Posted on 06/18/2011 1:09:31 PM PDT by presidio9
Four summers ago, 73 percent of Republicans were satisfied with the candidates seeking the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Now, an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll revealed on Wednesday, only 45 percent of Republicans are happy with today's 2012 contenders. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 61, could cure the GOP's ennui. As America's economy slumbers, Perry tells a stimulating story about Texas' pro-market growth and job creation, two subjects that top the American mind. Between January 2001 and June 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates, Texas' non-farm employment grew from 9,542,400 in January 2001, when Perry took office, to 10,395,800 in June 2010 -- an increase of 853,400 or 8.9 percent. Big-government California simultaneously lost 827,800 jobs. Employment in Texas grew more than in the other 49 states combined. Since June 2009, when the Great Recession officially ended, Texas has produced 265,300 net jobs, equal to 36.7 percent of the 722,200 positions created nationwide. For seven years running, CEOs polled by Chief Executive magazine have rated Texas first in business development and job growth. Texas boasts 58 Fortune 500 companies -- more than any other state. As America's No. 1 exporting state, Texas shipped $206.6 billion in goods abroad last year, composing 16 percent of America's $1.28 trillion in exports. California's $14.4 billion in exports ranked it second, with 11.2 percent of U.S. outflow. Texas' achievements so stunned Gavin Newsom, California's Democratic lieutenant governor, that he flew a delegation to Austin last May to ask Perry how he lures defectors from the Golden State. Of the 70 companies that fled California in 2011, the Wall Street Journal's John Fund reported last April, 14 relocated to Texas -- these exiles' primary destination. So, what is Perry's secret? Texas taxes neither personal incomes nor capital gains, and Perry proposed a 2010 constitutional amendment to require two-thirds super-majorities to legislate tax hikes. Beyond that, as Perry told Manhattan Republicans Tuesday, "don't spend all the money." He advised "a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable" as well as "a legal system that doesn't allow for over-suing." Thus, Perry signed groundbreaking "loser pays" tort-reforms and medical-litigation rules that caused malpractice-insurance rates to fall. Some 20,000 doctors since have flooded Texas. Texas is a Right to Work state, which Perry should trumpet nationally. He should demand a woman's right to choose ... whether or not to join a union. On December 21, 2000, while Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama was casting some of his 129 "present" votes, Perry took over a state government that now features some 384,000 workers and a $172.5 billion biennial budget. While Obama's oratory often soars, he sometimes seems disengaged and indecisive -- as if the Oval Office were a training facility. As Texas' governor for a record 10 years, Perry's executive experience is quadruple Obama's. Perry's biggest challenge may be that he is the governor of Texas. Americans suffered through the mitigated disaster that was George W. Bush's presidency. They may recoil at electing another commander-in-chief from Austin. Perhaps more worrisome for Perry are his appearance and mannerisms. At a well-delivered speech to the Heritage Foundation's Resource Bank in Dallas on April 28, Perry did not quite resemble Bush. However, he mirrored actor James Brolin's portrayal of the 43rd president in Oliver Stone's film "W." Perry can overcome this potential handicap by loudly and explicitly distancing himself from the White House's disgraced former occupant. Perry should remind voters of the aristo-socialist Bush's LBJ-like spendaholism and Carteresque regulatory overreach (e.g. Bush's repugnant 2007 ban on Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, effective 2012). Perry should declare that his domestic agenda will not echo Bush's, much beyond tax relief and school choice. As the un-Obama and un-Bush, Perry soon could emerge as a seasoned, competent, growth-generating conservative. This should unite the Republican base, make Tea Partiers boil with glee, and magnetize independents and sensible Democrats. If so, voters just might dispatch Barack Obama to design his presidential library.
Yea Rick, run the country down with your pro illegal alien, pro guardisil, pro abortion, pro NAFTA destruction.
We don need no steekin’ facts, we makes up our own. LOL
So, Perry created the TTC plan for drug trafficking? Also, are Mexican trucks allowed to travel into the United States currently?
Perry didn’t force any 14 year old girl to do anything. Perry’s order included an opt-out “in order to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children’s health care.” Perry ordered the Department of State Health Services to allow parents dissenting for philosophical or religious reasons to request a conscientious objection affidavit form. That form, which has been available since 2003, enables parents to enroll their children in public school even if they lack state-required immunizations. It’s automatically granted as long as parents provide all required information. Just sayin’....
So are you admitting that the legislature was wrong?
Nope.
“Don’t know why he didn’t “fake cry” when he tried to take people’s land away so a drug interstate could be built from Mexico to Kansas City.”
BUMP
I'm just trying to get you to explain your accusation that Perry should be in prison. You have yet to prove that he broke the law. So, I will keep asking. Explain to me how Perry broke the law, and what law did he break. We've clearly established via your own comments that there was no quid pro quo.
Corrupt politicians should be in prison. Rick Perry is a corrupt politician. Beyond that, any of your fake legal wrangling is a meaningless waste of everyone’s time.
If Rick Perry is the Republican candidate, it won’t matter who we vote for; he is guaranteed destruction.
It’ll be W’s worst term.
Pro drugs
Pro NAFTA
Pro illegal alien
Kill your daughtewrs with Guardisil
Who could ask for more?
Parents should not have to go to the trouble of opting out on something they should never have been forced to do in the first place.
If a family wants Gardasil for their daughter and the daughter agrees, then it should be available. What is wrong with that?
>> “No teenager had to get that shot if the parents didn’t want them to” <<
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Wow, and what about the poor kid whose parents are too ignorant to prevent it?
You left out that little bit of information.
I don’t care if it was sinister or not. I’m not voting for someone who thinks he has the right to dictate medical care for other people’s children by “executive order”.
And the opt-out thing is specious, because a majority of parents fall for the “mandated vaccine” meme and have NO idea that they can opt out of vaccines. The schools out and out lie about it.
Those other people you mention, should be in jail! And they have affected our lives.
FWIW, my friend interned for KBH and didn't have much good to say about her. I am a believer in the old sayings that you can tell what a person is really like when they think nobody is watching, and by how they treat the waiter.
So yes, I do pay attention to people who work for "important" people ...how they treat people under them.
Barbara Bush said she wishes "Sarah Palin would go back to Alaska and stay there." She grinned like she was being so cute so I have no use for that fossil anymore.
>> “Perry 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.” <<
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We do not need that kind of willful ignorance in the White House. - Dangerous vaccines do not make any kind of sense.
The legislature overrode it due to the hysterics (re: whorehouse cartoons) and misinformation (there was no mandate) surrounding the debate. The CDC recommended and still recommends the vaccinations. I’ll trust their judgement every time over some Austin politico who lives with their finger in the political winds and who can’t even spell HPV.
Not to mention that the vaccine was ALREADY “available” to anyone who wanted it.
So, to be clear, you're saying you have no proof that Perry broke the law, can't cite a law that he broke, but he should be in prison? How silly, fake, and meaningless of me to ask you those questions.
Although I think this is sound public health policy, I am sympathetic to the mandate requirement. But we already mandate vaccinations. Should Hep-B, MMR, Polio, etc no longer be mandatory?
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