Posted on 11/06/2011 6:03:53 AM PST by Kartographer
exas Gov. Rick Perry has always cultivated a populist image. He began his campaign attacking Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and calling Washington, D.C., a “seedy” place. These days he’s laying it on pretty thick. Last week he told the San Francisco Chronicle:
The American people are not confused about what is on their minds. And it’s not whether some political operative takes a video and puts it up on YouTube. They care about who’s going to get this country back working, who is it that has a track record and a focus and the courage to walk into Washington, D.C., not tinker around the edges with a little tweezer but take a wrecking ball, a sledgehammer — whatever it takes to break up the good-old-boy corporate lobbyist mentality that is putting this country’s future in jeopardy. The problem with that line is that there is no candidate in the Republican presidential primary race who more personifies the “good-old-boy corporate lobbyist mentality” than Rick Perry.
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Well, Rick Perry likes pay fer play y’all. It is a Texas art. Y’all know, that is just how it is.
Stick your head in the sand all you like. He has a rich history of it and the other side is well aware.
Perhaps, but these guys never give up. I am tired of the one sided journalism. If Christ was running on the GOP ticket, these guys would say he came from a broken family.
Excellent article, pointing out what many of us Texans have known for years.
What is wrong with this idiot Jennifer Rubin? She acts like there is something wrong with our system of public-private partnerships.
Look, if what the other side says is just baloney and they can provide no proof, then it is BS.
But our side knows they have plenty of ammo on this.
This is Perry’s number one problem: as a governor of Texas he had to lay down with tons of dogs infested with fleas. If we were in 2000 he’d skate on by. But the tea party, thankfully, has put an end to flea bag politicians.
What’s wrong with Jennifer Rubin is that she is a Mitten.
But she couldn’t be more right about the corruption that motivates our “public-private partnerships”.
“But she couldn’t be more right about the corruption that motivates our “public-private partnerships”.”
Sure, but it is disingenuous in the extreme to focus on Rick Perry’s part of it. He is no different from anyone who participates in the managerial society that was set up in this country during the last hundred years. For gosh sakes, it’s all been legalized. The Supreme Court has even ruled that a persons privare property can be taken for private use by government entities (mis)using public domain laws.
I am not a Perry fan, but “pay fer play y’all. It is a Texas art. Y’all know, that is just how it is.” I grew up in Texas, and so I say this language is demeaning, and to hell with you.
Actually, Perry has been famous for years for having elevated it beyond the norm even for our corrupt political world.
Perry’s had his own version of a Solyndra-style slush fund for years, and his political positions have too often reflected corrupt influences.
That is how he talks. I love Texas and have found it to be a most hospitable place.
But Perry? Not so much.
I am not being demeaning. People from my state are known for their twang. I am not one of those that gets all upset and offended though.
Maybe you are. Oh well. Doesn’t change a thing about Rick Perry.
“Perry’s had his own version of a Solyndra-style slush fund for years, and his political positions have too often reflected corrupt influences.”
I would contend far less successfully than the rest of his political competition that play the exact same game.
My point is, Jennifer Rubin is deliberately using her position as a writer to focus on an individual she hates instead of the crony-capitalist, or as more accurately described by Hannity, thecrony-socialist system, that ALL these guys work.
I am not addressing Perry particularly with my comment, I am addressing the one sided journalism. Pick any of the top GOP somewhat conservative candidates or even potential ones like Palin or Rubio, except Paul whom the Media ignores, and everyone of them gets blasted.
As far as Perry goes, I’d pick him over Romney any day of the week if just for one position, firearms. Romney is a RINO dem simp candidate, it is that simple. Of course between Romney and the Nightmare, I’d vote for him and that is what the Press is counting upon i.e. give them the choice between two evils, one the devil and one just an accolyte. If it looks like they fail getting Romney opponents out of the primary then go to the fall back, push a third party.
I am not worried about firearms with any of our nominees. Well, maybe with Romney.
I will pick one that doesn’t have a history of engaging in the same type policy of the scum we want to rid ourselves of.
To do so would be to shame conservatives and the Tea Party.
My point is, you’re right that Rubin isn’t really a conservative (like so many, she just plays one for her liberal newspaper employer) and she is totally in the tank for Romney. So of course Perry is a special target of hers.
But that Perry is no worse than all the other pols out there doesn’t wash (except maybe in TX): he’s been corrupt on a TX scale for decades.
“But that Perry is no worse than all the other pols out there doesn’t wash (except maybe in TX): he’s been corrupt on a TX scale for decades.”
I disagree with that. Perry is a piker when it comes to influence peddling, compared most of his political opponents. For Jennifer Rubin to say Perry perfected it is just ridiculous. Perry has laid out his income-tax returns unlike his opponents. What about Gardisil? Chump-change. What about TTC? Epic Fail.
What Perry bought through his loan guarantees and other corporate suckups was millions and millions of dollars of campaign donations.
And that repeatedly bought him a governorship—from which he’s trying to run for president.
TX has very much more lenient political gift-giving rules (as in, generally none) than has any other state. That’s why you end up with guys like RP as your guv—and then the rest of the country is shocked that he can neither think nor speak on his feet. (Or seated in a chair.)
We Texans tried to tell y’all about Perry at the beginning but some here refused to listen. Many have stepped away from the “ooh, we like Texas and Rick has good hair” but a few are still dazzled. This run for POTUS is his last hurrah. Once he drops out of this race, he’s done as governor as well. Adios, Richardo.
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