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.
The vaccine was always something you could opt out of and it is a dead issue.
The point is; we need to get the Marxist/Muslim’s a$$ out of the White House before he finishes destroying America.
To do this we need a candidate who has cross-over appeal, something that Palin and Cain (no matter how much we love them) just do not have.
I just want someone who can WIN.
Perry/West
Hear West speak out about the enemy being Islamists- ALL Islamists here: (Start about 1:40)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGQmCZjJ0k&feature=player_embedded
He GETS it. We NEED this man.
You could be right. I didn’t get that impression at the time. It seemed like he was genuinely surprised when people didn’t just trust him about it. Then, Laura called us all sexists, which was the same M/O that the amnesty pushers used later calling us xenophobes or racists or bigots for wanting the rule of law enforced. That fight tore the party apart. I still think the amnesty fight was more responsible for us losing 2006 than anything the pundits blame for it.
He did finally come through with Alito, but can’t we just at least try to nominate someone who could do that on their own without us fighting them?
Everything’s screwed from the top down in this country and it seems like we have enough work to do without picking guys to ‘lead’ who need us to babysit them.
So, because you choose candidates by fear, we’re supposed to accept Rick Perry’s dismal record of corruption? No thanks.
Thanks Hal
It is too bad when people can’t look at the big picture. They will pick one or 2 things they don’t like and ignore the rest.
Perry was jogging a few months ago when he and his dog were approached by a coyote. He pulled a gun out and blew the coyote away. That will convince some people that he is the best thing since John Wayne and others that he doesn’t respect wild life.
I think Laura is a liberal at heart.
I think we lost in 2006 and 2008 because the press convinced people George Bush was stupid and GB never defended himself on one single thing.
I agree.
Ha! Very good! It was just on the other night. I love that entire HAL sequence. Stanley Kubrick was a master of black comedy. “Without your space helmet, Dave, you’re going to find that rather difficult.”
He assumed people were smart enough to see though the BS. Because George had never been exposed to the below average intellects in the real world he overestimated our zombies.
The vaccine is not a dead issue.
It is a very important issue because it shows Perry’s extreme bad judgement and willingness to take a hipshot on something for which he has no knowledge.
I want someone that can win, and also correct our problems, not exacerbate them. For those reasons, Palin is the only possible choice. I cannot imagine a scenario under which Perry could be acceptable.
If you want answers go do a search, but be prepared to be shocked.
You must live under a cabbage.
>> “I think we lost in 2006 and 2008 because the press convinced people George Bush was stupid and GB never defended himself on one single thing.” <<
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Did you ever consider the possibility that W didn’t mind at all that we lost?
Did he make even the slightest effort to prosecute the Clintons for their multitude of serious crimes?
What about the fake crying?
You and the other half dozen halfwits keep throwing out garbage. You remind me of the group of Illinois halfwits who were against Kirk for Senate, they would have rather had the corrupt dem in because of their hatred for Kirk. They tried to dominate every Illinois thread just like you fools do, throwing out lies and garbage on a daily basis. So now according to you, Perry is pro abortion? You are a fool, go away.
I want someone to defeat the real enemy-obami, and apparently your little group doesn’t.
No I don't sit around thinking ridiculous thoughts like that. I think GWB is a gentleman of the old school and that caused a lot of people to think he had no guts. As far as Clinton was concerned Bush did not attack the president before him, because that had been the unwritten rule until Carter came along and broke it. Bush still kept the old rule.
I wouldn't vote Perry for dog catcher. The term RINO doesn't even begin to describe this wolf in sheep's clothing.
Vote for Perry if you love blanket amnesties.
He is a snake that claims he is a Christian. He is a phony and a two faced liar.
I love Sarah as much as anyone else, but I don’t believe she could win. We MUST win in 2012.
We need a man with cross-over appeal to head up the ticket.
Perry/Palin might be good.
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