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5 myths about Rick Perry
Washington Post ^ | August 18, 2011 | Evan Smith, Texas Tribune Editor

Posted on 08/20/2011 1:13:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

You’re probably thinking, “I’ve seen this movie before: West Texas boy makes middling grades in college, gets elected governor and — to the consternation of gobsmacked Democrats, who misunderestimate his folksy appeal — runs for the Republican nomination for president.” But if that’s all you know about Rick Perry, you should be asking whether the country is ready for another White House occupant from the Lone Star State. The fact is, the most recent entrant into the GOP race is nothing like the caricatures being promoted on the left and the right. Here are some myths that need debunking, and quick.

1. He’s a Bush clone.

Biographical similarities aside, Perry is not the second coming of George W. Bush, either stylistically or substantively. Bush governed Texas with a light touch and had a good relationship with the Democratic majorities in both chambers of the Texas legislature. Perry is more hard-knuckled in his dealings not only with Democrats (now a minority in the House and the Senate) but with insufficiently conservative Republicans — what we in Texas pejoratively call “moderates.”.....

2. He’s a hillbilly dimwit.

That’s bias against Texas, pure and simple. Just because he wears cowboy boots and drops his G’s doesn’t mean he’s a dummy. Perry may be a small-town boy who went to an ag school (Texas A&M University), but he’s an extremely cagey and strategic politician who has been among the state’s most successful governors at getting what he wants. (Put another way: Even if he’s not book smart by University of Chicago standards, he’s plenty street smart — and street smart is still smart.) The better lens through which to regard Perry is inside vs. outside, establishment vs. anti-establishment, elitist vs. jus’ folks. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that jus’ folks is jus’ dumb.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2012; campaign; gopprimary; laraza; maldef; msm; perry; perrytards; rickperry; texas; texican
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To: Smokin' Joe
Smokin' Joe: "NAFTA Superhighway"

You slay me!

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Author of this essay up on FR today (Aug 20, 2011): Terri Hall San Antonio Transportation Policy Examiner is an anti-Perry activist.

Terri Hall is the founder of the San Antonio Toll Party and Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom. She started a taxpayer revolt upon learning of plans to convert Highway 281 into a tollway and charge taxpayers again for what they already built and paid for. TURF's grassroots efforts halted two freeway-to-tollway projects, curbed plans for the Trans Texas Corridor, defeated bad bills with runaway taxation in the Texas Legislature, opposed using federal stimulus money to build toll roads, and awakened Texas to the coming infrastructure bubble and bailouts. Whether speaking before community groups of all types, the Legislature in Austin, at rallies in Washington D.C. or on CNN, Terri is a tireless taxpayer advocate. She invites you to learn more and to join the fight at Texas Turf Org

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There's more to the story (Isn't that always the case?) about David Stall and his wife and his political bid and crawling into bed with environmentalists and others.

CorridorBotch.org, or David Stall-ed ..........>>>If everything with which these CW.org miseducators, and their brethren in groups such as Texas Toll Party, have been frightening or angering these poor residents into intellectual submission were true, the TTC would be a slab of concrete spanning from Beaumont east to El Paso west, and pave the state in totality between San Antonio and Dallas.

Every town to which these people pay a visit is told that they are in dire danger of being diametrically bifurcated by the coming highway, no matter how far east or west they might be. To cite but one fraudulent example, residents of every single city, town and village along the Taylor-Manor corridor have been regaled with egregiously fabricated tales of municipalitive destruction and vociferous eminent domain pillaging.

The problem is, Corridor Watch et. al. are by no means allowing the facts to get in the way of a good beating. Every proposed path (and there are still at the very least three) currently under consideration places the TTC on the northern and southern ends of planned SH-130, which is a good fifteen miles west of the villes in question and in crisis over their alleged impending devastation.

That these Corridor clowns are asserting anything with certitude belies their veracity on all things, because right now NO ONE outside of the TxDoT TTC circle knows anything about any aspect of the plans…………………..”

There are attending political ramifications to all of this, which is rarely the case when one is discussing a candidate who garnered a mere 8% of the interest of the citizenry. For there is a distinct waft of Strayhorn in the air surrounding the empty Stall and his Corridor Watch.

Comptroller Carole Keeton McClellan Rylander Strayhorn, currently adrift on signature collection waters in her bid for Independent Gubernatorial validity, has been a fixture at CW.org events, railing prodigiously (yet without substance) against the TTC, and the very concept of toll roads.

But herein arises a consistent theme when discussing Madame Comptroller; her inconsistency. Because prior to her decision to run against the TTC-proposing Governor Rick Perry, she too saw the meritoriousness of the concept of consumption road funding.<<< ......

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FReeper “Reaganez”: Building roads for commerce is an absolute responsiblity of government.

My post to “Reaganez”:

Texas, U.S. must fund road infrastructure - Express-News Editorial Board

(After reading Aug 20, 2011 article linked above) Seems there's a problem......Maybe it's time for another solution -- like the one the "environmentalists" killed that's strangling business and commerce.

This editorial board is calling for more taxes (they say Perry won't). Perry's knocked for the "TTC" but those who use it as a "bad" mark against Perry, don't know beans about it (or -- haven't bothered to learn enough to make a good argument against it).

21 posted on 08/20/2011 3:24:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: allmost

Why don’t you give me your “informed” sources — since you don’t like what I’m pointing out?


22 posted on 08/20/2011 3:26:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Perry is a saint compared to the kenyan.


23 posted on 08/20/2011 3:30:38 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: hocndoc
The jobs smear is especially bad. Texas’ unemployment would be 2.3% if it weren’t for all the people moving to Texas.

Yep, I can sympathize. We have extremely low unemployment here, even Walmart stockers are making $12 and getting over 40 hrs/week. There are jobs all over the paper, but not many places to live if you get one (and housing is darned expensive--$2000/mo for a two-bedroom apt.), and our weather isn't conducive to camping out.

Another factor is population: we have just over 700,000 people in a slow year, Texas has a lot more. To drop our unemployment a percentage point takes fewer jobs, because there are fewer people to start with. Yep, we've been mobbed by folks from elsewhere--about the only 'new arrival' license plate I haven't seen is Hawaii. But the limiting factors of housing and our famous winters keep that from becoming excessive.

An awful lot of that is oil-related, or spinoff jobs which exist because of the oil patch being busy here. The 191 rigs running here keep jobs going elsewhere, too--we see where the tools come out of on the shipping manifests.

24 posted on 08/20/2011 3:31:03 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Biographical similarities aside....”

Thanks for posting this.

I actually just sent the author an email, because the quoted statement couldn’t be more hopelessly wrong (as Curtis Sliwa says).

Aside from the facts that Bush and Perry are about the same age, flew planes for our defense, have been gov. of texas and each married once with 2 children, there is NOTHING similar in their bios at all.

I keep reading things like this, it is way off base, and it just annoys me.

The Bush family is one of the most preeminent families in American politics. They are very wealthy. George Bush’s father was the POTUS!

Rick Perry’s father was a cotton farmer.

As I said to Mr. Evans, it says great things about America that anyone could mistake these 2 men as having “similar” biographies, but the fact of the matter is, they don’t.

I’m not saying either is better than the other, by virtue of their backgrounds or for any other reason. But, they come from different places, and I don’t know why anyone would want to try and hide or distort that.

I doubt the author was attempting to distort things, I think he was just thoughtless. He probably meant to say, despite outward similarities, that would have been OK.

But, as I said, I keep seeing this same meme and it’s just not correct.


25 posted on 08/20/2011 3:47:13 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I LOVE her bouquet, I never saw one like that, with those huge, what are they, lillies?

Very nice, different!


26 posted on 08/20/2011 3:49:51 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: jocon307
Rick Perry’s father was a cotton farmer.

J.R. “Ray” Perry and his wife Amelia, now in their mid-80s, still reside in Paint Creek in the house Ray built.

......>>>The heart of the community is Paint Creek School, which was established in 1937 and has an enrollment of about 160, about 50 more than when Perry attended. "No Dream too Tall for a School so Small" is the school motto.<<<<..... Rick Perry's roots in little Paint Creek run deep

27 posted on 08/20/2011 3:58:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Yosemitest; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Re: Rick Perry's to liberal for me.

Balderdash, Yo! It is evident... Rick Perry is just too literate for you--

That happens when people who don't know how to write... come up upon those that do.

Well, Yo is just following the plan... as laid out in Gary Larson's Far Side.

28 posted on 08/20/2011 4:06:38 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: hocndoc

So he does, or does NOT, support TSA groping?


29 posted on 08/20/2011 4:11:44 AM PDT by RockinRight (The ObamAA+ Downgrade)
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To: jocon307

Those are, I believe, calla lilies.


30 posted on 08/20/2011 4:15:56 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: 1010RD

The other issue in item 5, is the unemployment rate. Another article I read analyzed why it is that high when there are so many jobs being created. The answer, unemployed people are moving to Texas, seeking a job. The other state’s unemployment goes down, Texas’ rate goes up. Even with that, enough jobs are found to keep Texas below the national average.

Your point about the minimum wage jobs is right on. Go to Illinois or Michigan’s legislature and say, “my franchised restaurant will move to your state and bring in 50,000 minimum wage jobs”. Would they turn you down?


31 posted on 08/20/2011 4:16:21 AM PDT by JohnEBoy
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To: 1010RD

The other issue in item 5, is the unemployment rate. Another article I read analyzed why it is that high when there are so many jobs being created. The answer, unemployed people are moving to Texas, seeking a job. The other state’s unemployment goes down, Texas’ rate goes up. Even with that, enough jobs are found to keep Texas below the national average.

Your point about the minimum wage jobs is right on. Go to Illinois or Michigan’s legislature and say, “my franchised restaurant will move to your state and bring in 50,000 minimum wage jobs”. Would they turn you down?


32 posted on 08/20/2011 4:16:30 AM PDT by JohnEBoy
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To: Yosemitest

“Rick Perry’s to(SIC) liberal for me. “

Have fun with four more years of Obama....not to mention Obamacare.


33 posted on 08/20/2011 4:43:09 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Interesting.


34 posted on 08/20/2011 4:45:38 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Evan Thomas is a sleek, vaguely poofty widdle wiburul editor of a Texas coffee-table magazine for people with money and big, fancy coffee tables. He has a PBS interview show, and his ideal interviews are people like Danny Glover, Gore Vidal (interviewed 'em both) and the late Louise Nevelson (missed her).

This statement of his in the (notice it's the) WaPo is inaccurate, and showoffily so:

Perry is more hard-knuckled in his dealings not only with Democrats (now a minority in the House and the Senate) but with insufficiently conservative Republicans — what we in Texas pejoratively call “moderates.”.....

In the recent session of the Lege, the RiNO speaker of the Texas House, a man returned to the speakership by a party-line vote of the Democratic minority, ginned up a decennial redistricting plan that paired eight of the most conservative Republicans in the house against one another and guaranteed future Democratic gains, and Rick Perry did absolutely NOTHING about it.

Rick Perry also did not fight for a bill that would have ended the "sanctuary cities" policies of a number of big-city Democratic mayors, including former Houston mayors Kathy Whitmire, Bob Lanier, Lee P. Brown, and Bill White (a former chairman of the Texas Democratic Party and last year's Democratic candidate for governor, opposing Perry). One would have expected Perry, if he were a REAL conservative, to have clubbed "sanctuary" policies out of the park, especially considering that his opponent was a champion of such policies and had had a couple of his Houston police patrolmen murdered on duty by illegal aliens armed with pistols.

Rick Perry is nobody's "hard-knuckled" conservative.

35 posted on 08/20/2011 4:48:00 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
The Posties lost me at the "University of Chicago" reference.

There are a dozen colleges and universities within a 4 hour drive of Chicago that beat the pants off that one.

Sure, they've got some top end staff but the student body is not the best ~ and most will never get to study under one of the big dogs.

It's like paying Harvard/Yale tuition and getting a Junior College edumacation.

36 posted on 08/20/2011 4:48:17 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Yosemitest
Four years ago didn't you guys have "the Huck" serving as Mit's "stalking horse"?

Look ~ get over it ~ these Souvrn' candidates can do it on their own or not. Frankly I don't see any overlap in Michele Bachmann's fan base and Perry's adoring syncophants.

37 posted on 08/20/2011 4:50:57 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The MSM seems to be choosing him, so that means they think BO can beat him.


38 posted on 08/20/2011 4:58:23 AM PDT by webstersII
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To: Smokin' Joe
There is no way that a Congress Woman with little to no executive experience, or any major accomplishments during her career, can dominate a share of support or votes against a strong candidate like Perry.

Perry will rapidly get name recognition and easily beat Romney. He already has, even with Bachmann having won the Ames poll.

39 posted on 08/20/2011 4:58:44 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
You're a professional. Admit it. I challenged you on that before, and you huffily said you weren't.

Care to rephrase your earlier reply, Rick Perry fulltimer?

40 posted on 08/20/2011 4:59:34 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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