Posted on 10/25/2011 9:23:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I was listening to Russ Limbaugh earlier and he said that he likes Perry’s Plan very much.....He also said it was ‘fabulous’.
That’s an endorsement I take seriously.
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Fix the Tax Code
Institute Individual Flat Income Tax Rate of 20%
Allow Individuals to Choose Between Existing Tax Code or New Flat Tax System
Preserve Deductions for Mortgage Interest, Charity, and State/Local Taxes
Eliminate Tax on Social Security Benefits
No Federal Sales Tax or Value-Added Tax
Eliminate Tax on Qualified Dividends and Long-Term Capital Gains
Eliminate the Death Tax
Eliminate Corporate Loopholes and Special-Interest Tax Breaks
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Allow Locked-Up Overseas Capital to be Brought Back to the U.S. at a Reduced Tax Rate
When Perry first announced I was a big supporter of his.
Wow! A ten year governor of the most successful state in the union! And a big southern state at that!
How could he not be great?
And in fact, I think Perry does have greatness in him. I think he would make a great President.
I also believe that people have purposely misconstrued his support for in-state tuition and totally ignored Perry’s explanation and the facts. (It’s not something I agree with, but I think the facts support Perry’s explanation more than they do the very, very unfair charge that he his pro-amnesty or pro-illegal-immigration.)
But what I can’t get past is this: Perry’s inability to speak. His inability to argue. His inability to articulate. His inability to think on his feet.
I don’t see how you elect a guy like that, especially on the conservative side that has 95% of the media against you 100% of the time.
How do you see that as remotely possible?
Do you think Perry is going to change? He can change his policies, he can change his team, but he can’t change his inabilities. He lacks the ability to communicate.
He is the Great Non-Communicator.
He cannot win in 2012.
He cannot win the nomination.
He cannot win the presidency.
Don’t get me wrong. I like the guy. I STILL like the guy. I am deeply saddened that I can no longer support him.
And I actually liked the way he took it to Romney in the last debate. Liked it in the sense that I liked his HEART.
But it’s his head that I think disqualifies him. And I’m not calling him stupid. I do believe he would make an excellent president, possibly even a great president, certainly a better president than Cain or Gingrich (and anyone would be better than Romney... that goes without saying).
But he is the Great Non-Communicator, and this is the 21st Century.
In the 21st century you can’t be the Great Non-Communicator and win national elections.
You just can’t.
At this point, with all his money, which will keep him in as long as he wants to stay in, he is a spoiler.
That’s the most he can hope for at this point: spoiler status.
Stopping Cain (or maybe even Gingrich) from stopping Romney.
That’s the most Perry can be right now: The anti-Anti-Romney candidate.
Julie, thank you for saying all of that. I am so sick of all the Perry bashing at FR.
Well....
One persons "rollicking good time" is something that another will cringe at. That is the nature of people. Our life experiences and the age we are at bring us to different places.
As far as how we may have been raised? I was raised by saints. My parents never fought and none of the many children they had have ever even heard them even argue. That is a great thing when you are a kid but it may not be too helpful when you find yourself swimming with sharks after never seeing one before. The reality is that sometimes you have to stand and fight. Sometimes that gets nasty. Sometimes there is blood. I wish it was otherwise.
Thanks for the chat!
Maybe. Maybe not. Too early to say. Get back with me on March 1st. By then things should have shaken out...
The bashing on Perry threads is definitely a two-edged sword. Raising legitimate questions gets one attacked for supposed “bashing” by supporters.
Unfortunately, this seems to be all too common amongst the various factions. They cannot persuade, so they resort to name calling.
For the record, Perry is acceptable in my book, but he is not the top of my list right now. I have my eye on Cain.
Romney is not acceptable.
(And everyone can spare me the “better quality crap sandwwich speech” about Romney. My minimum standards aren’t that high, and he isn’t even close.)
Do you know why that is? I don't. Perry's Christian, family focused and happily married, pro-life, pro gun, pro military, an early and vocal advocate for limited government. A 10TH Amendment advocate and he's the onlt Governor who's taken on TSA and EPA...these are all things that FReepers would have lauded at one time. To see the way some around here attack Governor Perry you'd think he was really barack obama.
It will be an order of magnitude more difficult for Perry to convince skeptics that he is serious about a border fence when he did the opposite when he started his presidential run. Perry had one clear shot out the gate to win over the skeptics, and instead he shifted his aim and blew a gaping hole in his foot. And the bleeding in the polls has continued unabated. Largely because what Perry was pushing regarding border security already has been shown to not work. A fence just around urban areas already has shown that it simply pushes the traffic into rural areas. Reliance on technology without a fence doesn't work either. Throw in Perry parroting the La Raza talking point about 35 foot ladders for a 35 foot fence and he really lost his chance to get national-level traction on this issue.
Conservatives want a candidate who will learn from past mistakes and not demand that we repeat them.
LOL!
May I ask who you are supporting?
... Perry's Christian, family focused and happily married, pro-life, pro gun, pro military, an early and vocal advocate for limited government. A 10TH Amendment advocate and he's the onlt Governor who's taken on TSA and EPA...these are all things that FReepers would have lauded at one time. To see the way some around here attack Governor Perry you'd think he was really barack obama.Indeed. One FReeper couldn't bring himself to say that Perry's judicial nominees are preferable to Bill Clinton's.
RUSH: Let me just say I've met Rick Perry a couple of times. I have no doubt in my mind that he's a conservative, none whatsoever. I don't have any doubt that Herman Cain is conservative. ...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/24/romneycare_for_illegal_immigrants
Slick Rick should hire me as campaign director. I’ll tell him how to change on illegal immigration and a few other things all he needs is some fine tuning. What’s hilarious is a guy who comes off as tough and macho is so gay on America’s borders and national sovereignty. But he can and will change or he can stay where he is and rule Texas.
Then we end up with President Mittens who is better than President Jug Ears and Moochelle
Perry ain’t St. Sarah, that’s why.
Both of these criticisms are, at best, misplaced; at worst, they are just disingenuous.
At any rate, they are easily answerable.
Lets begin with the argument against purism. To this line, two replies are in the coming.
As for the second objection against the Tea Partiers rejection of those Republican candidates who eschew his values and convictions,
it can be dispensed with just as effortlessly as the first.
Every election seasonand at no time more so than this past seasonRepublicans pledge to reform Washington, trim down the federal government, and so forth.
Once, however, they get elected and they conduct themselves with none of the confidence and enthusiasm with which they expressed themselves on the campaign trail,
those who placed them in office are treated to one lecture after the other on the need for compromise and patience.
Well, when the Tea Partiers impatience with establishment Republican candidates intimates a Democratic victory,
he can use this same line of reasoning against his Republican critics.
My dislike for the Democratic Party is second to none, he can insist.
But in order to advance in the long run my conservative or Constitutionalist values, it may be necessary to compromise some in the short term.
For example,
That’s what I suspect as well.
“I want Obama gone so badly, I HAVE to support Perry now. No choice”
You say you have a lot of political experience and knowledge...
What is your reply to people who cite to you that all the polls show Cain is climbing like a rocket and zooming ahead of everyone, while Perry has dropped in polls to single digits?
It is way too early to pick a winner. I like Cain but he has no record. He has a little more money but not enough and I have yet to see any structure supporting him on the ground. As I said before, if he is the nominee I'm all for him. If the Republicans nominate Lindsey Lohan I'd support her. Or a gerbil for that matter. All of which I believe can beat Obama.
Let's chat again late February and see where everyone stands......
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