Posted on 03/26/2014 11:58:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh Lucy ... You can keep your doctor if you want to.
You are confused. Palin is old news. Lucy Wescott nailed it; Palin might was well go back to DWTS.
Perry - on the other hand - has potential.
Who is Lucy Wescott and why do we care what her opinion is?
Watch Rick and see what happens. He is really good and would make a great President.
Umm...
Glad to see your flak vest still fits. ;-)
There is at least one similarity: I would have voted for either.
There sure is a difference between Palin and Perry.
From the Houston Chronicle:
The Tea Party favorite admitted that many have referred to his victory as improbable. He told Allen that the reason why Palins endorsement has had such an enormous impact is because voters consider her a true barometer of conservatism.
In a Republican primary, everyone claims to be conservative and voters are pretty cynical. They are tired of these candidates that sounds great on the stump. They say they are going to cut spending, they get into the office and they become spineless jellyfish, Cruz said. I think conservatives trust Sarah Palin that if she says this guy is a conservative, that he is a real deal.
He has explosive RINOism, so I’m not so sure he’d be a “great” president, but he’d probably more effective than Bush was.
If it came down to Jeb, Perry or Christie, I’d hold my nose and vote for Perry
I think you are right because she is someone I could vote “for” as opposed to voting “against” a presidential candidate.
Her daughter was on DWTS, not her. If Wescott made that distinction, then her research skills a poor
In some ways there is a truth about them being opposites. When Perry first became governor here in Texas, he was the biggest “hack” in politics I’ve ever seen, totally beholden to his big-money donors and to hell with anyone else. He actually got better over the years, one of the ONLY examples I’ve ever encountered of a politician going in the ‘right’ direction while in office. However, I still have my doubts about him reverted back to norm if he obtained higher office. And he’s rotten on border/amnesty issues, to boot.
Palin was the total opposite when she was governor... incredibly independent from outside forces, and starkly NOT beholden to special interests, party machinery, corporate pressures, the media, nor just about anything else beyond the people and her state’s constitution. Quite the anomaly in the sleazoid world of politics, and why I still hold her in highest regard.
Didn't Ronald Reagan have a television show?
AUTHOR PROFILE
LUCY WESTCOTT
Lucy Westcott is a politics and culture reporter. Born in Swindon, U.K., she was partly raised in suburban Chicago, where her love for all things America started after a steady diet of early 2000s Saturday Night Live. A recent graduate of University of Maryland, College Park, she has yet to hear an American master a English accent. Send over comments, tips, questions and ideas to lucywestcott6@gmail.com.
Great comments. I also think people outside of Texas don’t have any real idea how politics in our state is actually run. I’ve been here since 1985 and although involved in politics for the last ten years, just really began to understand who it is that makes the key decisions during the last two or three years. If we can get Dewhurst totally out of Austin I suspect that there will be some surprises in store for who calls the shots in the future.
Palin had a whole lot more power as governor of Alaska than Perry has as governor of Texas.
So does the Pope.
https://www.catholictv.com/shows/papal-programming
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