Posted on 08/29/2014 4:22:18 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Republican Party must control Congress in order to solve national problems like immigration, Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, said Wednesday during a fundraiser for the South Carolina Republican Party.
Despite recently being indicted on two felony counts of abuse of power, Perry visited the Palmetto State - the first Southern state to hold a primary during presidential elections - right after spending a few days in New Hampshire, which holds the second nominating contest in the country. In addition to the fundraiser, Perry had time to watch Texas A&M, his alma mater, take on the University of South Carolina. Perry was a yell leader at A&M.
He had a few other stops planned around Columbia, the state capital, including a speech to high school athletes who belong to a Christian organization.
South Carolina was the final resting place of Perry's 2012 presidential campaign. He dropped out just before the primary election was held after poor showings in both New Hampshire and Iowa.
The Texas governor barely mentioned the 2016 presidential race during his 10-minute speech Wednesday night, in keeping with his recent focus on policy issues. Instead, he told the roughly 100-person crowd that it's important for Republicans to retake the Senate and bring all of Congress into their control so they can have a voice on issues like immigration reform. He reminded his audience that President Obama refused his invitation to tour the Texas-U.S. border with him during a trip earlier this summer.
"I don't care how good your briefers are. The president needed to see the challenge of that 1,200-mile border," he said.
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Just like that, huh?
A&M killed S. Carolina in that game. S. Carolina Defense was non-existent.
Rick Perry gives Sarah Palin the middle finger by hiring these assholes.
The Dems got what they wanted: for the rest of his life and beyond, Perry will always be the "indicted governor."
When are you going to learn that name calling is not going to get you anywhere? Barnyard language doesn’t do it either.
I love the dream world Perry lives in. Send 1000 unarmed Natl Guard members to a 3,000 mile border and you secure the border, uhhu.
elect more RINOs like Scott Brown and you solve the problems of immigration, over spending, etc? Does he really expect the RINO delegation led by Susie, has anyone seen Suzanne, Collins, to ever vote conservative?
Has the GOP spoken up?
Has the GOP said ANYTHING?
.... except that Romney will run again.
The GOP belong in HELL where it has put America
through Romney and Rove’s backstabbing of conservatives
for their Obama and Soros.
Yep, that is what I have heard.
As Rush so well pointed out yesterday, the Repubs winning in Nov. does nothing. Like scoring a first down when your team is down 49 -0.
Without a strategic plan, nothing will happen. The Dems have a determined strategic plan: socialism/destroy the Constitution. The Repubs see no further than winning the next election.
Our nation desperately needs a conservative leader with vision and a plan - and more than anything, who can communicate that to the public and win hearts and minds.
I don’t see him or her out there....
If they do win the Senate, then what? Probably nothing. Probably just make enough of the population mad to vote the Dems back in with a Dem president in ‘16.
Apart from divine intervention, our nation is history.....so pray for divine intervention......
Immigration is not a problem..
the illegal aliens are the problem..
I would like to see a switch to Republican control but I can’t trust them anymore than I can trust the CommieCrats.
The GOP continues to pour gas on this fire, Rick…
We’re all socialists now?
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - The Law; Frederic Bastiat
and speaking of that fire, Rick…
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-texas-debt-clock.html
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited
Hereditary One Volume (?) 1784-1796 - Philip Freneau
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt, provided enough of it can be got and it be medicated with the proper ingredients. If by good fortune a debt be ready at hand, the most is to be made of it. Stretch it and swell it to the utmost the items will bear. Allow as many extra claims as decency will permit. Assume all the debts of your neighbors - in a word, get as much debt as can be raked and scraped together, and when you have got all you can, “advertise” for more, and have the debt made as big as possible. This object being accomplished, the next will be to make it as perpetual as possible; and the next to that, to get it into as few hands as possible. The more effectually to bring this about, modify the debt, complicate it, divide it, subdivide it, subtract it, postpone it, let there be one-third of two-thirds, and two-thirds of one-third, and two-thirds of two-thirds; let there be 3 percents, and 4 percents, and 6 percents, and present 6 percents, and future 6 percents. To be brief, let the whole be such a mystery that a few only can understand it; and let all possible opportunities and informations fall in the way of these few to cinch their advantages over the many.
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act. All this, however, must be carried on under the cover of the closest secrecy; and it is particularly lucky that dealings in paper admit of more secrecy that any other. Should a discovery take place, the whole plan may be blown up.
8. The ways in which a great debt, so constituted and applied, will contribute to the ultimate end in view are both numerous and obvious. (1) The favorite few, thus possessed of it, whether within or without the government, will feel the staunchest fealty to it, and will go through thick and thin to support it in all its oppressions and usurpations. (2) Their money will give them consequence and influence, even among those who have been tricked out of it. (3) They will be the readiest materials that can be found for a hereditary aristocratic order, whenever matters are ripe for one. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power. (5) Heavy taxes may produce discontents; these may threaten resistance; and in proportion to this danger will be the pretense for a standing army to repel it. (6) A standing army, in its turn, will increase the moral force of the government by means of its appointments, and give it physical force by means of the sword, thus doubly forwarding the main object.
9. The management of a great funded debt and a extensive system of taxes will afford a plea, not to be neglected, for establishment of a great incorporated bank. the use of such a machine is well understood. If the Constitution, according to its fair meaning, should not authorize it, so much the better. Push it through by a forced meaning and you will get in the bargain an admirable precedent for future misconstructions.
In fashioning the bank, remember that it is to be made particularly instrumental in enriching and aggrandizing the elect few, who are to be called in due season to the honors and felicities of the kingdom preparing for them, and who are the pillars that must support it. It will be easy to throw the benefit entirely into their hands, and to make it a solid addition of 50, or 60, or 70 percent to their former capitals of 800 percent, or 900 percent, without costing them a shilling; while it will be difficult to explain to the people that this gain of the few is at the cost of the many, that the contrary may be boldly and safely pretended. The bank will be pregnant with other important advantages. It will admit the same men to be, at the same time, members of the bank and members of the government. The two institutions will thus be soldered together, and each made stronger. Money will be put under the direction of the government, and government under the direction of money. To crown the whole, the bank will have a proper interest in swelling and perpetuating the public debt and public taxes, with all the blessings of both, because its agency and its profits will be extended in exact proportion.
10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician as the knife he carries in his pocket. In the work here to be executed, the best effects may be produced by this maxim, and with peculiar facility. An extensive republic made up of lesser republics necessarily contains various sorts of people, distinguished by local and other interests and prejudices. Let the whole group be well examined in all its parts and relations, geographical and political, metaphysical and metaphorical; let there be first a northern and a southern section, by a line running east and west, and then an eastern and western section, by a line running north and south. By a suitable nomenclature, the landholders cultivating different articles can be discriminated from one another, all from the class of merchants, and both from that of manufacturers.
One of the subordinate republics may be represented as a commercial state, another as a navigation state, another as a manufacturing state, others as agricultural states; and although the great body of people in each be really agricultural, and the other characters be more or less common to all, still it will be politic to take advantage of such an arrangement. Should the members of the great republic be of different sizes, and subject to little jealousies on that account, another important division will be ready formed to your hand. Add again the division that may be carved out of personal interests, political opinions, and local parties. With so convenient an assortment of votes, especially with the help of the marked ones, a majority may be packed for any question with as much ease as the odd trick by an adroit gamester, and any measure whatever carried or defeated, as the great revolution to be brought about may require.
It is only necessary, therefore, to recommend that full use be made of the resource; and to remark that, besides the direct benefit to be drawn from these artificial divisions, they will tend to smother the true and natural one, existing in all societies, between the few who are always impatient of political equality and the many who can never rise above it; between those who are to mount to the prerogatives and those who are to be saddled with the burdens of the hereditary government to be introduced - in one word, between the general mass of the people, attached to their republican government and republican interests, and the chosen band devoted to monarchy and Mammon. It is of infinite importance that this distinction should be kept out of sight. The success of the project absolutely requires it.
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks. Here the aid of the former encroachments and all the other precedents and way-paving maneuvers will be called in of course. But, in order to render the success more certain, it will be of special moment to give the most plausible and popular name that can be found to the power that is to be usurped. It may be called, for example, a power for the common safety or the public good, or, “the general welfare.” If the people should not be too much enlightened, the name will have a most imposing effect. It will escape attention that it means, in fact, the same thing with a power to do anything the government pleases “in all cases whatsoever.” To oppose the power may consequently seem to the ignorant, and be called by artful, opposing the “general welfare”, and may be cried down under that deception.
h/t FReeper Publius…
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
…for the above link in post #7…here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3185549/posts
“Divide and govern”…it works until it doesn’t.
Buddy of mine runs Spurs and Feathers…he and I were at SC the same time. I texted him last night: FIRE LORENZO!!! That sorry defensive coordinator shoulda been fired long ago.
Now, back to topic at hand. Sorry for thread jack….
Henry Barbour?
The Barbour boys did such a great job in Mississippi, they want to do the same thing to Texas.
Perry will never be president. Ted Cruz is our only hope.
You're right, but it may end up backfiring on the Democrats depending on how Perry plays it.
Unfortunately Senators usually make poor POTUS. They may be good inside the beltway politically but usually are lousy managers and light on foreign policy. It is far better to draft a state governor or other such enlightened citizen. We have several governors that would make excellent choices. And despite my reservations about Romney, he or someone like him would also be a good choice.
Drafting Cruz would not be wise IMO and it would mean that the Rs need to win an additional Senate seat to acquire a majority.
Hmmmmm.
Trolling for Romney are we?
Rick Perry is right. Until the GOP gets both houses of Congress back they will not be able to do what needs to be done on a host of issues. And if we don’t get a GOP President in office it will still be very difficult to move an agenda forward.
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