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.
And who is the arbiter of ‘fake crying’? Maybe we could get Bubba Clinton to give us a ruling.
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.And then there are some here on FR who will say that it shows he's insufficiently pro-gun.
How's that?
Well, give them 5 minutes, they'll come up with something...
Wow, I swear, you anti-Perry folks are so quick to get personal when asked questions. All I did was ask simple questions. I'm pretty sure I was not rude towards you.
However, I shouldn't have to search anything. You've made the accusation that Perry is directly or indirectly killing innocent people. That's you burden to prove, not mine.
There are some serious cases of post hoc ergo propter hoc and ad hominem going on here regarding Perry.
Please give of an example where Perry called for blanket amnesty.
Would you please give examples or evidence that he's not a Christian?
EXACTLY! If there's an attractive candidate who can save us from Obama then bring him on. Personally, I think Perry has more going for him than against him and if he's electable, he's my man.
I wasn’t rude to you.
Are you related to Perry?
The deaths due to the vaccination are not exactly secret. There must be at least 50 web sites that address the subject.
The following link is to an article that is a broad discussion of Gardasil. The issue of injury and death is near the end of the article.
Not related, never met him, nor do I work for any politician. I will, however, look at the link you posted. Thank you.
Actually, I just went to the site, and it's making me register before I view anything.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Cancer Society all endorse HPV vaccinations (to include Gardasil). I’ll give the professional societies the nod over an advocacy website. The professional societies don’t have an axe to grind.
"In the 32 reports confirmed, there was no unusual pattern or clustering to the deaths that would suggest that they were caused by the vaccine and some reports indicated a cause of death unrelated to vaccination."
What does that even mean?
That’s 2011, not 2001. Sorry. It’s late.
Single issue litmus tests will get us a candidate who will lose or no candidate at all.
We get it: You want Sarah Palin to run. It's all you've thought about for the last three years. She loves the attention, but in the end she's not running because she knows she can't win the nomination, let alone the presidency. Polls indicate that more voters prefer “anyone but Palin” to even “anyone but Obama.” When she gets the a nomination, I would have no problem voting for her, and even think she would do a fine job as president. In the mean time, she would look great padding her resume for 2020 in someone like Perry's cabinet.
See posts 8 & 15
Good to know. Be sure to get busy firing off that strongly worded letter to our friends at Scripps.
I'm just a-cutting and a-pasting sweetheart.
Single issues? Corruption is a ‘single issue’? Was the ‘greatest conservative president’ corrupt?
>> “The professional societies don’t have an axe to grind.” <<
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The biggest axe of all: Their personal wealth!
Learn to do it properly and people won't complain about the lack of paragraphs.
The deaths are well over 100 to date.
Better be getting home! Streetlights are on!
Sorry about the registration, but you can cancel it on the first email they send you.
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