Posted on 08/24/2011 5:55:33 PM PDT by Nachum
Forget today’s Gallup poll. If you want a solid sign that Perry’s achieved at least parity with Romney, here it is.
“Your feedback will help hold him accountable on the campaign trail, inspire fellow Texans to get involved, and introduce his record — his actual record — to voters across the country,” Hector Nieto, the campaign’s Texas director, told Texas supporters by email blast today. “Your words will remind him that even as he runs, he won’t be able to hide — a lesson he apparently hadn’t learned as recently as last week. That’s when his campaign explained that the positions he took in the book he wrote just nine months ago, like saying that Social Security is unconstitutional and `a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal,’ no longer represent his views.
“But what other Americans are just starting to learn about — and, frankly, reject — Texans have dealt with for more than a decade. It’s up to us to make sure he doesn’t get to run away from the truth.”
Nieto’s email says hundreds of Texans have already shared their dim views on Perry, directing critics to an online form where they can suggest their own favorite “failed policies” for which he should be held accountable.
Yes, they really do have an online form just for this on Obama’s campaign site. I’m intrigued by the fact that they’re not content to rely on standard oppo research in this case but want man-on-the-street grumbling from Texas liberals instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
But how many Texas Democrats want to throw away the warm relations they made with Perry when he was Al Gore’s campaign manager?
Damn, they ARE scared....
‘Damn, they ARE scared...’
And how!
It’s time to start attacking, alright....
http://www.morningstartv.com/oak-initiative/marxism-america
That's hardly going to make him look all that bad to Democrats!
Is there any connection between Nieto and La Raza? It sure would be cool to find one. I imagine there is.
Get me on your ping list. All hands on deck. It’s time.
Lol...I dislike Perry...but a vote for Perry is a vote against Obammy!
I certainly hope republicans grow a pair and attack Howdy Doodys total failures as chief resident. They know the field is ripe where their marxist is concerned so they are going to do the usual, lie, cheat and steal.
They said it was going to be brutal and this is just the beginning.
“But what other Americans are just starting to learn about — and, frankly, reject — Texans have dealt with for more than a decade. It’s up to us to make sure he doesn’t get to run away from the truth.”
More than a decade ? How many re-elections is that for Perry ?
They really are in a panic.
ditto.
FYI.
All I ask of Perry is that he keeps coming out firing against Obama. I am reasonably confident he will do so.
If Perry were 1) a convicted felon, 2) had never had a real job in his life, 3) had no academic credentials, and 4) been a total failure in everything he tried, he’d still rank far, far above the Cretin-in-Chief in EVERYTHING.
Face it, live, Obama is really is a CRETIN.
Were he not black, he’d be a ghetto gunman.
He’s that stupid.
Even stupider. (not a real word, but still completely describes the turd-in-chief).
You can smell the fear.
Ah Ha, icant has already signed up with nobama.com and has taken some of the TexDem talking points to heart. Too bad they only got the talking points from paulnutz on FR, now we get to re-hear all the old ones again.
Please don't let me interrupt the whitewashing the history of this guy and try to paint him as some kind of principled conservative patriot - carry on. I'll start: "Baaaaaaaa! Baaaaaaa!"
I see you’re going to have to have the perry kool-aid iv’d.
Kinda like Biden says that Chinas one-child policy no longer represents his view, after 2 days? Just sayin' ... would make a great campaign ad...
Like the democrats haven’t been attacking him since 2001!!! lol And the many republicans right here are attacking him all by themselves and toting around the democrapic bucket of lies. Who needs the democrats when the republicans are willing to do it themselves?
“Pay no attention to the Trans Texas Corridor behind the curtain”?
Seriously, how many things does he need to have in his background that no real conservative would ever have anything to do with before people get a clue?
Seems like the message was intercepted by some FReepers who are doing the Dems work for them.
obama and the dems have enough help right here on FR
(. . at ten paces . . )
A good place to start recruiting is right here on FR.
Libs are providing plenty of ‘ammunition’.
See post #31 at the link for Perry’s conservative points, then think about this, what other candidate has a better PROVEN record on the issues of concern, immigration, fiscal, abortion, gay marriage, obamacare, etc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2766822/posts
If you can show me that candidate, then you can make a sale against Perry.
>> Seriously, how many things does he need to have in his background that no real conservative would ever have anything to do with before people get a clue?
More than he DOES have. Seriously. And thanks for asking a straightforward question with such a simple answer! It’s very helpful.
They’re running scared LoL
Organizing for America needs your help.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/texans-against-perry?source=20110823_HN_misc
They’ve already got all the help they need from the church of St Rick.
So, the ad shows Obama snorking and sneering at some young woman and in the background the scrolling message and the sonorous announcer say "Obama wants your daughter to get genital warts" and it closes in on a vaginal wart like a CSI evidence close up.
Make it wiggle a bit, and ooze something on a flesh background.
He's soft on illegals. He's hard on teenage girls.
What more do we need?
Surely you have something to share with them that they’re not up to speed on. Something they’ve overlooked?
You guys are wrong on toll roads. They are an issue Conservatives should be behind ~ only Leftwingtards want to give away socialist roads.
What all three of them?
Well they could always try to elect St Rick, he’s at least as liberal as Huntsman and Romney. He’s apparently good at fooling the slow witted into supporting him.
Mainly because that an outright LIE! But don’t let any facts get in the way of your democrapic bucket of horse manure.
Those are facts.
Well, NO, those are not facts, or I wouldn’t have called them flaming lies!
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Who Is Rick Perry?
He is a fifth generation Texan, the son of hardscrabble west Texas tenant farmers – Democrats but conservatives through and through. He grew up in a farm town too small to be on the state map. Life was so hard that he was six years old before his house had indoor plumbing. His mother sewed his clothes, including the underwear he wore to college.
He is an Eagle Scout. After Paint Creek High School , he attended Texas A&M, graduated, and was commissioned into the Air Force where he became a C-130 pilot.
Now 61 years old, he has won nine elections to four different offices in Texas state government. In the first three elections he ran as a Democrat then switched to the Republican Party. He is currently the 47th governor of Texas – a position he has held for 11 years, the longest tenure of any governor in the nation.
He has never lost an election.
Rick Perry was the Lieutenant Governor to whom Governor George Bush handed over the office after winning the 2000 Presidential election. Since then, Perry won gubernatorial elections in 2002, 2004, and 2010, the last time by 55% against a field consisting of a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Green Party, and an Independent.
Since he became its Governor, Texas – a right to work state that taxes neither personal income nor capital gains – has added more jobs than the other 49 states combined. In the last two years, low taxes and little regulation led his state to create 47% of all jobs created in the entire nation. Five of the top ten cities with the highest job growth in the nation are in Texas . People follow jobs, so in the last four years for which data are available, Texas led every state in net interstate migration growth.
Perry signed ground-breaking “loser pays” tort reform and medical litigation rules that caused malpractice insurance rates to fall. Some 20,000 doctors have since moved to Texas .
Texas boasts 58 of the Fortune 500 companies – more than any other state. Since May 2011 Texas resumed its pre-recession employment levels. Only two other states and the District of Columbia have done that.
Texas ships 16% of the nation’s export value. California trails at 11%. Of the 70 companies that have fled California so far in 2011, 14 relocated in Texas .
In this year’s Texas legislative season, Perry got most of what he wanted. With no new taxes, a fiscally lean state budget was passed leaving $6 billion in a rainy day fund even as other states around the country struggled to balance budgets and avoid more deficit borrowing. A voter ID bill passed that was designed to prevent ballot box fraud and illegal voting. A bill passed that makes plaintiffs pay court costs and attorney fees if their suits are deemed frivolous.
Perry scored points even in his legislative failures. He failed to get sanctuary cities banned – Texas towns in which police cannot question detainees about their immigration status. The blame fell on the legislature. Perry also failed to get a so-called “anti-groping” bill passed that would put Transportation Security Administration agents in prison if they touch the genitals, anus, or breasts of passengers in a pat down. Federal officials threatened to halt all flights out of Texas airports and the bill died in special session. That endeared Texans even more to TSA employees living in Texas .
Perry jogs daily in the morning. He has no bodyguard with him, but his daughter’s dog runs by his side and he carries a laser-guided automatic pistol in his belt. Last year while jogging in an undeveloped area, a coyote paralleled his jogging route, eyeing his dog. He drew his pistol and killed the animal with one shot, leaving it where it fell. “He became mulch,” Perry said. Animal rights groups protested, but Perry shrugged it off. “Don’t come after my dog,” he warned them.
Recently, Obama asked Perry to delay the July 7 execution of Humberto Leal in order to comply with the International Court of Justice in The Hague and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Perry refused. Therefore Obama asked the US Supreme Court to delay the execution because it would damage US foreign relations. The Court refused 5-4 and Perry ordered the execution to go forward as scheduled. Over the howls of diplomats, politicians, and the UN, Leal was administered a lethal injection at 6:20 p.m. Before he died, he admitted his guilt and asked for forgiveness.
The case has special implications for Perry, who is considering a run for the presidency in 2012. Even his critics resent federal interference in a Texas execution, which is related to a state, not a federal, crime – an alcohol and drug-fueled rape and murder 17 years ago by an illegal whose family brought him into the country 35 years ago as a child. The interference hinges not on the man’s guilt, which Leal’s advocates acknowledged, but on a technicality – failure to inform Leal that he could have gotten legal representation from the Mexican consulate in lieu of the court-appointed attorneys who represented him. Independent Texans saw Obama’s interference as another intrusion of federal power into the affairs of a state, which could cost Obama support in other states.
Needless to say, Perry is a hard-edged conservative and a ferocious defender of 10th Amendments rights (“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”) – an explicit restriction of the federal government to only those powers granted in the Constitution. Perry accuses the federal government, especially the Obama administration, of illegal overreach.
Perry said “no thanks” to the feds whose stimulus offered taxpayer dollars for education and unemployment assistance. The strings on “free money” from Washington , he said, would restrict Texas in managing its own affairs. Perry even depleted all state funds to fight recent wildfires before asking Washington for disaster relief. His request has been ignored, which comes across as an unvarnished federal power play, further pitting Perry and Texans against the federal government.
You're probably being paid to cruise the net by Bob Perry in fact.
You Texans almost all lie about the illegals.
Yes, I know exactly what Perry is like...that’s why I’m calling out your flaming lies. I wish somebody would pay me, I could make a lot of money just off republicans toting around the crock of horse manure for the democrats!
He has poor political instincts
What you don't understand is people want jobs and they want a leader who has proved he can deliver. Palin can't even prove she knows how to create jobs. I love it!
Boy are the dummies out of touch. The Tx Dums all 10 of them have been attacking Perry on a regular basis. And then there are the Paulbots.
Hasn’t worked and will not work.
“He has poor political instincts”
Lol...yeah Perry hasn’t had much luck getting elected to office in his career.... /s
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