Posted on 01/16/2015 9:33:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Rick Perry!
The man who has been governor of Texas since pterodactyls roamed the plains took his leave at the State Capitol this week. He is not saying anything for sure about running for president. Mum’s the word until springtime. However, he recently told a reporter that if voters want to break from the Obama era, “I am a very clear and compelling individual to support.”
Wow, the Republican race is getting to be like one of those crime shows where the detectives have to paste pictures all over the wall so they can keep the suspects straight. So many old friends popping up this month — Mitt Romney and now Rick Perry. The man who drove to Canada with the family dog strapped to the car roof and the man who claims he shot a coyote while jogging. The animal lobby had better get out there and see how Jeb Bush feels about wolf hunting.
Almost everybody has a Rick Perry favorite moment. For 99 percent, it’s probably the dreaded “oops” debate when he announced that as president he was going to shutter three federal agencies — and then could only think of two.
And, yeah, that one was pretty good. However, I still cherish a television interview Perry did a few years earlier with Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune in which he defended abstinence-only sex education despite the state’s astronomical rates of teenage pregnancy.
“It works,” Perry said defiantly and totally erroneously.
“Can you give me a statistic suggesting it works?” asked Smith.
“I’m going to tell you from my own personal life. Abstinence works,” Perry replied. Smith was too discreet to press for details, but let’s hope it comes up during the campaign....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Just who is Gail Collins? Is she a popular writer in Texas who openly leans to the Dem bias? That’s nothing new, she can think what she wants to. I have to remember that Gail can be for a man or a woman. I recall Gale Gordon, who acted for years as Lucille Ball’s harried Boss, Mr. Mooney.
Makes you wanna invite Gail Collins on a feral hog hunt...
“It works,” Perry said defiantly and totally erroneously.
“Can you give me a statistic suggesting it works?” asked Smith.
It absolutely works 100% every time it's tried, dumbass.
The drunken Travis County DA in question had jurisdiction over all elected officials in the state and had a state-funded public corruption budget for this purpose. The other DAs had no relationship nor responsibility to the state.
Boy, this Collins babe doesn't have any knowledge of what she writes about, does she?
She’d last maybe 5 minutes in the Everglades, Bayous or Alaska.
could she be the Gail Collins that killed her husband, Felix Pappalardi,the Bass player for Mountain, in the 1980?
You're being generous. She probably wouldn't last 5 minutes north of Yonkers...
Pterodactyls don’t ‘roam’, Gail.
Not anymore they don’t. LOL
Oh really, thank you. So she has the confidence of someone who made history by breaking a gender based barrier. Well, good for her, but I get the feeling she would never consider voting for either Perry or Cruz anyway.
Ha ha. I doubt they got that.
I didn’t realize this Liberal crone was still lurking.
Texas is what America once was. That’s why the Left wants to destroy it. We should shut off all pipelines going from Texas to the east coast.
“since pterodactyls roamed the plains”
As God is my witness, I thought Pterodactyls could fly
Yikes. Not too surprising. Bet she is a feminist too (see Rush Limbaugh’s Undeniable Truth 24).
We can all be thankful Ms. Collins never produced a child.
“Beauty is only skin deep.”
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Maybe, but the picture the vain Mrs Collins posts with her opinion piece is of a MUCH YOUNGER version of herself. She is 69 years old and judging by more recent pictures, any beauty she may have had in her youth has long since peeled away.
She’s about as beautiful as her writing partner David Brooks.
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