Posted on 09/25/2011 9:18:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Only 4 things can be highlighted as “topic” designations for a thread post. I found it a hard choice because – business/economy, education, government, health/medicine, history, military, politics, religion, science and society all should be included.
It is being reported by environmentalists -- believers in a socialist “green” religion -- that their judgment and knowledge is being resisted by “unscientific, religious deniers” hell-bent on blocking their path. So the deniers need to be “identified” for the good of humankind. This is dangerous. This morning I posted an article that explores with alarm, how Global Warming Consensus is denied by conservatives – that their resistance is an ever growing problem stemming from the religious right in America. The American ‘Allergy’ to Global Warming: Why?
I posted it because Gov. Rick Perry was mentioned at the top of the article. And there is good reason why. Socialists around the world know that Rick Perry has been fighting them on the legal front, the education front, and the environmental front for years. Due to his past, he knows why and where they are determined to lead us. Why would Rick Perry feel so strongly about these issues and their connection to states' rights and free market capitalism? Why does the Left recognize the danger of a Rick Perry controlling the Bully Pulpit of the White House, his veto, his appointments?
Rick Perry grew up on a farm (I know he keeps telling us this but I think it is done for a reason). His mother sewed his clothes. They worked and went to church. Rick Perry was a Boy Scout, earning Eagle Scout rank (so has his son). Rick Perry was a member of the Future Farmers of America. He went to Texas A&M and was a member of the Corps. Rick Perry joined the Air Force, serving 5 years. He flew C-130s around the world before returning to West Texas and the family farm. He courted his future wife, taught Sunday school and worked the land with his father. And in time he went into state politics.
Rick Perry is a self made man. He was called one of the Pit-bulls in the Texas legislature because he was a Democrat member who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases. He is naturally a conservative. In 1989 he joined the Republican Party that had begun taking root in Texas as the Democratic Party ideology began moving left. Perry ran for the Agriculture Commission seat against leftist Jim Hightower and won. In 1998 Rick Perry ran for Lt. Gov. and won (he was the first Republican Lt. Gov. elected since Reconstruction).
When George W. Bush became president in 2000, Rick Perry became the governor of Texas. He has been reelected twice (the last time beating out Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a candidate supported by the Bush family and Karl Rove in a primary challenge). When Gov. Rick Perry was elected in 2010 for his 3rd term, he was joined by a Republican super majority in the Texas legislature. Major legislation was passed and signed by Gov. Perry, including (after a 6 year struggle) Photo Voter ID and tighter controls over how money is spent. Perry's history of being attacked by the mainstream media is well known and his election was won without one endorsement by a mainstream media outlet.
Rick Perry has served twice as Chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association. The country has seen a rise in the number of conservative governors and state legislatures in recent elections. Rick Perry broke fundraising records for the RGA. And now Rick Perry is a candidate in the GOP Primary for President of the United States. He wants to lower taxes, return states' rights, repeal Obama care, and remove the regulations and laws that are strangling our economy, and get people back to work.
Currently, the Left is battling Gov. Rick Perry’s stand on Big Education (unions) and EPA Energy and Environment dictates. Trial lawyers have made it known they plan to block any more power going to Rick Perry, as he has won so many victories against them as the Gov. of Texas. The Left knows Rick Perry has his own religious beliefs and does not adhere to their pseudo green religion. They know he understands the land, that he was brought up in a religious home and has worked for everything he has. The Left knows he attended a school that didn’t teach him to hate his country but rather instilled love of country. They know he served in the military and still encourages boys to become Boy Scouts. The Left can not put the lie to the fact that Texas' economy is running rings around Obama's disastrous economic policies. The Left knows that when Rick Perry shows compassion – has a heart – it isn’t because he wants to make you dependent on him but rather to set you free.
If the Left can demonize Gov. Perry, a man who believes in standing with our allies, making government as inconsequential as possible in our lives and who holds firmly to his belief in American exceptionalism – if they can successfully define him as a rightwing religious dunce, while simultaneously encouraging people in the GOP Primary to lambast him as someone who isn’t conservative, then the Left will have won the ideological battle -- their war against capitalism will be complete and they will permanently Rule America.
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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