The Goldwater Talking Point (gearing up for Rick Perry)

RedState ^ | August 22, 2011 | Erick Erickson

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Gov. Rick Perry says a "conservative ascendancy" is the way we must push back to reverse our slide into socialism [paraphrasing].

Perry was the 1st GOP Lt. Gov elected in Texas [1998] since reconstruction.

Along with Perry's last landslide victory in Texas [re-elected to 3rd term], we also have a legislative GOP super majority.

[PhilDragoo]

I went to New York with Young Americans for Freedom for its convention resolving to draft Goldwater.

Moyers the Church Lady floated the disgusting daisy-plucking girl, painting Goldwater as some kind of neanderthal warmonger—yet history showed it was the Tonkin Gulf target-sanitizer who made defeat inevitable: Bui Tin said failure to close the Ho Chi Minh Trail was Mistake Number One. Johnson cursed the Chiefs when they sought his permission to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong: The Day It Became The Longest War

America chose Medicare, a six-trillion-dollar “war on poverty,” and a war which consumed sixty thousand of our finest on the basis of a lack of political will.

Now comes the nauseating Huntsman who flaunts his gullibility with his belief in the hoaxes of global warming and evolution.

Who does not wish to criticize Obama the islamo-communist—just as the brainwashed loser McCain attacked any Republican exposing the current traitor-in-chief.

But Perry has that hated free and unfettered tongue which has marked Palin; Perry cares more for his country than for the sensitivities of the narcissist on the throne of megalomania.

Huntsman is despicable.

The traitor is in the gates.

We'll shove Huntsman off the wall—and use his skirts to clean the cannon.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Indeed!!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Or as Perry’s been known to say,

“Adios MoFo.”

[ilgipper]

Perry is a compromise candidate. He has mostly conservative positions, but is not going to pass any purity tests. If he goes on to win it is because he gets enough tea party support along with enough voters from the less ideological voters. The idea that he is some sort of Goldwater is idiocy. Bachmann or Palin might potentially fit the Goldwater storyline. Even Paul. Not perry.

[lentulusgracchus]

Here you are again, rising at five in the morning to thump the tub for Rick Perry.

I challenge you again to say that you are NOT a campaign professional hitting the boards for Governor Goodhair.

Go on, let's see how many people believe you aren't pro.

[9YearLurker]

Actually I’m quite sure if it’s Romney they’ll go with “flip-flopping Barry Goldwater”.

[lentulusgracchus]

But such views do not dominate the responses given The Post. What comes over is a desire — and an appeal — that Reagan be cautious in his actions, tempered in his words, and conciliatory in his approach.Uniting the party, moderating the views of the more extrememembers of the GOP, paying heed to wider range of national opinion, expanding the circle of his advisers to include a better ideological mix — these are the major concerns expressed.

Haynes Johnson .... vanguard liar of the Armies of the Night. His spot in the middle circles of Hell is surely merited for all time.

Typical talking head of the TV news shows for over 20 years. What a SOS, offering phony advice to Republican candidates and voters.

[tsowellfan]

He’s got quite the experience!

[tsowellfan]

I wonder how many years Governorship Perry has compared to Romney.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

In 1980, while the media rushed to the Goldwater talking point and considered Reagan too “far-right” to beat Jimmy Carter, the nation found itself in an economic mess. It was very hard to characterize Reagan as too far right for a country craving new policies to get it out of its economic mess. Voters wanted a change from Jimmy Carter.

Before The Storm
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And .....moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" 1964 acceptance speech .......

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL!

Actually, I get up around 2AM every morning.

Just pealed some boiled eggs, put a load in the laundry and set the trash by the curb.

I should get paid, shouldn’t I?

LOL

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A lot of people forget about a previous member of the Republican party, John B. Anderson (from Illinois) who ran as a 3rd Party choice in 1980 when Ronald Reagan won the GOP ticket, defeating GHW Bush.

In this instance though, in the general election he drew votes from Carter.

Anderson's popularity came from a debate answer about regretful actions, where Anderson said, if he could, he would reverse his vote for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Interesting title to the thread you linked above with the great Barry Goldwater quote.

Perry has told the MSM he isn't going through them -- he didn't get a signal msm endorsement in his last gubernatorial [2010] victory.

Notice where Perry gave his announcement -- Red State gathering.

[ncalburt]

We would like to know who YOU are Trolling and smearing Perry for here with SNIDE LEFTY LIKE comments like “ MR Good Hair “.

I always noticed the LEFT always accuse their opponents of the Dirty tricks they are currently implementing ?

So who do you Smear Perry for ?

[ncalburt]

The LEFT always uses Accuses their opponents of the dirty tricks they are actively engaged in.

Sad to see it has spread to here.

[lentulusgracchus]

Hmmmm..... good reply, but you still owe me a straight yes-or-no answer.

But we'll let it go for now.

Unless I find out you're an Austin lawyer. .... oh, wait, they don't get up until 9 a.m.

Later ....

[lentulusgracchus]

Uncoil, neighbor.

Everyone on the Texas board calls him that. We take turns. Molly Ivins called him that, and it stuck because he's just like Glen Campbell in True Grit, who "cultivated his hair like a head of lettuce".

The beeves Texans have with Rick Perry are many and honest. He got 40% of the statewide vote in 2006 and returned to office with a mere plurality. People who had options, didn't knock down any turnstiles fighting their way into the voting booths to vote for him.

He also has crummy friends: very rich uber-billionaires who employ tons of illegal aliens.

Read all about it, any newsstand is your friend.

[lentulusgracchus]

I wonder how many years Governorship Perry has compared to Romney.

Advantage Perry, I believe. Governor since January, 2001.

Unless you disqualify Romney's incumbency altogether on the grounds that Taxachusetts isn't a State after all, but a semiautonomous exarchate of Ingsoc.