Posted on 09/18/2011 5:36:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing
September 18, 2011
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.
Shhhh...Perry supporters are trying to keep that one quiet...
Thanks, you’re so kind and patient in allowing me to jump in on your thread.
I’m well known for doing that. Thanks again.
Let me expand. Bronze Asshole has been posting continously since Perry announced. Never noticed him until he grew his flaming red asshole.
I believe he is a Palin partisan. He will not tell us, so we have to guess based on the condition of his asshole. Were he sane, he would be able to attract people like me who are naturally Palin oriented.
However, he is all about destruction of anyone not Palin. He is a dis-service to her. Since Palin is NOT running, I wish he would just STFU, since he is otherwise of no importance whatsoever.
LBJ liked to eat burned bacon and toast every morn.
No please elaborate. We welcome all things about Perry.
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Much has been criticized of Governor Perry's initial support for the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC). As President of the Conservative Coalition of the Texas Legislature, I was deeply involved in that entire process. My rural district was directly in the path of the TTC and the project was largely viewed by my constituents as an abuse of the governmental power of eminent domain.
Truth is, the TTC started as a expansion on the I-35 corridor. The plan was added to legislation by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) as a new "branch" of highway that ran from south Texas to the north right through my district. TXDOT presented facts that upon the completion of the Panama Canal expansion many of the trading freighters, which currently only serve the West Coast, would be able to bring their cargo to Texas ports. It was anticipated that this would place a tremendous burden on the current highway system as it heads north. However, the flawed TXDOT presentation of the plan and threats to private land ownership were not handled well. Citizens throughout Texas were insulted by the methods of potential property seizure, foreign control of Texas properties and other abuses. It was wrong, and when presented with the will of Texas citizens, Governor Perry put a stop to it.
While driving my daughter back to begin a new semester at Baylor University, I received a call from the Governor's office requesting that I invite a group of my fellow Texas Conservative Coalition legislators to his office to meet with him and TXDOT leadership. The following week several of us met with Governor Perry and the TXDOT Commissioner and Executive Director to share the frustration and opposition of our constituents across the state to the TTC. After a lengthy meeting, Governor Perry did something that has made me respect him as I have no other leader which I have observed or served alongside. He sat back in his chair, gave our arguments thought and said, "Tell your constituents you talked to the Governor, and the Trans-Texas Corridor is no more." To this day, the handful of legislators in attendance at that meeting have respected Rick Perry--a man who was confident, honest, and exhibited absolute integrity to his citizens. He often does not receive the proper recognition and credit he deserves for his decisive response to the will of Texas citizens against the TTC. When presented with their objections and opposition, he brought a halt to the ill-conceived TTC. This is in stark contrast to our current President who sees the destructive results of his policies and has no intention of admitting fault or changing course, but instead blames everyone else for his errors in judgment.
From his action to end the TTC to his signature on legislation to protect the rights of coastal property owners struggling to recover and rebuild in the aftermath of a hurricane, Rick Perry has responded to Texan landowners' concerns about private property rights. I was one of those 125 landowners who faced a loss of property to be determined by a governmental agency's assessment of where grass grew before and after a hurricane. I applauded Governor Perry as he stood with the Texas House and Senate (and eventually the Texas Supreme Court) against some very vocal opposition to sign into law Rep. Hamilton's bill preventing a potential land grab by the state. In this past session, Governor Perry declared eminent domain reform legislation an emergency item and saw it all the way through the legislative process until he signed it into law, strengthening the rights and protections of private property owners across Texas.
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With stupidity like this, who needs idiots?
Classy.
It really is wonderful news. The Lord moves in mysterious ways. I hope this brings much needed relief to all of Texas.
Hear! Hear! Very well said...
I agree. If you want to know what the real world is like, join the Marine Corps or any branch of the US military and see a vast number of shit-holes around the world. Come back to the US and kiss the ground. Thank God for the men and women who blink, swallow, look sideways at each other, and charge their weapons.
Oh, you mean like a Vietnam vet naval aviator and POW?
You are bad...stirring up the whatevers...post that picture of the whinos...why don’t ya’.
More abject stupidity. Texas has nearly 35 times more people than Alaska, and is the second largest state. The population density in Texas is nearly a hundred times greater than Alaska, and the difference is comparable to the population density difference between Texas and New York City.
Oh well, I guess facts aren't going to get in the way of a bonehead like Gail Collins.
Go look at Bronze Asshole’s post history. Get back to me. See if you disagree with his well-deserved Asshole status. He wants O to win. Do you?
Can we all just make a pact right now to stop feeding the trolls? They are going to hit every Perry thread from now until November 2012 and probably after spewing their hatred, but perhaps, just perhaps if we ignore them, they’ll go away.
I’ve picked my favorite troll to ignore and my experience on FR has been quite peaceful ever since.
For the sake of the troll, if you are having someone read this to you and you are not sure if you are a troll the test is easy even for one such as yourself; if a majority of your posts/responses on FR lately are on Perry threads showing your *ss rather than on your own candidates’ thread supporting him/her, then you are a troll, reviled by all and useful to none.
You’ve got guts, I didn’t the articles! :)
Hahahahaha! I swear that’s the best statement I’ve seen in weeks. THX!
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words...and if you look up and watch the video lots of applause by members of a blatantly racist organization...not good for America. A Perry supporter said in response "a friend of a friend told me he doesn't feel that way anymore"...right....and another said "McCain spoke at La Raza too"...and I said: "So? That's why I had to hold my nose when I voted against Obama in 2008...and Palin on the ticket helped ease the stench....not looking for a redux...
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