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To: YankeeReb
Rick Perry after the Fla debate.

"The idea that heartless Americans are gonna
vote for a great guy like me makes no sense."

12 posted on 09/25/2011 4:18:28 AM PDT by Liz (The rule of law must prevail. We canÂ’t govern ourselves by our personal point of view.)
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It's perfectly possible for Perry to completely derail at this point - in fact, it's almost likely ........serious questions have been raised WRT whether he has the intellect to be president...........

Perry 's most embarrassing moments.......... struggling to answer a foreign policy question, calling Americans "heartless WRT in-state tuition, and stumbling when driving home a prepared attack on chief adversary, Mitt Romney.

It is true that the nation has elected incoherent Texans to the White House, but Perry alone has come up with THE dumbest non-sequiturs. This one at the FLA venue takes the cake: Perry’s debate answer WRT what he’d do if the White House phone rang at 3 AM......informing him that the Taliban had gotten control of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.

“Well, obviously, before you ever get to that point, you have to build a relationship in that region. And that’s one of the things that this administration has not done. Just yesterday we found out through Admiral Mullen that Haqqani has been involved with — and that’s the terrorist group directly associated with the Pakistani country — so to have a relationship with India, to make sure that India knows that they are an ally of the United States.” Perry went on to tell a story about how the Obama administration wouldn’t sell upgraded F-16 fighters to India. which n-e-v-e-r happened.

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Perry's candidacy-ending response was when he thumbed his nose at his country and its citizenry, saying those who disagreed with him on in-state tuition are "heartless." The inference was that only Perry was Truly Worthy (b/c only he had sucked up to Mexico).

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Perry was anticipating the triumphal moment when he would be able to nail Romney for being a flip-flopper---and had prepared for it. This was Perry's response: “I think Americans just don’t know sometimes which Mitt Romney they’re dealing with. Is it the Mitt Romney that was on the side of — against the Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment? Was it — was before — he was before the social programs from the standpoint of — he was for standing up for Roe versus Wade before he was against first — Roe versus Wade? Him — he was for Race to the Top. He’s for Obamacare and now he’s against it. I mean, we’ll wait until tomorrow and — and — and see which Mitt Romney we’re really talking to tonight.”

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All in all, Perry has a complete lack of presidential gravitas — he has an odd way of responding to a debater, then cocking his head in an almost mechanical way, posing with a self-satisfied grin (as if he had just paged through his vast holdings he's accumulated in Texas politics).

13 posted on 09/25/2011 4:25:59 AM PDT by Liz (The rule of law must prevail. We canÂ’t govern ourselves by our personal point of view.)
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To: Liz

“The idea that heartless Americans are gonna
vote for a great guy like me makes no sense.”

Ha! His carefully constructed mask finally slipped. He’s a RINO in every sense. The only exception, for which he deserves credit, is he’s pro-life.


53 posted on 09/26/2011 5:01:12 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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