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.
There's nothing to leave out. The accusation was that Perry forced girls to get a vaccine. That was false.
What was dangerous about the vaccine?
He dropped both ideas, Gardasil and the highway, dropped them flat, never mentioned them again, as far as I know. That is what I expect politicians to do .......... to listen and act the way the people want them to.
I also like the way he was raised a democrat, like most Texans were, and when he saw the error of his ways...... he dropped the dems too, just like RReagan did.
See, the fact that your friend worked for Kay Bailey RINO makes him suspect from the gitgo. (Just kidding)
100% agreed on Barbara Bush. Frankly, at this point, I have no use for any members of the Bush family. At least though, GWB was squeaky clean. Perry is like a GWB who plays fast and loose with ethics. I have a great deal of trouble accepting that as the Republican standard bearer.
How is Perry pro drugs?
Pro illegal alien
How is Perry pro illegal alien?
Kill your daughtewrs with Guardisil
How is Perry killing teenagers?
Basically they aren’t anymore. But, this is a sexually transmitted disease and this vaccine comes armed with very known side effects.
You don’t really think they are making all those illegals in US schools get vaccinations?
But the Gardasil thing wasn’t an idea. He thought that it was acceptable for him to make that kind of decision for an entire state without any input from the legislature. We don’t want another “King” like Zero.
I can see your point of view on that. But, I honestly ask you, in these times, where our nation is literally dying before our eyes, should we really be advocating for a guy who needs to be TOLD what common sense is? Remember Harriet Miers? Dubai Ports? Amnesty?
Honestly, is that what we want?
The vaccine is directly responsible for numerous deaths.
Wait, let me answer this one. I figure his response will go something like this:
So are you admitting that the vaccine never killed anyone? /GOPyouth AKA Perry Mason Jr.
What’s the number of people who have died directly has a cause of the vaccine? And with that, how many people have taken the vaccine?
Sorry for the typo. Meant to say as a cause of the vaccine.
FDA approved the vaccine in June '06. By Jan '07 it was "recommended" by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC. In Feb '07, Perry issued an executive order requiring it for sixth graders.
In a USA Today editorial he defended his action. Six weeks later the legislature passed law overturning his order with veto-proof majorities and he allowed it to become law without his signature.
The anti-vaccine lobbyist NVIC claims there are "serious questions" about side effects so look for them to oppose Perry.
Merck was a campaign donor ($6K) and a former staffer was a lobbyist for them; this was known at the time he signed the order. Under Texas law, parents can opt out of vaccines on religious and philosophical grounds. That was true even at the time he signed his order.
The Trans Texas Corridor is a more complicated issue I've not fully researched. Essentially he wanted to build a streamlined cargo, data and energy transmission/transportation route with an eye towards future needs and increasing the import/export capacity at TX ports, for example.
Perry advocated for years but the project apparently never gained real support from either party. It was a "big vision" thing Texans decided they didn't want, at least not in that form or method. It was officially scrapped in January.
As infrastructure projects go it seemed to be more like Ike's National Highway System, furthering capitalism, than Obama's High Speed Rail, a sinkhole for tax dollars.
It's something I want to read more about.
FDA approved the vaccine in June '06. By Jan '07 it was "recommended" by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC. In Feb '07, Perry issued an executive order requiring it for sixth graders.
In a USA Today editorial he defended his action. Six weeks later the legislature passed law overturning his order with veto-proof majorities and he allowed it to become law without his signature.
The anti-vaccine lobbyist NVIC claims there are "serious questions" about side effects so look for them to oppose Perry.
Merck was a campaign donor ($6K) and a former staffer was a lobbyist for them; this was known at the time he signed the order. Under Texas law, parents can opt out of vaccines on religious and philosophical grounds. That was true even at the time he signed his order.
The Trans Texas Corridor is a more complicated issue I've not fully researched. Essentially he wanted to build a streamlined cargo, data and energy transmission/transportation route with an eye towards future needs and increasing the import/export capacity at TX ports, for example.
Perry advocated for years but the project apparently never gained real support from either party. It was a "big vision" thing Texans decided they didn't want, at least not in that form or method. It was officially scrapped in January.
As infrastructure projects go it seemed to be more like Ike's National Highway System, furthering capitalism, than Obama's High Speed Rail, a sinkhole for tax dollars.
It's something I want to read more about.
And while you’re doing GOPyouth’s research for him, can you please let us know how many pecks of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. Thanks in advance!
Texas does mandate certain vaccinations but provides for conscientious exemptions. That is no different that what Perry’s EO provided for with the HPV vaccine...parents could opt out. As a health care provider, I don’t differentiate between measles and a STD. This STD can cause cervical cancer than can kill you just like measles can kill you.
All vaccines have side-effects. If the side-effects exceed a threshold level, the FDA pulls the vaccine from the market. That’s not the case so far with the HPV vaccines.
I can’t speak to the enforcement of vaccination schedules with respect to illegals. That’s not my purview.
I think you are much too worked up over this, he was told NO and he dropped it, end of story. Another King like Zero? No where close.
I think you are much too worked up over this, he was told NO and he dropped it, end of story. Another King like Zero? No where close.Politicalmom isn't the only one. There are a few others here in FR who will probably hyperventilate over this into August of 2012.
Let them. I don't give a f*.
I just read about 10 articles on the subject going back to 2007 and though I STRONGLY wish he had never issued that very ill-advised executive order, it was one incident, one thing, which, as you say, he dropped when it was time to drop it. In the meantime, Texas is ALIVE, and America is DYING.
I think that's the bigger issue here.
As for the full story on Perry, there are others here, such as Cincinatus' Wife, who have been posting very interesting material.
Palin is my first pick. Perry is now my second. Bachmann third.
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