[Ann Archy]

He said he got $5000.00 .....BFD!

We were at the post debate party last night and Perry is FANTASTIC at retail politics!!! He had the crowd ROCKIN!! Mitt was STIFF.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

He said $5,000 and I've read $6,000, big deal. Bachmann overdid her "little twelve year old girl" drama last night.

Romney needs Bachmann in there to help him beat up on Perry. It's like a demolition derby. I'm not sure if these attacks will strengthen Perry for the run against Zero or weaken him.

If this $5,000 from Merck is the best example they can come up to use against Perry as being a "crony capitalist", then he's pretty squeaky clean.

[af_vet_rr]

He said he got $5000.00 .....BFD!

You're not getting the point she and many FReeepers have made, or you're deliberately ignoring it.

The point is that Merck hired Perry's good friend and former chief of staff, who then lobbied Perry. This isn't about $5,000, this is about a company giving a good friend of Perry's a very cushy job and that friend turning around and lobbying Perry.

Perry has a history of this kind of stuff. The most prominent would probably be Rudy Giuliani's lawfirm working on the TTC for Cintra and then Perry campaigning for Giuliani for President or Perry spending years supporting illegal immigrants (whoops, "guest workers", wouldn't want to offend Perry or his staff in case they read this because we all know illegal immigrants aren't really criminals, they are "guest workers"!) because his biggest donors (homebuilders in Texas) benefit from illegal labor.

The most recent would be Convergen Lifesciences where they falsified an application to Perry's office in order to get millions in taxpayer money. They deliberately used names in their application of people who had ties to Perry's staff, even though those people admitted that they had nothing to do with Convergen. Perry, Dewhurst, and Straus even defended it after the public found out about the application.

I'm not a fan of Palin, but I'm impressed that she'll set friendships aside to point out the negatives.