Posted on 08/16/2011 9:42:18 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
Cheers!
I'm in the asbestos birdcage.
Bring your own tar and pitchforks.
Cheers!
Ill give you a hint: His initials are Rudy Giuliani.
The pay for play stuff really pisses me off.
Who did the other candidates endorse?
They both have PDS!
This sounds like a cleanup job for Sara.
You seem to be pretty hard on Perry. Just off the top of my head, Bachmann was a Carter Rat and Reagan was an FDR Rat before they had conversions. Reagan did amnesty for illegals and in ‘67 signed abortion legislation as Gov.
Sarah Palin respects Perry and thinks he is a straight up Conservative. Your argument may be looking for absolute purity in a world were there is none.
I also think this belief that there is a conspiracy by the elites to install this guy falls apart when you note that the Bushes and Rove hate Perry. They are the elites after all.
Thank you soooooo much for posting this.
I get the feeling that over the past several years that Free Republic is becoming a breeding ground for RINO propaganda. Really sickening to see the past few days since Perry has announced his run.
If this nation is to survive we need to rid the party of RINOs and stop electing people like them to national office or we need to start a third party and be done with the stupid party once and for all.
Think about the Clinton camp vs. the Chicago machine in the Dem Party.
Think of The Maine Sisters and Weepy Boehner in the GOP.
A three-term Governor who got his start under Rove is much more a party insider than Palin who wandered down from Alaska only to be muzzled and set up by the RINOs in her own campaign's staff.
Rove hates Perry because Perry has his own set of cronies and consultants: and without a feudal master to give him credibility, who's really gonna pay Rove? His results as far as winning aren't that good (look at the GOP's performance in the House and Senate during his time).
Cheers!
Don't you know that Rove is faking it so as to make us believe that he hates Perry but he really does not and wants him to take the nomination even though he supports Romney too. It is all very complex but its true, it really is..../tinfoil
“Here’s another hint: Rasmussen does not include Palin among the possible candidates.”
So some folks can not take a hint. This is devolving into Fathers Day at the orphanage. “Pick Me!”
Rick Perry has a proven Executive track record. Leadership matters, no apologies for perceived sleights. If you want another 4 years of bowing and kowtowing to foreign leaders, fight on for Zero. American exceptional ism is real.
There is no enmity between the Palin camp and the Perry campaign. There is a distinction between a camp and a campaign. Tweet Saint Sarah. She has a new commission.
You ask why Perry mandated the Gardasil vaccine for voluntary behavior. The answer is that insurance companies wouldn’t pay for the $380 vaccine unless it was mandatory. The vaccine had been shown to be nearly 100% effective. To give access to the vaccine to those who couldn’t afford it for the price of a copay, he went with an Executive Order to make it mandatory. Ultimately, the voters, through their representatives, exercised their will by overturning the EO.
Regarding Perry’s support of Gore in 1988 ...
Gore was not simply more centrist then. He was considered a conservative Southern Democrat. He was pro-life, pro-guns, pro-defense, and pro-tobacco. His was the last pro-life Democratic presidential campaign. Further, Texas was controlled by Democrats back then. Perry was considered one of the most conservative Democrats at that time.
Which (given how Palin was mobbed in Iowa and draws crowds whereever she goes) skews the results of the poll.
Rick Perry is a proven RINO: globalist, open-borders, Islamic sycophant, given to totalitarian impulses (enforced vaccinations, Trans-Texas corridor).
LBJ and Bush I and Bush II screwed the country badly.
I will no longer vote for a RINO, no matter how much I'm told I'm supposed to like it.
It's time for you Texans to get in the barrel and swallow.
Cheers!
*ping for the list*
Why would anyone support Gore over the GOP in that time frame?
Being a Texan is no excuse to overlook Perry's RINO status, or worse, to lie about it.
Cheers!
Vaccines for STDs are unnecessary, since STDs can be prevented through abstinence: which should be the policy prescription for conservatives.
This just shows Perry is and was a RINO.
Cheers!
To say Perry just endorsed Giuliani isn't enough. Perry was the ONLY Republican governor to endorse PRO-ABORTION Rudy Giuliani.
They're both losers.
Ronald Reagan last supported a Democrat for President in 1948.
Perry supported a Democrat to REPLACE PRESIDENT REAGAN in 1988.
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