Posted on 06/15/2011 2:51:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
NEW YORK — Texas Gov. Rick Perry sounded very much like a presidential hopeful at a New York City Republican fundraising dinner Tuesday, blasting President Barack Obama’s economic policies and boasting of Texas’ economic growth during his decade-long tenure.
“The Democratic Party is now the party of record deficits, historic debt and failed spending measures sold as job creation programs that only ended up expanding government,” ...
....He cited government statistics indicating that 48 percent of the jobs created in the United States in the past two years have been created in Texas.
“We keep adding jobs while other states lose them left and right,” Perry said. “Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excess taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous litigation.”
Perry congratulated the Texas Legislature for balancing the state budget without raising taxes “to preserve our job-friendly climate and most of the state’s $6 billion in our rainy day fund.
“In Texas, we can’t defer today’s tough decisions for tomorrow’s generation,” Perry said, “and unlike Washington, we don’t have one of those Beijing credit cards to finance deficit spending.”
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Perry was a late replacement at the dinner, [for] Donald Trump, who dropped out after he quit the presidential race.
The Texas governor said it was “pretty cool” to speak “instead of The Donald.”
“He’s known for saying, ‘you’re fired,’” Perry said. “We’re known for saying, ‘You’re hired.’ That’s what we do in Texas.’”
Perry talked a lot about one person he’d like to see fired: Obama. He condemned the president’s “abysmal leadership” and the “endless overreaching” of his administration.
“This administration considers profit to be a dirty word,” he said.
Perry’s rhetoric — and his record as Texas governor — left the New York GOP leaders mighty impressed and a little bit jealous.
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(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
Perry-Palin ain’t happenin folks. No way Palin runs for VP again. Palin-Perry? Maybe. But I think people are making way too much of Perry and Palin’s “relationship.” They were governors at the same time when not many Republicans were. She campaigned for him because she was popular in Texas and she had a bone to pick with KBH anyway.
RUSH:
“Now, Rick Perry used to be soft on immigration, now he’s not. There’s no way you’re gonna hear Rick Perry supporting amnesty in any way, shape, manner, or form. He’s solid on that, plus pro-life. Rick Perry stands in opposition to inside the Beltway Washington elites, I don’t care what party they are. And he’s got great hair. Folks, we gotta put a picture of Rick Perry up on our website, if you haven’t seen him. It’s axiomatic, you are not going to be elected president unless you’ve got at least a ten inch part in your hair, preferably 14-inch. You can’t be bald. It’s the same thing with television anchors. You’re never going to be a prime network news anchor unless you have a 14-inch part in your hair. Well, in the television age there are just certain realities that you can’t get around.”
MORE in Post #40.
Maybe Sarah Palin is going to run in 2020. She'd make a great Energy Secretary for a President Perry.
I think it would be dumb for Sarah to run as VP again. She should either run for president or nothing.
>> She’d make a great Energy Secretary for a President Perry.<<
She would, but no way she’s interested in that job. She can impact energy policy more from the outside and make a ton more money too.
His past record. This no border wall and easy entry for "migrants" is as close to advocating open borders as any politician will go, but such policies will eventually lead to open borders due to the sheer numbers it will continue to allow into the US.
This guy's past record needs to be put before the voters if he wants to run for president. He reminds me of McCain more than anyone else.
Perry is a skilled politician and populist. He's no great conservative but when you look at the rest of the field, he's as or more conservative than most of them.
But you didn’t answer WHY you think he wants open borders. If he doesn’t want to control illegals, he must have a reason.
Rush can ignore Perry’s past record on illegal immigration if he chooses. Most posters here who identify themselves as Texans aren’t giving Perry any ringing endorsements. More needs to be known about his actions on issues, from 2001 until he started thinking of running for president.
And it is absurd for Perry to take so much credit for Texas job creation. That has more to do with history unless Perry discovered Spindletop, and got passed the no state income tax law, and is responsible for all the history that made Texas one of the wealthier states.
Far more needs to be known about this guy. And we need to hear more from Texas conservatives who’ve lived there for years.
It would be Perry's responsibility to explain his past policy positions, not mine. The link in #38 tells us a lot. This no border wall and easy entry for migrants is the coward's way of saying they don't want to stop illegal immigration.
Make mostly legal what is now illegal by making it easy for "mnigrants" to enter the US, and do nothing really effective to stop further illegal entries.
That has more to do with history unless Perry discovered Spindletop, and got passed the no state income tax law, and is responsible for all the history that made Texas one of the wealthier states.
Those damn democrats did good didn’t they?........ LOL
So we’ve got Rush supporting Rick Perry. I have voted for Perry everytime he has run for an office here in Texas. I’ll support him if Palin doesn’t run.
Perry attended Texas A&M University, where he was a member of the Corps of Cadets and one of A&M's five yell leaders (a popular Texas A&M tradition analogous to male cheerleaders). He interned with the Southwestern Company during the summer time as a door-to-door book salesman where he honed his communication skills. Perry graduated in 1972 with a degree in animal science. While at Texas A&M University Perry successfully completed a static line parachute jump at Ags Over Texas (a United States Parachute Association dropzone), the dropzone that was then in operation at Coulter Field (KCFD) in Bryan, Texas, just north of Texas A&M (in College Station, Texas).
Upon graduation, he was commissioned in the United States Air Force, completed pilot training and flew C-130 tactical airlift in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe until 1977. He left the Air Force with the rank of captain, returned to Texas and went into business farming cotton with his father.
Yep, but that was a different breed of Democrat in Texas and the South up until LBJ.
Everyone needs to keep in mind that immigration is a federal issue, not a state issue. There are some things the states can do, like mandate e-verify and make sure that sanctuary cities are dealt with, but on the whole, there is not a whole lot a governor can do, especially in a weak-governor state like Texas.
Everyone needs to review the positions on immigration Perry and any other eventual presidential candidates have actually taken in the past. And most border state governors have taken positions on several occasions, as some of the links in this thread show.
Doesn’t Rush get that Perry is just a stalking horse for Mittens or just getting press coverage to keep Palin out? ;-)
If he didn’t, that would be the .4% of the time Rush is wrong.
LOL
FROM YOUR LINK:
Perry, in Mexico with a Texan trade mission seeking opportunities in areas like renewable energy, said the federal government’s plan to build a wall along much of the border to keep out illegal immigrants was “idiocy.”
“We need those individuals to continue to grow our economy,” Perry told a briefing with reporters.
“If you show up illegally, without your card or you’re here as a criminal element, I’m for throwing the book at those folks, but the issue of people who want to legally, thoughtfully and appropriately come to America to work and help us build our economy — we should quickly come up with a program and an identification card to do that.”
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