Posted on 08/31/2011 10:50:11 AM PDT by martosko
Yesterday, after a 1993 letter from then-Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry commending then first lady Hillary Clinton and her efforts to reform health care surfaced, some Republicans are questioning 2012 presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s conservative credentials.
The letter and his support for Al Gore in 1988 have fueled Perry’s detractors who suggest the Texan is all style and less substance when it comes to principles. And MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is one of those detractors.
On his Wednesday “Morning Joe” program, the former Florida congressman launched into a near 15-minute rant, complete with faux southern accent, ripping Perry’s Democratic past before he became a Republican.
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“And Joe is a Token conservative on the Lean Forward and grab your ankles station.”
Joe looks forward to his day in the barrel.
Don’t know for certain as I’ve never heard of him. He must have been created in China.
Perry changed parties when he ran for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
As Texas Agriculture Commissioner Perry wrote, on April 6, 1993, asking Hillary to keep the challenges to rural communities, farmers and ranchers in mind as the task force developed ideas on healthcare reform.
That was just two months after Clinton took office, 6 months before Hillary's healthcare congressional testimony and 8 months before a bill was introduced.
Anyone can read the letter.
He was doing the professional duty of the office to which he was elected. It was not advocacy or praise for what eventually came out of the task force or the legislation in congress.
Scarborough is a fraud...he’s fallen in love with Manhattan conservatism, which is no conservatism at all.
Joey nit-picks every Republican candidate who is “too” conservative and finds every excuse in the world for Nobama.
Joe, keep seeking acceptance in Manhattan.
You are not even close to a conservative.
The only thing left for Joe is to come out of the closet!
Perry years ago was a Liberal and Scarborough years ago was a conservative.
Is this Joe “there’s a dead girl in my office” Scarborough?
Scarborough is a coke head, pure and simple. EVERYONE in the know in panhandle FL know THAT is why he left office. Powdered his nose— and still does on cup-a-joe. Does it by the cupful now instead of a small spoon. A tool of Micro-Sense National Broadcasters of cocaine. In short, a loser.
Pot, meet kettle.
Thank you! Deo Vindice! The democratic party morphed by all of it’s co-0pted political leftist wrongs,including the progressive agenda of statist politics. Statist politics, however should be viewed properly as similar to Reconstruction and govt. run healthcare— pure socialism, coupled with private property theft at gunpoint of Union troops. Southerners have experienced this, both black and white southerners... they know what this marxist pres and party are about. Why Herman Cain is so feared and despised.
That was just two months after Clinton took office, 6 months before Hillary's healthcare congressional testimony and 8 months before a bill was introduced.
Bears repeating. His job was to represent Texas Farm interests, and he wrote the letter many months before there was even a plan.
Joe is a nickle c**ksucker.
What the hell happened to Joe Scarborough? Wasn’t he a fairly conservative congressman during the Republican takeover?
If I pulled a Rip Van Winkle and fell asleep in 1994 and just woke up now, I would be very confused about his transformation into “Morning Joe” and I would be equally confused about Arianna Huffington.
They both defy the normal practice of growing more conservative with age.
For decades in Texas, as in several southern states, one had to be a registered as a Democrat to have a say in the state, county, and local elections. There were few, if any, Republicans on those tickets. Growing up in Texas, I was advised to “register Democrat, vote Republican”. Those voters were conservative Democrats (think Zell Miller’s philosophy) and were taken for granted by the national party. However, the Democrat party hung them out to dry in favor of the special interest coalitions the Democrats put together. Those conservative Democrats, no longer represented by the Democrat party, had nowhere to turn but to the Republican Party for a reflection of their conservative values.
Only in the last decade or so have Republicans had candidates on the local ballots that seriously had a chance of winning that local office.
Texans did not suddenly move to the right during the last two decades, rather the Democrat party shifted to the left.
Well if anyone should know it is Joe ...he has had a basement room in the MSNBC 5 and 10 for years
Texas, which crafts a budget every two years, was facing a $6.6 billion shortfall for its 2010-2011 fiscal years. It plugged nearly all of that deficit with $6.4 billion in Recovery Act money, allowing it to leave its $9.1 billion rainy day fund untouched.
Even as Perry requested the Recovery Act money, he railed against it. On the very same day he asked for the funds, he set up a petition titled “No Government Bailouts.”
“It plugged nearly all of that deficit with $6.4 billion in Recovery Act money, allowing it to leave its $9.1 billion rainy day fund untouched.”
So you think that Red states should not benefit from money that is going out? That’s preposterous.
Should Red states also send all education money back, highway money...lol.
Another bald-faced (and bold font) lie from Red South - but what else can we expect?
According to USGovernmentSpending.com, state debt in Texas in the year 2000 was $19.2 billion. At the end of 2010, it was $27.3 billion. Even if you don't account for inflation, that is only a 42% increase. If you account for inflation, it is a 16% increase, or 1.6% per year.
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