The man on the lower right is the real deal...a true Texan, a true tracker, and a true shootist. Frank Hamer was larger than life. Perry is not the real deal.
Posted on 08/19/2011 1:42:43 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Unlike politicians, a cowboy still makes a deal with a handshake and his word is his bond.
.....A cowboy lives by a set of unwritten principles hard wired into his DNA. It is instinctive because it is the example set by those that surround him.
Cowboys don't whine and stomp their feet like spoiled children and politicians often do when things don't go their way. They know that whining and wringing your hands don't get the job done.
In my interaction with cowboy and ranching community up in Idaho, I have learned it is very close knit and neighbors and families work together. If a neighbor gets hurt and can’t work, everyone pitches in to help.
.....They lend a hand when needed, mind each other’s kids as if they were their own, and share hardships and special occasions equally.
Those values still exist in thousands of communities all across this country.
I don’t know much about Rick Perry, but from what I have learned so far that sounds a lot like his early life in Paint Creek, Texas. He comes from the same background and has the same values as....friends up in Blackfoot, Idaho.
Like most voters I want to learn more about him before I decide if he is the right man for the job.
But from George Bush the Elder to Bill Clinton to George Bush the Younger to Barack Obama, the last four presidents were all Ivy League educated and certified members of the establishment that has gotten America into the bipartisan mess we find ourselves.
Maybe it’s time for a graduate of a land grant university like Texas A&M and a real son of the soil to get us out of this mess.
And someone who knows what it means to be a real cowboy.
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Exactly right. A career politician. But it doesn’t really matter. Nothing’s going to change no matter who is POTUS.
The only thing that will change anything is this little thing called war.
Maybe it’s time for a graduate of a land grant university like Texas A&M and a real son of the soil to get us out of this mess.
And someone who knows what it means to be a real cowboy.
Ain't that the truth....
They not trying to revive it. You are wrong and I know because I fought to kill it.
Do some more research before everyone thinks you’re an idiot.
http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2011/05/23/texas-eminent-domain-bill-becomes-law.html
Can I give you just a little background on these concerns?
The only thing the Perry Derangement coyotes have regarding anything muslim relates to Perry doing some groundbreaking ceremony in Plano for a mosque. The “mosque” in question has a strong sponsorship of a reportedly outstanding Boy Scout Troop. Perry is an Eagle Scout and this is why he was at the groundbreaking. No one except some paulnut would ever think anything more of this incident that was centered on the Boy Scouts not anything muslim.
When he was a dem, before and like Reagan, switching to GOP, he was an up and coming state level politician in the Texas Legislature. Anyone wanting to move up needed to show some support for the Dem nationals. At the same time, which most will not remember, algore was pretending to be very conservative and even a graduate of some divinity college, not the real algore everyone finally figured out.
I have observed Perry since before he became Governor and there has never been a more conservative Governor in Texas. That being said, Texas is not just made up of white conservatives and to some degree Perry had some obligation to treat the “others” that probably never supported him, as Texas citizens also.
Check these links:
http://peskytruth.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/rick-perrys-negatives/ (scroll to #18)
http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/1945
The following is from Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch. To read the entire article and the many comments use this addy: http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Why shouldn’t Rick Perry’s Islamic ties be vetted?
The rush to anoint him our next President is overlooking a great deal.
Imagine a candidate for President of the United States who says all the right things: he will cut taxes, he will roll back the disastrous and defeatist policies of his despised and discredited predecessor, he will restore America’s pride and renew America’s hope.
This candidate is handsome, telegenic, articulate, and apparently unafraid to joust verbally with his failed predecessor, as well as with an adversarial press.
Imagine also that this candidate had raised funds for and had a longtime association with a power player in party politics, a man who was owed favors by virtually everyone who had ever won an election for his party, but a man with ties to some extremely shady characters – say, for example, that this power broker had received, for an organization of his founding, a loan of $10,000 and a gift of another $10,000 from a man who was now in prison for raising money for a terrorist murder plot.
Imagine further that the candidate had partnered in educational initiatives with a billionaire who owned, among many other things, to be sure, a bank that had been accused – and never cleared — of funding a terrorist group, and of complicity in the murder of an American reporter. That billionaire also owned a development organization that bore his name, and that partnered in various initiatives with the government of a country listed by the State Department as a state sponsor of terrorism, and that was now essentially at war with its own citizens.
Do you think that such a candidate would be questioned about these associations, and that he would deserve the questioning, and would be expected to produce honest, full, and serious answers to concerns about whether he was turning a blind eye or would, as president, turn a blind eye to certain kinds of activity that aided and abetted terrorism?
There is such a candidate: his name is Rick Perry. He has occasioned tremendous excitement among Republicans and conservatives, to the extent that those who dare to ask legitimate questions about his associations and beliefs are being attacked and vilified by people who are ostensibly on their own side. I already know of friendships being broken over this candidacy.
Nonetheless, these questions must be asked. I criticized Bush for his ties to the Saudis, and Obama for his fatuous fawning over the Islamic world. I don’t see why Rick Perry should be sacrosanct. The next President of the United States will inherit a responsibility made even more awesome than it usually is by the catastrophic policies of his predecessor, which he will have to move quickly to reverse or else see the nation continue on the path of a prolonged and severe decline from which it may never recover. That is all the more reason not to leap onto the bandwagon of just anyone who looks this week as if he has a chance to defeat Barack Obama, and to rush to demonize those who dare to ask if the emperor’s clothes are really of that good a quality. Now is the time, of all times, to ask of Perry and of every other candidate probing, searching questions, and to investigate their ideas and associations with a critical eye – an operation which, if it had been performed on Barack Obama in 2008, we might not be in this fix.
And so we see first of all that Perry and Grover Norquist held a joint press conference in March 2011. Perry appeared at a fund-raiser for Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform group. Also, Norquist actively campaigned for Perry back in 2009. Their association is longstanding: Perry was investigated by the Texas Ethics Commission in 2004 for allegations that the Governor illegally used campaign money to finance a trip to Bahamas; the point here is not the allegations, but the fact that along on the Bahamas trip at his own expense was Grover Norquist. Perry and Norquist are clearly not just casual acquaintances.
As David Horowitz pointed out several years ago, Norquist has worked with “prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities.” Among them was Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was once the most prominent and powerful “moderate Muslim” in Washington, and is now in prison for helping to finance an al-Qaeda plot to assassinate the Saudi king, whom jihadis consider to be inexcusably lax in his Islamic observance (primarily in allowing infidel American troops onto the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War). Alamoudi gave Norquist’s Islamic Institute, a gambit to try to garner Muslim votes for the Republican party, a $10,000 loan and a $10,000 gift.
Norquist is unrepentant; he continues to partner with Islamic supremacists. Is this the sort of man our next president should be associating with? Does Perry really need Norquist to carry over his tax-cutting message? Does he know about Norquist’s unsavory ties? Does he care? Do Republican candidates need Norquist so much that they have to put up with his taint?
Why can’t such questions even be asked? And why can’t Perry’s ties to the Aga Khan likewise be investigated? The Ismailis are a peaceful sect; however, what Pamela Geller uncovered in her article on Perry Wednesday ought to raise at least a few eyebrows even during the current Perry pep rally. Geller reveals in her article that in 2008, the Aga Khan Development Network signed three agreements with the Syrian Government, and that “between 2003 and 2008,” the Aga Khan’s group “spent $40 million to develop business in Syria.”
Are you serious??? Perry is Black???
Washington has zero values. It’s motto is -screw the public.
“...algore was pretending to be very conservative and even a graduate of some divinity college, not the real algore everyone finally figured out...”
It was not difficult for conservatives in Tennessee to see that Al Gore, like his father, was/is a very dangerous man. There was never anything remotely conservative about Jr. except his rhetoric while campaigning in rural Tennesseee. If Perry fell for Al then that says a lot about Perry.
Just check Al’s scorecard as a freshman congressman.
The man on the lower right is the real deal...a true Texan, a true tracker, and a true shootist. Frank Hamer was larger than life. Perry is not the real deal.
Whatever....
Was trying to point out that Texas was Yeller Dog to the core until relatively recently.
I see you are pro-Palin. i am but am losing that real fast with all the maybe yes, maybe no crock. When she don’t who you gonna pick?
Five horses here. I do a little ropin’, tomorrow my kids both compete in the local junior rodeo where my daughter is the junior queen. Perry is good enough for me...warts and all. And Dubya should have done himself a favor and learned to ride....
We’ve got 22. My husband and son used to team rope. My son is busy with younguns and the Air Guard so hubby and I just show halter and pleasure now.
Cowboy ethics. This site came up once before and it is worth a look at: http://www.cowboyethics.org/Posters.php
Oh Well riding a horse will obviously qualify him for president. Nevermind the Gardasil, open borders talk and the crony capitalism...
Unless he plays a sax on arsenio’s show, he won’t get my vote.
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