Posted on 08/05/2011 8:26:31 PM PDT by Rational Thought
Governor Palin Retweets Article from Whitney Pitcher and PA4Palin That Notes How Rick Perry Almost Tripled Texas’ Total Debt
This re-tweet from Governor Palin should pretty much put an end to the outrageous rumors that she’ll endorse Rick Perry. The great article from Whitney and PA4Palin re-tweeted by the Governor directly contrasts Governor Palin’s stellar record on debt and liabilities with the futile records of Mitt “peacetime” Romney and Rick Perry. If Palin is endorsing Perry, why is she re-tweeting an article that slams his inability to control what Governor Palin has described as the “foundation of destruction?”
It’s also noteworthy that the article that Palin re-tweeted pretty much calls for her to run for the presidency.
Right, and if you click through the link on her tweet you get to this article:
http://blogontheprairie.blogspot.com/2011/08/governor-palin-leading-fight-on-debt.html
Thx.
Alaska’s native population has all kinds of social ills. But really size isn’t an excuse for percent of debt increase.
Thanks for the ping — am reading the thread now!
Oh God, Another troll idiot. Go to h*ll, please. And take “goodhair” Perry with you.
Now think about what you just said.
You think there are no Perry pragmatist supporters who once would crawl over broken glass for Sarah? Or Fred in ‘08?
You just insulted a lot of folks.
Excellent...and I agree....:oP
Where do they get the debt increase, anyway? We have about 10 billion in a rainy day fund and by law a balanced budget.
Where do they get the debt figures?
No I didn’t. Just the ONE who compared her to gingrich. YOU weren’t that one, so why would you be insulted?
Do you really believe, like the other 28% of the hoplessly comatose, that this is an ordinary election cycle?
Because I’ve also been a Palin fan for four years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070969/posts
Changed my name to hurl a couple days after zero was elected.
Well, would YOU compare Sarah Palin to newt gingrich? I’m serious. THAT is NOT indicative of ever having supported Sarah Palin, and I would not even insult Rick Perry that way. BTW, in case you don’t know or have not read any of my previous taglines, I don’t capitalize the proper names of people I have no respect for...like gingrich, obama, et al.
When I stop capitalizing Rick Perry, then you will know that his negatives have gone to maximum with me.
I personally would compare gingrich to Ferris Bueller.... simply not there. Somewhere doing something, or someone, but certainly not here.
I can see the writing on the wall, and now I just have to figure out how to get Greg Abbott elected Governor so I don’t have to leave the CONUS when zero and cuomo sweep it again with 54% in ‘12.
The elected State Legislature deliberated, considered and then voted to pass that Bill, HB 1403, into Law in 2001, by the 77th Texas Legislature. Governor Palin was never faced with anything near this subject while in office - she never had to deploy the equivalent of Texas Rangers to the border, petition for unmanned drones and National Guards - to finally be allocated 2/6 or 8 of the drones and 250 of 1200 National Guard troops that the Feds finally allowed.
And that in-state tuition eligibility is not unfair to non-Texan US citizens and is not exactly a free ride. Illegal aliens must have lived in the State for 3 years and must have graduated from our high schools or gotten a GED from Texas. (Students from other US States may have graduated from any high school and only have to live here 1 year to be eligible for in state tuition.)
The Legislature and the people of Texas have had over 10 years to repeal the law and we have declined to do that.
I’d rather have children who attended and graduated from Texas High School in college than dumped across the border for their anger to fester. Or witness what ICE does to known criminals - bring them to our 11 detention facilities the Feds have built in Texas and then get overwhelmed and dump them on the streets of Houston, El Paso, or Port Isabel.
Texas is NOT California. While some illegals are certainly getting some benefits in Texas, that is a tiny fraction of the growth in spending in Austin. This has a lot more to do with the increasing over-reach of Texas government.
Here is what I previously wrote about Perry:
I’ve lived in Texas since the FIRST time Bill Clements was elected. I suffered through Mark White, Ann Richards, and winced as Clayton Williams campaign self-destructed. I pushed pamphlets for Rick Perry the FIRST time he ran as a Republican for Agriculture Commissioner.
Rick Perry is alright. He’s been better than any democrat who opposed him, and better than most RINOs who tried to unseat him.
Is he a conservative? He has conservative tendencies in things in which he otherwise has no vested interest. He knows enough about his base to appeal to them in certain areas, but ANYONE who knows him also has the distinct sense he is not authentic or genuine, he is just going through the motions because he is expected to say certain things.
For example, there was a bill introduced to re-assert the Texas’ claims under the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution. I forget the details of the bill, but he tried to introduce it giving some vague platitudes. When it became obvious he really didn’t understand the purpose of the bill, he passed the news conference to the bill’s author, who was passionate and fully comprehended every nuance. Rick Perry was just there, going through the motions.
That explains why he occasionally - somewhat randomly - goes off the reservation and engages in some huge over-reach of government power like the vaccination program or the toll road disaster (everybody in Texas knows TEXANS HATE, nay they DESPISE toll roads). He doesn’t see how these programs are antithetical to limited government.
Between him and Obama (or even him and Romney), I’d take Perry any day. He’d make a competent President. The deficit would go back to just a few hundred billion a year, the debt would go back to growing only twice the rate of inflation, and the size of government would only grow at a slow rate.
I don’t think we can afford that. Undoing the disaster known as the Obama presidency requires a serious effort by a genuine reformer committed to reducing the size of government.
Only two governors likely to run in 2012 have ever actually reduced the size of government: Gary Johnson and Sarah Palin. Gary Johnson is a nice guy, but he is so at odds with Americans on other issues, he is not competitive.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is the AUTHENTIC conservative who can connect with a majority of Americans on a broad range of issues. She is beyond competitive, she dominates.
BTW, I think this is a point many - like Gov Haley Barbour for example - misunderstand when they talk about ‘not making purity a test’. The issue never was purity - nobody agrees with anybody 100% of the time. The issue has always been trust. We can ill afford to elect somebody who says the right things, but goes wobbly and gets jello spined every time there is some stress.
We desperately need to trust the person we support to really do what they say. The issue has always been authenticity - are they really a genuine conservative? Sarah Palin is, Rick Perry is not.
Did you read the article she tweeted? It highlights the record of Romney, Huntsman, Pawlenty, Perry, and her own.
This piece is not favorable to Romney at ALL.
Seriously, all she did was tweet a well written article about actual numbers of government growth under certain governors. The facts are what they are...she is the only governor to actually reduce the size of government. ...and she did it during a SURPLUS!
All the rest of these guys are big government republicans.
Rick Perry is alright. He’s been better than any democrat who opposed him, and better than most RINOs who tried to unseat him.
Which comes out and admits that even some RINOs are better than he is.
EPIC .
Cheers!
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