our financial situation too perilous.

Despite a wealth of experience on this issue and defensible viewpoint, Perry's been too inarticulate to express himself in these debates.

If he can't explain himself, he's done in this race. He'd lose to Obama because Obama, like Romney, can talk people to death.

His site also has a dearth of information which I find troubling.

83 posted on 09/23/2011 11:14:42 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Ryan: Obama "a pyromaniac in a field of straw men" / Andre Carson's racism goes unchecked)
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To: diogenes ghost

Lol. Nice spin but believe it or not, he was the lesser of the evils running. A TRUE conservative would win in a landslide against him.


84 posted on 09/23/2011 4:15:21 PM PDT by allsouthern
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Imagine, if Repubs would gather for Newt. (Am 'over' Newt's so oft referenced Issues. They are far less damning than either Clinton; and for sure, we know his history - he does need a teleprompter - and we know he is authentic. He writes his own books. Soooo unlike, current President. He would have no czars; nor a 'manservant'.

Newt; as a student of history; would determinedly guide our Country on a path so as to guarantee, that the worst of history - does not repeat itself in America. (Newt recognizes that the economy is just one of our critical problems; and he knows 'who are our enemies'.)

He also, has been essentially dismissed by Repub 'Establishment' and MSM. . .while the crazy Libertarian has not.

85 posted on 09/23/2011 8:52:47 PM PDT by cricket
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; All
Of course, that was supposed to read. . . (Newt) does NOT need a Teleprompter . Just see him as a missed opportunity; given our options.

Anyway, per current Drudge headline; Christie, has apparently, has not 'sung' yet, per closure of his potential candidacy. The 'muddle' goes on. . .

86 posted on 09/24/2011 2:47:56 AM PDT by cricket
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