Posted on 01/31/2015 1:45:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that governors are much better suited for the presidency than senators — a useful argument for him to make as he looks to position himself for a potential 2016 bid against a field likely to include several senators.
“Governors have to make choices every day. Governors are judged on the results of what we do,” Perry told The Daily Caller Friday. “Senators talk.”
He added, “United States senators, by choosing to go into that line of work, don’t get to do that. They don’t get to learn, or to exhibit their leadership ability and have clear results of their actions.”
While the 2016 Republican field is hardly set, potential candidates who are current or former governors include Chris Christie (N.J.), Scott Walker (Wis.), Jeb Bush (Fla.), Mike Huckabee (Ark.), John Kasich (Ohio), Mike Pence (Ind.), Bobby Jindal (La.), and Perry. Also at the center of speculation about running are serving Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Ted Cruz (Texas), and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) as well as former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn.). Perry said that someone who had served as governor was typically a “grizzled vet,” and asked rhetorically whether the country would want someone who’s all talk, or all action.
“Would you rather have someone who talks about aviation a lot and really gives a great speech about aerodynamics and about navigation and about weather and about all of the different things a pilot needs to know, but have only about 100 hours of being behind the yoke of an airliner?" he said.
“Or would you rather have a 10,000-hour individual who has had to fly through storms?”
While speaking at the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner on Friday, Perry pointed to President Obama, a former senator, as purported proof of his argument.
“I understand why, in 2016, Americans are not going to have a desire to elect an unproven, untested, no-results individual to lead this country,” he said.
“We took our chance with this extraordinarily bright, capable, wonderful speaker who had no experience of running anything, and he proved it.”
This is not the first time that Perry’s disparaged senators. With Ted Cruz also weighing a presidential bid that could split support within Texas, Perry hasn’t been shy about jabbing senators in general and even Cruz directly.
“Ask me in eight years if Sen. Cruz has made an impact on the state,” he said this summer at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, according to CQ Roll Call.
“At this particular point in time, it’s a little early to say that a junior senator would have substantively changed the state.”
—Walker is abominal on the issue.
You can support almost none of your rant about Walker. Walker has said very little about immigration though I would like him to be stronger.
Did a word search on the sourced article. Rule only appears in the title not in any quote from Perry.
This is the price we pay for having partisan imbeciles writing for anything more complex than a cookbook.
That is patently untrue. Walker has said quite a bit on record with multiple major news organizations and with video recordings within the past two years.
And what he has said is atrocious and appalling.
Here’s a sample:
Kings rule.
Far as your question goes, vet, I am ashamed to admit that i do not know the answer.
No where in Perry's statements does the word rule appear.
That is adding your own understating of a Governor.
If he never said it, then that’s fair enough, my problem is with the headline of this thread then, but governors certainly do govern, they do not rule.
I am not the subject of Rick Scott for instance.
But seeing as he never in fact said that governors rule, why in the heck does the headline say that he said that ?_?
Even going to the article indicates the same thing, so I am perplexed.
Thank you.
“http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gov-rick-perry-deploying-up-to-1000-national-guard-troops-to-border/
Perry talks a good game, but the fact that he waited until the extreme heat of summer to actually deploy them comes into play. Most illegals avoid the desert in the summer.
He follows that with canceling deployment after the extreme heat is over. Also, he didn’t really give them the power to actually stop the illegals.
But in your own linked article it says
‘Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said the governor hasn’t endorsed a particular policy …..
but said legal immigrants should get priority over illegal immigrants.’
that’s not an open borders policy.
and this….He has in the past suggested he could support the kind of tough immigration laws instituted in Arizona…
Which I read as ‘since Obama has stomped all over Arizona …..’
But he says everyone from any country who wants to come here legally ought to be allowed to. That’s a virtual open border policy. He’d have anyone who wants to to come here legally, so there’d be no need for illegals.
The only place I saw the word "rule" was in the headline - it didn't appear in the article as something Perry said....In fact, what he said makes perfect sense.
As fwdude said about Perry, “the ability to think on your feet is indispensable.” This man needs to get his act together so he doesn’t give the left any ammo for attacking him. Better yet, he can get out of the way and leave Cruz a clear field. There are three reasons I cannot support Perry: his stance on Amnesty, his inability to express himself clearly, and . . . um . . . I’ve forgotten the third reason.
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