Posted on 07/05/2011 9:15:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
AUSTIN, Tex. — Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican contemplating a presidential run, shares many attributes with the last man who ran for president from here, his predecessor and onetime patron, George W. Bush. He has the same straight-legged Texas swagger; the down-home, clipped speaking style; the desert-baked conservatism.
But in recent years, Mr. Perry has broken politically with Mr. Bush, questioning his credentials as a fiscal conservative, accusing him of going on “a big government binge” and playing down some of Mr. Bush’s accomplishments in Texas in light of his own.
Mr. Perry’s public statements exposed a long-simmering rivalry that had been little known outside of the political fraternity here but underscores the rightward drift of the Republican Party since Mr. Bush was president. More acutely, Mr. Perry’s criticism holds potential peril and benefit for him should he decide to mount a presidential campaign, allowing him to establish an identity distinct from Mr. Bush but risking a guerrilla campaign against him by the former president’s inner circle.
Mr. Perry, whose aides say will make a decision within weeks, has been meeting around the country with potential fund-raisers, and last week went to Colorado for a gathering of prominent conservative rainmakers held by members of the Koch family, which helped finance the Tea Party movement.....
On government spending, immigration and education, Mr. Perry’s criticisms of Mr. Bush have given him cachet with conservatives, especially with Tea Party voters who blame the former president for allowing spending and the reach of government to grow rapidly.
Those criticisms have burnished the Perry image as less prone to ideological compromise or a fuzzy “compassionate” brand of conservatism, an appealing trait to those Republican primary voters seeking purity in their nominee....
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There’s no doubt in my mind that the end game is exactly that.
Rick Perry and all the other names out there are window dressing to split off votes from grassroots conservatives so Romney can win the nomination.
There’s only one person who has authentic anti-GOP establishment bonafides.
She’s gone “rogue” before and she’s the only candidate I will enthusiastically support (and that means money from my pocket, too).
Perry isn’t as conservative as I’d like, esp. on the issues noted (amnesty, big-government-ing like Gardasil), but he seems several notches more so than Bush 43. I’m not ready to put him in the rejects bin just yet. He’d be hard for Obama to beat due to the jobs record.
Spare me the Diogenesis rhetoric. There are actually some of us who have brains of our own and don’t need validation or you to clarify our perspective for us.
And then this.
July 4, 2011: [Texas] Rule requiring drivers to prove citizenship now law As the House early last month debated a must-pass finance bill, one member slipped in language that puts into law a controversial Texas Department of Public Safety policy requiring driver's license applicants to show they're in the country legally.
The amendment, added by Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, to the education funding bill legislators needed to balance the state budget had originally been included in Senate Bill 9, the so-called "sanctuary cities" bill that failed in the special session. It also had appeared in an omnibus homeland security bill by Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, that died in the regular session.
The new law approved last Tuesday makes some tweaks to a 2008 DPS policy that prevents illegal immigrants from getting a driver's license and created a special license for temporary visitors. The rules require Texans applying for or renewing their license to show they are citizens or are in the country legally.
By putting it into law the state potentially undermines an ongoing lawsuit that argues DPS doesn't have authority to check legal status."....
I, for one, am very happy to have a Republican candidate explain how he (or she) disagrees with the disaster that was George W. Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism." Its not going after Bush, who is now out of office. Its making clear that he understands the disasters of the Bush years when it came to spending and entitlement expansion. I want a candidate who is going to say "No" to spending, period. And who recognizes that the "Compassionate Conservatives" of 2000 though 2006 set the stage for the Dems' and Obama's spending binge.
Yep, I wont support anyone that doesnt explain where Republicans went wrong under Bush and it better be specific and credible, not the canned stuff that typically gets thrown around by Republicans.
Bush pushed NCLB and medicare drugs to get re-elected in 2004 (yippee we beat Kerry) and then went crazy after the election each year getting worse as his approval rating got worse and worse, the candidates should start there.
There are three directions one can see the wrong here.
One, violation of family religious and moral convictions by state mandate.
The state mandating a vaccine that has had more doubts about its safety rasied as time went on.
The link between a poliitcal contribution from a business and government policy.
They all make Perry look bad in my book.
LOL! Good one. :D
I'm with you. I don't care which of the Republicans you look at, each of them has something about them that some aren't going to like. But-and this is a big BUT-any of the Republicans, and I mean ANY, is better than the flop-eared S.O.B that currently sits in the Oval Office (when he's not golfing or on vacation) and I will run to vote for whomever runs against the muzzi, impostor American that is in office now when given the opportunity to do so.
Perry was for amnesty. For me, he’s done!
Give LINK!
You get it. The rest of this babble is lame Politibabble. The GOP is going with Romney. They will lose.
I think Perry is a business as usual politician who is ducking a tough stance on illegal immigration by speaking at the edges of the issue.
Heck, even Arizona’s SB 1070 was a political ploy by a moderate Republican Jan Brewer to hustle conservatives and win re-election as Arizona governor in 2010.
She signed the law, got the credit for signing it while the courts tied up implementing the law anyway. NO ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW WITH A MODERATE REPUBLICAN GETTING THE CREDIT FOR SIGNING THE BILL.
Rick Perry is part of a political game right now designed to split up grassroots conservtive votes so Mitt Romney can be the GOP nominee in 2012.
That’s my bottom line.
Look at his history yourself.
In all reality, your worst fear will probably happen anyway, in spite of your best effort to force the opposite.
You also don't realize it, but it is painfully obvious what you and your kind are up to.
I have not picked my candidate, but he would have to be a poor one indeed for me not to support against Obama.
And I would very much like that candidate to not be Romney.
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