Posted on 07/06/2011 9:20:05 PM PDT by Clairity
President Obama wouldn't stand a chance if Texas Gov. Rick Perry were to win the Republican nomination. That's Merrill Matthews' theory anyway. On the conservative website Human Events, he compares Obama to Perry in terms we can all understand.
Which brings us to the Obama vs. Perry records on the economy.
Unemployment: Then, 7.3% of Americans were unemployed and 9.1% are unemployed today.
...Yet, as this Times article demonstrates, there's no doubt Perry brings more to the table in terms of successful governing experience than anyone else seeking to challenge Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinion.latimes.com ...
This is the Human Events article, posted by PHSYCHO-FREEP on FR:
Gov. Rick Perry: The Candidate Obama Would Fear Most
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2744549/posts
If the election were held today, Perry would beat Obama in a landslide.
I’m not sure America is willing to vote in another Texan after we saw what Bush did with DHS and TSA. Perry still has the baggage from the Texas Corridor on his back. That’s not easy to shake off.
Perry-O-Meter
Fund additional border security efforts
This is a Kept promise.
Budget increases state funding for border security
Updated: Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 | By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
During this year’s legislative session, the state faced a multibillion-dollar revenue shortfall, and key areas such as public and higher education saw their funding cut in 2012-13. Did border security programs suffer?
No.
In his Feb. 8 state of the state address, Perry said the state should continue “our investment in border security because the threat of cross-border violence has only grown as the drug wars escalate.”
The Legislative Budget Board, which advises lawmakers on budgetary matters, says border security funding was nearly doubled in the 2012-13 budget that Perry signed into law.
Perry is an unrepentant globalist shill who only talks a conservative game. NO.
Just the latest trial balloon by the establishment republican think-tanks in the search for someone, anyone, to stop she who is surely not running.
If most people in the USA had a brain then Zer0 would not have a chance against a cartoon character.
we know a few things about Rick Perry from a Texas perspective:
- he is a real fiscal conservative, ready to veto spending
- he is pro-business and pro-growth and is right to crow about the Texas record
- he is pro-life and very good on that issue
- he pro-gun and pro-property rights, and if you werent, you’d lose your GOP badge in Texas
- he is so-so on immigration/borders, talks tough and does some good things, but also put in instate tuition for illegal aliens; but so-so from a conservative perspective must be viewed in the prism of the Texas leaders hispandering in a state where the majority of babies born are now hispanic
- he has had some issues where the hint of lobbyist influence has intruded; nothing as bad as the Chicago gang, but the libs will play it up
- he’s a real pro; 20+ years in politics and never lost a race
- “unrepentant globalist shill” not really, he stands up for Texas, and with our AG fought against eg the ICC butting in on our death penalty conviction of a mexican citizen - if he is, then they all are
- “only talks a conservative game” - Nope. He does do the pandering to conservatives, which is a nice change. But he also delivers. in 2003, Tort reform. in 2003 and 2011, balanced a tough budget with no new taxes. This year, he put budget balancing without raiding the rainy day fund as a priority. He put voter ID bill on fast track. He egged on lege and got a solid budget and some conservative items passed.
Perry can win because he’s a good campaigner. His main disadvantage nationally is that he is the Aggie Texas cowboy that the liberals thought Bush was. They will hate him as much as they do Palin .... to me that’s just a bonus! ;-)
On balance, we could do worse than Perry .... can we do better? Bachmann, Cain, Palin ... hmmm, there’s one thing they, and Romney and Huntsman and Pawlenty, lack - 11 years of being Governor of the second largest state.
They will not be able to play the ‘stupid, crank, flake, inexperienced’ cards on Perry, which unfortunately they can and will play on the other conservative movement candidates. Oh they will try anyway, but it will fall flat.
hmmmm, so hard to shake off that TTC stuff that he whupped KBH, the most popular Texas Senator since John Tower, and then beat the great White hope by 20 points.
The more I think about it, the more I think they will find Perry majorly misunderestimated.
Will he sign a repeal of obamacare?
Will he or won't he give us amnesty?
Anybody??
Karl in a Corner
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_scott_ho_080408_karl_in_a_corner.htm
Second, Rove’s opponents would regularly find that they had suddenly become the target
of a criminal investigation, and details concerning the investigation would be
aggressively fanned to the press. Rove mastered this technique in a contest
for the Texas Agriculture Commissioner’s post that he managed for now-Governor Rick Perry.
It Started in Texas: Karl Rove’s Political Prosecutions
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000569
1. Rove was hired to run the campaign of Rick Perry, the current governor,
for the powerful Texas office of Commissioner of Agriculture, then held by
Democrat Jim Hightower. Shortly thereafter, it was clear that a major
FBI investigation had been launched into the workings of the Texas Agriculture
Department (TDA), focusing on Hightower and his senior lieutenants, who had been
pursuing a populist, anti-corporate agriculture and pro-small-farmer agenda.
Jim Hightower talks about his new book, “Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and it’s Time to Take it Back”
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/08/21_hightower.html
HIGHTOWER: Rick Perry, back then (currently Texas Governor), was his client, so to speak,
and Perry had been recruited. He was sort of a nothing Texas legislator who had been brought
in — again as an affable fellow without any brain muscle. Perry was essentially sent to
wander around out in West Texas during the campaign so he would be out of the way,
while Rove worked this FBI agent and raised money from the chemical industry
and other corporate interests that opposed me. Rove had George Bush go on
television against me. Then Rove ran a series of television ads that
established a new low in negative advertising.
For example, they showed a long-haired guy setting a flag on fire,
and throwing it on the ground. And then my picture came up out of the fire, and said
“Hightower supports flag burning,” which, of course, I don t. But it doesn t matter,
you know. I had to go around answering: “Why do you support flag burning?”
Rove had another ad of me campaigning with Jesse Jackson, who I supported in 1988
in the Presidential campaign. And Rove ran this ad that essentially was a smear
on Jackson and then tying me to him. The ad so angered the Black Caucus in the State Legislature
that they convened their own press conferences in Houston and Dallas to assail it. But again it was too late.
All this was happening in the last three weeks of the election. So, I mean, that s just who the guy is.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?tag=karl-rove
The tension (according to Perry team members whom I interviewed on this subject last year) dates
all the way back to Perry’s race for lieutenant governor in 1998, when Rove insisted that Perry
stick with a positive message even while he was being pounded by John Sharp.
But we all know that Chicago politicians are okay.
If not Bachmann is OK. If she played any attack against her as mysogynistic, the media may ease up a bit.
IMHO
Yeah, they’ll treat Bachmann like a demure lady after the way they treated Sarah and the entire GOP stood by and said nothing. Thats the ticket!
all these perry threads, quickly filled up by people who hate perry, really gets me itching for Palin.
The most likely scenario is a tremendous amount of excitement,
people generally happy, and people who oppose her. And the happy ones will be the more numerous. Perry just seems evil, where Romney is wrong on all the issues, I just don’t get evil from him.
People have been aware of bilderberg and conspiracy theories since the internet. anyone at all curious finds bilderberg right away. and a little research indicates a lot of things. What their overall plan seems to be. A loss of US Sovereignty. The UN making laws for us. The same things over and over. Rick Perry is one of them. He’s not merely Mitt Romney. I have no idea what Romney’s true motivation is. He is rich, so it makes it fairly easy. He figures, might as well spend the money. Because he’s rich, and has Mormon supporters, he doesn’t really have to have Bilderberg Globalists supporting him. He could have some crazy Mormon agenda, who knows? But I’m not worried about some Mormon agenda. When I went on the internet 15 years ago and typed in “what are the conspiracy theories”, I didn’t find Mormon there. But I did find Bilderberg in every one. So, steer clear of Bilderberg candidates.
And steer clear of Karl Rove candidates.
Karl Rove + Bilderberg =
Fake Conservative + Globalist
Oh, he’s Bilderberg, he’ll get support from somewhere. A lot of msm hype. Fox’ll pretend he’s conservative.
Gettin elected in Texas by Texans is one thing. Swinging that popularity all the way out West and back up North is going to quite the chore.
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