Some of You Tea Party Folk Think Rick Perry’s the Answer?

C4P ^ | August 28, 2011 | Marc America

[grey_whiskers]

Fair enough.

I'd rather debate on substance, even though retail politics is a game of style.

I think the reason Palin hasn't entered is that she believed Perry when he said he wouldn't: and hasn't yet prepared for him.

I also think that advisor of Perry's (the one who's a slimebag, and fat, and six-foot-four) has carefully studied Palin and adopted many of her positions *and* techniques: and Palin had been relying on that as her differentiator to lend credibility to her candidacy without a large set of $$$ backers).

But she's absolutely determined: and after the contretemps with the Perry fan and the on-again-off-again invitation of Christine O'Donnell, she's planning very carefully exactly *where* to land her torpedo to sink Perry with a single shot.

(She's faced far worse than a swaggering redneck bully in the last three years: and Perry is relying on the shock and awe of an astroturf blitzkrieg to promote an air of inevitability, backed by Te-hey-ax-ayns from all over chiming in, in a well-executed version of the Diamond Strategy. But it's all just astroturf: pandering to Mexicans will SINK him no matter what he claims about Texas and its economy. Texas as a state is as narcissistic as Obama is about himself: and Texans aren't quite bright enough to figure out, or honest enough with themselves to admit, that nobody else worships them in quite that same special way.)

Here's a photo from Texas A&M as published in The Texas Tribune which will cause trouble for Perry in the proper hands:

From Animal House to Storm Trooper in one easy lesson.

Cheers!

[icanhasbailout]

If you think you’re having a hard time of it, look at the median household income and think about how well your family would do on that figure instead of the one you have.

[Marty62]

Agree! sorry for all the typos.

Some days my fingers just don’t work right.

[Marty62]

Why is it people just don’t get it.

Texas, (and I’m sure Ar. NM. CA?( enforcement?) are using state funds, state TAXPAYERS to try to secure their borders or fight the crimes of the invaders.

Now THAT to me is DOUBLE taxation. IF the Fedsd aren’t going to enforce the Law, Then Congress should reduce their budgets and return the money to the states for enforcememt.
Why do you think Holders Injustice dept fights state Laws so vigorously.
The last thing D.C wants is to lose the POWER axe they hold over the American Peoples necks.

When Sarah backed McCain I began to question her total committment to the Tea Party cause. Don’t tell me she owed McCain. I don’t think McCain ever intended to actually win the Election 2008.
She owed/owe him NOTHING. Some say oh she did it because he picked her. So she compromised as a PERSONAL favor to a RINO pol? How about a big donor? ETC ETC. Just my opinion. But at some point, I would like to see a candidate that does what they say. Perry is that candidate.

[CajunConservative]

Most people don’t want her to run because they don’t think she can win or they just don’t like her. Every poll says the same thing.

Besides, is she really going to give up the perk$ of her new po$ition? Her 3 year contract with Fox is a $1 million /year. She’s not been forced to resign like Gingrich and Santorum did prior to them declaring. She also gets $100,000 per speech and her books, family reality tv contracts, etc are not going to pay as well if she’s settling for the POTUS salary.

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/posted/archive/2010/04/26/how-much-money-does-sarah-palin-make-new-york-magazine-knows.aspx

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/iowa-fairgoer-to-todd-palin-your-wife-sold-out/

As far as the 0bama/Keyes senate race, it’s not a circular argument regarding the outcome had there been an electable candidate run against him. Had he been defeated then he wouldn’t be in the WH today.

[free me]

LOL! You think it’s a positive that Perry endorsed Big Government liberal republican Giuliani but that doesn’t mean you are a big government liberal republican!

Yeah, very much unintelligent.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Read post #56 by xzins. If you don’t support Perry after reading that then you have another agenda. It was written five years ago, long before any idea of running for President entered his mind.

[grey_whiskers]

Most people don’t want her to run because they don’t think she can win or they just don’t like her. Every poll says the same thing.

Polls said the same thing about Reagan vs. Dhimmi Carter, much closer to the election than this, even after the primaries (no "noise" from competing contenders).

And before the "Sarah is no Reagan" -- she doesn't *have* to be: Barack Abyss Obaama is not Jimmuh Dhimmi Carter. The current crop of "hopey-changey" kids who voted for him, had never *really* known an economic downturn in their lives: and so by contrast, this one is all the worse (especially considering that they've been coddled and told how "special" they are, and now even Ivy League graduates cannot find jobs which require a college degree. Add to that the burden on student debt not dischargeable in bankruptcy...)

Besides, is she really going to give up the perk$ of her new po$ition? Her 3 year contract with Fox is a $1 million /year. She’s not been forced to resign like Gingrich and Santorum did prior to them declaring. She also gets $100,000 per speech and her books, family reality tv contracts, etc are not going to pay as well if she’s settling for the POTUS salary.

By definition, YES, YES, YES, a thousand times yes!

Read Going Rogue.

This is why she is speaking of running and holding office "with a servant's heart." It's not just a coded signal to the religious right; it's how she actually feels, and how she's really lived.

As far as the 0bama/Keyes senate race, it’s not a circular argument regarding the outcome had there been an electable candidate run against him. Had he been defeated then he wouldn’t be in the WH today.

I don't think I mentioned that in post #408; maybe you got your wires crossed somewhere on that one?

Cheers!

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Note he's not interested in closing the border....he can only permote "secure" the border because he wants his companies and industries on that border and elswhere to not have to deal with the drug thugs and traffic he lets in.

He's not permoting this for our nations safety...he's doing this for the gravy he gets off the border and the deals he's made for that area with Mexico.

Twink: OMG. The cluelessness of this post is beyond comprehension.

Twink you give far too much credit. That is near insanity. I am beginning to suspect that caww is an outright liberal. Only they think that far off the mark.

[xzins]

I think you mean #56 on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2771986/posts?page=56#56

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Poor people with insurance companies? What did I miss?

Oops! I jumped ahead in gleeful anticipation of Obamacare.

Seriously, though, I was poor growing up but we had health insurance through my mother's job. It covered those inoculation required by law for me to attend school. Those things not mandated by law were covered but only after the required copay and deductions had been met.

These shots cost $120.00 per injection and three of them are required. That $360.00 is not easy for a lot of people to pay. Like all required inoculations, the benefits are beyond calculation.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I think your support for Sarah greatly skews your judgement.

(She's faced far worse than a swaggering redneck bully in the last three years: and Perry is relying on the shock and awe of an astroturf blitzkrieg to promote an air of inevitability, backed by Te-hey-ax-ayns from all over chiming in, in a well-executed version of the Diamond Strategy. But it's all just astroturf: pandering to Mexicans will SINK him no matter what he claims about Texas and its economy. Texas as a state is as narcissistic as Obama is about himself: and Texans aren't quite bright enough to figure out, or honest enough with themselves to admit, that nobody else worships them in quite that same special way.)

You don't seem to care much for us Texans either. After visiting your personal page I consider this to be projection. You are pretty heavy on the narcism side yourself.

I wish you well in your world of fantasy.

[CajunConservative]

Blah, blah, blah, St. Sarah is better than sliced bread, blah blah, blah...

Damn straight that Sarah Palin is no Reagan. Reagan had a long and successful career in Hollywood, two terms as California governor, president of the SAG and worked on exposing the communists in our midst before he was elected to two terms of the presidency. In that time he was instrumental in assisting the tearing down of the iron curtain and turning the Jimmy Carter malaise into optimism again.

Palin on the other hand quits to go for the money!

http://nymag.com/news/politics/65628/

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/posted/archive/2010/04/26/how-much-money-does-sarah-palin-make-new-york-magazine-knows.aspx

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/iowa-fairgoer-to-todd-palin-your-wife-sold-out/

I brought up the fact that had the R’s ran an electable candidate against 0bama instead of Alan Keyes, we would not be sitting here having this discussion because 0bama would not be in the WH now.

Failing to look at the facts outside the Palinista bubble is why you can’t see the facts that every poll clearly states that Palin would lose to 0bama by double digits. For those inside the bubble that means, the majority of people simply do not like her or believe she’s qualified to be the POTUS. I don’t dislike her but I do feel she is woefully inadequate to be the POTUS.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Yes, thanks. In chasing down the posts to me I inadvertently got crossed up on similar threads.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

What are these Perry bashers/Palin boosters going to do when Palin declines to run and instead backs Perry? They will either have to turn against Palin for her judgement or back Perry dispute all the lies they have been telling about him. If they are honest conservatives they will surely have egg on their faces. If they are trolls they will just move on down the road and keep bashing Perry.

[BluesDuke]

God bless our Constitution! It, like God, does not change! It is the same now as it was the day it was written!

It is? That's news to me. It would have been news to its framers, too.

I'm looking at the Constitution even as I write. If you assume the Bill of Rights as part and parcel of the original document, I'm looking at seventeen amendments that say, assuredly, that the Supreme Law of the Land has been modified, augmented, changed seventeen times.

But if you assume the Bill of Rights followed the original document---which it did (the Constitution sans amendments was ratified in July 1788 and went into effect the following March; the Bill of Rights was proposed formally in September 1789, ratified by the requisite eleven states by December 1791, and took effect the same month, and it would be quite revelatory to be reminded which states actually rejected which among the original amendments: four states originally rejected the Second Amendment, and one, Delaware, originally rejected the First Amendment)---then I'm looking at twenty-seven amendments that say, assuredly, that the Supreme Law of the Land has been modified, augmented, changed, twenty-seven times.

Most assuredly the Constitution, and God bless it indeed, is not the same now as the "day" it was written. (Come, come, you don't really think it could have been written in a day, do you? ;)

Which isn't the same thing as believing, as alas many do, that it's malleable to the point of being Silly Putty, as many treat it.

[grey_whiskers]

Just wait and see. Don't count your chickens before they've crossed the road.

Or something like that.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

You don't seem to care much for us Texans either. After visiting your personal page I consider this to be projection. You are pretty heavy on the narcism side yourself.

Texans and Harvard grads are the only people I've had experience with who are confuse geocentrism with egocentrism, that is, they think the world revolves around them.

You can see all about the Harvard version from Obama; all about the Texas flavor from Perry.

If they'd tone it down, I'd tone it down.

BTW, it was a serious and considered judgment about Perry's strategy and tactics. Read up on The Diamond Strategy yourself.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

You don't seem to care much for us Texans either. After visiting your personal page I consider this to be projection. You are pretty heavy on the narcism side yourself.

I keep my vanities there on my home page so I can find them again: I do most of my composing right in the "Your Reply" box and usually don't make a rough draft, nor do I save it as a word doc on my PC: which is why there are so many typos. Once I get the urge to write off my chest, I just want to post the dang thing. As Winston Churchhill said,

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”

Since I'm not in his league, it doesn't take writing a book to occupy my time: I've got my hands full with a mere vanity.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Feh. Only one "h" in Winston Churchill.

Cheers!