So given this history of supporting/signing Hate Crimes Legislation, his history of extreme Open-Borders support, his history of throwing millions of millions towards a healthcare proposal that primarily benefited Illegals, his history of spending millions upon millions upon every feel-good educational proposal, what we have here is anothter “Compassionate” Conservative, a la, GWB.
It hasn't affected mine any.
Neither are you, pubbie.
Beat me by thaaat much! Here was my ping for this post... "Outlaw Woman; famousdayandyear; wolfcreek; wk4bush2004; unixfox; ken in texas; wolfcreek;
Rick Perry pretending to be a conservative.
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He has been putting out that image of a "conservative" for a bit over a year, which is when I started suspecting he was going to make a run for the White House.
Little Ricky is establishment GOP all the way. Watch the MSM fawn all over him and declare that he is "right" for republicans. George Stephanopoulos did that for McCain when he as at 3-4% approval out of the list of candidates back in `08. MSM trashed all other candidates and Little George just kept pushing Juan.
Now Little George is over at ABC, singing his prase in Iowa and guess what else? We see this for Ricky...
By DAVID KERLEY (@David_Kerley) AND ARLETTE SAENZ (@ArletteSaenz)
August 13, 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/texas-gov-rick-perry-enters-2012-race/story?id=14296696
Texas Gov. Rick Perry shook up the 2012 race today when he made his candidacy official in Charleston, S.C., almost nine months after the Texan vowed he was not interested in pursuing a presidential run.
"I came to South Carolina because I will not sit back and accept the path America is on because a great country requires a better direction because a renewed nation needs a new president," Perry said. "It is time to get America working again and that's why with the support of my family and the unwavering belief of the goodness of America I declare for you today that I'm a candidate for President of the United States."
Perry, the longest-serving governor in the country who has accounted for 42 percent of all jobs created since the recession, maintained his anti-Washington rhetoric throughout his announcment speech, declaring that he will "work everyday to try and make Washington D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can."
ABC News going on about how a REPUBLICAN can create jobs?
Damn near heresy against Obama's "economic recovery, huh?
Oh, and the glowing report doesn't stop there...
By announcing in South Carolina Saturday, the Texas governor is throwing out the conventional political playbook, as most of the Republican presidential field focuses on the Ames straw poll in Iowa.
Humm, I wonder where he got THAT idea? Isn't that was Gov. Palin did, skip the actual debate?
more...
But he won't leave the Hawkeye State completely ignored, as he plans to travel New Hampshire and Iowa by the end of the weekend, rounding out a tour of three key early states in the caucus and primary process.The Texas governor plans to ramp up his fundraising appeals in the coming weeks with the campaign hoping to net $10 million in donations in the opening weeks of his campaign.
Following his announcement, he will meet with state GOP leaders before flying to New Hampshire for a house party hosted by Republican state Rep. Pam Tucker. Tucker was among the delegation of New Hampshire Republicans who met with Perry in Austin late last week.
Establishment GOP. All the way.
Perry boasts a strong economic and job creating record, a message that's resonating with voters this election cycle. The Texas governor has recently polled near the top of presidential picks.
Again with the jobs. That has been Obama's mantra for two years and now ABC News is waiving the jobs flag for a republican?
Then they uncouple him from his former boss George Bush.
Perry is often compared to President George W. Bush, a fellow Texan governor who ascended to the White House, but Perry has attempted to distance himself from this Bush.
"The idea of 'Just because you're from Texas, you're all alike and you're all cut from the same cloth,' is a bit of a stretch," Perry told the Des Moines Register in July. "The folks that want to make that comparison, they'll figure out pretty quick that, 'Hey, this guy Perry, he's different.'"
"He's not George W. Bush. Rick Perry is nothing like George W. Bush," Paul Burka of Texas Monthly said. "Perry's probably the best electoral production that Texas has produced since LBJ."
"Gov. Perry is a very personable individual, does well one-on-one, as well, and in New Hampshire, I think he'll resonate well with voters," Tucker told ABC News.
This is the exact propaganda mixed with truth that is being pushed to "prove" Rick is right for republicans. Never mind that as soon as he hits DC it will be back to establishment GOP business as usual.
The problem is we can't endure that anymore. We have GOT to have a hard line that will tell democrat and republican alike NO. NO more spending, no more increases, NO, NO, NO!
We are not going to see that hard line from Ricky.
Oh, BTW, the rest of the piece reads like it WAS written by the Perry campaign. It is damn near a Norman Rockwell painting.
And the last line is PURE BAIT.
Perry, the son of cotton farmers, hails from a small town in west Texas called Paint Creek. Growing up, Perry earned the honor of Eagle Scout and met his future wife, Anita Thigpen, at a piano recital in elementary school. He married her more than 20 years later. Perry and his wife have one son, Griffin, and one daughter, Sydney.
Perry attended Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he majored in animal science, was a yell-leader and a member of the Corps of Cadets.
Upon graduation in 1972, Perry was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force and flew C-130 tactical aircraft in the U.S., Middle East and Europe. He was discharged with the rank of captain and returned to West Texas to help on his family ranch in 1977.
After years as a cotton farmer, Perry jumped into politics in 1985 when he entered the state House of Representatives as a conservative Democrat. Perry supported Al Gore's presidential bid in 1988 and even spearheaded his election efforts in the state of Texas.
In 1989, Perry switched parties and became a Republican. The following year he ran and won in the election for agriculture commissioner, a role in which he promoted the sale of Texas farm produce to other states and foreign nations.
After serving two terms as agriculture commissioner, Perry ran for lieutenant governor and became the state's first Republican lieutenant governor since Reconstruction.
Upon George W. Bush's election to the presidency, Perry assumed the Texas governorship in 2000. He has since won three re-elections as governor, even defeating popular Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the primary election in 2010. Perry also serves as the president of the Republican Governor's Association.
Perry will enter the presidential race undefeated, having never lost an election in his three decades of working in government.
Now, just so you folks can see how out of caricature this is for the two that wrote this puff piece here are the other articles they wrote on other candidates in this race...
Compare to
ARLETTE SAENZ July 12, 2011
Bachmann Silent on Allegations Her Clinic Offers Gay Conversion Therapy
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/michele-bachmann-silent-allegations-clinic-offers-gay-conversion/story?id=14057215
Sarah Palin Kicks Off Bus Tour on Motorcycle, But Is She Running?
DAVID KERLEY May 29, 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-kicks-off-bus-tour-motorcycle-running/story?id=13716831
Newt Gingrich's Senior Team Resigns Amid Conflicting Opinions About Campaign's Direction
ARLETTE SAENZ June 9, 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/newt-gingrichs-top-campaign-aides-resign/story?id=13804210
Donald Trump: Political Sideshow or The Real Deal?
By DAVID KERLEY (@David_Kerley) and ARLETTE SAENZ (@ArletteSaenz)
April 16, 2011
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-political-sideshow-real-deal/story?id=13392018
Do not expect to see the lavish praise in any of those articles, it is not there.
MSM is saying it's little Ricky, "right for you republicans."
Just like McCain in 2008.