Posted on 09/25/2011 9:18:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Only 4 things can be highlighted as “topic” designations for a thread post. I found it a hard choice because – business/economy, education, government, health/medicine, history, military, politics, religion, science and society all should be included.
It is being reported by environmentalists -- believers in a socialist “green” religion -- that their judgment and knowledge is being resisted by “unscientific, religious deniers” hell-bent on blocking their path. So the deniers need to be “identified” for the good of humankind. This is dangerous. This morning I posted an article that explores with alarm, how Global Warming Consensus is denied by conservatives – that their resistance is an ever growing problem stemming from the religious right in America. The American ‘Allergy’ to Global Warming: Why?
I posted it because Gov. Rick Perry was mentioned at the top of the article. And there is good reason why. Socialists around the world know that Rick Perry has been fighting them on the legal front, the education front, and the environmental front for years. Due to his past, he knows why and where they are determined to lead us. Why would Rick Perry feel so strongly about these issues and their connection to states' rights and free market capitalism? Why does the Left recognize the danger of a Rick Perry controlling the Bully Pulpit of the White House, his veto, his appointments?
Rick Perry grew up on a farm (I know he keeps telling us this but I think it is done for a reason). His mother sewed his clothes. They worked and went to church. Rick Perry was a Boy Scout, earning Eagle Scout rank (so has his son). Rick Perry was a member of the Future Farmers of America. He went to Texas A&M and was a member of the Corps. Rick Perry joined the Air Force, serving 5 years. He flew C-130s around the world before returning to West Texas and the family farm. He courted his future wife, taught Sunday school and worked the land with his father. And in time he went into state politics.
Rick Perry is a self made man. He was called one of the Pit-bulls in the Texas legislature because he was a Democrat member who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases. He is naturally a conservative. In 1989 he joined the Republican Party that had begun taking root in Texas as the Democratic Party ideology began moving left. Perry ran for the Agriculture Commission seat against leftist Jim Hightower and won. In 1998 Rick Perry ran for Lt. Gov. and won (he was the first Republican Lt. Gov. elected since Reconstruction).
When George W. Bush became president in 2000, Rick Perry became the governor of Texas. He has been reelected twice (the last time beating out Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a candidate supported by the Bush family and Karl Rove in a primary challenge). When Gov. Rick Perry was elected in 2010 for his 3rd term, he was joined by a Republican super majority in the Texas legislature. Major legislation was passed and signed by Gov. Perry, including (after a 6 year struggle) Photo Voter ID and tighter controls over how money is spent. Perry's history of being attacked by the mainstream media is well known and his election was won without one endorsement by a mainstream media outlet.
Rick Perry has served twice as Chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association. The country has seen a rise in the number of conservative governors and state legislatures in recent elections. Rick Perry broke fundraising records for the RGA. And now Rick Perry is a candidate in the GOP Primary for President of the United States. He wants to lower taxes, return states' rights, repeal Obama care, and remove the regulations and laws that are strangling our economy, and get people back to work.
Currently, the Left is battling Gov. Rick Perry’s stand on Big Education (unions) and EPA Energy and Environment dictates. Trial lawyers have made it known they plan to block any more power going to Rick Perry, as he has won so many victories against them as the Gov. of Texas. The Left knows Rick Perry has his own religious beliefs and does not adhere to their pseudo green religion. They know he understands the land, that he was brought up in a religious home and has worked for everything he has. The Left knows he attended a school that didn’t teach him to hate his country but rather instilled love of country. They know he served in the military and still encourages boys to become Boy Scouts. The Left can not put the lie to the fact that Texas' economy is running rings around Obama's disastrous economic policies. The Left knows that when Rick Perry shows compassion – has a heart – it isn’t because he wants to make you dependent on him but rather to set you free.
If the Left can demonize Gov. Perry, a man who believes in standing with our allies, making government as inconsequential as possible in our lives and who holds firmly to his belief in American exceptionalism – if they can successfully define him as a rightwing religious dunce, while simultaneously encouraging people in the GOP Primary to lambast him as someone who isn’t conservative, then the Left will have won the ideological battle -- their war against capitalism will be complete and they will permanently Rule America.
You are falling prey to the MSM.....
Wait, I'm confused.
If we here are falling prey to the MSM, but the Dallas Morning News came to Perry's defense, and they are part of the MSM, shouldn't that mean we should think the opposite of their Perry story??
Perry “Damn those hateful, racist, heartless conservatives! I sure wish they’d vote for me”
ah, I see..if you are not for Perry you are being manipulated by the left.
Granted, Perry messed up, but don't start measuring and ordering curtains for the White House just yet. Perry might just come out of this OK, in spite of your best efforts to destroy him.
Just keep sticking your foot in your mouth.
My home page is empty and will remain as such. My time spent here is to support real conservatism and expose those in the GOP who want to maintain the status quo in Washington.
Besides I am ashamed of my home state anyway and I don’t want to broadcast anything about myself except my point of view on the web. If you knew what I do in my line of work you would understand and likely do the same. The less people know about you online the better.
And to think, most people didn’t even know that Barack Obama smoked cigarettes.
I mean, really.
If Palin enters, she becomes the race.
In fact it could be argued she has been, for some time.
And that’s exactly what I feared. He was saying some good things when he first got into the race. But it seemed a little too good to me. Thanks for your thoughts.
The left didn’t ruin Rick Perry. Rick Perry ruins Rick Perry.
The ad is good, but the ad is deceptive. Obama stinks and we all know it. But we need a strong conservative and Perry ain’t it.
That is why Cain is rising. We want a real person who loves US citizens first, not one who presents himself as something he isn’t.
You are extremely confused, but don’t worry. Some strong coffee will help.
I said EVEN the Dallas Morning news, which has put in triple orders for ink barrels to trash Perry, EVEN the DMN had to admit that there were a lot of lies and misunderstandings about the in-state tuition thing.
They even had a fair article in the paper this morning explaining the whole tuition thing.
Which is why I say running for president is a full time job. Perry should resign from his full time gov. post.
I believe you because I’ve known you a long time. I’ve also known CC a long time. I’m just saying, as a general rule of debate, if one makes an assertion, the burden of proof is on the one making the assertion, not the other way around.
For the record, I live in your state and I don’t put my state on my profile page because the AZ board is very active, and I don’t have time to read every post there before I can browse the rest of the forum.
One unifying issue propounded by the Tea Party is that people take responsibility for their own actions. Perry is an epic fail in that regard.
He went so far as to tell Fla conservatives, "we don't need the smoothest debater." He actually believed conservatives would buy into that. Course his con job would have been different had he not committed political suicide at the debate.
THE FACTS ARE THESE: Perry's candidacy was torpedoed by his own massive ego. He thumbed his nose at his country and its citizenry, labeling those who disagreed with him on in-state tuition as "heartless."
The inference was that only the egocentric Perry was Truly Worthy (b/c only he had sucked up to Mexico).
That may fly in cattle country-----but airhead Perry needs to know he's not in Texas anymore.
Rick Perry called us heartless. Do you think we joined the Dems and MSM or did he? Who would the MSM and Dems agree with: Rick Perry.
Rick Perry joined hands with the MSM and Democrats against conservatives they don't like..
Thank You for Playing.
Attacking us and calling us names is supposed to get us heartless racists to support Perry?
It's strong conservatives that dislike him. His record of pandering to illegals and his cronyism is getting out and we don't like it.
It's that simple so please remove the tin foil hat.
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