Posted on 08/25/2011 2:19:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I'm sure most of you have been checking your old date books to determine whether you've ever had sex with Rick Perry. Of course, you might not remember, since Perry's talents as a paramour likely mirror his narcissistic approach to public policy.
That sort of foolishness is brought to you courtesy of Robert Morrow, the Austinite who garnered national coverage last week with his full-page Chronicle ad requesting leads on the new presidential candidate's sex life. For the record, Morrow placed his ad (and alerted other publications) on his own; this news desk read it when our readers did. Morrow's a hard-right GOP activist (of the Ron Paul variety), and his obsessively sexual conspiracy theories are old hat around here. He first came to Austin's attention with a viciously gay-bashing attack on Glen Maxey, a strong supporter of former City Council candidate Margot Clarke in the 2005 election.
Here's a representative sample of Morrow's more recent emails (emphases entirely his):
"There are a LOT of things that George Herbert Walker Bush does not want you to know about him and the disgraceful and often criminal way he has lived his sorry life.
"Some of his ugly behavior includes 1) his very likely ties to the MURDER of John F. Kennedy as a high ranking CIA officer in 1963 2) his gargantuan COCAINE SMUGGLING with Oliver North, Bill Clinton, Jeb Bush, the CIA in the 1980's 3) his use of CIA Pegasus ASSASSINS to scare Ross Perot [out] of the race (temporarily) in 1992. ... (Perot knew ALL about Bush's CIA drug smuggling.)" – Dec. 6, 2009
Morrow's ad caught the attention of Salon, whose Justin Elliott reported on it, as did Slate's David Weigel, although Weigel linked unwittingly to a video of an interview with an entirely different "Bob Morrow" from Maryland, who claimed to be a former CIA agent involved indirectly in the Kennedy assassination. It's likely that unremarkable coincidence is already woven into the baroque imaginings of assassination obsessives. Assault on the Weakest
I have no idea who Rick Perry has slept with and could care less. However, the man has a long and appalling public record of screwing the citizens of Texas. Consider only his now-legislated insistence that Texas women seeking abortions first be subjected to a narrated transvaginal ultrasound – is that not a sufficiently outrageous governmental violation of personal privacy?
In the service of his national political ambitions, Perry refused to consider either rational state tax increases or even the use of the state's emergency reserve funds to avoid devastating cuts to state services, especially public education and health care. For just one example, ADAPT of Texas, which advocates for people with disabilities, calculates that this year roughly 12,000 more people will lose community services, meaning either tremendous additional burdens on their families or more expensive institutional care or both. "Texas has 100,000 people on [the] waiting list for community services and more people in state institutions (over 4,000) than any other state in the country," said ADAPT organizer Jennifer McPhail in a press release. "Now we are cutting 12,000 people from community services. This isn't a 'Texas Miracle,' it is for thousands of people a 'Texas Nightmare.'"
Perry can't stop talking about his alleged record of "job creation." Texas was already in the middle of the state pack (26th) in unemployment, which ticked upward to 8.4% last week (the highest since 1987), and we haven't yet felt the full effect of the layoffs prompted by the radical state budget cuts. Even while we slide backward into a national recession, Perry and his Republican colleagues are demanding more cuts, more layoffs, and more hardship – especially for the most vulnerable citizens.
A Sorry Standard
It's flat difficult to get too excited about Perry's sexual peccadilloes when his administration is steadily undermining whatever economic progress Texans had made over the last two decades. Last Friday, the Center for Public Policy Priorities and the national policy center Demos issued a report, "Under Attack: Texas' Middle Class and the Opportunity Crisis," highlighting dismal facts about Perry's Texas. 1) "In 2010, 27% of working-age individuals in Texas lacked health insurance compared to nearly 17% nationally." 2) "Young workers with only a high school diploma have seen their earnings decrease by about 16% in the past generation." 3) "58% of college graduates in Texas entered the labor force with student debt in 2009, and their average debt totaled $20,015."
Or as Austin Rep. Elliott Naishtat pointed out in February, following Perry's dishonestly boosterish State of the State address, "We continue to have the highest percentage of uninsured residents in the country, the lowest percentage of residents over 25 with a high school diploma, and the dirtiest air in the nation."
The Texas superlatives march on. Percentage of nonelderly population uninsured: 1st. Percentage of uninsured children: 1st. Amount of carbon dioxide emissions: 1st. Amount of volatile organic compound emissions: 1st. Amount of toxic chemicals released into water: 1st. Amount of carcinogenic emissions: 1st. (Source: "Texas on the Brink," Texas Legislative Study Group, 2011.)
It's no mystery why Texas stands so consistently low on the national scale. The state's wealthiest citizens, who have prospered mightily under Perry and his predecessors, refuse to pay their fair share of the costs necessary for real social prosperity. Texas has the nation's fifth most regressive tax structure, reports analyst Karen Kraut of United for a Fair Economy: "The top 20% of taxpayers pay 4.4% of their income in state and local taxes, whereas the lowest-income taxpayers pay 12.2% of their income in state and local taxes."
That's what politicians like Perry – and their political underwriters – consider a Texas miracle. An equitable tax system that reversed that imbalance, Kraut says, would raise an additional $72 billion for Texas. As you may remember, the 2011 state deficit which Perry refused to address in any way with new revenues was $27 billion.
But hey – if you think what disqualifies Rick Perry from high public office is his alleged sexual hypocrisy, tell that to the 100,000 Texans with disabilities now waiting for home health care. And then work your way down the list.
From now on we will need disambiguation on PDS as to whether it’s Palin Derangement Syndrome, or Perry!
One of Rick Perry’s first acts after being elected agriculture commissioner in 1991 was to create the Texas-Israel Exchange, which promoted information and research sharing.
August 24, 2011: How Rick Perry helped stop the Gaza 'freedom flotillas' ….>>>>"I once spoke at a mission that Perry took part in, in Israel," Darshan-Leitner recently told Commentary's Alana Goodman. "And he approached me and said, 'I love what you do. It's amazing what you do. If you ever need help combating Israel's enemies, I'm here to assist.' "
Perry made good on that promise in July, when a cohort of liberal activists boarded a Gaza-bound aid boat with the goal of breaching Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza strip.<<<…………..
Every argument listed in this article about Texas made me like him MORE!
"HAVE YOU BEEN SCREWED BY BARACK OBAMA?
And that’s just a smidgen.
So where’s the barf alert?
I figured it didn't need one!
Finding middle ground on EPA-Texas electric squabble [EPA doesn’t do “middle” ground] “Texas' grudge match with the Environmental Protection Agency is getting nastier and riskier, with the fallout threatening to reach the state's power grid. Want another reason to worry about the lights staying on? Or how about another hit to the economy? You've heard lots of political posturing about Texas' way of life being threatened by an overreaching federal government. This time, Gov. Rick Perry has a point. …………..
Don't be surprised if the attorney general jumps in after Perry slammed the rule for threatening Texas jobs and families and putting reliable, affordable electricity at risk. Late last week, 31 members of Congress from Texas, including eight Democrats, signed a letter to the White House asking for relief. The utility commission also filed objections with the EPA.
Of course you did. The columnist was whining about lack of insurance, taxes not going up, govt services being cut, etc.
I have been one who wants and has sent a letter to DeMint urging him to run. I have never gotten a response. With that it looks like the choice will be between Palin and Perry. I hate to say but as much as I like Palin, her hate sprewing minions here at FR are starting to make me trend toward Perry. In their delusional eyes everyone else on earth besides her in a RINO. Just ask one who they will support if she doesn’t run, and watch them say “stay home” in November 2012. REal patriots I tell ya. /s
LOL. This loon doesn’t realize he sounds just as crazy and extreme as the loon who is digging into Perry’s sexual history. Both are bitter and vindictive but this loon thinks he is making sense.
Palin has seniority—I suppose RDS could work but then Rural Department Store comes to mind—maybe PEDS and PADS—but those two give the images of feet and the other thing—dang.
Well, you took care of that oversight very nicely!
Rick Perry:
FIRST: "Don't spend all the money!"
SECOND: "Have a fair and predictable tax and regulatory policy!"
THIRD: "Have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing and make loser pay!"
Students for Perry -- 3:34 YouTube Video: IT'S TIME FOR RICK PERRY
August 13, 2011 Rick Perry's Announcement Speech at Red State Gathering [YouTube]
Perry sycophants have been hatin’ and insultin’ Sarah supporters here at FR like crazy ever since JR Perry announced.
But that's OK, it's been making a lot of undecided Freepers turn to Palin.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Gardisil, illegals, and Gore oh my, Gardisil, illegals and Gore oh my....
To the Left, the smear they go with is the smear their readers understand, thus “hard-right GOP activist”...
Perry changed parties in 1989, joining Phil Gramm and other conservative Texas Democrats, who now had a true ideological party with a burgeoning Texas GOP.
When Perry campaigned for Lt. Gov. [1998], he and his campaign staff were in it to win and his hard-nosed style was against the "friendly" advice and request of GWB [in re-election bid for Texas Gov] and Rove to run easy against Sharp, a popular democrat (and Aggie friend of Perry's from their A&M years together). Rove wanted to broaden Bush's base for his upcoming White House run. Perry told them where to stick their advice, because he knew the voters would vote for Bush for Gov. and then cross back over and vote for Sharp (D) for Lt. Gov, if he just walked through the motions like the Bush-Rove team asked him to do.
Perry won the seat for Lt. Gov. -- the first Republican elected to that office since Reconstruction. Now 13 years later and into his 3rd term as Texas governor, the GOP holds a super majority. So Perry has earned his conservative spurs -- fighting both parties!
[The Bushes and Rove supported Kay Bailey Hutchison's primary challenge against Gov. Perry the 2010 election too]
Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry
I have been screwed by Barack Obama (or whatever his name is).
...and I was never kissed before his repeated violations of me.
The dirty bastard has also royally screwed my two, very young grandsons out of their otherwise promising futures.
Wow, Perry must really have them worried for these kind of hatchet jobs to leap out so soon.
Can you imagine the response to a Perry/Palin or Palin/Perry ticket?
Heads would explode, once they’ve spun up sufficiently.
That is bs. Just say anything remotely negative about Palin around here, and watch what happens. The hate spewed by Palinites is 10X worse in volume and vigor. And I say that as one who supports neither.
Candidates represent values and policies. Perry and Palin are close enough in values and policies that supporters should get along quite well.
I’m rather uncomfortable about people who lose themselves in a cult of personality for a candidate. It’s very creepy and disturbing. I have zero respect for them and consider them to be mentally weak perhaps even unstable. They are to be avoided at all cost.
…….” [Anita Perry] tries to help the governor not get too carried away with his own role. "I try to keep him grounded. Sometimes I wonder," she said. When he gets a little too puffed up, "I'm always saying: 'Who told you that you were cute today?' " Still, she intends to get out on the campaign trail and play a more visible part.
"Not that I'm a vote-changer or a vote-getter or anything like that," she said. "But I'll do whatever I need to do because I think it's important that he get re-elected."
You have to grow thick skin, enjoy people, tackle big projects and, in all of it, keep family as a priority, she said.
The governor has also set his priorities. The staff knows to keep his schedule clear every Sept. 9. That's not his wedding day or an important birthday.
It's the anniversary of their first date.”………Anita Perry, a no-nonsense nurse, overcomes shyness in signing on to win votes for her husband
Amelia Perry(right), mother of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, shows her quilts at a meeting of the Buffalo Gap Republican Woman's Club at Perini Ranch Steakhouse Friday.
Perry called this quilt her "Scarlet O'Hara" quilt, because she made it out of a curtain during a time she was getting cancer treatments and spending most of her time at home.
Governor Almost Wasn't--After years on ranch, Perry saw climate was right for politics
“Civility?” We don’t need no stinking “Civility”!
Palin supporters are dangerous,when people attack us with mean-spirited,mentally deficient and hyperbolic mendacity-—well,we defend ourselves;)...oh if you support neither then WHO do you support.It would be cravin and cowardly to attack without the courage to defend--don't you think?
MEOW!
"Why would Perry Mandate a drug?
instead of allowing everyone to "opt in"?"
Like Pissant? Methinks you’re projecting again. Take a trip through the back posts of some of the more virulent trolls on the Palin threads and have a gander at the catty remarks about her family, the ongoing lies about her quitting for a job on Fox News, attacks on supporters who state their faith in God as “Cultists”...
Yes, by all means educate yourself. Pointing out the support of Perry for Al Gore, with his help, Gore stayed in power, built more and went on to strip the world of Trillions of dollars and destroy industries is not hate. It’s fact. Pointing out his speeches in Mexico and to LaRaza is not hate, it’s fact. Pointing out his changing positions on usurping parental rights over the medical care of their daughters via the Guardisil debacle isn’t hate, it’s fact.
And you can shout ‘hate’ till the cows come home. You just sound like libs screaming “Racist!” when someone points out ‘uncomfortable’ facts to them. Nothing I’d be proud of personally.
PEDS vs PADS?
In the service of his national political ambitions, Perry refused to consider either rational state tax increases or even the use of the state's emergency reserve funds to avoid devastating cuts to state services, especially public education and health care. For just one example, ADAPT of Texas, which advocates for people with disabilities, calculates that this year roughly 12,000 more people will lose community services, meaning either tremendous additional burdens on their families or more expensive institutional care or both. "Texas has 100,000 people on [the] waiting list for community services and more people in state institutions (over 4,000) than any other state in the country," said ADAPT organizer Jennifer McPhail in a press release. "Now we are cutting 12,000 people from community services. This isn't a 'Texas Miracle,' it is for thousands of people a 'Texas Nightmare.'"
That's as good an endorsement as you could get.
If you read the whole thread, You’d saee that I said I support DeMint for a run. So much for you calling me a coward.
It would be interesting if the EPA sent troops to shut down Tx power plants. More likely is that federal payments to Tx will be held up as persuasion.
Like funding for minority women, children and homeless puppies food and shelter fund. (There isn’t any such find that I know of.)
Is this PDS just a bunch of Gardasilliness?
That was an unwise move by a governor who didn’t grok the fine points of the dual move he made to put it on the list of “required” vaccinations while simultaneously creating a parental conscientious objection opt-out process. Except oops, the two sets did not quite coincide, and the opt-out didn’t apply to private schools — a lot of which, like Catholic schools, would see no point in requiring Gardasil for girls who were expected to remain chaste, but some other schools might for their own students, in blindly copying the list of required vaccinations. Perry apparently wanted to investigate how to fine-tune things before further action. The legislature wanted to kill the problem immediately like a radioactive, rabid rattlesnake. The legislature won.
If DeMint hadn’t given kudos to Romney, that wouldn’t be such a non starter.
PaDS or PeDS?
I got screwed by the kid on the right:
http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/u12/2011/08/ug9af.jpg
Typical Palinite holier than thou bs. Would you like me to give you the link to the Fox interview in which Princess Sarah basically says that McCain was a tea party favorite? The lady knived JD Hayworth in the back, and she knows it.
Have I slept with Rick Perry. No. Am I sure?
As Clint Eastwood said in “The Eiger Sanction” when asked if he’d slept with the wife of a mountain climber, “It’s the sort of thing I’d remember.”
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