Thank God, we don’t have to worry about this infighting with Palin as President. I was worried.
Ah, finally we hear one of Perry’s good points.
Yeah, Perry and Bush are not best friends. But they are cut from the same cloth as far as I can see. They talk alike, they even sorta look alike. And they have both been Governators of my beautiful state. I’ll take a bullet for that sumbish.
I’ll vote for Rick.
That's a big plus.
Actually, my liking for Perry just went up a couple notches.
Interesting how much you and west texas chuck have been boosting Perry around here.
If he’s so popular, why not somebody other than you two post a pro-perry piece?
Bush-bashing is a favorite past time at FR.
But even those who love to hate them must admit that the Bushes are people of honor. You don’t have to agree with all points politically to recognize good character.
Or to recognize a lack of it, which is, I am convinced, what the Bushes know about Perry and why they refused to back him in his last re-election bid.
Perry was G W’s lieutenant governor. They know each other well.
Not good for Rick.
It showed especially when Perry was state chair of the Al Gore campaign.
Guy in New Jersey just ping me and said, did you see this story where bush and Perry were both were trying to turn lead into gold??????? :)
There are two things that worry me about Rick Perry. One is the North Corridor and the second is the Bilderberg meeting he went to...Hillary and Obama were also there...
And yet for all that supposed acrimony, he still looks like GWB II with his Open-Borders statements to Mexican Politicians and his position against AZ1070.
Also, for all of his supposed support for limited government, in many ways, the big government crap he has tried to foist on Texans would seem to drown out his words is you really take a look at his record.
Yup, GWB II
bush certainly was happy to run large deficits while in washington, I don’t see anything to argue about there. He added trillions to the federal debt. Only the nightmare of the obama deficits can make his look anything but disastrous.
The man didn’t veto a single bill for something like 6 years, and I am not sure if he ever vetoed a spending bill.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4535418.html
Perry’s vaccination order still stoking fires
AUSTIN — Blowback continued at the Capitol on Wednesday over Gov. Rick Perry’s order mandating
that schoolgirls be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease linked to cervical cancer.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/07/legislature/4528909.html
Critics rip Perry’s vaccine mandate
Governor rejects opponents’ calls to reverse order
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry stood firm Monday against a political firestorm generated by his
order that sixth-grade girls be inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer.
Social conservatives from Texas to Washington called on Perry to reverse his order making
Texas the first state to require the vaccine, saying the mandate makes sex seem permissible
and that parents should be the ones to decide whether to immunize their daughters.
And several Texas lawmakers expressed outrage at Perry for circumventing the legislative process.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/us/26texas.html
The vaccine, Gardasil, is manufactured by Merck, which was represented in Austin by the
lobbyist Mike Toomey, who was chief of staff for Mr. Perry from 2002 to 2004.
Speaking of presidents: Rick Perry has a complicated relationship with the Bushes, which is to say that he’s hesitant to criticize them and they hate his guts. W. stayed well away from Perry’s gubernatorial-primary melee against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose oatmeal-mushy Republicanism has a distinctly Bushian savor to it. But the mark of W. was all over the campaign against Perry. Former president George H. W. Bush endorsed Senator Hutchison, an unusual step for the habitually reserved retiree, who usually stays well removed from the dirty business of vote-grubbing, surveying the groundlings from the heights of his eminence. Bush père was joined in his support by former vice president Dick Cheney, who offered an endorsement and called Hutchison “the real deal.” Hutchison was further fortified by the Bush clan’s in-house Machiavelli, former secretary of state James Baker, who led the Florida recount fight in 2000 and remains their go-to fixer. W. mouthpiece Karen Hughes came out of the political woodwork to support the insurgency, along with W.’s secretary of education Margaret Spellings. Karl Rove advised Team Hutchison. The gang was all there: All this in a primary challenge to unseat an incumbent Republican governor with one of the most conservative — and most successful — records to be found: Que paso, Bushes?
Part of that was payback. Perry, generally circumlocutious on the subject of W., gave himself a little time off the leash during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. Often caricatured as yet another snake-handling southern social conservative, Governor Perry backed thrice-married dress-wearing pro-choice lapsed Catholic Rudy Giuliani, on the theory that Rudy would be a badass commander-in-chief abroad and a reliable constitutionalist at home. Politics being politics, the Texan and the New Yorker met up in Iowa, where more than a few Hawkeye conservatives were already getting restive about out-of-control federal spending on the Republicans’ watch. Governor Perry let loose the observation that “George” — and the Bushies hate it when Perry calls him “George” in public — “has never been a fiscal conservative.” Never? “Wasn’t when he was in Texas . . . ’95, ’97, ’99, George Bush was spending money.” He also criticized Bush as being limp on immigration.
The truth hurts, but there’s more to the Bush-Perry friction than that. One longtime observer of Lone Star politics described the Bushes’ disdain of Perry as “visceral,” and it is not too terribly hard to see why. The guy that NPR executives and the New York Times and your average Subaru-driving Whole Foods shopper were afraid George W. Bush was? Rick Perry is that guy. George W. Bush was Midland by way of Kennebunkport. Rick Perry’s people are cotton farmers from Paint Creek, a West Texas town so tiny and remote that my Texan traveling-salesman father looked at me skeptically and suggested I had the name wrong when I asked him whether he knew where it was. (Governor Perry confesses that one of the politiciany things he’s done in office is insisting that the Texas highway atlas include Paint Creek, making him the hometown boy who literally put the town on the map.) Bush is a Yalie, Perry is an Aggie. Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard, and Perry was a captain in the U.S. Air Force, flying C-130s in the Middle East. Bush has a gentleman’s ranch, Perry has the red meat. The irony is that Perry, a tea-party favorite, personifies the hawkish new fiscal conservatism that has allowed the GOP to find its way out from under George W. Bush’s shadow, but he himself remains in the shade of that politically poisonous penumbra............
G.W. Bush along with his damned “compassionate conservatism” ain’t one of my favorites either.
But he isn’t a total pile of crap like this current marxist turd.
Mike
“Bush, or “George,” as Perry called him, was no fiscal conservative — “never was””
That was self evident.
“and his work on tort reform, a subject dear to Republican hearts”
Since when has tort reform been dear to Republican hearts?—at least to those who represent us in congress who would bleed and die for any chance to make many lawyers richer while they prey on the innocent.
To a certain upper crust of Republican, “Perry is the low-rent country cousin” who lacks Bush’s prep-school polish, said R.G. Ratcliffe, a longtime student of Texas politics who is writing a book about Perry. “They see him as a hick and are embarrassed having someone like that as governor.”
Frankly, I believe we do not need any more “prep-school polish”. No more Ivy league ‘educated’ politicians. The best President we’ve had in my lifetime never went to any of the Ivy schools, and every one that did was a pale imitation, or outright rejection, of Pres. Reagan’s successful policies.
I am NOT saying Perry is in the same mold, but he certainly ain’t in the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama mold.
Maybe a little REDNECK in the WHITE HOUSE would be good for the whole country.
I don't trust him. He's OK for Gov. but not Pres.