I fought Rick&Rick all the way on that one -- and the TX legislaure finally followed the demands of the people of Texas by killing that abortion.
Texas needs to rid itself of RinoRick -- but not by shipping him off to the White Hut!
Posted on 06/25/2011 12:11:49 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson’s great-great-great-grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas’s Supreme Court. The governor who nominated him also nominated the state’s first Latina justice. Rick Perry, 61, the longest-serving governor in Texas history and, in his 11th year, currently the nation’s senior governor, says these nominations are two of his proudest accomplishments.
French cuffs and cowboy boots are, like sauerkraut ice cream, an eclectic combination, but Perry, who wears both, is a potentially potent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination because his political creed is uneclectic, matching that of the Republican nominating electorate. He was a “10th Amendment conservative” (“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people”) before the Tea Party appeared. And before Barack Obama’s statism — especially Obamacare’s individual mandate — catalyzed concern for the American project of limited government.
Social issues, especially abortion, are gateways to the Republican nominating electorate: In today’s climate of economic fear, a candidate’s positions on social issues will not be decisive with his electorate — but they can be disqualifying. Perry — an evangelical Christian, like most Republican participants in Iowa’s caucuses and the South Carolina primary — emphatically qualifies.
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The Republican contest probably will become a binary choice — Romney and the Not Romney candidate. If Perry becomes the latter, he will do so by his visceral appeal to social conservatives, and by trumping Romney’s economic expertise with “Texas exceptionalism”:.....
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Who should he have backed against Obama? Who else was running?
There were only two choices. He chose against Obama.
You can play word games all you want, but Perry still supported a pro-abortion, pro-gun control, and pro-gay marriage candidate for President in 2008
Blah blah blah. There were two choices: Obama & McCain. He chose McCain.
Who should he have endorsed?
nothing you can say will take away from that
Cool, you're mind is made up. You can shut up now.
Remember, humby, you endorse the conservative (Fred, Duncan Hunter, who ya got) in the primary, and hold your nose in the general and vote for the compromise.
Perry endorsed the compromise right out of the chute.
How'd that work out for us in 2008?
This time, you endorse the compromise, and you'll be explaining to us in October why Mittens is our onnnnlllyyyyy choice!
We've got more real conservative choices this time than in 2007, so no excuses this time. No RiNO's!!
Sarah Palin likes him alot. He is not a rino.
He is WAY BETTER THAN MITT.
Yes, she can ..... like Ronnie won, in the teeth of media hatebots who told us what a cowboy he was -- what?! your going to give him, that washed-up B-actor, the launch codes? -- Remember?
Ronnie won in a landslide. An earthquake.
Ronald Reagan showed us how to make the liberal flying monkeys shut up. He ran, and he not only won, he crushed them like cockroaches.
Run, Sarah, run!
Good Post!
Would like to see her in a good, strong Cabinet position...like Secretary of Interior, etc.
No more Tsars, for Heaven's sake - whoever wins.
Would like to see her in a good, strong Cabinet position...like Secretary of Interior, etc.
No more Tsars, for Heaven's sake - whoever wins.
FAIL committee, no chance, bet on a sick dog to win a race.
Perry endorsed the compromise right out of the chute.
Which turned out to be the only option to STOP OBAMA. Stopping Obama sucks, right?
you'll be explaining to us in October why Mittens is our onnnnlllyyyyy choice!
I don't think so. I'm an anti-Mormon bigot who makes fun of magic underpants.
We've got more real conservative choices this time than in 2007, so no excuses this time.
Let's see who runs and then we'll talk.
I liked Bush but couldn't figure out a closing of the border for him either.
Your thought on Texas builders makes sense.
As with Perry, Bush looks pretty darn good in a pair of jeans, too! Maybe when you are elected governor of Texas that's the dress code.
Good enough.
But Yale was his alma mater.
It's something the NWO Lords Ordainers want, and it doesn't help that Poppy is an archdeacon and great seneschal of the NWO.
Gov. Palin
Oh PLEASE!!! Santorum endorsed Arlen!
I fought Rick&Rick all the way on that one -- and the TX legislaure finally followed the demands of the people of Texas by killing that abortion.
Texas needs to rid itself of RinoRick -- but not by shipping him off to the White Hut!
We need to share him with the other 56 states and let us get another gov. Yes I support improvement to our transportation systems in Texas. The roadways are behind schedule to get up with the demand that is being placed upon them. Fortunately they are moving something along but at a snails pace.
So he was raised by schools on the east coast?
Uh. no.
Moved to Odessa at age eighteen months, a baby. Grew up in Midland attending Midland public elementary and junior high schools. Played little league ball, was a cub scout.
Father was in the oil biz and moved the family to Houston, still in TX, when W was about to enter high school. I don’t know about you, but by the time I was about to enter high school there ain’t nobody on the face of the earth that could’ve changed me from what my family and my neighborhood instilled in me to be.
W proved that out, for although following family tradition to Andover prep and Yale, he returned to Texas, at first living in Houston. Joined the Texas Air National Guard. Moved back to Midland and went into the oil biz himself, later selling the biz and buying into the Texas Rangers, thereupon moving his family to Dallas, which now included a Midland girl, Laura, and their two daughters. While in Midland he ran for Congress from that district, driving all over the forsaken West Texas landscape to campaign, but alas, lost to a Dem named Kent Hance (who used the big myth that W was an Easterner to defeat him and laughs about it to this day).
From his position with the Rangers he ran and won against Ann Richards for governor of TX. He bought a ranch in a very rural area west of Waco which he dearly loves and goes to often. His Presidential Library is at SMU in Dallas where they have primary residence since leaving the WH.
Those who knew him while at Andover and Yale are unanimous and unequivocal that he was different from his classmates and his TEXAN came through every pore. (Unlike Obama, just about everybody knew him and remembers him from those days.) In his Yale MBA classes he wore cowboy boots and a flight jacket. Real Yalie, he was.
I bet you have repeated the fiction that he was East Coast so many times, you now think it’s proven history.
If that is the biography of an Easterner, I’ll eat my cowgirl hat.
GWB did undergraduate work at Yale. He got his MBA at Harvard -- where he was indeed known for wearing boots and a flight jacket on campus.
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