Posted on 06/14/2011 12:18:02 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
When Gov. Rick Perry moves to the right, Texas voters reward him. We don't yet know whether national voters would be so generous.
A Perry campaign for president is starting to feel inevitable. He's filling in for Donald Trump at a speech to New York City Republicans tonight. And an ad touting Perry's record on lawsuit reform showed up Monday on the website of the Union-Leader, a leading newspaper in New Hampshire, site of the country's first presidential primary.
"In the last two years, Texas, led by Gov. Rick Perry, has created more jobs than any other state," says the ad for Americans for Job Security. A key consultant for that group is Dave Carney,...
The governor is enjoying a largely free ride right now. Potential opponents and the national media aren't coming after him because he's not actually in the race yet. But that will all change if he starts to run, and then an important question is likely to arise: Is Perry too conservative to win the White House?
[snip]
Particularly likely to raise eyebrows in a national campaign is Perry's wink at secessionists in 2009, when he said: "We've got a great union. There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what might come out of that?"
Those comments did nothing to slow his re-election, and in fact they probably helped with some of the tea partyers who propelled him to a decisive win. But it's difficult to imagine that national voters, on the whole, would find the notion so charming.
And then there's the matter of the book Perry released last year, "Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington." It calls Social Security a failure and a Ponzi scheme.
[snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
The type of article which displays just how afraid the left is of a conservative Republican nominee. We’ll be hearing/reading a LOT of “a conservative can’t win” reporting from the straight-arrow, non-biased media.
Too conservative? In these times? I'd say that, if anything, he's not conservative enough.
Perry has created more jobs in one state than Obama has in the entire country (-2.5 million).
Easy TV ad.
The source is sometimes called: “The Anti-American Hatesman” within Travis County.
I’ll vote for him if he gets the nomination of course, but we’ve got better conservative choices than Perry.
All this talk about a Al Gore/Rudy Giuliani supporter.
Republican RINO Flavor of the Week.
That is sort of where I am with him. Not my choice in the primary, but I could (just) vote for him in the general. He will need to be watched though. The forced inoculations issue shows a tenuous grasp on that freedom thing, and is a major red flag.
The truth hurts, but there’s more to the Bush-Perry friction than that. One longtime observer of Lone Star politics described the Bushes’ disdain of Perry as “visceral,” and it is not too terribly hard to see why. The guy that NPR executives and the New York Times and your average Subaru-driving Whole Foods shopper were afraid George W. Bush was? Rick Perry is that guy. George W. Bush was Midland by way of Kennebunkport. Rick Perry’s people are cotton farmers from Paint Creek, a West Texas town so tiny and remote that my Texan traveling-salesman father looked at me skeptically and suggested I had the name wrong when I asked him whether he knew where it was. (Governor Perry confesses that one of the politiciany things he’s done in office is insisting that the Texas highway atlas include Paint Creek, making him the hometown boy who literally put the town on the map.) Bush is a Yalie, Perry is an Aggie. Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard, and Perry was a captain in the U.S. Air Force, flying C-130s in the Middle East. Bush has a gentleman’s ranch, Perry has the red meat. The irony is that Perry, a tea-party favorite, personifies the hawkish new fiscal conservatism that has allowed the GOP to find its way out from under George W. Bush’s shadow, but he himself remains in the shade of that politically poisonous penumbra.[end excerpt]
All I need to know is that when AlGore ran for POTUS, Rick Perry was his campaign manager in Texas! As far as I’m concerned, based on that FACT, you can stick a fork in Perry....HE’S DONE....for ACTUAL Conservatives, that is!
He was AlGore’s camoaign manager in Texas. That puts the cherry on top for me!
This is the primary and we need to study up and not rely on "talk." When the MSM starts in to kill our candidates we damn well better know what's true, what's important and who can take Obama's seat in the Oval Office.
Perry has appointed a lot of people in TX government over his long service as Governor (including the TX Supreme court). He has signed a lot of bills into law that conservatives cheer. Give him a look. Then be ready to weigh ALL the facts when the time comes.
The second strike against him, as far as I’m concerned, was his plan to cut a swath about 20 lanes wide across Texas from the Mexican border to the Oklahoma border. This would have taken many square miles of privately owned land from their owners, split farms and ranches into two parts, and put lots of people out of their small businesses.
Well, chew that cherry while you sit back and look at all the man's history.
Have you heard Perry take global climate change to the wood shed? Rush ran a clip of it last week.
No. He thinks it’s okay to kill some of the babies, so he’s disqualified himself.
That also sounds like that North American Union thing, which is utterly and absolutely toxic. If that thing is realized, I will just seek to die as well and as Nordic as I can.
Texas has many common sense laws which keep the business environment friendly, but lets not forget that the size and scope of government, particularly education and health care spending, have grown substantially under Perry and the republican congress.
This has led to a great deal of crony capitalism kept in check only by a MSM that hates republicans. To me the most illuminating thing Perry has ever done is to try to instate a law to force every schoolgirl in Texas to take Gardisil (an STD vaccine made by Merck) while being a stockholder in Merck.
The Senate unanimously passed a bill that strikes from state law any language, reference and authority once connected to the massive highway envisioned to slice a swath through Texas.
The same measure already has passed the House. There are some minor differences that still need to be reconciled, but the bill is expected to go to Gov. Rick Perry, who will have to decide whether to join in the final rites for his once-prized project.
Legislators did keep a provision that was allowed under the authority of the Trans Texas Corridor: the potential of 85 mph speed limits on certain highways that are properly engineered to handle the higher speeds.
The highway corridor to parallel Interstate 35 had been a signature issue for Perry, but it was doomed after angry citizens rebelled against the private contracts, the massive proposed taking of private land and what was seen as arrogance by state transportation officials.
Perry said last year that the highway is dead, but lawmakers this year are determined to salt the earth. [end excerpt]
[excerpt] ...Perry, a conservative Christian who opposes abortion rights and stem- cell research using embryonic cells, counts on the religious right for his political base.
But he has said the cervical cancer vaccine is no different than the one that protects children against polio.
“If there are diseases in our society that are going to cost us large amounts of money, it just makes good economic sense, not to mention the health and well being of these individuals to have those vaccines available,” he said.
Texas allows parents to opt out of inoculations by filing an affidavit stating that he or she objected to the vaccine for religious or philosophical reasons.
Even with such provisions, however, conservative groups say mandates take away parents’ rights to be the primary medical decision maker for their children....[end excerpt]
http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/5546651.html
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.