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Rick Perry, the Democratic years: the politician before he became a conservative Republican
Houston Chronicle ^ | 07/25/11 | Richard Dunham

Posted on 07/30/2011 1:04:11 PM PDT by freespirited

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To: eddie willers

Anyone trying to sell Al Gore has no credibility.


61 posted on 07/30/2011 5:07:44 PM PDT by ansel12 ( Bristol Palin's book "Not Afraid Of Life: My Journey So Far" became a New York Times, best seller.)
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To: B4Ranch
Well, you probably wouldn't want me over for dinner either, then, since I'd like to see Perry as Sarah Palin's running mate! :)

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62 posted on 07/30/2011 5:59:56 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

You called that correctly. I am a Sarah supporter but I do believe she got this one wrong.


63 posted on 07/30/2011 6:13:42 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are..)
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To: smoothsailing

There’s one question you can ask him that will reveal his true feelings towards our style of government. “Sir, do you support Agenda 21?” If he says yes, shoot him on the spot and save America.


64 posted on 07/30/2011 6:19:01 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are..)
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To: smoothsailing

Palin had nothing but praise for Perry.

examples:

**Rick Perry is true to conservative principles even when others think the party needs to go a different direction.

**He does what is right regardless of whether it is popular.

**He walks the walk of a true conservative.

**Not every child is born into ideal circumstances, but every life is sacred. Rick Perry knows this – it is at the core of his being.

**Will you join me in supporting a true conservative for governor – Rick Perry?

**Rick Perry is proven and principled.


65 posted on 07/30/2011 6:24:10 PM PDT by deport
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To: freespirited

No mystery here. Until the 1980s, Republicans were rare in Texas. We had conservative Democrats versus less conservative Democrats.

I know several older people who are solid conservatives but won’t vote for a Republican because they still remember the stories their grandmother told them about what happened during Reconstruction.

For what it’s worth, the last Democrat I voted for was Senator Lloyd Bentsen, an honorable man who had the good sense to be the first major member of the Clinton administration


66 posted on 07/30/2011 8:30:50 PM PDT by DallasMike
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To: B4Ranch
There’s one question you can ask him that will reveal his true feelings towards our style of government. “Sir, do you support Agenda 21?” If he says yes, shoot him on the spot and save America.

Well, if he says yes, I'll let you do the shooting, but I'd sure as hell want him at least tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail first, before I handed him over to you.

I'm sure you're aware that nutbags like Alex Jones, Lew Rockwell and the Ron Paul crazy people are trying to tie Perry to every UN-Bilderberger-black helicopter-flying Martian monkey type conspiracy their fevered minds can dream up. They did the same thing to Bush, nothing new about it. Is Agenda 21 real! I think there's something to it, don't you? Is Rick involved with it or support it? I can't seriously buy such a weird concept, but there are those who do. They're more than likely either pushing some strange personal agenda or they're certifiably insane. LOL!

67 posted on 07/30/2011 8:33:07 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: deport

By jove, I think she likes him! :)


68 posted on 07/30/2011 8:35:06 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: DallasMike

Ack. Meant to say that Bentsen was the first major member of the Clinton administration to leave.

Though I don’t recall any comments from Bentsen at the time, most people here believed that he wised up and didn’t want to be associated with a skank like Clinton.


69 posted on 07/30/2011 8:44:17 PM PDT by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike
For what it’s worth, the last Democrat I voted for was Senator Lloyd Bentsen

The last Democrat I voted for was Zell Miller ...who got so pissed off at his own party that he spoke at the 2004 Republican Convention.

70 posted on 07/30/2011 9:24:28 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: smoothsailing
After looking at your profile page I am going to give you an short description of Agenda 21. It is literally the worst thing that has happened in my life because it has but one goal and that is to destroy the American culture, the American government, everything that you and I believe in down to our religious beliefs.

They don't care if you're Jewish, Hindu, Catholic, Mormon or a certified witchtalker. You must not believe in or look up to anything stronger than the globalist socialist communist government. The United Nations Charter (Constitution) is going to be the World Government and bring about New World Order.

How, you ask? You are seeing it happen right now. Economic Disaster.

Agenda 21 Part I: A Global Economic Disaster in the Making

Agenda 21 Part II: Globalist Totalitarian Dictatorship Invading a Town Near You – With Your Permission

Agenda 21 Part III: Maryland County Abolishes Agenda 21 – Now for the Rest of the Country

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These articles are available on numerous websites across the Internet. I just happened to pick this one. Don't feel like reading? Go to Youtube.com and put in agenda-21. There is days of information available for you.

Yes, Agenda 21 is real and it is going to try to control you, your family, your business, everything! Most Americans don't want to sit down and learn about the deadly infection that is in our governments, local, state and federal. Call your City manager and ask him if he supports Agenda 21. He'll tell you, "Damn right I do. I get hundreds of thousands of earmark dollars from them".

Think this is a new idea? Nope, It's been in the works for almost 100 years now. Patient buggers aren't they? They're winning the game so why should they care about how long it takes?

Agenda 21 For Dummies

Agenda 21 For Intelligent People

71 posted on 07/30/2011 9:50:30 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are..)
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To: B4Ranch
I appreciate your thoughtfulness in sharing the Agenda 21 info. As I said, "I think there's something to it, don't you?" Obviously you do as well. Since you've checked out my profile, you can probably guess that I am fully capable of defending my family and my land. I'm also fully prepared to do so and I trust you are as well. Be well, my freeper friend. Good Night.
72 posted on 07/30/2011 10:15:44 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

“I am fully capable of defending my family and my land.”

It’s going to take more than that. Our city governments are leaning towards the cash grants, our schools are corrupting our children with this “sustainable” malarkey, our governments are falling apart. Christianity is disappearing off the face of the earth seeing as it’s outlawed everywhere but inside the churches.

Take some time and learn about Agenda 21 so you recognize it when you see it no matter what it’s being called that particular day. Question your candidates for their view about it.


73 posted on 07/30/2011 10:51:58 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are..)
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To: ansel12
I've searched to find out when the Perry family started going to Tarrytown United Methodist Church. There is the non-specific statement that they were members in the 1990s. I suspect they started attending in the late 1980s and underwent a transformational change from DemonRAT campaign manager for Al Gore to a evangelical, conservative Christian. This is only theory because there is little information about Perry's church attendance. I believe minister, Rev. Jim Mayfield was a far cry from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I would say, Mayfield was conservative from the comments he made about George W. Bush:

“It is obvious that he had faulty intelligence reports and that he also chose to listen to the wrong set of advisers,” and, “Yet I remain convinced he was doing the best he knew to do and that he was motivated by the intention of striving toward worldwide individual freedom and democracy.”

Finally, I mispoke in saying that Tarrytown United Methodist Church “is largely in the non-denominational, evangelical style of mega-church with power point sermons, rock band song ministry, and large screen TVs.” This is the description of Lake Hills Church, which Perry began attending in 2010. Sorry for the misinformation.

There is little I can find that describes what Tarrytown United Methodist Church was like under Rev. Jim Mayfield. I know the last time I attended a Methodist Church, they had an authentic American Indian prayer circle complete with drums and the burning of sage. However, I seriously doubt you would have seen anything like that in Mayfield’s church. In Wright's church you may have found some African drums.

Finally, I believe it was the church that transformed Rick Perry. I just don't have the confirmation that nails anything down. So, take it as theory. Sorry.

74 posted on 07/31/2011 12:23:27 AM PDT by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: jonrick46
the Perry family started going to Tarrytown United Methodist Church. There is the non-specific statement that they were members in the 1990s. I suspect they started attending in the late 1980s and underwent a transformational change from DemonRAT campaign manager for Al Gore to a evangelical, conservative Christian.

LOL...there is nothing evangelical or conservative about the United Methodist Church.

75 posted on 07/31/2011 12:26:49 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (They've swindled every penny out of the living, so now they've moved on to looting posterity.)
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To: jonrick46

Interesting post.


76 posted on 07/31/2011 12:38:09 AM PDT by ansel12 ( Bristol Palin's book "Not Afraid Of Life: My Journey So Far" became a New York Times, best seller.)
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To: EternalVigilance

I agree! Once I was invited to a special service by a friend who was a Methodist missionary with Native Americans. You should have seen the faces of the Methodist congregation when a group of Native Americans engaged in a prayer circle ritual on the church’s altar.


77 posted on 07/31/2011 3:20:24 AM PDT by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: B4Ranch
Take some time and learn about Agenda 21 so you recognize it when you see it no matter what it’s being called that particular day. Question your candidates for their view about it.

That's good advice for every Patriot. I've only touched on the subject with a few of my local officials in the past, but I can certainly engage them further in the future. Pardon if I don't immediately begin reading up on the subject. I'm in the middle of Demonic by Ann Coulter and once I've finished it will begin Deconstructing Obama by Jack Cashill.

Enjoyed chatting with you. Don't be surprised if we end up with a Palin/Perry Republican ticket. I maintain it will serve us well. FRegards!

78 posted on 07/31/2011 8:10:46 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: RVN Airplane Driver

My dad grew up in Speaker Sam’s district just west of Paris.


79 posted on 07/31/2011 8:36:04 AM PDT by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: freespirited

Thanks for the ping and the post freespirited.

The Houston Chronicle is what’s left for us to read after they consolidate the morning and evening papers about 20 years ago.

They try to give it away in the grocery stores — and get you to sign up for delivery.

Needless to say it is decidedly liberal.


80 posted on 07/31/2011 9:01:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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