Posted on 07/10/2011 3:47:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
If Rick Perry does mount a successful bid for the U.S. presidency, it will be interesting to see whether he can translate his past and present criticisms of the federal government into concrete changes to the sprawling bureaucracy.
Perry has yet to say he will or won’t toss his hat into the Republican race for the right to square off against President Barack Obama in 2012. He is, however, making all the moves of a potential candidate testing the waters. Insiders are mixed on the odds. Some say he’s definitely in; others put the odds at 50-50.
But the mere possibility the longest-serving Texas governor will join a party battle featuring hopefuls who conservatives and the tea party are not particularly excited about has pundits of all stripes from coast to coast offering their views of how a Perry candidacy would play out.
Perry, who’s never lost an election, has a good chance of rising quickly to the frontrunner position against Mitt Romney, Michelle Bachman, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman. His unabashed conservative message puts him at or beyond Bachman’s position on the far right end of the political spectrum. His executive experience compares well to Romney, Pawlenty and Huntsman.
And, like him or not, there’s little denying Perry knows how to campaign, raise money and deliver rousing speeches.
While polls show Obama in danger of losing to a generic Republican candidate — and the prevailing wisdom in the punditry sphere is the 2012 race is the GOP’s to lose, there is a real question whether a candidate who energizes the conservative base can do so without having his or her far-right stances turn off center-right independents, pushing them into Obama’s column.
But should Perry manage to keep his perfect election record intact and find himself in the White House, we’ll find out whether his Washington walk matches his Texas talk.
Assuming the GOP holds its House majority and gains control of the Senate, we can imagine Perry’s to-do list starting with the repeal of Obamacare and ending with a full makeover of the Environmental Protection Agency. In between, he’d likely put a host of agencies to work shredding scores of regulations he’s railed against. He’d also likely push Congress to end or redesign a variety of federal programs he views as overreaches in violation of state rights laid out in the Tenth Amendment.
Perry’s real test would be border security. He’s decried the federal government’s failure to secure the border, but the problem has stymied presidents from both parties for decades. Perry might be able the change that, but the odds are he’d merely find himself transformed from the critic to the criticized.
While some pundits question whether voters will back another Texas governor so soon after George W. Bush’s divisive two terms at the helm, others see Perry as a different sort of conservative. Unlike “compassionate conservative” Bush, some see Perry as more like Ronald Reagan.
But unlike the easy-going, grandfatherly Gipper, Perry is more like the Texas A&M yell leader he once was.
“Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us, so let’s stop trying to curry favor with them,” he said in a recent speech.
We’ve agreed with Perry, and we’ve disagreed with him. He’s certainly not perfect, but no candidate is. But if sending Perry to Washington would balance the budget, address the debt and rein in over-regulation, it would be a welcome change from the current state of affairs.
Never underestimate the abilities and righteous motivations of at least one million Americans to be far better presidents than the filthy, anti-american, degenerate pig we currently have in the WH. The Rats are masters at dividing opposition to the kenyan marxist and splitting the vote will ensure he wins again. You will not find the “perfect” candidate but you can easily find a million potential candidates who would do well for America compared to 4 more years of the destroyer of freedom and the future for our kids.
AMEN!
TURN OUT will be key.
Never underestimate the abilities and righteous motivations of at least one million Americans to be far better presidents than the filthy, anti-american, degenerate pig we currently have in the WH. The Rats are masters at dividing opposition to the kenyan marxist and splitting the vote will ensure he wins again. You will not find the “perfect” candidate but you can easily find a million potential candidates who would do well for America compared to 4 more years of the destroyer of freedom and the future for our kids.
You can say that again.
CW, there is no way you are not a campaign professional, carpeting FR with your guy's prolefeed at oh-dark-thirty in the morning.
See you are pitching your favorite RINO, on FR.
Has he confronting either issue yet?
RINO Perry's intent was to
(1) reward his political allies inc. Chief of Staff and his Merck employer and
(2) to essentially shove an untested drug into the bodies of
his constituents’ pre-pubescent girls. Girls. So where was his
due diligence? Where was the informed consent?
Is there an iota of evidence that he did really care? Most importantly,
what would he do on a national level, if given the power.
Many on this forum are still waiting to hear Gov. Perry
begin to finally address this issue.
I'm always an early poster (I'm an early riser). Any more personal questions?
This was my first post today:
Somehow, the Unemployed Became Invisible (Yawn: powerless, low-skill, non-union "lame club")
Rick Perry's wife Anita Perry was a nurse for many years and still is involved in health care as First Lady of Texas, so I imagine health care is something this governor is more aware of than maybe your "average" governor and understood this to be a vaccine that would combat cervical cancer and cut heath care costs.
Then too Rick Perry grew up hard scrabble with little luxury as many have, yet vaccines traditionally have been made available to all.
Instead of applying the worst motives to Rick Perry, perhaps his critics could consider that his motives were good ones.
Another FReeper had some thoughts on this issue.
However, there are some here on FR who prefer to apply the worst motives to Rick Perry.
The most "vocal" either won't name a candidate they would support; say they would vote for Huntsman or Romney over Perry; say they would rather Obama stay in the White House than vote for Rick Perry.
The HPV vaccine was always Opt-Out. And according to this report had been changed to Opt-In, before being dropped entirely.
90 days after his EO, Gov. Rick Perry let stand legislation undoing the EO.
..Ann Hettinger, Concerned Women for America's state director of Texas, was instrumental in convincing Perry to change his proposal to an opt-in provision. When asked if Perry's original plans for the HPV vaccine would be an issue if he were to run for president, [Penny] Nance replied, “It would've been an issue IF HE HAD NOT FIXED IT.”
GARDASIL-GATE:
RINO Perry's Chief of Staff worked for Merck
and, at the time, the Merck company was desperate for cash.
Solution: MANDATE GARDASIL BY EXECUTIVE ORDER.
RINO Perry rejected opponents' and Conservatives' calls to reverse
his mandate
Sexually promiscuous women (not chaste girls)
require three shots over six months
CDC: 44% of teenagers received the HPV vaccine
but only 27% of them received all three requisite doses.
There is no evidence one does even works.
Perry has been Governor for more than a decade. If Gardasil and the TTC are the only significant flaws in his record suggesting that he may not be sufficiently conservative, then he's as good as we're ever going to get and maybe better than we've ever had before. Even Reagan had his apostasies. He signed California's liberal abortion law, for example.
We need someone who rejects the progressive idea that government can perform miracles. Anyone who ever fell for the global warming scam or the “universal health care” delusion is a nonstarter because they don't have enough resistance to that idea. But if we turn up our nose at anyone who was ever involved in any government overreach we'll be caught in a Catch 22 — Only successful politicians can be serious presidential candidates but no successful politician can be pure enough to earn our support.
Perry isn't my beau ideal of a presidential candidate. He does however meet my minimum requirements which is more than I can say for anyone currently in the field. He'll do, Romney, Huntsman and Pawlenty won't. Bachmann, Cain and Santorum can't overcome Romney's head start and funding advantage. Perry may very well be conservatives’ only acceptable option.
Harping on the minor flaws in his record is counterproductive. Remember the timeless wisdom of the ancient enemy, LBJ — “Don't piss in the soup we all have to eat.”
Then let him simply address the issues
and demonstrate he is no longer a RINO (confer post #9).
When we were in Maryland it took the election of a lot of new people, along with a Republican governor to get the ICC (Inter County Connector) finished and a sealed deal. It's construction should be about complete.
For close to 50 years ENVIRONMENTALISTS fought tooth and nail and hammer and sickle but in the end they lost.
Below Gov. Perry and Roger Hedgecock discuss Texas' unsecured international border and the TTC "road."
June 29, 2011: Roger Hedgecock interview with Rick Perry (starts 1/2 way into audio file)
July 2, 2011: Legal gamesmanship threatens our energy future (Montana looks to Rick Perry's TX model) “Texas Gov. Rick Perry is able to boast about job growth under his watch, noting that over 265,000 jobs, or nearly 37 percent of the jobs created nationwide since the summer of 2009, have been created in the Lone Star state.
He credits this growth to a few simple conditions: low taxes, a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, and a legal system that limits frivolous lawsuits. According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly one-fourth of the 70 companies that left California this year relocated to Texas.
When new or relocating companies and investors survey the landscape and consider Montana, what do they see? Well, when it comes to natural-resource development, the landscape looks risky. ….”
“You can say that again.”
You are good, Cincinatus’ Wife! LOL!
My point was that your “issues” have been addressed with massive redundancy and were never substantial to begin with. Unless you have some fresh ground for suggesting that Perry is not an acceptable conservative candidate, it’s past time to sit down and hold your peace. When your argument has degenerated into a chant of “RINO, RINO, RINO,” it’s time to find another hobby.
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