Posted on 08/29/2011 3:37:43 AM PDT by tobyhill
Another Texas governor who drops his “g’s” and scorns elites is running for president and the whispers are the same: Lightweight, incurious, instinctual.
Strip away the euphemisms, and Rick Perry is confronting an unavoidable question: is he dumb - or just misunderestimated?
Doubts about Perry’s intellect have hounded him since he was first elected as a state legislator nearly three decades ago. In Austin, he’s been derided as a right-place, right-time pol who looks the part but isn’t so deep – “Gov. Goodhair.” Now, with the chatter picking back up among his enemies and taking flight in elite Republican circles, the rap threatens to follow him to the national stage.
“He’s like Bush only without the brains,” cracked one former Republican governor who knows Perry, repeating a joke that has made the rounds.
The Texan’s loyalists reject the suggestion, asserting that it owes to political bias and sour grapes, but Perry himself seems to welcome the low bar. He cracked on the campaign trail earlier this month that the difference between he and Bush was that he went to Texas A&M and the former president attended Yale.
But conversations with both Perry admirers and critics reveal a more complicated assessment about the mind of a politician who has never lost an election—and ranks as the longest-serving governor in Texas history.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Is Jonathan Martin a total effing immature idiot?
LOL!! THAT picture needs to be posted on EVERY thread so everyone gets a chance to see it!!
As soon as President Obama releases his college transcripts, I guess we’ll be able to make a fair comparison between el’ presidente and Governor Perry.
Obama is bilingual...he speaks jive when appearing before his peeps. Furthermore, his world-renowned humility would never permit him to release his stellar college transcripts that would unquestionably make Perry shrink in awe.
Do you really want an answer to your question? LOL
Of course they can’t lay a glove on him.
The goal isn’t to stop these articles, it’s to point out the bias of the MSM for those few left that hasn’t seen it yet.
“He’s like Bush only without the brains,” cracked one former Republican governor who knows Perry, repeating a joke that has made the rounds.
They finely admit Bush had a brain. At least that’s something.
Eisenhower: dumb
Reagan: dumb
Bush: dumb
GW Bush: dumb
Palin: dumb
Perry: dumb
Every republican that comes along is dumb. Except Nixon, he was evil.
But Gore, Kerry, Edwards, Dean, Obama, Reid, Frank, Pelosi are all brilliant.
Please.
Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
The intelligence question has always hung around Perry, and hearing the way he speaks will raise it for the vast majority of Americans outside of the South.
Obama would rather face Perry than Romney, and JM actually swats down the issue pretty well in Perry’s favor.
All Repubs are “stupid” - didn’t you know that ..??
I remember all the times the media called GW stupid - and then implied he was a “mastermind” behind something they didn’t like.
But .. I’ve seen the preview of the National Geographic interview with GW and HE DID 4-5 HOURS WITH NO NOTES. You can’t be stupid and do that.
Zero has to use a prompter - which tells us a lot.
But they dare not ask if Obama is dumb. I guess because the answer is so obvious.
Rick Perry Islamic Connection:
Actual School Curriculums established shortly after 9/11 with Rick’s Help and Endorsement..
Has he been “bought”..?????
Scroll (skip down about 1/4 of bar)to the information about the ACTUAL school curriculums Rick Perry endorsed WITH Aga Khan in Texas.
A shade of Woodrow Wilson, distorting History (when did you learn about the African Americans actively involved in the revolutionary war, and other “positive” facts from this country’s development years), from actual to what they want the “youth” to believe..
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/08/perry-mafia-punked.html
Dropping “g”s is dumb, but dropping “r”s is intellectual.
Note: This statement does not apply to anyone involved in the technical disciplines.
There is a HUGE difference between “smart” and “intelligent.”
Thank of PARROTS and MONKEYS. Parrots are “smart” while monkeys are “intelligent.”
Parrots simply “parrot” what they read and hear. Monkeys analyze and rationally figure solutions to problems and actually use independent thought to solve them.
Now, take college grades. Parrots memorize what is shown or spoken to them and are able to recite it back to the professor in the way of a test or paper exactly the way the professor wants it. Consequently, they get good grades. After graduation, the ones who get into public office can clearly remember and cite the politically correct talking points correctly without even any form of rational thinking.
Now, take the monkey. Since they have a natural curiosity and the rational and analytical thought process, they can independently figure out problems and the solution thereof...without having to thoughtfully parrot what the Professor places before them. They are able to take pieces of the lecture and study requirements and concentrate on only the important ones, thus affecting the “parroting” process. Consequently, the grades are affected.
Later in life these two traits come into play and the differences in either is vividly apparent.
The parrots normally become “heavy thinkers” and really produce nothing for society other than something written or oral and many are professional college students, professors, teachers, politicians and other professions that require the ability to parrot what they hear with the need to actually analyze what they are saying.
The monkey, on the other hand, normally produces something tangible for society. They may be a mechanic or brain surgeon.
A “smart” one can memorize while an “intelligent” one can analyze.
Who’s a parrot and who’s a monkey. Obama or Perry. I’ll give you a hint. One has to read everything from a teleprompter and the other can think independently.
These SOB’s canNOT run on their FAILURES, they have and will continue to resort to character assassination and demonization. How frakin quaint of an administration that has to repeatedly lie to tout any success. =.=
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