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Posted on 01/05/2010 12:20:44 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
AUSTIN – When he first took office as governor, Rick Perry acknowledged, "I'm not George Bush." And in the decade that followed, he has sought to prove it.
As the 10-year incumbent, Perry is the dominant force in the campaign that formally began Monday, and in Texas politics in general. And one way he got there was by studiously separating himself from George W. Bush.
If Bush reflects the rise of the Republican Party in Texas, Perry represents its political dominance and recent populist shift.
"There's no doubt that psychologically, Perry has tried to step away from the shadow of George W. Bush," said GOP political consultant Matt Mackowiak, a former aide to Perry's Republican challenger, Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Monday was the deadline for candidates to file to run in March 2 primary, setting off a ferocious two-month sprint for offices around the state. No race will attract more attention than the battle between Perry and Hutchison, the Republicans who have dominated state politics since Bush went to Washington.
Perry, who succeeded Bush in 2000, has become the state's longest-serving governor and has charted his own course. He has replaced all Bush appointees with his own. He tells voters he's a fiscal conservative and Bush was not. He has abandoned his predecessor's bipartisanship and pressed his own distinct agenda.
Last month, Perry rejected national English and math accountability standards in public schools – rebuffing a signature Bush theme as governor and president.
"His populist, anti-government definition of himself is one that has more in common with Sarah Palin than it does with George W. Bush" by resonating with the emerging tea-party movement, said University of Texas political scientist Bruce Buchanan.
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If I were Bush, I’d steer clear of RINO Ricky
Bush is a RINO
Perry is a RINO
and
KBH is an even bigger RINO.
no help for Texas this cycle.
Oh puke...please Wayne, get a room already, this PDA for that pandering POS Perry is disgusting. And KBH is an even worse candidate. I am looking at Debra Medina
Heck, why not talk about Bush? He certainly wasn’t ideal, but at least when he was president we were safe and more people actually had jobs.
As the article indicates, Bush is much more of a RINO than is Perry.
Sometimes, you have to choose the lesser of two RINOs.
As reality shows, he’s not, however.
She’d get my vote over the RINOs if I was in Tejas
I’m glad you’re not.
Yeah, I’d hate to cancel out a RINO vote with one for a conservative
No kidding. I’d have an easier time holding my nose and voting for Perry if he were more like Bush.
What a mess we’re in.
It’s not that.
Her ties to Ron Paul notwithstanding, I don’t think Medina has a chance in the primary, and if she were by some long-shot to win the nomination, she’d lose to a Democrat in November.
This is a census year. We can’t afford to have a Democrat in Austin during congressional redistricting, which is ALWAYS a gerrymandering circus in Texas. And Medina, were she to somehow win the governorship, simply doesn’t have the experience to navigate those waters.
As much as I deplore both Perry and KBH, either of them can hold their own during redistricting, and I do trust that they’ll look out for the Republican best interest.
This census and the fake figures ACORN and the Dems are counting on may be our ruin. We don’t need to add to the damage by putting the wrong person in power to oversee the makeup of the state’s congressional delegation.
Bet that Perry is still an Open Borders Liberal who will try to push the North American Union crap and NAFTA Superhighway crap on Texas.
Perry still has not rid himself of Liberal Globalism....nor his desire to turn Texas into a similar mess like in Mexico
Seems that there was movie with Steve Martin ...”Three Amigo’s” Just thinking aloud ......
sigh...an unfortunate fact of life. By the time my state had its ‘08 primary...there was no one left. Fred Dalton Thompson had bugged out by then...and there was no one left but McCain, Romney, Huckabee...
....Paul and Giuliani had dropped out but it was too late to remove their names from the vote...
anyway I dont remember who I voted for....it was either Romney (gag, choke, barf) or Huckabee (gack, puke...)
I remember NOT voting for Bush in the primaries in 2000 and voting for Buchanan. but the RINO won the primaries any way that year.
Just be sure that after RINO Perry wins re-election you keep his RINO butt down there and don’t try to push the turd onto the nation.
Debra Medina
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