[Servant of the Cross]

Sounds a lot like GW Bush. So YES it can be a lot better.

The guy that NPR executives and the New York Times and your average Subaru-driving Whole Foods shopper were afraid George W. Bush was? Rick Perry is that guy. George W. Bush was Midland by way of Kennebunkport. Rick Perry’s people are cotton farmers from Paint Creek, a West Texas town so tiny and remote that my Texan traveling-salesman father looked at me skeptically and suggested I had the name wrong when I asked him whether he knew where it was.

[dfwgator]

Rick Perry’s people are cotton farmers from Paint Creek, a West Texas town so tiny and remote that my Texan traveling-salesman father looked at me skeptically and suggested I had the name wrong when I asked him whether he knew where it was.

On the other hand, LBJ also came from a similar background, and we all know how he turned out.

[Darkwolf377]

I’m always astonished at the bashing of someone because of his place of birth, be that a poor person or a rich one.

Who cares where someone is born? Newsflash—there are stupid, evil, bad, weak people born in ‘the heartland’ just as there are such folks born in Kennebunkport.

Judge a man by his character, his actions, his demonstrated abilities—what he does, what he IS—and you have as accurate an assessment of that man as is humanly possible.

Judge a man because he comes from his address—he’s good because he’s from ‘your’ part of the world, or flawed because he was born elsewhere, and in both cases had no control over such things—and you dismiss the ability of people to be good and decent and intelligent beacause they’re born rich or poor or whatever. That’s liberal thinking right there.

Man, of all places I never expected to find this kind of stupid stuff here, on a conservative site. But it’s all over the place here, and people don’t even seem to grasp it’s the exact same kind of thinking that makes the libs consider all of us to be in ‘flyover country’ beneath them.