Perry’s Patronage Problem : Donors have reaped benefits, but there’s a lot of transparency in Texas

National Review ^ | 08/23/2011 | Daniel Foster

[Tempest]

The guy is a used car salesman.

[TexasFreeper2009]

You can keep posting this drivel all day long every day and it isn’t going to stop Perry from being the next President.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That’s what I found so troubling about the Gardisil incident.

- He can be bought

- He is willing to subvert the elected legislature and throw my rights under the bus in order to deliver the payoff.

[Tempest]

Goverment funded private ventures it’s only bad when a Democrat does.

Rick Perry will do more to ruin the image of Christians and move the Republican base to the left than any other candidate before him if he gets elected.

[Buckeye McFrog]

it isn’t going to stop Perry from being the next President.

If I were a betting man I'd say you are right. Does not mean I am wrong to be concerned, or that we won't have to watch him like a hawk afterwards.

Obama would ditch my rights even faster to payoff far more dangerous supporters.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: You can keep posting this drivel all day long every day and it isn’t going to stop Perry from being the next President.

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I am posting this for discussion. We need to know the background of whoever is going to be our next President regardless of who he/she is.

Eternal Vigilance my friend — that is the price of liberty.

[TADSLOS]

The guy is a used car salesman.

No, a (successful) used car salesman makes a profit. Rick uses taxpayer money to subsidize losses. Rick is a hustler with other people's money.

[TexasFreeper2009]

If that’s your goal, why are you not posting negative articles about any of the other candidates?

One might start thinking you don’t really see any of the other candidates as a threat, so there is no need in attacking them...

[TADSLOS]

Ping.

[cripplecreek]

I’d sure like to know who his campaign team consists of.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: If that’s your goal, why are you not posting negative articles about any of the other candidates?

You might want to check the archives and my posts about Michele Bachmann.

You seem to be saying that we should only post positive things about candidates and IGNORE anything negative about them. Why is that?

[isthisnickcool]

What I find interesting about this “story” is that Houston homebuildr Bob Perry is not mentioned.......

[TexasFreeper2009]

What I find suspicious is that for nearly the entire primary season Romney was the front runner... and yet I can't recall ever seeing a single negative article posted about him. I would see tons of “posts” dissing him, but I never remember logging on and seeing 10 negative articles posted about him, even though he is universally hated here on FR.

[SeekAndFind]

If you can find anything about Mitt Romney, by all means, please post it for all to see. We’d all like to see the product before we buy it.

[Artemis Webb]

I’m not seeing this as a particularly negative column. Quite the opposite. In a nutshell the column states that Perry appoints people he knows and trust to administer their individual departments or agencies. He does it out in the open. Sounds like smart management to me which is one of the major reasons Texas is in much better financial shape than most other states.

[TexMom7]

If that’s your goal, why are you not posting negative articles about any of the other candidates?

One might start thinking you don’t really see any of the other candidates as a threat, so there is no need in attacking them...

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Bingo!

[Liz]

Rick Perry will do more to ruin the image of Christians and move the Republican base to the left than any other candidate before him.......if he gets elected.

You got that right.

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Texas jobs are being taken by ILLEGALS.......the very same border-violators Perry wants to gift with amnesty. The US needs a President who will CUT spending, and STOP illegal immigration....... not more “business as usual.”

THIS DOES NOT BODE WELL Anyone who dares shine the light of truth on Perry results in being labeled ‘pro-obama’.........called a ‘troll’ and a "Paultard."

MORE PROBLEMS Perry’s coziness with the Chinese and foreign investors exposes a huge weak­ness in his right flank—illegal immigration and open borders.

Perry's ill-conceived "Trans Texas Corridor" (wherein he used eminent domain to take land from Texans for foreigners) has been linked to the global plan to economically integrate North America, with the eventual goal of a common security perimeter modeled after the European Union.

Perry ushered in in-state tuition for illegals and has objected to Arizona-style immigration laws in Texas.

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THE REALLY BAD NEWS--resurrecting the neocons Perry has been endorsed by neocon guru (Fox talking head), Bill Kristol.

Yikes. Neocons and Perry--what could possibly go wrong? (/snix). A-n-o-t-h-e-r several trillion tax dollars into Mideast hellholes?

Ah, it was only yesterday (before 2010 Midterms) that Billy Kristol was humming the neocon theme song, "The Decline and Fall of American Conservatism." KRISTOL WROTE: The “art of government” is to translate the “liberal or radical impulse into enduring institutions,” which in a constitutional republic means that neocons want socialist ends to be achieved with conservative means.

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So how did Rick Perry and the neocons meet, and live happily ever after?

Remember when Rick endorsed Rooty Giuliani?

Fox talker Billy Kristol's father----neocon Irving Kristol (now deceased)----was Giuliani's "foreign policy advisor."

As Irving famously wrote: "The historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism is.....to convert the Republican Party and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable to governing a modern democracy."

Neocons favorite sports: (1) kicking so/con Repubs to the curb, (2) religious cleansing of the Repub party.

[cripplecreek]

When I see the justifications the Perry followers give I understand clearly who this slide to the left happens.

[Texan]

I’m not seeing this as a particularly negative column. Quite the opposite. In a nutshell the column states that Perry appoints people he knows and trust to administer their individual departments or agencies. He does it out in the open. Sounds like smart management to me which is one of the major reasons Texas is in much better financial shape than most other states.

I was going to say essentially the same thing then I read your post. You said it so much better than I would have however. :-)