Posted on 09/04/2011 12:42:11 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
If he is our best choice apart from Palin, then let's vet him now, and find out what we can rather than wait for the MSM to blindside us after he has the nomination.
At least we'll know what we'll have to answer for if he is the nominee.
USS Alaska, they don’t even know WHO the TEA Party is. Anybody can say they are TP. That doesn’t make it so.
THere are other listings for Perry's net worth (most of which is tied up in a blind trust that he has no control over and which doesn't generally disclose it's value).
David Frum, everybody's favorite conservative (sarcasm), making about the exact same argument against Perry as you do here, claims Perry's net worth is now $2.8 million dollars.
Frum of course isn't attacking Perry because he thinks he's too liberal, quite the opposite. But I wanted to disclose that number as an alternative.
However, Frum gives no evidence for that number, and this link says $1 million, as does every other reference I can find; Frum seems to be an outlier in the Perry net worth guessing-game. Rick Perry: Net worth: $1 million
BTW, when he was a state legislator, that was a part-time job which paid about $7200 a year -- so he wasn't really living off the public for all of his 27 years, unless you consider $7200 a living wage.
As I said, I'm guessing this attack, which was launched first by Bill White the democrat in the 2010 election, and has been resurrected in the past week by lefty blogs and David Frum, will go nowhere, simply because making $1 million in 27 years as a 61-year-old is unremarkable.
And when you look at the details, most of the money came from a couple of very fortunate deals, but deals that were out in the public, and not offered to Perry as exclusives. IN other words, this isn't the case where someone privately sold Perry land which later was found valuable. His two big deals he bought on the open market, they were available for ANYBODY to purchase, just he was smart enough or informed enough to purchase them.
In the one case, the investment was a sound one to begin with, but then Dell (of Dell computers) needed the land to get to public sewers so they paid a pretty penny for it.
Interestingly, the argument there was that somehow Perry knew that Dell would need access to the sewers, but that Dell himself did NOT know he'd need it -- hence why Dell didn't buy the land when Perry did, but rather looked at it two years later.
In the other case, it was a long-term investment where everybody who bought land in the area made a killing, not just Perry. So yes, he did profit off good investment, but not exclusively, everybody who thought it would be a good investment and bought the land made money. And there doesn't appear to be any specific government action that MADE the land suddenly worth more.
But with all of that, he's worth $1 million, or if you believe David Frum, $2.8 million. If he was trading his political connections for fortune, he didn't do a very good job.
Which is the truth that some of her supporters may have missed.
Yes he is. In a head to head match-up with Obama There is no way in hell that Sarah Palin is going to only get 66% of Republican support, 65% of conservative support and 39% in white support in a general election when Obama’s numbers are in the tank now.
Rasmussen already produced a poll in mid-June that 83% of GOP primary voters would vote for the GOP nominee regardless if their preferred choice did not make it. And only 7% would vote for Obama and 5% for a third party.
Have you ever heard of rallying around the nominee. Since 1972 no GOP nominee has received any less than 85% of the GOP vote.
Against a Marxist, 35% of conservatives are going to vote against a Reagan conservative. That’s out of Alice in Wonderland.
In addition at the end of March 2011 Rasmussen found that 89% of self-identified conservatives were at least somewhat angry at the federal govt and its policies (code for Obama). Did white conservatives suddenly become pussycats and suddenly becoming enamored with Obama? Give me a break.
And 60% of whites consistently in the weekly Rasmussen poll have favored the repeal of Obamacare. So over 40% of these white voters are going to either vote for Obama or a third party and thus cut their own throat, since the chances of getting Obamacare repealed is nil if Obama gets a second term in office.
Voters are not that schizophrenic or that stupid but Rasmussen is paid to craft a false narrative to make it appear that they are.
Don’t forget last week against a generic GOP candidate Obama only got 40% of the vote and the generic GOP 48%. So you’re telling me you believe the 47%-35% result of Obama over Palin showing a 20 point swing because Palin is the GOP nominee. I’m not buying that for one second and neither should you.
Poor people by definition don't have enough money for influence-peddling.
Cheers!
I must say that you have presented information that is new to me. Well done, BC!
We know for a fact, that Governor Palin is squeaky clean.
(My God, her 26,000+ emails were sent viral to be scrutinized!)
I have to wonder how her rivals, including the Governor of Texas would stand up to the same scrutiny?
If it’s untested it brings a health risk.
"He does what is right regardless of whether it is popular. He walks the walk of a true conservative"
So which is it? Is the above sentiment what she really thinks or not? If not, why did she state it?
Charles, You wasted a decent bit of bandwidth to establish that you don’t know his exact net worth. He has definitely made millions in deals that are not kosher by my standards with legislators and with crony contributors.
These kinds of deals raise an appearance of impropriety. And the fact that he is steering hundred of million of dollars of taxpayer money via the so-called investment fund to his big contributors ought to give you pause as well.
He has created two funds. One, the Texas Enterprises Fund, gives out grants to companies, many of them established companies such as the ones mentioned in this article, to locate facilities in Texas when they otherwise might locate them somewhere else. The Texas Enterprise Fund does not have as part of its mission statement that applicants must be start-ups. Is there any question that the companies mentioned in this article received funds from the Texas Enterprise Fund?
The other fund is the Texas Emerging Technology Fund which has as its purpose to invest in new technologies that otherwise would not make it into the marketplace. None of the companies mentioned in the article received an investmetn from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund.
So on this point this article is spreading inaccurate information.
Polls aside, I'll say this.
Palin's strategy of not being a candidate has impressed me so far. She can watch and learn the weakness of her opponents without having to defend her own perceived weaknesses. This is one-upsmanship squared - brilliant!
Having said that, Attacking from the sidelines is, in my opinion, a character flaw. It's like poking a lion between the bars of its cage. Very unbecoming.
Flame on Palin supporters.
Yes Techno, the money will flow in, but where as Perry needs to be vetted and stuff will be found that isn't liked, Sarah has been vetted. She has been vetted for the last 3 years in the worse exam possible of her, her kids, Todd and probably her mom and dad too
Heck she did them one better, and invited America into their lives with a TV by spending he summer with her.
And we still can't find a classmate of Obama's from College.
She is ready to go IMHO, her life has been an open book...
“He has created two funds. One, the Texas Enterprises Fund, gives out grants to companies, many of them established companies such as the ones mentioned in this article”
In either case, it is crony capitalism, since both funds are underwritten by the taxpayers. The companies benefiting from state taxpayers largesse are contributing some of those same bucks right back to Rick Perry.
You make a distinction which is irrelevant.
Yep, we true conservatives who were paying attention knew Perry had to be getting a payoff to require parents to give Gardasil to their young daughters.
And don’t even get me started on the unbelievable land grab he was/is behind for his super highway from Mexico to Canada! No doubt he or a shadow buyer purchased some choice property along the way.....
It has now been over a century since drug companies have brought any drug to market that has not been tested. Tests may inconclusive or insufficient. There are instances where the FDA has approved a drug that was found in other countries to show risks in tests there. But I don’t believe that any test has actually shown gardasil to create health risks and if you are sayhing that Merck brought a drug to market without doing nay tests on it you are quite clearly assisting it the spreading of inaccurate information.
“We know for a fact, that Governor Palin is squeaky clean.
My God, her 26,000+ emails were sent viral to be scrutinized!”
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Just so, Onyx. You come directly to the point, as always. Perry is backpedaling like mad with his supporters trying to say that the cronies were paid out of one fund and not another and saying well..there are no Tony Rezkos around.
I haven’t spent a single syllable defending Sarah Palin’s honesty and integrity because they are above reproach and everyone knows it, even the trolls.
"We've already established *what* you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."
Cheers!
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