Sneak Peek: Gov. Rick Perry ‘On the Record’ Tonight!

I’ve been accused of a lot of things, liberal being the kindest, I guess, because I believe that Cain has a woman problem.

The Cain people are incredible. This last woman they’ve tried to destroy by calling her trash. She’s not the most sterling character in the world, but she’s not a lawbreaker, she’s just had financial problems.

Her story about the affair was very credible and she has (according to Fox News this morning) over 80 text messages from (or to and from) Cain.

There were people on the Cain thread saying stuff like ‘oh, I have a bunch of text messages to casual friends also.’

Please, give me a break. Cain is not a teenager to be dashing off text messages like crazy to everyone.

And then, these people are like, so what, I don’t care, people have sex.

What has this man done to inspire such blind and stupid loyalty. He’s done nothing. He came up from poverty but so did Rick Perry. He was a moderately successful businessman, an almost unknown talk show guy and had a job with the government involving math.

So that qualifies him to be president?

No, the thing that qualified him in the minds of his supporters was the kindly grandfather pose, the super conservative guy, faithful churchgoer and faithful husband.

With that image gone, he’s got nothing.

Just yesterday he dashed off a note asking for money, using phrases like ‘a disturbed woman’ and ‘promulated’ a story.

Who says ‘promulgated.’ It’s not in my every day vocabulary. He’s always using words like that to make himself sound smart, I guess.

Look, I defended him against the first 5 women, although I was a little taken aback by his behavior at that speech he was paid to make, not by the fact that he tried to get a dinner date with one of the attractive women but by the fact that after two of his female hosts agreed to go to dinner with him to distract him from his original choice, he ordered two bottles of $400 wine and left the two women with the bill.

Now, that’s just tacky.

Thanks, shield. You are a treasure and a comfort as are several others on these Perry threads.

I do believe we should instituted a policy of ignoring the disrupters. They only come here to annoy and we let them.

They love the arguing and posting their outrageous lies, but if we didn’t respond, I think they would give it up.

I would like to ask the moderators to kindly dissuade them not from posting opinions but from spamming the threads, but we can hardly ask that when we join in their silly games.

I never respond to them and I wish nobody else would.

Here’s what bugs me about Perry, Gingrich, and many other political/media pundits: we know why people come here, and we know how to lessen their desire to come here. We don’t have to “deport millions of people” and “split up families” and all that kind of stuff.

Why do they come here? The same reason you or I would: jobs, some degree of safety, and all the social benefits that we offer and that they take: schools, medical care, food stamps, housing, aid to dependent children, Social Security, and on and on. Estimates vary, but some are that up to 70% of illegal aliens have access to and are receiving welfare of some sort.

The toll on our education, medical, police, environment and welfare systems is massive. We pay dearly, both economically and socially by encouraging this chaos. “Cheap labor” ain’t cheap.

Until fairly recently, children who had the potential of dual citizenship, i.e. were born to non-citizen parents here, had to declare when they reached 18 (I think it was), and reject one citizenship and accept the other. They couldn’t be American citizens and retain their other citizenship.

We can’t do much about what they are leaving, but we can sure as heck make it less attractive to be here.

A politician who has the courage to speak the truth will be very attractive, IMHO.

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