“I admire her spunk but now it’s Reality Heights time — sanity test time.”
Yep. Need to work on getting someone that we can actually elect. A politician - someone that can work both sides of the aisle. While the “Mr. Smith goes to Washington” is a nice idea, we need a more conventional politician.
Perry may be an okay candidate - I really don’t know that much about him. Other than it seems he’s the same as usual. The same as usual is what has gotten us into this mess.
I’M TIRED OF THE SAME AS USUAL.
The typical, “electible” politician.
It is time for a revolution in America. And if we don’t have a revolution in the sense of electing someone that will really shake things up - I fear that the next revolution won’t be about elections.
If you liked GHWB or GWB particularly on illegal immigration, you’re sure to like Perry. And then you have to ask yourself, just how electable will another governor of Texas be just 4 short years after GWB? Me thinks the democrats and obama are salivating at the very THOUGHT of running against President Bush...AGAIN!
Rick Perry has fought both parties.
Rick Perry started as a Democrat in West Texas (that was THE only party). He served in the Texas legislature - was known as one of the "pit bulls," conservative members who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases.
Perry changed parties in 1989, joining Phil Gramm and other conservative Texas Democrats, who now had a true ideological party with a burgeoning Texas GOP.
When Perry campaigned for Lt. Gov. [1998], he and his campaign staff were in it to win and his hard-nosed style was against the "friendly" advice and request of GWB [in re-election bid for Texas Gov] and Rove to run easy against Sharp, a popular democrat (and Aggie friend of Perry's from their A&M years together). Rove wanted to broaden Bush's base for his upcoming White House run. Perry told them where to stick their advice, because he knew the voters would vote for Bush for Gov. and then cross back over and vote for Sharp (D) for Lt. Gov, if he just walked through the motions like the Bush-Rove team asked him to do.
Perry won the seat for Lt. Gov. -- the first Republican elected to that office since Reconstruction. Now 13 years later and into his 3rd term as Texas governor, the GOP holds a super majority. So Perry has earned his conservative spurs -- fighting both parties!
[The Bushes and Rove supported Kay Bailey Hutchison's primary challenge against Gov. Perry this last election too]
Rick Perry is fighting the EPA, Big Education and Lawyers. That's a damn good place to start (and he's been at it for years).