[UniqueViews]

He sounds pretty good, and has a track record.

[Windflier]

No.

Ask a few Texas conservatives what they think of Rick Perry.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"On June 7, Perry called for a special legislative session to abolish sanctuary cities."

"On June 9, Perry asks fellow governors to join with him for a national day of prayer."

These do not count. Everyone acts like a conservative when there is an election approaching.

[iowamark]

Perry has just recently been toughening up on illegal immigration, which is the single greatest threat to the US, and which was his great weakness. If the Bush-McCain-Obama open borders plan ever takes effect, the US as we have known it is over.

[Cincinna]

I’m with Windflier. Rick Perry is not Presidential material.
Is anyone living in the real world believe that the American people are going to put another Texan in the WH anytime soon?

[UnwashedPeasant]

The article say that Perry "grew up a Democrat, won election as a Democrat, and Perry was even the State Chairman for Al Gore in 1988."

Al Gore?! Not good.

[fella]

Not only NO! but H - E - DOUBLE HOCKY STICKS NO!. Just look up "Trans-Texas Corridor" for one good reason why. Also Texas Toll Roads.

[4rcane]

I think Perry is a Romney in Texas. He’s only conservative because he’s in a conservative state.

[Tolkien]

NO!

uhh... No!

NO

[Rum Tum Tugger]

Is Perry the one?

Hell no!. The last thing the GOP and America need is another Texas governor.

[lewislynn]

Can Perry speak while Rove is drinking water?...Didn’t think so.

[jbwilson]

Perry did not call a special session to abolish sanctuary cities. The special session was called because the Democrats filibustered the budget. Perry just added sanctuary cities to the session because he knew it would look good on his resume and because he knew that the sanctuary cities bill being pushed by Texas Republicans doesn't have any teeth--it makes a statement but doesn't actually do anything.

Of course "makes a statement but doesn't actually do anything" pretty accurately sums up Perry's style of governing. He talks like a conservative but seldom backs up that talk with real action. He's a master of verbal slight-of-hand. He gets everybody talking about his sanctuary cities bill so that nobody's looking at the fact that he supported in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. He gets everybody talking about his day of prayer so that nobody's looking at the fact that he issued an executive order requiring sixth-grade girls to be inoculated against a sexually transmitted disease. He gets everybody talking about the fact that he said Texans might someday want to secede from the union so that nobody's looking at the fact that he folded like a cheap suit as soon as the TSA started talking tough about a Republican-backed "anti-groping" bill (which he now refuses to add to the special session). He gets everybody talking about how he (supposedly) shot a coyote (that nobody ever found) on an Austin jogging trail so that nobody notices that he let the Democrats (in a legislature that's 2/3 Republican) block a popular (supported by 90% of Republicans) gun rights bill (which he now refuses to add to the special session).

Perry is a moderate who wants to look conservative, as long as that's what the voters want to see. If and when he runs, he'll play an uber-conservative during the primaries and a moderate alternative to Barack Obama during the general election. And if elected, he'll be whatever the highest bidder wants him to be.

[The Wizard]

Let me help the media:

Sarah is the ONE, assholes

[Dick Vomer]

He’s mitt Romney’s brother from a different mother. Just keep him here in Texas , where he can pretend to be conservative

[bert]

In a word yes.

Discounting the sanctimonious selfrightousists black spots to zero, he is the Romney killer

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No, he's not.

[Theodore R.]

They also said “Nixon’s the One,” but wasn’t Perry for McGovern?

[Georgia Girl 2]

“He sounds pretty good”

I think that may be the tricky part. He sounds good. So did GW Bush. If you like Bush you will love Perry. Open borders, Bilderberg meetings, Mexican trucks continuing to toodle down our highways etc. etc.

But I predict if Perry jumps in the race he will win the nomination. He just looks so darn presidential.

[Ronald_Magnus]

HOW ‘BOUT THEM MAVERICKS?...Sorry, but there’s no NBA Finals thread and I just HAD to get that in.

[upsdriver]

Is Perry the One?

Nope, Palin is the one. Perry may be two, time will tell.

[lentulusgracchus]

He sounds pretty good, and has a track record.

I'm sorry, but this article is an outright lie. A roorback -- a witting lie told for political effect.

Act any Texan who cares about "open borders", homosexual couples adopting kids sub rosa from Texas Child Protective Services-run orphanages, Rick Perry slipping around on his wife with effete men, about toll roads, land seizures using eminent domain for the benefit of foreign, NWO-connected investment companies (making us pay European plutocrats to ride our own Interstates), mandatory testing of teenaged girls for STD's and inoculation with drugs, and any other number of "conservative" issues.

Rick Perry's on the wrong side of all of them. He is a card-carrying RiNO and social liberal.