I don’t know anything about Rick Perry. I’m paying only scant attention to him unless and until he actually says he’s running. In the meantime, I just kinda sift through what others who seem to have some knowledge of him are posting, something beyond “He’s a RINO!”, “He has great hair!”, etc. Here’s a post I copied yesterday, from a Texas FReeper, patriot08, on another thread. I haven’t taken the time to verify or refute any of the following, but will do so if it starts to look as though Perry has serious intentions. Maybe you’ll find this helpful too.
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. Sarah Palin threw her endorsement to Rick Perry for governor.
. Pro-life, Pro-guns, pro-spending cuts, pro-business
. He’s an outside-the-Beltway candidate
. Fighting with Obama on many fronts
Google Perry/Obama and you will see he’s been fighting him and his government for the past two years.
. Since Perry has been Governor of Texas, Texas has added more than 850,000 jobs, more than all other states combined. Texas has added over 180,000 jobs since August of 2009.
. There is no such thing as ‘Perrycare’
. According to this web site Texas is #1 this year and last year for business friendly.
http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business
Obama would not want not run against a governor that has the BEST business climate in the U.S. when everything else is in a depression.
• He refused to raise taxes when Texas faced a record $10 billion budget shortfall in 2003. Instead, he was the first Texas governor since World War II to sign a budget that lowered state spending (and has now done it twice). As governor, Perry has used his line item veto to cut over $3 billion in proposed spending.
• In 2005, Perry signed a historic $15.7 billion property tax cut for homeowners and businesses that also included new taxpayer protections against appraisal increases. In 2009, Gov. Perry secured a tax cut for approximately 40,000 small businesses in Texas and protected the Rainy Day Fund for future challenges.
• He led the battle to pass the country’s most sweeping lawsuit reforms, closing the door on junk lawsuits that had been making trial lawyers rich while driving countless doctors either out of the state or the profession all together. Since Texas voters approved these reforms, malpractice claims and premiums have fallen and access to healthcare is increasing across the state as doctors have applied in droves to practice in Texas.
. He is not a Ivy League grad
The Bush’s don’t like him
He was an Air Force captain who flew a C-130
Those are all very impressive achievements. Thanks for posting them.
He was an Air Force captain who flew a C-130
Now this I did not know. You know this, J?