“I need all the help I can get. The Rick Perry Report needs all the help it can get,,,”
I would be happy the help you with the Rick Perry Report.
Here is a start:
In 1988 he headed the Gore campaign in Texas
1n 2008 he endorsed Rudy
As Texas governor he has:
Signed legislation to provide in-state tuition for illegal aliens.
Signed legislation to prohibit teens from using tanning salons.
Signed legislation to require high school athletes to be tested for steroids.
Signed legislation requiring adults to wear seat belts in the backseat of cars.
Attempted to mandate that 11 year old girls be vaccinated against HPV.
Signed legislation to give away billions of Tax dollars in the Texas Stimulus bills which gave hundreds of million of dollars to Formula One Racing, The NFL, the NBA, Sematech and Samsung,
Let me know if you need any more help!
RE: In 1988 he headed the Gore campaign in Texas
Not true (or questionable).
See: http://rickperryreport.com/faq/rick-perry-and-al-gore
RE: 1n 2008 he endorsed Rudy
So what.
RE: Signed legislation to provide in-state tuition for illegal aliens.
He did more than that. See:
http://rickperryreport.com/faq/rick-perry-illegal-immigration
RE: Signed legislation to prohibit teens from using tanning salons.
Well, you wouldn’t want minors to have abortions, but you’ll allow minors to risk skin cancer?
RE: Signed legislation to require high school athletes to be tested for steroids.
Texas high school football is very competitive, especially 5A. If there are not strict laws against this, everyone will be cheating, and hurting themselves (more than they already are).
RE: Signed legislation requiring adults to wear seat belts in the backseat of cars.
errrrrrg! Don’t like that one, but you have to take the bad with the good, especially when the candidate has a 10-year record as an executive.
RE: Attempted to mandate that 11 year old girls be vaccinated against HPV.
http://rickperryreport.com/faq/gardasil
RE: Signed legislation to give away billions of Tax dollars in the Texas Stimulus bills which gave hundreds of million of dollars to Formula One Racing, The NFL, the NBA, Sematech and Samsung,
I’ll look into that one.
Joe
Well, trumandogz, since you are helping defeat Mitt Romney's most serious threat to the GOP nomination because, among other things, Perry .....
GASP! ...... "Signed legislation requiring adults to wear seat belts in the backseat of cars." ........ OH! THE HORROR!
.... maybe you should consider how you are being played like a cheap fiddle by Mitt Romney.
The name of the fiddle tune is "ROMNEY/CAIN 2012"
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Herman Cain in 2011
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Herman Cain in 2008
Romney has the leadership qualities United States needs,
By HERMAN CAIN
Published on: 02/03/08
The dynamics of political party connections, the political process itself and public perceptions have once again yielded the top two contenders of each major party in the 2008 presidential race. And once again, the public can only hope that the ultimate winner of the White House will be a candidate with the most leadership substance.
My vote is for Mitt Romney.
History is important, but the future is more important. The success of this country in the future will be shaped by the leadership abilities of the next president.
Our success will not be based on pandering to uninformed voters, promising emotional quick fixes over common sense or nitpicking of opponents' past records. Success will come from focusing on the right problems and solving them. That will mean making tough decisions about some problems that have been with us for decades. It will also mean taking a tough stand on new problems and challenges.
That's what leaders do.
Mitt Romney has done that as a chief executive officer in business, as a governor and as head of the U.S. Olympics. He has done so while balancing political consequences but not compromising fundamental principles of the founding of this country or free-market economics. We have prospered as a nation by strengthening those principles; we will not remain strong if we allow those principles to become diluted with a lack of leadership.
Anyone who wishes to find a reason not to vote for Romney can find one. But the reasons to vote for him are far more compelling. He has successfully managed a real business with other people's money and some of his own. He has balanced budgets. He successfully led a turnaround situation with the Olympics. And he has spent more of his career outside government than inside.
On the other hand, John McCain has spent more of his career inside government than outside, and the reasons not to vote for him as the Republican nominee are very compelling.
He voted against letting people keep more of their money in 2001 and 2003 when President Bush pushed through his tax cuts. He has been part of the escalation of the federal debt during his 20-plus years in the U.S. Senate. He showed questionable leadership on a failed immigration bill. And he showed no leadership by failing to support the president's efforts to establish personal retirement accounts — a proposal that would have started to fix the coming financial train wreck in the Social Security system.
That's not leadership.
I do not question the character, integrity or sincerity of either Mitt Romney or John McCain, nor do I question their desire to do what's best for the country. I do not worry that they would fan the flames of social and religious differences. My focus is on their prospective leadership relative to national security, the economy, federal spending, free-market health care solutions and the elimination of dysfunctional programs.
Mitt Romney's history is more indicative of the substance needed to make major progress on critical issues, and not just to make more politically palatable incremental changes in Washington.
Media momentum and campaign funding aside, there are several other Republican candidates who would not cause me to worry about our grandchildren's future. The two leading Democratic presidential candidates, however, cause me great concern because of their severe lack of leadership substance and their policy proposals.
This is despite Barack Obama's appeal and strong public perception but entirely consistent with Hillary Clinton's self-proclaimed but quite invisible experience.
Great leaders are born, and good leaders keep working on it. We are not favored with an obvious great leader in the 2008 race, as is apparent from the primary process and the results thus far.
But Mitt Romney's leadership credentials offer the best hope of a leader with substance, and the best hope for a good president who could turn out to be great.