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Rush: Perry the only conservative threat to Romney
The Examiner ^
| October.11,2011
| Charlie Spiering
Posted on 10/11/2011 10:04:19 PM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: Reagan Man
Perry did the best that he has done in all the debates. Gingrich as usual was excellent. Santorum was ok.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:34:41 PM PDT
by
rconser
To: shield
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:37:11 PM PDT
by
rconser
To: Windflier
How he could call Perry a conservative, is beyond me. I think Rush knows that Perry is no rock-ribbed conservative. But for him it's always about winning. He believes Perry to be only one who has a chance to beat the uber-RINO Romney, and bases that the former's campaign war chest, both present and potential. I disagree with El Rushbo on that score, but I'm pretty sure that's where he's coming from.
Rush rarely pushes underdogs (like Cain or Bachmann), especially in Presidential politics. He's an establishment guy, but hopes for the most conservative establishment candidate possible. ....or more accurately, least liberal. And as far as the present establishment candidates go, he considers Perry to be that guy.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:37:50 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Reagan Man
Perry did well in the debate tonight. There were several statesmen on that stage tonight and Perry was one of them.
You were right...Cain DID NOT go after Romney...which proves he is Romney's man. Cain did a lot of double talk tonight. He named Greenspan which was awful...he did that because he didn't know anyone else who'd served. Cain proved he is a neophyte.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:38:04 PM PDT
by
shield
(Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
To: Reagan Man
Perry’s far from perfect, but I’ll take him on our ticket over Romney by miles. Leagues. Fathoms.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:38:38 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: rconser
A lot better then last time. Thank God.
Its still organization and money that will win the nomination in the end. Perry has both. Willard has more... 4 years of running for potus and the gop establishment behind him.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:38:38 PM PDT
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: Windflier; shield
How he could call Perry a conservative, is beyond me. Background:
Perry's story as told by him to the Texas Monthly
The son of tenant farmers from Paint Creek
who became an Airforce officer, married his high school sweetheart and went on to become the longest serving governor in Texas history
On the Fed:
Perry would consider Bernanke printing more money "almost treachorous, or treasonous"
Perry refuses to apologize for remarks on Bernanke
Perry advocates audit of the Federal Reserve
Perry says he would not reappoint Bernanke
Economy:
Over the past 5 years, Texas has created more jobs than all other states combined
Perry against raising debt ceiling
Wants to scrap the federal income tax by repealing the 16th amendment
Perry calls for 6 month moratorium on government regulations
Supports balanced budget amendment
Since June 2009, 37% of all jobs created in the entire U.S. were created in Texas
First governor since WWII to reduce general revenue spending by $3 billion using line item veto
Cut billions in property taxes
Cut taxes on small business and instituted tort reform
Texas is growing over twice as fast as the second fastest growing state and three times as fast as the third
Military:
Perry spent 4 years active duty (not Reserve or Nat'l Guard) as an Airforce pilot
Left Airforce with the rank of Captain
Was in the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M
Opposes the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
Lifetime member of the American Legion
Troops should be commanded only by American commanders and military not subject to international debating societies. No military adventurism
Social Issues:
Support for one-man, one-woman marriage amendment
Opposes gay marriage, opposes special protection for homosexuals in workplace and housing, opposes the repeal of DADT
Signs anti gay marriage pledge
Properly defines contemporary evolution as a theory
Pro Life:
Planned Parenthood centers close after Perry signs bill defunding them
Perry believes abortion should be made illegal
Supports constitutional amendment banning abortion
Signed the Susan B. Anthony pro-life/anti-abortion pledge
Pledges pro-life VP pick
Pushed bill for ultrasounds before abortions and bill for pro-life license plates
Immigration:
Advocated for and eventually signed a stringent voter ID law
Pushed for anti-sanctuary city law
Opposes the federal dream act
August, 2010: Perry asks Obama for 1,000 additional National Guard troops on border
Perry sends Whitehouse $350 million bill for cost of illegal immigration
Advocates the use of unmanned drones to patrol border
"I can promise you that when Im the President of the United States, the border will be secure" (1:36)
Vetoed bill allowing drivers licenses for illegal aliens
Directed over $400 million toward Texas Ranger special teams, National Guard and technology for border control
Education:
Perry behind removal of left-wing textbooks from Texas schools
Texas home schoolers endorse Rick Perry
Perry speaks at home school rally
Perry refuses $700 million in Obama education funds because of federal mandates
Perry seeks major reform of higher education
Fought for school vouchers
Environment:
Rejects global warming - science skewed by financial interests
Called Al Gore a false prophet of a secular carbon cult
" lol
New York Times: Mr. Perry has been at war with the E.P.A. almost since the day he took office as governor
Had the courage to admit in Iowa that he wants to end the federal ethanol mandate
EPA is a target for Perry
Etc
Perry signs anti-eminent domain bill protecting Texas property owners
"I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can"
TX Gov. Rick Perry Reintroduces TSA Anti-Groping Bill
Slams food stamps and government subsidies
Karl Rove and the Democrats desperate to stop the Rick Perry posse
Would repeal Obamacare
Rick Perry never lost and election
Among trial lawyers, there is no presidential candidate who inspires the same level of hatred and fear as Perry
Considers the federal income tax the greatest milestone on the road to serfdom
Perry has overseen more executions than any governor in modern history
Perry signs bill raising the state speed limit to 85 miles per hour.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:38:47 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
To: Windflier
“Rick Perry is true to conservative principles even when others think the party needs to go a different direction. I like that about him: he doesn’t care which way the wind blows, he acts on his beliefs.”
He walks the walk of a true conservative, and he sticks by his guns. You know how I feel about guns.
-— Gov. Sarah Palin
That was more than kind, that was speaking from the heart. And this was well after Perry signed the tex dream act.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:40:03 PM PDT
by
HerrBlucher
(Liberhoids: Painful, Stinky, and Red.)
To: Reagan Man
The GOP can trash the TEA Party all they want but you can bet your sweet bippy that if they nominate Milt, they’ll be busting their asses looking around for a TEA Party conservative to run on the ticket as VP.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:41:26 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
("Greed" is wanting everything and demanding that somebody else pay for it.)
To: shield
After all we've been through since 2008, couldn't believe Cain said he'd pick someone in the mold of Alan Greenspan.
>>>>>>You were right...Cain DID NOT go after Romney...which proves he is Romney's man.
Again, I'm not the conspiracy type, but something is definitely not kosher between those two.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:45:18 PM PDT
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: Reagan Man
romney’s problem is that he is hated by 75% or more of the populace and he will never get past that.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:46:54 PM PDT
by
rconser
To: biff
Rush said a few weeks ago that George W. Bush belongs on Mt. Rushmore.
To: HerrBlucher
I’m sorry, but I don’t care who calls Rick Perry a conservative - I’m not buying it.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:49:37 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: HerrBlucher; Windflier
Perry is the only candidate running that Palin ever endorsed... for anything:
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:50:05 PM PDT
by
AAABEST
(Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
To: AAABEST
Stop. I’ve seen all of the Perry propaganda before. No sale.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:50:47 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Reagan Man
On his radio program this afternoon, Rush Limbaugh said that Christie's endorsment of Romney is proof that the GOP establishment is "desperate" for Romney to be the Republican nominee.I can't stand watching Fox News at all anymore. I can't turn it on without some vile Romney spew coming out of their mouths!
We will stand up as a people and tell the media outlets we will NOT let them pick our candidate. And if they don't think we will do it, they can kiss our Tea Party butts!
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:51:41 PM PDT
by
casinva
(The stock in McDonalds has just gone down because Obama has been serving so many whoppers.)
To: AAABEST
That is an extensive list in support of conservative Rick Perry.
Thanks for posting it, AAABEST.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:53:53 PM PDT
by
Reagan Man
("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
To: AAABEST
Post all the pics and pasted up screeds you want. I’ve made my own observations of Rick Perry and have come to my own conclusions about the man.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:53:54 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: AAABEST
Don’t you know? She lied.... /s
To: Windflier
I agree. NO SALE.
There's no way in hell I can compromise my values.
Jack Kerwick wrote an article on May 24, 2011 titled
The Tea Partier versus The Republican and he expressed some important issues that I agree with.
Thus far, the field of GOP presidential contenders, actual and potential, isnt looking too terribly promising.
This, though, isnt meant to suggest that any of the candidates, all things being equal, lack what it takes to insure
that Barack Obama never sees the light of a second term; nor is it the case that I find none of the candidates appealing.
Rather, I simply mean that at this juncture, the party faithful is far from unanimously energized over any of them.
It is true that it was the rapidity and aggressiveness with which President Obama proceeded to impose his perilous designs upon the country
that proved to be the final spark to ignite the Tea Party movement.
But the chain of events that lead to its emergence began long before Obama was elected.
That is, it was actually the disenchantment with the Republican Party under our compassionate conservative president, George W. Bush,
which overcame legions of conservatives that was the initial inspiration that gave rise to the Tea Party.
It is this frustration with the GOPs betrayal of the values that it affirms that accounts for why the overwhelming majority
of those who associate with or otherwise sympathize with the Tea Party movement
refuse to explicitly or formally identify with the Republican Party.
And it is this frustration that informs the Tea Partiers threat to create a third party
in the event that the GOP continues business as usual.
If and when those conservatives and libertarians who compose the bulk of the Tea Party, decided that the Republican establishment
has yet to learn the lessons of 06 and 08, choose to follow through with their promise,
they will invariably be met by Republicans with two distinct by interrelated objections.
First, they will be told that they are utopian, purists foolishly holding out for an ideal candidate.
Second, because virtually all members of the Tea Party would have otherwise voted Republican if not for this new third party, they will be castigated for essentially giving elections away to Democrats.
Both of these criticisms are, at best, misplaced; at worst, they are just disingenuous.
At any rate, they are easily answerable.
Lets begin with the argument against purism. To this line, two replies are in the coming.
No one, as far as I have ever been able to determine, refuses to vote for anyone who isnt an ideal candidate.
Ideal candidates, by definition, dont exist.
This, after all, is what makes them ideal.
This counter-objection alone suffices to expose the argument of the Anti-Purist as so much counterfeit.
But there is another consideration that militates decisively against it.
A Tea Partier who refrains from voting for a Republican candidate who shares few if any of his beliefs
can no more be accused of holding out for an ideal candidate
than can someone who refuses to marry a person with whom he has little to anything in common
be accused of holding out for an ideal spouse.
In other words, the object of the argument against purism is the most glaring of straw men:I will not vote for a thoroughly flawed candidate is one thing;
I will only vote for a perfect candidate is something else entirely.
As for the second objection against the Tea Partiers rejection of those Republican candidates who eschew his values and convictions,
it can be dispensed with just as effortlessly as the first.
Every election seasonand at no time more so than this past seasonRepublicans pledge to reform Washington, trim down the federal government, and so forth.
Once, however, they get elected and they conduct themselves with none of the confidence and enthusiasm with which they expressed themselves on the campaign trail,
those who placed them in office are treated to one lecture after the other on the need for compromise and patience.
Well, when the Tea Partiers impatience with establishment Republican candidates intimates a Democratic victory,
he can use this same line of reasoning against his Republican critics.
My dislike for the Democratic Party is second to none, he can insist.
But in order to advance in the long run my conservative or Constitutionalist values, it may be necessary to compromise some in the short term.
For example,
as Glenn Beck once correctly noted in an interview with Katie Couric,
had John McCain been elected in 2008, it is not at all improbable that, in the final analysis,
the country would have been worse off than it is under a President Obama.
McCain would have furthered the countrys leftward drift,
but because this movement would have been slower,
and because McCain is a Republican, it is not likely that the apparent awakening that occurred under Obama would have occurred under McCain.
It may be worth it, the Tea Partier can tell Republicans, for the GOP to lose some elections if it means that conservativesand the countrywill ultimately win.
If he didnt know it before, the Tea Partier now knows that accepting short-term loss in exchange for long-term gain is the essence of compromise, the essence of politics.
Ironically, he can thank the Republican for impressing this so indelibly upon him.
I'm fresh out of
"patience", and I'm not in the mood for
"compromise".
"COMPROMISE" to me is a dirty word.
Let the
RINO's compromise their values, with the conservatives, for a change.
The "Establishment Republicans" can go to hell!
Perry's a RINO, and I don't vote for RINOs, Romney included.
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posted on
10/11/2011 10:54:57 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple: Fight or Die)
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