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Perry describes 'long love affair with guns'
MSNBC ^ | October 22, 2011 | Carrie Dann

Posted on 10/22/2011 10:39:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife


Iowa Rep. Steve King (left) and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (right), who is running for president, went pheasant hunting in Iowa Saturday.

MERRILL, Iowa -- Rick Perry often waxes eloquent about his wife Anita as the love of his life, but today in Iowa he disclosed to journalists another "long love affair" that has affected him since he was young.

With guns, that is.

"It was a long love affair with a boy and his gun, that turned into a man and his gun, that turned into a man and his son and his daugher and their guns," an orange-and-khaki-clad Perry said of his relationship with firearms before a pheasant hunting trip in northwestern Iowa.

Perry, who took questions from reporters before the shooting expedition with Iowa Rep. Steve King, called family hunting "part of America" and said that teaching children the safety and the mechanics of firearms is "one of the great American traditions."....

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; anaffair2remember; andwithillegals; formerdemocratperry; guns; heartless; hunting; openborders; patriot; perry; perry2012; rino; steepdownwardspiral
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To: normy
Really? Here's another.

John Kerry supports taxpayer funded subsidies for ILLEGAL aliens. So does Pandering Rick Perry.

I think 'rational people' will see that for what it is.

41 posted on 10/22/2011 12:01:54 PM PDT by South40 ('Heartless' since 1957)
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To: circlecity

“I understand the sentiment and feel much the same way but with regard to language and nuance Perry is politically tone deaf. I so much wanted to like and get behind him too -In a way he’s been more of a disappointment than Sarah deciding not to run.”

I talked to a conservative guy from the northeast today who expressed the exact same sentiment.


42 posted on 10/22/2011 12:02:56 PM PDT by ngat
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To: ngat
I talked to a conservative guy from the northeast...

We call those liberals.

43 posted on 10/22/2011 12:09:27 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

This wasn’t a photo op.

Perry hunts and shoots about as much as others play golf. It was opportunity for him to hunt pheasant(yumm)and I would have been shocked if he had turned it down.


44 posted on 10/22/2011 12:17:23 PM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: normy

I did a test and went to the latest Cain thread. I see no Perry supporters over there trying to shout it down.


45 posted on 10/22/2011 12:19:24 PM PDT by independent in tx
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Lots of shooting, speechifying and eating today in Iowa. Tonight is the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition Banquet in Des Moines. All candidates will be there excepting Romney.

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If you don't want to pay to listen to the speeches, you can watch them from home live on C-SPAN from 6 to 9 p.m.

Candidates will each be asked two questions by the Faith and Freedom Coalition and two questions from the Iowa Energy Forum, an oil industry trade group.

Tonight's lineup:

4:30 – 6 p.m.: Registration, meet-and-greet, buffet dinner

6 p.m.: C-SPAN begins live coverage

6:33 – 6:45 p.m.: Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee

6:45 – 7:07: Herman Cain

7:07 – 7:29: Michele Bachmann

7:29 – 7:51: Rick Perry

7:51 – 8:13: Newt Gingrich

8:13 – 8:35: Ron Paul

8:35 – 8:57: Rick Santorum

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Iowa's Christian Conservatives Gather Tonight to Hear GOP Candidates


46 posted on 10/22/2011 12:24:54 PM PDT by deport
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Perry describes 'long love affair with guns'

His wife may want to tuck them away after the next series of polling comes out.

47 posted on 10/22/2011 12:30:19 PM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: independent in tx
It was similar to Palin threads back in the day. I went to one to make a point but every Perry thread was a bash fest.

I had a revelation today of what is going on. I see very clearly now. Keep the faith. Perry is going to win, I have an inside source.

48 posted on 10/22/2011 12:31:09 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I love guns too, in the hands of bonafide American citizens. Unfortunately, that’s not quite the reality here in Rick Perryland where you can simultaneously be illegal to be here, be armed in a sanctuary city and have in state tuition waiting for you.


49 posted on 10/22/2011 12:37:07 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Rick Perry engages in corporate welfare via Texas TEF/ETF)
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To: normy

The good news is the constant effort to bash him can only mean they are worried...


50 posted on 10/22/2011 12:37:31 PM PDT by independent in tx
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To: Sea Parrot

Hey, I have an idea, lets demonize all the GOP candidates,

I only demonize the liberals like Romney and Perry. I NEVER bad mouthed Palin who I would have been proud to have as my President. Go Cain 2012.


51 posted on 10/22/2011 12:46:45 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: independent in tx
Of course! And it's the same stuff over and over. You could post a thread about Perry bashing Obama and there is a ping list designed to descend on that thread and say "yeah but is he heartless" or "free tuition for illegals"

That's how I know this is all crap. Romney is defended on threads where Perry trashes him. That is how you know who your enemy truly is.

52 posted on 10/22/2011 12:47:27 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: Lazamataz

I get the **ck, but what is the grudge part?


53 posted on 10/22/2011 12:48:05 PM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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To: lonestar

“I talked to a conservative guy from the northeast...
We call those liberals.”

My personal experience is conservative guys outnumber liberal guys up here by a wide margin. And liberal women outnumber conservative guys by an even wider margin.


54 posted on 10/22/2011 12:56:24 PM PDT by ngat
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To: independent in tx; normy; altura; Cincinatus' Wife
The good news is the constant effort to bash him can only mean they are worried...

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55 posted on 10/22/2011 1:03:35 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Vietnam 68-69 (FUBO-FUMR!))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Even down to the nitty gritty of what light bulbs can be on our store shelves...

And the mandated ones are an environmental nightmare...this, from your Federal Government which claims to be “green” and which claims to be helping you.

RP’s words reflect my sentiments exactly, and he has fought these tinpot dictators every step of the way...

A Romney he “ain’t”, no matter how many times the lie is told...


56 posted on 10/22/2011 1:21:35 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...HOLD TO THE TRUTH; SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck)
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To: independent in tx
I did a test and went to the latest Cain thread. I see no Perry supporters over there trying to shout it down.

There was a post about Cain's website not working for donations for those using a certain browser. I went to Cain's website at the request of the poster of the thread.

I'm a Perry person, but not a snarky one. Sorry I can't say that about all the CainTrain people who have hijacked this nice hunting thread.

57 posted on 10/22/2011 1:32:41 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Freepers, please turn yourself in at attackwatch.com)
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To: Sea Parrot

I have become convinced that many “Freepers” are not conservatives at all. They fight just like girls and liberals. They call names and trash each other over the internet.


58 posted on 10/22/2011 1:34:09 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: txrangerette
RP’s words reflect my sentiments exactly, and he has fought these tinpot dictators every step of the way...

Exactly.

59 posted on 10/22/2011 1:42:39 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Freepers, please turn yourself in at attackwatch.com)
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To: Caipirabob; South40; TADSLOS
Perry describes 'long love affair with guns'......but his wife may want to tuck them away after the next series of polls comes out.

And you can bet when those polls emerge, there'll be no "Texas Miracles" in the governor's mansion that night.

60 posted on 10/22/2011 2:04:54 PM PDT by Liz (The rule of law must prevail. We canÂ’t govern ourselves by our personal point of view.)
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