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Left And Right Going Nuclear On Rick Perry
Townhall ^ | Aug. 29, 2011 | Douglas MacKinnon

Posted on 08/28/2011 9:44:06 PM PDT by Clairity

When you hear every single liberal media outlet in the country say, "We will know more about Rick Perry after we vet his 11 years in office," you need to understand that what they vindictively mean is: "President Obama and his followers will be proud of us after we are done with the mother of all smearing campaigns against the conservative governor of Texas."

Not since Ronald Reagan has a Republican candidate for president evoked such outright fear and loathing from the mainstream media and the far-left.

They are flat-out petrified of Perry and are desperately trying to kill off his candidacy before it can take hold. Why?

Simple. As they suspiciously heap praise on the likes of Jon Huntsman and even Mitt Romney, they increasingly worry that Perry has the best chance to defeat their handpicked socialist messiah now occupying the Oval Office.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; msm; perry; perry2012; presidentperry; rickperry
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To: Clairity

Thanks. :)


41 posted on 08/29/2011 12:20:27 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: arrogantsob

They’ve been descending on him for 22 years. Still, not a hair out of place. And THAT really p!sses them off.


42 posted on 08/29/2011 12:50:57 AM PDT by DRey
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I don’t want Perry near the White House until he fumigates the place.


43 posted on 08/29/2011 12:53:05 AM PDT by DRey
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
This is coming from a clown who has attacked Sarah Palin consistently for the past two years. What a hypocrite!
44 posted on 08/29/2011 12:59:43 AM PDT by bwc2221
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To: Texan
What else can explain her high negative polling numbers. It's a real shame.


45 posted on 08/29/2011 1:19:01 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Richard Feynman father of Quantum Physics)
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To: Clairity
“For all the talk of Perry being an establishment guy, the establishment hates his guts as much as the left does . . .”

Nuts. People like that buy and sell guys like Rick Perry. If they weren't already sold on Mitt Romney, it would be just an inconvenience that Rick Perry comes from below the salt and probably should have gone to air-conditioning repair school instead of Texas A&M.

He ain't all that, as you will find out presently, when he does his "alley-alley-in-come-free" for 25 million more Mexicans the day after he gets sworn in. If he gets elected. Or should I say "adlected" instead? It's how the RiNO patriciate likes to do business.

46 posted on 08/29/2011 1:26:28 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
A proven Governor with over a decade of actual successful experience and a stellar record is too much for you to comprehend.

Really, wise guy? Where is this wonder-governor you speak of?

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The "S" tag is a little Mother's Helper for you there, sport .....

47 posted on 08/29/2011 1:29:25 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: bwc2221
And you are a typical Palin liar/supporter. Show me where I have attacked Palin over the last 2 years. In fact, before I looked into her past closely, I was a supporter. In fact, I voted for McCain BECAUSE she was his running mate.

I simply see reality for what it is, which is why I no longer support her. And I have never been as hateful or outright as nasty about Palin than the likes of your so called group of “pure” Conservatives. The “Hypocrite” label clearly belongs on your forehead, not mine.

48 posted on 08/29/2011 1:34:05 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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To: lentulusgracchus

Hey “Sport”, take a look under the name Texas. It pretty much speaks for itself. “Nice” people like yourself should just know that, wouldn’t you think?


49 posted on 08/29/2011 1:37:33 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Your psychosomatic fear that Palin will not really run, coupled with your sycophantic worship of a candidate that does not exist....

Funny, I was about to notice the same thing about you, Sport.

Pills much? Miss a dose?

As thou dishest out ..... besides, with a handle like that, all in caps ...... talk about punching above your weight, and with a glass jaw!

Perry ain't all that. He rates somewhere around "okay, if we can't get anybody better to take it, and if we don't mind four years of Pigs at the Trough again -- and another Shamnesty." Wake up and smell the coffee.

50 posted on 08/29/2011 1:37:54 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: HerrBlucher
They have been going at him for 11 years and so far zilch. It is not likely They have been going at him for 11 years and so far zilch. It is not likely they will find any significant skeleton, at least not a campaign endng one.

Don't bet your life on that. There's stuff out there the mods won't let on FR. Leave it at that, except to say that the packages are ticking.

Here's another thing. It makes a big difference to say "They have been going at him for 11 years and so far zilch" on the one hand -- that used to be the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval on an honest candidate.

But it reflects the corruption worked in the electorate by the Clintons then to go on to say, "It is not likely they will find any significant skeleton, at least not a campaign endng one."

That difference represents the success that Bill and Hillary Clinton and Dick Morris and Carville and Begala had, in running down people's standards of honesty in a candidate.

51 posted on 08/29/2011 1:46:58 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus
You won't change my mind no matter how much you try to insult me. And it was you who attacked me with a personal cut first.

Glass Jaw? I hardly think so. I have a Purple Heart that says otherwise. I don't live and breathe to suit your definition of who or what I am. I already have a firm grip on that fact. So go harass someone else. I am not your oyster.

52 posted on 08/29/2011 1:47:15 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
And it was you who attacked me with a personal cut first.

No, you went after that other poster and imputed mental instability and incapacity to him/her. Go for it, if you want to. But I won't coddle you if you do.

53 posted on 08/29/2011 1:49:53 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

There’s stuff out there the mods won’t let on FR about Perry?

Really? Because I’ve seen lots of posts about Perry, mostly negative, that the mods allow regardless of the factual info.

Gonna be an ineresting election yr.


54 posted on 08/29/2011 1:55:54 AM PDT by Twink
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To: lentulusgracchus
You don't need to appoint yourself as “defender”. That individual is one of the nastiest of the nasties on countless Perry threads. Yet yells the loudest when someone points out why they do not support their candidate.

(Since you mentioned the term hypocrite.)

55 posted on 08/29/2011 1:57:25 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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To: Twink

Between 2007 and now, we have lost thousands of good FReepers in regards to this very issue.


56 posted on 08/29/2011 2:00:29 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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To: lentulusgracchus
Perry ain't all that.

He rates somewhere around "okay, if we can't get anybody better to take it, and if we don't mind four years of Pigs at the Trough again -- and another Shamnesty."

+1
57 posted on 08/29/2011 2:01:07 AM PDT by RonDog
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
I take it your complaint is of the "late flag" variety, in which someone gets flagged for the second shove. Well, I saw the shove. You dialed up someone's mental capacity -- that's below-the-belt ad hominem, and you can make your case against him some other way.

I've seen several pretty rough ad hom comments directed at Perry critics, and one of the annoying ones is "Perry haters" and that "3 ... 2.... 1" stuff, as if the critics were somehow automatons and not exercising a higher mental faculty when they lodge their criticisms of Perry and their complaints about the fulsome overcharacterization of his three terms as governor, the first of which someone else was elected to, and the second of which he won with a whopping 40% of the popular vote.

58 posted on 08/29/2011 2:24:58 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Elections vary. Especially for a politician who has run for several terms like Perry has. The important thing to remember is, no matter how close, he still won. In fact, he has never lost an election, and has what it takes to win against Obama.

Perry is well accepted by a broad range of voters, not just a few hard core fringe voters. Even Reagan could not have won among this current batch of so called “Conservatives”. It seems that according to them, nobody is perfect enough, other than one, who is greatly exaggerated and embellished.
Anyone who tries to point that out, is viciously attacked.

Is that what this forum has come to? Or is it what it once was? A collection of varied Conservatives who are joined together in a common cause, to defeat the Left at all costs, like it was during the close of the Clinton Years?

59 posted on 08/29/2011 2:43:23 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Always Remember You're Unique.......(Just Like everyone Else.))
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To: SoConPubbie

>> where’s the proof that the establishment is afraid of Perry?

You need look no further than Karl Rove’s bashing of Perry.


60 posted on 08/29/2011 3:10:53 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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