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Posted on 02/15/2010 3:50:42 PM PST by Patriot1259
Perry seems to rely on two familiar slogans:
“Keep D.C. out of Texas,” which is his push-back to Kay Bailey Hutchison who, for all intents and purposes, cut her own throat with conservatives when she voted “Yes” for the federal bailout in 2008; and
“Texas – We’re better off than the other states.” I’ve never heard Medina deny that Texas is better off than the other states. She does say; however, that Texas could be doing better. You could be doing better.
Medina wants to get rid of the state property tax. Any objections? She wants to replace it with a sales tax. Sorry, that can’t work. It’s too logical. It’s too easy. It gets rid of way, way, way too much government fat and it too fairly and equally distributes the load in terms of supporting the state.
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It seems that the idea of a Conservative political outsider scares the bejeezus outta 98% of Texan freepers but they never wanted to admit it.
Now they have an excuse to vote for safe rino choices.
I would certainly hope that we are almost through with her. Thought people in Texas were smart enough to see through all of her garbage.
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She’s stupid as usual. Glenn made it so easy for her, and she screwed it up.
My apologies to Wild74.
I was wrong in saying there were five States bordering Texas. For some reason, I was thinking of Colorado as being one of them. It’s close, but doesn’t border Texas. There are only four States that border Texas. My bad!
I agree. Your analysis is right on the mark. I don’t know if I want to vote for Medina, but I certainly won’t NOT vote for her because of propaganda posted here by supporters of the other candidates.
Sure, collect sales tax to go to Austin and divied up by Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso Reps. Talk about Robin Hood - instead of our school taxes and county and city service tax moneys being collected locally and staying local, the State will collect, decide whether our little city needs a new road, a couple of sheriffs’ deputy’s, or a new school building.
If you want to pay less taxes, tell your County Commissioners, your school board. Try telling the Dem Rep from Houston or Dallas that you want less taxes.
I have better luck with my city council and school board than I do with Houston State Reps. Flip, I have trouble with my State Senator, because his loyalty goes to Bexar Co.
Paul cautions neocon influence infiltrating tea parties
"My message is somewhat different," he said. "The message gets somewhat diluted" with large movements of this nature.
"Everybody likes to join what looks like a popular movement, then they want to come in and influence that movement," Paul continued.
She favors gambling, opposes marriage amendment, opposes divorce reform in Texas.
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Isn’t my money that goes to Austin as sales tax just as much my property, and sacred, as the taxes I pay to my local county and local school district? You suppose I can talk Senfronia Thompson or Garnet Coleman into letting my local sheriffs’ department have my money back?
Oh, yeah. That’s it! I’m working on fear, and haven’t done just as much research as you have. Way to win my vote - not!
Where’s the testimony at the State House or Senate to get any bill passed? Show me evidence that Medina has the least notion about how to move a bill through the Texas legislature. When has she walked the halls of the Capitol or stood for hours in the lobby of the House to talk to a coalition of legislators, when has she sat up all night waiting for her chance to testify? What lobbying efforts has she supported with her time and money? When did she ever join with us Freepers on the South porch to protest the latest twitty move of the Dems?
Don’t forget he sucks less than Bill White and Farouk!
Ron Paul and his acolytes call anyone who doesn't completely agree with their (some quite bizarre) policies "neocons." They sling that label around with impunity.
"My message is somewhat different," he said. ( Ya think??)"The message gets somewhat diluted" with large movements of this nature.
"Everybody likes to join what looks like a popular movement, then they want to come in and influence that movement," Paul continued.
Looks like he's erroneously (and arrogantly) taking credit for the Tea Party movement again. Rick Santelli started that movement with his calls for protests of the bailouts. It is not, and never has been about Ron Paul. The Paulestinians are the ones trying to hijack the Tea Party movement.
FWIW, I applauded what Ron Paul had to say during the debates that preceded the bailout vote in October of '08. I agree with some of what he says, primarily on the economic front, but so much of his stuff is just too moonbatty to be taken seriously.
Agreed. I was faintly aware of some meetings before last February, but sure didn’t think the Tea Party was a Paul meeting. Just a meeting on common ground.
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That's all you have? It never ends with the Perry propaganda here. Show me where she opposes the "Texas Marriage Amendment", she doesn't. And you think replacing "no fault" divorce with mutual consent only divorce is something a Conservative who believes in personal liberty should be in favor of? Given that Texas has a lottery and you can go over the state line to gamble in Louisiana or Oklahoma, legalizing gambling on the "other side" makes sense. But by all means hang your hat on that issue.
Isn’t my money that goes to Austin as sales tax just as much my property, and sacred, as the taxes I pay to my local county and local school district? You suppose I can talk Senfronia Thompson or Garnet Coleman into letting my local sheriffs’ department have my money back?
If you don't understand the fundamental right of personal property and fair taxation, then you have much bigger worries than Debra Medina.
Thank you for a wonderful post.
I say cool aid drinkers, because only a cool aid drinker would think that makes the rest of us Perry bots.
Amazing, simply amazing
Thinks = considers
That was until I heard that rant on Beck. Now the choice is one of three sorry clowns. I think I will just focus on local elections, (and support my great rep. Ted Poe.)
Maybe I will write in Rumping RINO.
I gave you the reference I used. Medina’s own answers, not “propaganda.” The gambling surprised me.
Conservatives recognize the need for some laws, because some activities do harm. I’m sure that you agree that there is a difference between good and bad, otherwise you wouldn’t argue any question at all, would you?
We’ve held the line on legalized casino gambling because it is immoral for the state to endorse and costs local neighborhoods and communities more than it brings in. Our Platform comes out strongly against it.
The state licenses marriage and our courts decide divorces, because we recognize the benefit to our communities that comes from encouraging and strengthening the basis unit of society.
I know several people who were severely harmed by the so-called “no fault” divorces which are really “no choice” divorces. We have as much protection in Texas as we can from same-sex marriage, but will soon find our selves fighting a Constitutional battle over recognizing out of state “marriages.”
Show me how you’re going to keep those taxes local for local use or how it will benefit my Sheriffs’ office or school district to have to compete with the chubbers and runaway dems for a “fair” share of my taxes. For that matter, show me how the collection and rebates for the poor won’t become one of the biggest boondoggles.
That might be a good cause for Medina supporters: get their lawyers and lobbyists to write and fine tune the legislation and find a Senator and Representative to carry it in 2011.
What I see are freepers bitching about the RINOs, complaining that there needs to be no more compromises on principle, stating that the RINOs’ days are done and that Perry and KBH are RINOs at best. At the very best.
Establishment candidates. One who promised to change Washington but was instead changed by Washington.
The other...Texas vote for him then spend three years wondering why?
At least those are what the ads say.
Medina comes in with nearly the exact positions that the Conservative freepers want, but that isn’t good enough.
She lacks the experience the RINOs have and for some, although she was far clearer and less ambiguous that the RINOs, she didn’t state her positions in the most perfect absolutes to please every freepers.
Now she steps in the 911 truther excrement pile and can’t get the stench off of her whether she deserves it or not.
And, imo, that was the excuse that a lot of freepers needed to retain a ‘safe’ establishement candidate while talking about change.
I’m not trying to win votes for anyone. Just pointing out how when the time came to support a candidate with the most Conservative platform that freepers refused to do so.
In freeperland, if you can’t agree with someone then they are automatically nutcases. Or worse.
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