Posted on 08/27/2011 12:10:12 PM PDT by el_texicano
What part of “illegal” do you not understand? You dolt.
Aaaah. I stand corrected. You were just supporting others who posted like DU. My bad.
Grow up, take you meds, and stop the name-calling.
....and what might be that derision of which you speak?
Done! Thanks FRiend! RINO Rick’s supporters won’t care but thinking conservatives will.
The derision of that fella who’d be your Cinc if you was still drivin!”
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You obviously did a poor job of looking for my candidate choice. So since you seem blinded by some ill will toward me and cannot look for it, it was post #53 where I stated that Palin is our only best choice.
I offered this post to see if the discussion by those to the contrary could defend Perry’s actions.
But apparently the best you all can do is ad hominem attacks. I have no ill will toward Perry, but he is not fit as a chief executive to lead this nation out of the problems we face.
You can call me whatever you wish, but your own comments convict you of projecting to others characters what you yourself is guilty of.
Education Secretary pounds Perry on Texas schools Share
Posted at 4:05 PM Printer-friendly The early attacks on Gov. Rick Perry come as no surprise: He’s a formidable candidate and, as such, is bound to take a beating from the administration and the MSM. At least Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had the sense to criticize Perry for something outside the unassailable fortress of his jobs record. It would have been better for Arne, though, if he had thought through his remarks a bit more. From Bloomberg:
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Texas’s school system “has really struggled” under Governor Rick Perry, a Republican candidate for president, and the state’s substandard schools do a disservice to children.
“Far too few of their high school graduates are actually prepared to go on to college,” Duncan said on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt” airing Aug. 19- 20. “I feel very, very badly for the children there.”
“You have seen massive increases in class size,” Duncan said of the Texas public school system during Perry’s terms as governor since December 2000. “You’ve seen cutbacks in funding. It doesn’t serve the children well. It doesn’t serve the state well. It doesn’t serve the state’s economy well. And ultimately it hurts the country.”
Note the focus of Duncan’s comments: They turn on the fallacy that more money automatically means a better education. It’s an oft-repeated statistic, but it’s repeated for the simple reason that it makes the point: Since 1985, real federal spending on K-12 education has increased by 138 percent. On a per-student basis, federal spending on K-12 education has tripled since 1970. Yet, long-term measures of American students’ academic achievement have not seen similar increases.
Furthermore, Gov. Perry understands what too many governors don’t: Federal dollars for education — particularly in the case of Race to the Top — come with strings attached, even if those strings are hidden, as in the case of the “voluntary” national standards that accompanied RTTT funding (the adoption of which greatly improved the likelihood a state would score money from the federal government). Perry actually turned down federal dollars because he recognizes the role of the states, teachers and parents in education. The real question is: Who do you want to direct your child’s education? You and the teacher? Or distant, unelected bureaucrats?
Perry has made it possible for Texas to adopt some of the most rigorous standards in the country. In September 2009, Education Week even cited Texas as a leader in the adoption of college-ready standards. Perhaps Duncan feels spurned to have said what he said. It must have shocked him to encounter a politician who would actually say “no” to money for the sake of the freedom and flexibility that actually serve children’s educational needs well.
From hotair.com
I also keep reminding myself that President Reagan was a Democrat, so there is always hope that some Repubs will come to their senses.
Thanks for posting this!
The Perry scam needs all the attention it can get.
Yep, Perry is essentially a cartoon.
Perry sucks exactly as much as Romney, if not more.
He cannot win a national election either, since his record is loaded with conservative-repellants that will throw the election to Obama.
Looks like an America-bot.
Perry has to be exposed; so many here are soft-headed, and get sucked in by jerks like perry.
Yeah part of why my jury is still out. Heads and shoulders better than Romney but that ain’t saying much...
>> “At this point, Perry is far more electable than Palin” <<
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MSNBC bullshit!
Perry’s record will kill him in a national election, while everything about Palin is well known nationally, and she has no negatives.
You are against us, and for elitist big government.
If you read the post I quoted in my response, it's very clear I logically refuted everything he said. So your claim that I “have no idea what I'm talking about” is illogical (since you give no examples where I was wrong).
The reason I also added “All” to the people I was responding to (instead of leaving it just him) is that I think it's foolish to say all to say that Perry supporters are “in the beltway types”, “elitists”, and “RINOs”, cuz all the polls point to exactly the opposite.
If we're all dupes you should find a better way to tell us. And that's not politics, that's salesmanship, and human nature.
But as I acknowledged in my original post, fanatics would not listen to me. Since you have been “associated w/ campaigns”, good luck w/ this strategy.
I don't think it will get you what you want, but you seem confident in it. As for me, I'm done w/ you and this thread. Trying to reason w/ Palin people is a fool's errand.
Perry is a Democrat, politically.
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http—www.usnews.com-news-articles-2011-07-25-rick-perry-stands-by-texas-dream-act
http—www.chron.com-disp-story.mpl-front-5090944.html
http—www.nytimes.com-2007-04-26-us-26texas.html
Rick Perry Was Al Gore’s Texas Campaign Chairman in 1988
http—governor.state.tx.us-news-speech-10688-
65 - Fox-Mex
http—blog.chron.com-txpotomac-2011-04-study-70-of-texas-illegal-immigrant-families-receive-welfare-
http—www.americanthinker.com-2011-06-rick_perry_a_moderates_conservative.html
Kelleigh Nelson
Pro-Anchor Baby
Pro-North American Union
Anti-Border Fence
Pro-Sanctuary City before he was against them
Anti-Deportation of Illegal Alien Criminals
http—barenakedislam.wordpress.com-2011-08-10-oh-no-will-governor-rick-perry-of-texas-be-the-pro-sharia-candidate-
Texas became the first state to pass an in-state tuition law for illegals
study 70% of Texas’ illegal immigrant families receive welfare
Dallas Parkland Hospital 70% of the women giving birth were illegal aliens. Almost 1000 per month
Texas Governor Signs Bill for Tougher Hate Crime Penalties
Horns-Perry
http—www.americanthinker.com-2011-08-perrys_problematic_pals.html
http—www.chron.com-disp-story.mpl-special-07-legislature-4465044.html
Rick Perry’s Bad Medicine
http—governor.state.tx.us-news-speech-5156-
http—visiontoamerica.org-3254-rick-perry-has-some-explaining-to-do-
Your posts are the all-time most ignorant on FR.
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