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

http://markamerica.com ^ | 27 August, 2011 at 00:23 | MarkAmerica

[ejonesie22]

While my personal jury is still out on the man, this won’t sit well with the paid Perry sycophants here

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

What are you smoking? Perry supporters are smearing Palin and Tea Partiers? You can't be serious. Have you read the posts on here from Palin supporters? They're vitriolic. I don't like any of this. We all must come together after our nominee is chosen.

At this point, Perry is far more electable than Palin--that is not an anti-Palin statement. It's a reflection of poll after poll.

[DCmarcher-976453]

In general he doesn’t send a thrill up my leg either. When he poked that young reporter in the chest with his finger last week I knew he was a phony.

[Past Your Eyes]

*sigh*
It’s so much more enjoyable to watch the damn Democrats chew each other up than watching us do it to oursselves.
*sigh*

[festusbanjo]

Alright smart guy. So who do you think is the solution...and she ain’t running.

[DRey]

Those calling Perry a RINO sound to me like those lunatic lefties that cry because Obama is too conservative. Fringe, at best. Medication could help.

[Bad~Rodeo]

he's no more one of us than the man in the Moon. You might want to let your fellow conservatives and Tea Party patriots know it too: We're being hustled again.

The bottom line is Obama HAS to go....vato

[RowdyFFC]

I’m from Texas and know ever detail about Perry and his policies and actions and have lived very well in my home state!

I’m also a Tea Party board member who’s worked closely since our first events when Govern Perry’s office opened it up and let us use their resources.

And there’s not a spit of truth in this article that’s not some wet dream from a democrat spreading a bucket of horse manure and propaganda.

Bah humbug! And pffffffffffffffffft....

[Nervous Tick]

>> surely we can do far better than any of these establishment RINOs such as Perry.

Fair enough.

Who are you recommending?

[DRey]

Sounds to me like he courted the right people then. Are you under the impression politicians can get elected without donors? Because they can’t.

[JosephSmithNAW]

Depends. If that kind of candidate you speak of looks like winning, then I will support her/him. But, if it looks like that person has no chance, based not on polls but actual election results (the initial ones in Iowa for ex), then tactically I will switch to and support Perry to prevent a Romney nomination

ANYBODY BUT ROMNEY

[el_texicano]

FYI to you all

[steveshoveler]

Perry appears to be the only candidate out there fully comnmitted to the idea that anthropogenic climate change is BS or am I missing something? That one by itself is gigantic.

[shiva]

ANYBODY BUT ROMNEY

Yep,I feel the same.

[stillonaroll]

Just curious: who do you support, of the current or possible presidential candidates?

[DRey]

This, too, is naive. Texas has Mexicans in its school system that drag us down. It’s tough competing with Connecticut when the whole south of our state doesn’t speak English in our English-only school system. Try comparing apples to apples. North and West Texas beats Connecticut in test scores. Pretty impressive, actually. Or compare the whole state of Texas to California, who also has a huge influx of Mexicans in the school system, but spends FAR more per student on education that we do. We beat them, easily. Apples and Oranges = misleading, at best.

[rob777]

"Perry / Rubio 2012 !"


I am willing to bet that, if Perry wins the nomination, he will look to Booby Jindal as his VP. He has been quoted as saying the his preferred choice is a current sitting Governor and has said a lot of positive things about Jindal.

[South40]

"I think there is a path to citizenship for those young men and women ILLEGAL ALIENS who have served their country," Perry said.

THEIR COUNTRY?! Perry thinks America is THEIR COUNTRY?!
Perry wants to give ILLEGAL aliens citizenship

In 2001, Perry signed into law the very first Texas “Dream ACT.” It allowed the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at any Texas university. Perry defended the Texas “Dream ACT,” saying, “To punish these young Texans for their parents' actions is not what America has always been about.”

Sr El Perrista receives a blanket from Mexican Gov Enrique Martinez of
Coahuila, as a token of appreciation for enacting the Texican Dream Act.

Perry then jetted off to Mexico and bragged to the Mexicans that Texas passed this law, saying, “The message is simple, educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.” Education is the future, and yes we can.
Rick Perry’s immigration problem

"Yes We Can"? Where have we heard that before?

In February 2007, Perry signed a shocking executive order forcing every sixth-grade girl to submit to a three-jab regimen of the Gardasil vaccine. He also forced state health officials to make the vaccine available "free" to girls ages 9 to 18. The drug, promoted by manufacturer Merck as an effective shield against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) and genital warts, as well as cervical cancer, had only been approved by the Food and Drug Administration eight months prior to Perry's edict.

Perry defenders pointed to a bogus "opt-out" provision in his mandate "to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children's health care." But requiring parents to seek the government's permission to keep an untested drug out of their kids' veins is a plain usurpation of their authority. Translation: Ask your bureaucratic overlord to determine if a Gardasil waiver is right for you.

Libertarians and social conservatives alike slammed Perry's reckless disregard for parental rights and individual liberty. The Republican-dominated legislature also balked. In May 2007, both chambers passed bills overturning the governor's unilaterally imposed health order.
Perry's vaccine order exposed lapse in political, policy judgments Rick Perry’s Superficial Extremism The Texas governor’s record doesn’t live up to his rhetoric.

“The Gardasil debacle is just one of many concerns a wide range of grass-roots conservative activists have about Perry’s record as governor. He’s soft on illegal immigration despite a few recent nods to border enforcement. He’s prone to crony capitalism. And as the vaccine mandate scandal shows, he demonstrated Nanny State tendencies that are anathema to Tea Party core principles.

Once again, the Perry campaign proves my point about the non-walkback-walkback. If Perry “erred on the side of life,” what his campaign continues to suggest is that those who opposed his Gardasil mandate from the beginning chose death. Instead of renouncing the human shield demagoguery he engaged it after the repeal, the Perry campaign has doubled-down. There is nothing — nothing — Tea Party about this.

The Gardasil debacle is a useful red flag on Perry’s basic political instincts, judgment, core values, and trust. It is no surprise — given his ties to Merck — that Perry is a consummate practitioner of corporate welfare “public-private partnerships.”
Plumbing the rest of the Perry record

Perry’s campaign website lists the Trans-Texas Corridor as one of his accomplishments. But is it something Perry really wants broadcast as an achievement? The Texas Republican Party’s 2010 platform includes a plank specifically opposing the Trans-Texas Corridor.
Rick Perry's NAFTA Superhighway Problem

That’s why I am also excited that Texas Secretary of State Henry Cuellar is working on an initiative that could extend the benefits of telemedicine to individuals living on the Mexican side of the border.
~ Rick Perry

Think ObamaCare is Bad? Rick “Open Borders” Perry Wanted a Bi-National Plan That Would Include Mexico

VIDEO Perry compares Giuliani to Reagan

VIDEO: Perry thanked by Vicente Fox for illegals in-state tuition

Rick Perry is NOT conservative!

[RowdyFFC]

Texas National Honor Society students also beat the pants off of every other state, mainly because they have to be tops before we let them in...and we don’t CHEAT on scores to produce fake stats either like the many states are. And actually Texas has the many really good stats, but somehow the democratic propaganda leaves the good stuff out.