Thanks all you guys for agreeing with my Anti-Perry comments, I almost feel like putting together a ping list, but BEWARE...
I went against Perry in the past, after he had enough time to get his Astroturfers in place. This was around 5 years ago and he was pushing, BIG-TIME, his scheme to essentially privatize our freeways. He had sneaked through the enabling legislation early in his governorship when people weren’t really paying attention or where simply giving him the benefit of the doubt, but as more and more people saw what this meant to freedom of movement and property rights, we had a near civil war in this state. But was VERY HARD to stop him...only after the legislature really heard it from the public were they able to go against him and tell him that it was over, did he throw in the towel. You can look it up, it was called “The Trans-Texas Corridor” and we had vicious debates on it back then and there were websites dedicated to killing it (such as “Corridor Watch”). There was absolutely no public support and there were disasters with these types of arrangements scattered around North America. And it was corrupt as hell here. The person who Perry put in power to run the state department of transportation (thankfully dead now) had just been a lobbyist for Cintra, the Spanish company looking to make hundreds of billions of dollars (over the decades) on this scheme. There was some other revolving door stuff like that. The major newspapers here didn’t seem to have a problem at all with it...it was surreal. They normally go after Republicans, but they’ve protected him like I’ve never seen for a Republican.
Only towards the end of our debates here did I realize that some of the people that I was arguing with must have been out of his office. How did I know? You never know for sure, but these people were nasty as hell, had no facts, and simply could not be moved. But what really convinced me was that they simply dropped off of FreeRepublic once the debate was lost, and they didn’t post on many other topics when they were out there.
So I warn you...once Perry gets his machine oiled-up, be ready and ALWAYS REMEMBER that you are trying to convince the lurkers and others of your points, not the Perry operatives who are paid to treat you like trash.
Interesting. You know that if they were here before, they’re here now.