Posted on 09/25/2011 9:18:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
IF IF IF ......the Left Can Ruin....
I've got an 'about' page, and I'm posting my disgust with Perry here.
Have you supported Rick Perry for the nomination?
If not, who do you support for the nomination?
Rick Perry is the cause of his ruination. Nothing else. After that last debate he is off my list for good.
And your trolling for Perry is becoming an annoyance.
Perry shot himself in the foot.
Oh, excuse me, my bad. Rick Perry had manipulated us until just last week into thinking that illegal immigrants must pay full tuition, and that Gardasil was good for “innocent little 12 year old girls”, and we fell for it until Chris Wallace and the Bachmann woman, and most of all Saint Mitt Romney exposed him. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Rick Perry called me, “Heartless”
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That is a tagline waiting to happen.
That last debate clinched his fate for me. I went from probable support to good bye.
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Yep. Me too
So, who is it that you support? You think that the GOP has been manipulated, but you seem to be the one trying to do the manipulating.
Oh, stop it. The title is misleading, and you know it. The whole thrust of your screed it to lay blame for Perry's sudden predicament at the feet of the left, when he himself is responsible for it.
You'd do a far better service for your candidate if you bucked up and admitted that he's weak in the area of illegal immigration, instead of trying to gloss over his failing on this very important issue.
Frankly, I don't know that there's anything that Perry can do to rectify this, at this point. He didn't just make a faux pas the other night. He's got a documented record that backs up his reputation for being weak on illegal immigration. This is going to stick, no matter what he says now.
So, you've been supporting Rick Perry all along, knowing these things about him?
Doesn't say much for your character evaluation skills.
I’m sorry for your loss and I can understand.
Three illegals gave me 27 stitches to the back of my head. It is sad because I get panicked when I see groups of Mexican men now.
I can’t help myself, the fear just comes, I try and be rational and think not all are that way, but I literally shake...the fear just won’t go away.
No - but I understand that you have to announce that it is in order to make your claim.
As a student of the MSM (and FReeper piling on) I understand the drill.
I know what I said, and what I meant. And so do you.
I’m fortunate to be related to LEGAL Mexican immigrants. (Who, BTW, despise illegals.)
No. I've never even entertained the thought. I will say, however, that I've voted for him in his last two elections, but only because he stank less than his opponents.
I'm not willing to compromise in the race for president, though. Rick Perry is not the type of person who will do what's necessary to roll back the socialist leviathan that is destroying America. He's a go-along-get-along, centrist Moderate, who's more committed to the political establishment, than he is to conservative principles and the Constitution (in my observation).
...who do you support for the nomination?
Why does that matter? I'm not crusading against Rick Perry on behalf of another candidate (which is what you're implying). Until he dropped the bombshell on in state tuition the other night, I rarely posted to Perry threads.
You are the one who made the charge, not cripplecreek.
It’s up to you to produce the evidence.
I have not supported Perry then or now.
I am merely pointing out that everything that he is being accused of today, that is since the last so-called “debate”, had been known about him much earlier, since he entered the Presidential race. Nothing new about Rick Perry has emerged. Somebody had not been paying attention and allows others to lead him by the nose, that is all. Shocking, shocking that gambling is going on here.
What candidate threads do you post to?
“The Perry-haters are going to spew their talking points all over any pro-Perry thread. That’s the level of discourse anymore.”
Well it seems that everyone wants their candidate only despite saying otherwise. I’ve seen a lot of Perry people attacking everyone else over the past month. Lots of people attacked Bachmann, Palin and others on here when Perry seemed to be leading. So the level of discourse was never that great.
Perhaps you're missing the point of all these angry posts, RC. Sure, Rick Perry's dismal record on illegal immigration is well known to most Freepers, but what's galling everyone, is the fact that he insulted most conservatives by calling us "heartless" for not pandering to illegals as he has.
He actually had a chance to convince conservative voters that he really does believe as we do; that yes, illegal immigration is a national scourge, but that he's had to handle it differently as a Governor, than he would as a president.
It would have stretched credulity, but he might have been able to make the case convincingly enough. Instead, he blurted out the one thing that cemented conservatives' worst suspicions about him.
On top of that, he went on Hannity (I think) the following day, and repeated it! I'm sorry, but there's no retreat from that position now. He grabbed hold of one of the deadly third rails of US politics and short-circuited any chance he had at the nomination.
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