The way it's going around here with a seemingly never-ending stream of RINO flavors of the week, maybe I should just keep this image on my clip board. Pretty soon there won't be much reason to post much of anything else.
Posted on 05/27/2011 4:39:58 PM PDT by Texas Peartree
Putting a Texan on the national ticket is as American as apple pie, and has been so for almost eight decades. Texans instantly add character to any race. Whether it is Cactus Jack Garner who joined FDR and became the first Southerner elected on a national ticket since the Civil War, or LBJ stealing the 1960 election in South Texas for Kennedy, the Texans always make it interesting. Why is that? Well, we are like Americans . . . but more so.
Sure the Bush Presidents were not originally from Texas, but at least George W. Bush is a country music fan with a twangy accent and a history of drinking too much beer. This is what America needs: fewer high-achieving and boring elites like Obama and more guys who know how to hunt and fish, and who listen to what their preachers say in their sermons.
So what about the 2012 Presidential race? Texan Ron Paul is unlikely to get anywhere with his non-conformist (yet, accurate) prescriptions for getting America working. Still, he will be 77 on Election Day, and that is unlikely to work to his benefit.
Instead, there are increasing signs that Texas Governor Rick Perry will step into the race. He would bridge the gap between successful governors (Palin and Pawlenty) and successful guys who look Presidential (Romney, maybe Huntsman).
What is Perry's record? Over the past 10 years, all under a Perry governorship, Texas has created about 735,000 private sector jobs. In that same times span no other state has produced even 100,000 jobs. States such as California, Michigan and Ohio have lost private sector jobs in the past decade.
If Perry has any aspirations for higher office, then now is the time. Fortune favors...
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If you keep your LBJ’s at bay we will keep our Gore’s at bay.
The Republican governors need to get together and stop the TSA and HS first and foremost. If all republican states sided with Texas on the groping bill, Washington would cave in a heartbeat. I’m done with the hijack, but Texas looks weak after pulling that bill.
Other than out-muscling the Bushes in the Tex-Mex influence peddling market, exactly what accomplishments does he have to his credit? I mean is there anything that the man has done to warrant consideration for the nation’s highest office (other than good hair)?
No Perry. No way. He’s a progressive sleeper.
He's pretty conservative.
As long as he's campaigning.
He's a donkey jackass in elephant's clothing.
The way it's going around here with a seemingly never-ending stream of RINO flavors of the week, maybe I should just keep this image on my clip board. Pretty soon there won't be much reason to post much of anything else.
“He can rear up and call a special session...get in front of the camaras and speak...put pressure on the two Dems blocking the bill. He can corner Sen. Williams and Dewhurst and play hardball....”
Magna Carta, that would be great but Texas has a weak executive branch by design. It was made this way after the Civil War to cut the legs out from under the Radical Republicans of the 1860s and 1870s who tried to change everything by fiat. The point is that the Governor can only persuade in Texas, not order.
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