The way it's going around here with a seemingly never-ending stream of RINO flavors of the week, maybe I should just keep this image on my clip board. Pretty soon there won't be much reason to post much of anything else.
Posted on 05/27/2011 9:01:05 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Published May 27, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Maybe Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he’s decided to test the waters on a presidential run just because he’s feels left out.
For all the attention paid to the presidential possibilities of two members of the House (Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann) and a reality show host (you know who), you’d never know that the Republicans had on their bench the three-term governor of the state with the nation’s best economy and the largest Republican population.
But for some reason, when Perry told people he wasn’t running, reporters believed him. If Chris Christie even flies over Iowa, the blogosphere goes into meltdown mode, but the political press for some reason mostly took Perry at his word.
It seems strange that they would have.
Perry, who has been governor for more than a decade, is a favorite of the Tea Party movement for his tough stands on state sovereignty, border security, taxes and gun rights. Anybody who packs heat when he jogs so he can blow away coyotes that mess with his Labrador retriever and hangs out with Ted Nugent at a Tax Day rally is going to have serious street cred with the Republican base.
As the Perry talk heats up, these primary election positives will be reinforced by liberals who find his Texas-fried politics to be repellant. Every time Democratic cable news talkers remind viewers that Perry once warned that Texas might secede from the union if Washington kept piling on new federal powers, somewhere in Iowa or South Carolina a Republican primary voter thinks, “Not bad.” When Perry gets chided for declining photo-ops with President Obama on visits to the state, somewhere in New Hampshire a guy...
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For all his shortcomings, I think conservatives will coalesce around Perry as the irc”stop Romney” candidate.
I really don’t like this guy (he’s my governor)...so I’ll keep posting essentially the same thing:
It’s a bummer. Perry has been very effective in KILLING the more conservative stuff before it gets to his desk, by using surrogates in the state legislature. In fact, he allowed a liberal to run the State House, even though we have a greater-than two to one majority over there...he could have pressed for a more representative leader...but didn’t seem to be interested.
Give the Republican majority in our State House and Senate, we should have turned this state into a right-wing utopia by now...but a certain governor did not really have that as an objective - rather he more wanted to sign a few token token pieces of legislation and be able to say the big stuff (like Arizona-type immigration laws, taking on the unions, taking on Big Education, for example) never made it to his desk...just conveniently died in the legislature...
No.
The new Fox flavor of the week?
I don’t know, seems to be alot of talk about him lately. I’m nowhere near up to speed on Perry, so for now I’m just reading what others have to say.
Mine, too. And I'll take a crack at why you don't like him.
Rick Perry is a consummate politician. He will do what he needs to do to get elected. And, otherwise, he's not going to upset any applecarts.
The man doesn't have an ideological bone in his body. He governs conservatively only because Texas is a conservative state. He will avoid controversy like it is a rattlesnake.
All of this makes him a serviceable governor in a conservative state. It would make him a fatally weak leader at a time when we need a president with rock-solid conservative principles that is unafraid of controversy.
The way it's going around here with a seemingly never-ending stream of RINO flavors of the week, maybe I should just keep this image on my clip board. Pretty soon there won't be much reason to post much of anything else.
He’s my governor, too. And I agree with BobL and Okie01.
The Texas freepers have answered the question better than I could.
He may be the best, most conservative of the bunch willing to run right now.
Those who don’t like him are quite passionate about it, that’s a fact.
Is there nothing else that needs reporting or opining upon?
“All of this makes him a serviceable governor in a conservative state. It would make him a fatally weak leader at a time when we need a president with rock-solid conservative principles that is unafraid of controversy. “
Well stated. He has been careful not to make a fool out of himself like Daniels...but he certainly hasn’t bothered to lift a finger to lead (other than selling off our highways to foreigners)...so I DO NOT like him.
I've noticed that you've already posted it on other threads, so I'd say you're getting the hang of it.
Why do these people keep trying to push Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, et al on us? Rick Perry’s a Tea Party favorite? Pssffffff. No! He tried to jump in to leach on the Tea Party. He’s a RINO.
I have nothing against Perry... he has been one of the strongest advocates for states rights. I wouldn’t walk in a burning building to vote for him, but I would categorize him as “acceptable”.
Perry is far better than Rudy McRomney. He is also a weasel that people would have to watch every moment. The latest Tx budget balances only because of accounting gimmicks.
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