Is Rick Perry a Dope?

Pajamas Media ^ | August 25th, 2011 | Roger L Simon

[Blueflag]

completely full flight, and I wanted to get home. ;-)

What was harder was remaining civil. And quiet.

[shield]

Now look how the world looks at Ronald Reagan. The countries who are now free because of him...think he was the greatest president ever. Even the once...merry ole’ England...now liberal England recently had a statue put up for Ronald Reagan.

[HerrBlucher]

And tactic #2 is:

Democrats are nice and compassionate
Republicans are mean and cruel

[muir_redwoods]

Of course he's a dope; all conservatives and republicans(except the ones that can't win) are dopes. It's only the enlightened socialists who are smart. They're smart because the favor an economic system that has never worked, can never work and caused the deaths of 100 million civilians at the hands of their own governments in the 20th century.

It takes real brains to favor that system in the face of such facts. Republicans and conservatives are too stupid to pursue such a deadly, unworkable approach to the economy.

[MrEdd]

That said, I will still vote for him if he is the last man standing.

I will not. but if he is the nominee, I absolutely will ridicule everyone I know of who votes for him in the event that they complain about policies he endorsed in the future.

Regardless of if he is defeated.

Just as I now make fun of Texans who complain of felons from south America pouring into Texas...yet they voted for McCain.

They got the policies they voted for and they will take a continuous public drubbing for it.

[greeneyes]

If I remember correctly, there was a hilarious website during the 2000 election, that had info on Gore’s change in attitudes. There was repetition of the phrase Not my Al, or Not our Al.

[shield]

Now what do you propose to stop that from happening? That is where we are living in today. The left is trying to destroy this country...some on the right would like to see the whole American system brought down and rebuild it. That’s not going to happen...those with the money which are those like Soros will rebuild it into the image they have in mind.

[bwc2221]

Can you provide a source for your quote?

Yes, I can.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/06/the_time_rick_perry_said_he_wa.html

[gov_bean_ counter]

Fair enough.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....Not my Al...

And Tipper finally said it too!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Rick Perry: “Certainly you are not going to see a philosophical difference between Rick Perry and George Bush. We share the same type of political philosophy.”

Perry’s words, not mine.

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Yes, but you’re a deceptive weasel.

Perry said that in 2000, after Bush was elected President (and Perry Governor, before he took office and let us down.

You were probably adoring Bush at the time.

[RoosterRedux]

Very interesting download from Kindle. Only 99 cents for a single chapter of an upcoming book.

This seems like an interesting new publication strategy to fire up reader anticipation and make a little money in the process.

[CA Conservative]

Thank you. As I said, context is important. Perry said that in the year 2000, as he was taking over the governorship from President-elect GW Bush. I am sure Perry was not about to trash the new President of the USA by saying, "That lousy GWB is just a globalist RINO, and I'm going to do everything different than he did!"

Get back to me when you find a similar statement from the last couple of years...

[shield]

Do you think it is smart to put this down in a book. I am concerned about the timing.

[crazydad]

Ill take Perry over their Barry any day!!

[lentulusgracchus]

....— who is a 3rd term governor with a GOP super majority.

You keep saying that, and you're getting annoying.

The fact of the matter is that the Democrats have the actual working majority in the Texas House because a group of Dallas-area RiNO's, led by Speaker Joe Straus (from San Antonio) keep voting with the Democrats on leadership issues to re-elect mega-RiNO Straus, and they vote routinely to kill bills wanted by many other Republicans.

Moreover, Straus's redistricting map reduces the state Lege's Republican representation in future, and he did it to "get at" the conservative GOP'ers who didn't vote for him as speaker, because Joe Straus toes the Democrat line in the Lege, helping kill every bill conservatives cared about in the previous legislative session, and helping Democrats in the recent one. He also killed the "sanctuary cities" and border legislation, and the bill forbidding TSA crotch-grabbing and strip-searching in the special session just ended.

Straus arranged for eight of the most conservative Republicans in the Texas house to be paired against each other, guaranteeing that four conservative GOP'ers will lose their seats in the next Lege.

The Texas GOP legislators did get some things done -- such as an honest-to-God anti-barratry bill aimed at the Texas plaintiff's bar, a bunch of 'Rat-supporting ambulance chasers who are a money machine for people like the Clintons. They also got "loser pays" through, which will be a big help. But they could have been twice as productive, and instead left the social-conservative bills to die, passing only the bills that Big Business cares about.

THAT is the political dog's breakfast Rick Perry presides over, not "a GOP supermajority".

[shield]

You bet...Perry is a good choice. As Carville has said...it’s the economy stupid.

[greeneyes]

LOL. Thanks. I thought it was my, but wasn’t entirely sure. Memory is not what it used to be.

[Arrowhead1952]

provided he has the stones to use the veto to kill spending bills that don’t make sense

IIRC, Perry made a statement to the effect of: "I'll use the veto pen until it runs out of ink" a few days ago.

[RoosterRedux]

I'm gonna download it tonight...I'll let you know.

Since the conclusions of Perry's experts is a call for more good old-fashioned retail politics (pressing the flesh and talking to voters) and less contrived media, I can't believe it would tarnish Perry in any way.

If on the other hand, the group had concluded that Obama's style of image manipulation and voter hypnosis was best (and Perry decided to adopt such)...that would be damaging.