Posted on 08/31/2011 7:32:11 AM PDT by el_texicano
Perry who used to be a Dem, now as a Republican shows he was/is in favor of Hillary-care...can we truly trust his proclaimed pedigree of conservatism? Is Perry just another establishment GOP RINO in conservative clothing?
I for one don't trust him any further than I could throw him.
Eddie Haskell.
and the Perry-bots have arrived
Yeah, well the many many Americans watched Reagan jump in with both feed for FDR’s New Deal, only to realize it extended the depression. I susupect Rick Perry’s awakening conversion was just as strong or stronger.
I see him more as the real world incarnation of Greg Stillson...
Prove it!!!
He has a 10 year record on good governance, low taxes, low regulations and job growth. Cherry picking the warts doesn’t counter act a record that shows a blueprint for national economic recovery.
Reagan was a New Deal Democrat. He joked that he had probably become a Democrat by birth, given that his father, Jack, was so devoted to the Democratic Party. The younger Reagan cast his first presidential vote in 1932 for Franklin Roosevelt, and did so again in the succeeding three presidential contests.
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1082&loc=r
It doesn’t make Reagan any less of a conservative in his later life. But it was not where he or some others started.
Texas has a weak chief executive structure. It is more to the Lt. Gov. and Tx Congress Perry is trying to ride especially as the wind is blowing so strong for smaller goverment.
YOU prove your gag-a-maggot statement, instead of presenting some democrapic krapola rumor!
I am not a big Perry fan, but he has been governor of my state for over two terms now. Even though I disagree with aspects of his record as Governor, the premise of the article is absurd. Perry’s views are quite different from those he held 20 years ago. He isn’t a RINO. He has been inconsistently conservative, but predominantly conservative nevertheless. He has been excellent on life issues, and he has in word and deed been trending more conservative.
I support Bachmann, but much of what is being said about Perry on FR is distorted, unbalanced, and, in some cases, deranged.
His support of gay marriage in NY followed by his 180 degree change in direction the next day says all I need to know about him.
He has zero courage of his convictions.
I would respect him far more if he had stood by his first comment even if I disagree with it. Instead he changed course for what he thinks people wanted to hear.
Just as I thought, you can’t prove anything.
t isn’t an article, just another Blog Pimp spewing out nonsense.
He didn’t support gay marriage. He supported the 10th amendment.
Perry and Hillarycare? Four words. Tort reform in Texas. Perry has done more to protect doctors and traditional health care in Texas with tort reform than any previous governor. Just ask the personal injury trial lawyers in Texas.
Nor can you....democratic gossip columns just on’t count, Sir.
You say Perry has been “predominantly conservative nevertheless”. Is TX more conservative because of Perry’s leadership or is TX more conservative and has forced Perry to be “more conservative” to stay in office?
I believe it is more a factor of the later. Remove the restraint of the states conservatism, and Perry is a weak as they come.
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