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Anytime governor Rick Perry is mentioned, Free Republic seems to turn into something resembling Democratic Underground.
Posts regarding Perry are peppered with profanity, vulgarity and downright fabrications- the likes of which is seldom seen on Free Republic.
This is hardly in the best interests of our Conservative agenda. The Loony Left does not need any help from us in
character assassination of our Conservatives.

This Perry trashing comes from the Ron ‘truther’ Paul nuts, Debra Medina sour grapers and the resident FR Libs- and I suspect, over zealous Sarah Palin supporters and a few Bachmann supporters.
(I love Sarah and Michelle Bachmann as much as anyone else, but we MUST face reality when it comes to our beautiful Conservative ladies’ chances of winning this thing!)

Freepers, don’t you think it more sensible to trust what the Conservative icons have to say about Perry?

>Sarah Palin threw her endorsement to Rick Perry for governor-. She recently restated that she likes Perry.

>Rush said that Perry is his dream candidate. http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/rush-limbaugh-on-the-record-3/

>Michael Reagan praises Perry:
“If you don’t believe Reaganomics can still work in this day and age, for whatever reason, I say you should look no further than the state of Texas.
Under the leadership of Gov. Rick Perry, Texas has championed and built upon the concepts my father used to rebuild America in the 1980s..
In short, Reagan Revolution is alive and well - deep in the heart of Texas.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/24/reagans-vision-lives-on-in-texas/?page=1

>Ted Nugent is a close friend and supporter.

Don’t you think it more sensible to trust what numerous politicians and scholars have said about Rick Perry than some haters on FR?

VISIT THIS SITE

Read the official statements of dozens of Perry’s fellow politicians and scholars (both Democrats and Republicans) have had to say about Rick Perry: http://www.politico.com/arena/archive/rick-perry-for-president-in-2012.html

All (including Democrat opponents) have called him a staunch Conservative, and not one of the dozens issuing opinions has mentioned the vaccine or TTC.
Apparently they don’t consider these things an issue. They DID mention Perry threatening to secede from the unionas a strike against him.
What Perry actually said; “You know, my hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention,” Perry continued. “We’ve got a great union. There is absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what may come out of that? So. But Texas is a very unique place and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”

Anytime governor Rick Perry is mentioned, Free Republic seems to turn into something resembling Democratic Underground.

Amen!

I have never seen such a selective group of people on here post so many outright lies about Perry. And when I point out the lies or mistakes, it goes over their heads, and then they go to ad hominem attacks, then spout off the greatest examples of post hoc ergo propter hoc.

I like several of our candidates. I'm a big Palin fan. I like Cain. And, I like Perry. In my opinion, Perry has the best chance to beat Obama. Is he perfect? No. One can't find me a single candidate who is perfect. I disagree with him on a few things, but that's SMALL compared to the pros that he has against Obama.

I'm from the northeast and have only a passing knowledge of Texas Governor Rick Perry so I have no intention of engaging in a futile argument with anyone for or against the governor. Here's the dilemma: like most conservatives, I'm fed up with the GOP establishment foisting RINOs on us. McCain was the last straw and because of McCain and his weak campaign (Sarah Palin being the glaring exception) we got Obama and the disaster he has wrought. Now, we have a wide-open opportunity to get rid of Obama and likely gain power in both houses of congress in 2012, if we don't blow it. What so many of us fear is that we'll end up going with the candidate the MSM and Karl Rove types tell us we must nominate to win - and, assuming we do win, end up, yet again, with another big government RINO who is conservative on one or two important issues but goes left on others...a RINO. We can't afford that. Not again. So, when a potential candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is touted by some as the penultimate conservative and castigated by others as a RINO simply masquerading as a conservative, it's frustrating. Like any politician, I'm sure Rick Perry has a few things on his record that are questionable to a conservative. I get it. No one is 100% 'pure'. Frankly, I'm fine with that. On the other hand, when folks make long lists of Perrys' sins against conservative ideology and others counter with equally long lists intended to validate his conservative credentials, I get wary.

Right now, I'm a staunch Sarah Palin supporter. She has been vetted by the left, obviously as well as the right. Although unquestionably conservative, Sarah Palin isn't ideologically 'pure' either - but she's darn close. If Sarah Palin doesn't run, I'll go with Michelle Bachmann as a fall-back choice. She is less appealing to this conservative than Palin but I have to pick a candidate in the primary and Bachmann seems a reasonable choice. Frankly, at this distance, so does Governor Rick Perry - but I'm not ready to jump on his bandwagon just yet. I want to learn more about him, and I will, if he declares his candidacy. As I stated, I'm wary of Republicans that are touted as conservatives based on their speeches and/or a few good positions they've taken but upon closer inspection have troubling aspects that can't be ignored.

I'm totally unconvinced by those who coo about how much they loooove Palin and Bachmann but follow that with 'let's be realistic' (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) and make it clear that no woman is going to be elected President of the United States. No, sir. No black person is, either. Oh, wait.

I think it is much better to go to the source and examine what Perry himself has said and done. This should be done when he is not trying to pretend to be what he is not in order to run for office. What has he said after he has won the office? He wants to help illegals and people along the border. He has no preference for which side of the border he should help. That is not exactly what conservatives look for in a candidate.

In the ten years he has been in office, what has he accomplished? His biggest project has been the Trans Continental Corridor a huge part of the push for a North American Union. Again, this is not what conservatives look for in a candidate. He has had ten years to show where his heart lies. It has not been with conservatives. He is extremely fortunate to live in a conservative state that has a weak governorship so that he can do very little to advance his Union dreams and desires. The Texas legislature also has done well and it seems to the world that he must have accomplished this when the legislature accomplished things in spite of Perry.

These are all signs of a stealth RINO. I know stealth RINO. Here in Florida we had one for governor. Fortunately his greed won out over patience and he wound up without a governorship or any higher office. If Crist had not been so greedy, he would have easily won another term as governor and probably would have been handed democrat senator Nelson’s seat. Would being patient have made him any less a RINO? No, but that is the reasoning some people are using here. Because Perry has been re-elected in a republican state, he can’t be a RINO.

If I hold Romney to his past words and actions, then I also have to hold Perry to his past words and actions. If I don’t give Romney a by when he said every kind of liberal word and performed every kind of liberal act, then I can’t let Perry slide from his past actions or lack of actions and words.

There is another quality that some here share with DU. It’s refusal to look at the truth. The desperation to latch on to a candidate based on appearances only. The GOP elite are counting on the vacuum caused by the lack of real conservatives running to make people fall for another amnesty loving presidential candidate because George Bush and John McCain were not enough for them.