Governor Rick Perry's Speech at Red State Conference in 2010 (Video and Notes)

In doing my homework on Rick Perry I found this video. It’s about 30 minutes long. I watched and took notes. If you have time to watch it you will hear it complete and in context, delivered in his style and with his inflection.

Opening minutes of video is folksy fun and warm up schtick. At 4 minutes in, Rick Perry takes a nice shot at the “legacy” media then goes into his thoughts about the Constitution, the 10th Amendment and the struggle between the Right and the Left -- how the country is ready “fixin’ to” to swing back.

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson would be very comfortable in this room today.

Reads the 10th Amendment – What a beautiful succinct, simple statement – words penned for a time such as this…… (nice list of rights being taken away and by whom).

Republicans lost because you couldn’t tell the difference between a Republican and a Democrat… (expands)

Growing mood in the country – passion across the state and when I look at Glenn Beck’s event in Washington D.C. and other events, it warms the cockles of my heart……”

Texas has led but it’s been a hell of a struggle against Washington D.C. – they must trust the people, they don’t trust the people.

TARP – Stimulus – great concern in Texas, country, world --- small businesses don’t know what shoe will fall next – what regulations – costs – job loss. Health care bill – cost – loss of access to health care…..

Third: Legal system that does not allow for over suing. Sweeping tort reform 2003 in TX has paid HUGE dividends. Went from Jack-pot Justice (legal hell hole) to 60% more doctors practicing in Texas from 7 years ago (expands more on this) – about access to health care.

Last step: Loser Pays tells them, you better have a case. If frivolous – fishing for settlement – they’ll foot the bill! (since this speech, Perry signed it into law)

Haley Barbour told him, If "Loser Pays" passes you can put turnstiles on the TX border and charge people to come into your state!”

THAT’S IT! Put those 4 principles into place and tell government to get the hell out of the way.

Jan 2003 was first time there was Republican control of Texas and put Texas on the path that has led to the model it is today -- how you manage government to free people from legislation, litigation and regulation. Business are looking to TX (discusses Caterpillar’s move to TX. Discusses CA losing auto business to TX).

Because we’re a mobile society people can up and move and pick and choose where they want to live and work.

Why 10th Amendment so important to the people. If government continues to take our freedoms by delegating from D.C. [“this is how you’re going to get health care, educate your children, live your life”] -- then we have lost our republic and we have lost our freedom. This is worth fighting for, this is worth standing for…… This is where the rubber meets the road…

If people can risk their capital and get a return on their investment they can pay for good teachers, can pay for officers to be on the roads to protect you. You cannot have transportation infrastructure if you do not have the environment for entrepreneurs.

We are locked in a huge struggle against centralized government -- rationed opportunity, limited freedom...

Bloggers -- the firebrand to rally the people that I dare to speak to today about those who have grown drunk on power in D.C., you must remind your fellow Americans that our system gives them more power than any citizenry in the world…

Closes quoting "the Patron Saint of Conservatism." Ronald Reagan said: Freedom is never more than one generation removed from extinction. We don’t pass it on to our children in our blood stream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on to them to do the same. We will not be the generation that let freedom slip through our fingers. Instead let us be remembered as the generation that stood up for what is good about this country, put it back on the path established by our founding fathers…..

....that is a legacy we can all embrace. So let’s restore basic Constitutional values that set this Republic apart, spread the gospel of our conservative principles….

My dear, you are trying to make this about me, because you have put your foot in it.

I like Sarah Palin and Rick Perry (and so do they, as they have campaigned together).

You can’t say it was fine for Sarah Palin to endorse Rick Perry for Governor (and she said a lot of very nice things about him and how he governs) and then say Perry is corrupt without saying Sarah Palin is in bed with, as you said, someone who can be sold to the highest bidder. You just can’t.

So you might as well save your ammunition and move on and harass someone on another thread because from here on out you’re just shooting blanks on this thread.

He's not my first pick either, but would you rather have Obama for a second term? I loved Bush, but he gave us the unfunded rug program and the "comprehensive" illegal alien mess. In the end, he wasn't insane and he had the cahones to bomb whoever needed it. Just take a short trip down memory lane to 4% unemployment and a 14k Dow.7 out of the 8 years were under 6% unemployment which is widely called "full" employment. We could throw a dart at a Texas Phone book and get a better president than Obama. Perry isn't my favorite choice, but if he's the one that caches fire, I won't be here on FR saying I will stay home on election day. I'd rather eat a fuzzy worm than vote for Romney, but we are talking about the very survival of America now.

The key will be to add to the House and take back the Senate. Much of what the RINO's want to do can be blunted if we come out in force. This is how we stopped the Nafta highway, and the forced vaccination plan.

Almost any candidate we get still believes in global warming so we will have to stop that.

These guys aren't kings and can be thwarted by paying attention and voting. Obama didn't even pay attention to the 60% that hate Obama care. Now we have to completely start from scratch to get rid of it. At least a RINO understands re election.

Every election, and I have been through a few of them here at FR, have always been contentious on Free Republic. We don't always get what we want, but when it comes right down to it, only the crazies would sit home and allow Obama to get re elected. I almost never get what I want, but I have NEVER, not once, EVER, missed a vote since I was 19. I'm 60 now. As an example I would vote for Nixon AGAIN, even knowing what I know now, over Humphry, McGovern, Johnson, Carter, you name it. Go back and listen to what McGovern wanted to do and your skin would crawl. Nixon was bad, but McGovern was a disaster. Voting for Romney over Obama is a no brainer. Lets just try to get someone better NOW. We can't wait to raise the issues that need to be raised trying to not upset the apple cart. We should say what we think and bring up the knowledge we may have that others don't have. Living in Texas, we have a close up view of Perry and can comment on him so as not to allow him to be shoved down our throats. But if he is the nominee, he gets my vote.

What the media is trying to do right now is convince US, not the Dems, that Palin can't be elected. They are the ones picking Romney because he is the one most palatable to them. That is reason enough for me to hate Romney and love Palin. I will never accept some Northeast liberal's idea of what makes a good Republican. They want to bring back the "Rockefeller" wing of the party. We need the Christian wing and the Tea Party wing to keep the Republican Party viable. Each candidate on the stage, except Ron Paul and Romney does that. Newt is close, but lacks some purity. His pics with Pelosi and his writings on global warming will be up front, IMHO. He is the smartest one, IMHO, but ideas aren't what we need right now, we need a Constitutionalist. POTUS doesn't need a rocket scientist, but a principled moral person. These choices can be made by a person with a GED in most cases if they are moral with common sense. We can see where we are with Harvard and Yale grads running the show. This is more like Checkers instead of Chess. Anybody that has even a rudimentary idea of capitalism know you drill for oil if you need more oil. Raising taxes kill jobs and printing money causes inflation. How tough can it be?

If you don't care if people work and America goes broke, then you try to do what is "fair".

Endorsing someone for governor is not the same as pushing someone for POTUS. It simply isn’t. Perry was indeed the least of the evils in both the primary and the general election. Therefore, I don’t fault Sarah Palin for endorsing him.

If you were at all adept with these tactics, (Does this ‘change the subject and declare victory’ thing you’re doing here actually ever work with anyone???) you would instead mention that Sarah Palin brought up Perry’s name when talking about presidential candidates. Do I support that? No. Do I know why she did that? No. I’d like to hear more and I’m not pleased that she did it. Do I think she’s ‘in bed’ with Perry because of it? No.

Does anyone really think we should just forget about Rick Perry’s record because a politician we like endorsed him?

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