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"We have had several Texas presidents, but none so deeply, intensely Texas as this guy..."
Althouse ^ | 9-18-2011 | Althouse

Posted on 09/18/2011 5:36:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing

September 18, 2011

"We have had several Texas presidents, but none so deeply, intensely Texas as this guy would be."

Man, Rick Perry is freaking out the New York Times. Gail Collins is all:

You think of Rick Perry, you think of Texas. And more Texas. Perry the cowboy coyote-killer, the lord of the Texas job-creation machine, the g-dropping glad-hander with a “howdy” for every stranger in the room. He barely exists in the national mind outside of the Texas connection.
And Maureen Dowd is all over the place talking about Perry with references to an obvious and old Hollywood movie.

Do these New York women realize that this kind of elitist contempt makes Rick Perry more appealing... to a lot of people... including me?

Continued...with Poll


TOPICS: Politics
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1 posted on 09/18/2011 5:36:57 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: shield

ping


2 posted on 09/18/2011 5:38:22 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; RoosterRedux; jonrick46; deepbluesea; RockinRight; TexMom7; potlatch; ...
Perry Ping....

IF you'd rather NOT be pinged FReepmail me.

IF you'd like to be added FReepmail me. Thanks.

3 posted on 09/18/2011 5:43:33 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: smoothsailing

Texas politicians are married and tainted to being too deferential to the Mexicans. The country needs someone not compromised to the Mexicans. Enough of Texas politicians controlling the White House.


4 posted on 09/18/2011 5:45:30 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: smoothsailing

My answer is not there.

Yes. But they can’t help themselves.


5 posted on 09/18/2011 5:46:29 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: smoothsailing

None so deeply, intensely Texan? Really? Cause, I’m thinking LBJ was pretty intensely Texan.


6 posted on 09/18/2011 5:46:58 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: smoothsailing
“howdy”

Now that comes from Texas A & M...all Aggies greet people with HOWDY.

7 posted on 09/18/2011 5:47:42 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: shield

some of the comments at the link are funny:

“Thank you for reading the NYT so I don’t have to.”

:o)


8 posted on 09/18/2011 5:48:13 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: The Bronze Titan
Enough of Texas politicians controlling the White House.

Better than a Kenyan.

9 posted on 09/18/2011 5:51:51 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Yep, we all had to suffer through LBJ’s presidency and the war on poverty....poverty won...


10 posted on 09/18/2011 5:54:23 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: LibertarianLiz

LBJ was before their time...LBJ was a very gross man...Texan or not...he was gross...Perry is nothing like LBJ...


11 posted on 09/18/2011 5:54:31 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: smoothsailing

Say what? You mean LBJ was not an intense Texan? Who’da thunk it.

Actually, Maureen Dowd sounds a lot like the nitwits on FR who spend their time attacking Perry for his hardcore Texas Americanism, AKA. mainstream conservatism. I just don’t see that innuendo, rumor and gossip holding up with the vast majority of conservatives in the end.


12 posted on 09/18/2011 5:55:42 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: smoothsailing
I'll take a Texan any day over a community organizing pussy.

13 posted on 09/18/2011 5:57:22 PM PDT by TSgt (When in the Course of human events...)
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To: smoothsailing
Have we ever had a GOOD Texican president.

Texas needs to end this little experiment with Federal Union and step away.

I'm from Texas, of Texas, and in Texas. I say we sell the federal bedpan for whatever salvage value it has, and head off into the sunset. I'm worn out with the Union of States thing. Nothing personal, but so long, and thanks for the fish.

/johnny

14 posted on 09/18/2011 5:58:05 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: LibertarianLiz

LBJ was President when I went off to Vietnam. He was terrible, wouldn’t let us fight to win. I really loathed that man.


15 posted on 09/18/2011 5:59:32 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Reagan Man
Actually, Maureen Dowd sounds a lot like the nitwits on FR who spend their time attacking Perry for his hardcore Texas Americanism, AKA. mainstream conservatism.

She does! I wonder what her screen name is. :)

16 posted on 09/18/2011 6:03:34 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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We sent Lyndon Baines to Washington to get rid of the drunkard. I won't repeat what my daddy said when he gave his "Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President." speech.

But it wasn't flattering. At all. Not even a question of misundertanding what daddy said.

/johnny

17 posted on 09/18/2011 6:07:53 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: goat granny

LBJ was disgusting. I was too young to vote in ‘64, but I couldn’t wait to vote against him in ‘68, but he slinked away.


18 posted on 09/18/2011 6:07:53 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: shield
LBJ was a very gross man...Texan or not...he was gross...Perry is nothing like LBJ...

So true. I can't imagine Perry giving interviews to people while sitting on the loo like LBJ did.

(showing my age here) When I was little, we would go to his Birthday Party's. His Ranch on the Pedernales was down river from my Grandparent's farm. He had a car that could drive on land or in the water..I thought that was the coolest car.

19 posted on 09/18/2011 6:08:53 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Freepers, please turn yourself in at attackwatch.com)
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To: smoothsailing

She is known by many names. ;^)


20 posted on 09/18/2011 6:11:13 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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