Posted on 07/19/2011 1:42:48 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.....Having been a watcher of Rick Perry’s career for many years, and having served with him in the Legislature, I believe that much like the leopard, his spots do not change. First of all, Perry is an opportunist; and a very lucky one at that. Perry got elected as a Democrat and switched to the Republican Party to run for Agriculture Commission after having advocated the end of that office because the incumbent had the audacity to insist that farmers reveal to farm workers what poisons they were spraying on them in the fields.
Perry got elected Lt. Governor with the assistance of the Bush family in a year when there was a Republican tsunami. Mom and Pop Bush got on television and told Texas that Rick Perry was like a son to them and ought to be elected. He narrowly outdistanced State Comptroller Sharp who had reaped national claim in office as an excellent public servant.
Perry walked into the office of Governor by default when George Bush went to be president of the United States. Ironically enough, in a five-person race, in which the Bush family switched their loyalties and supported Kaye Bailey Hutchinson, Perry managed to get elected Governor of this state with 38% of voters voting for him and 62% voting for someone else. Nonetheless, Perry took it as a mandate and took a sharp turn to the right, consolidating the far-right base and demanding strict loyalty of all of his appointees, which by the most recent election was 100% of the state appointments. The bottom line is that while Perry has been praised for his political acumen, most of it has been luck and timing.....
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That is just silly, that's what it is.
You really think people won't vote for Perry because of Bush?
Really? REALLY? C'mon...really?
no one is arguing that there are too many clueless people out there, but the previous guy was insinuating Perry is a bad pick because the electorate as a whole is just going to reject another TX governor. While I guarantee that will be part of the attack, I just don’t see it as all that effective. Those people so clueless they know the Idol winner and not the VP are either going to vote for Obama or not vote. I don’t see them turning down Perry, but voting for Bachmann, Palin, Cain or any of the others. Those people will always fall for the leftist campaign meme. I think Perry has a better chance of working around the meme than most. He’s got the undeniable job creation track record that will pull in some votes.
I absolutely do believe that, yes. I have less faith in my fellow American than I used to.
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