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.
Nice pictures...
The same type sent to me in the mail, with the government politicians sitting around the fire with the family...Holding babies, or shaking hands with the Pope.
Very impressive.
It must be nice in your fantasy world. Here, in reality, there are a heck of a lot more FReepers who know better than to trust Rick Perry than there are of you Perry Pushers.
I'm far from being alone in my opinion about Rick Perry. As far as being "personal" I have been coming here and supporting this site for over a decade. In all that time I have never compared another Freeper to someone that had a hand in killing millions of people. Now you are comparing me to "homo's or faggots"? And you ask that I don't take those commets and the NAZI comparison comment personal?
I'm going to point out what I don't like about Perry until the cows come home. You can like it or not but until Jim says otherwise I suggest that you either ignore me or come up with something better than comparing me to "faggots" or a NAZI.
I never said anything was wonderful. I just pointed out the BS statements on here that he forced girls to take a vaccine. What the legislature does is their business. They had enough votes to block it. Such is life.
And again, I realize this is hard for you to understand, but the real issue is not Gardasil. It's the fact that Perry took money from Merck and then issued the order to mandate one of their products.
So, let me get this straight. You are stating with certainty that but for the $5,000, Perry wouldn't have issued that order? I'll ask for proof of that knowledge that he had not been working on that order before the money came in. Also, since you think he should be in prison, which law did he violate?
You can talk to me like a child all you want, but I'll pin your ears back and force you to back up your ill-stated accusations.
Well said.
My comment followed reading another poster's input on Gov. Perry and his record (which was good input for a discussion forum like FR).
I simply stated that I didn't (and still don't) understand why a described Conservative would take the approach he did.
It seems to me that the Gov. could have stated his belief in the need for the vaccine (along with providing supporting data), and then suggested that Texas parents consider having their daughters inoculated. This would have been an approach which would have left all actions/non-action decisions in the hands of Parents.
The route he apparently took is to direct the inoculation, and lay a burden on Parents to fill out and submit a request to government not to inoculate their children.
Having to fill out paperwork and submit it to the government, to keep the government's hands off one's children is not an approach I support.
The Gov. chose unwisely IMHO. Hopefully he learned from it, but it gives me pause to consider whether he would attempt such an approach on any similar future issue, if he sat in the Presidential chair.
I don't rule out Gov. Perry as a possible candidate to vote for, but, as I do in weighing all candidates, I give such things consideration when comparing him to others for whom I might also vote.
You couldn’t pin a two dollar...
Stop thinking like a child and I’ll stop talking to you like one.
But they DID give him the $5,000. There isn't any 'what if' about it. It happened. Period. End of story.
I think the issue how he went about it is a legitimate question. I just point it out when the "forced" statements come up. There are plenty of people not from Texas who don't know much about the issue, and they will hear from the media that children were forced into whorehouses (as one person on here has just recently claimed), but leave out the opt out provision. That wasn't an attack on you, just the issue in general. :)
So now you're saying he may not have broken the law?
Let's say, for old times sake, that he took the money and didn't go with Merck. Could you please name another FDA approved company that had the vaccine that he could have gone with?
And what have stated that is childlike? Please elaborate.
Whorehouses? Who’s claiming that?
I'm sure there will be many posts/counter-posts on Gov. Perry's record here on FR.
I will be trying (presumably, along with many others), to determine the truth and the facts about him, as time passes.
Thanks for your response.
Your cartoon to explain your view had a no-so-subtle “whorehouse” with a X on it.
You're reasoning is reminiscent of someone young and naive. Very intelligent, no doubt, but young and naive just the same. You like to go off into fantasies about what could have been or might be or basically anything other than what IS.
So now you're saying he may not have broken the law?
How on earth did you extrapolate that from what I said?
Let's say, for old times sake, that he took the money and didn't go with Merck.
No, let's not. Let's stick with EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. No childish 'what if something else happened'. What happened was Merck gave Rick Perry money and within days of that he issued an executive order mandating Gardasil for all girls in Texas.
Ohhhh. So, because the cartoon author used a whorehouse, you’re contending that I was literally arguing that Perry was trying to throw girls into whorehouses?
Just for the record, the cartoonist was making a play on the title of a (fairly crappy) movie from the early 80’s.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083642/
It was all very public...not under the table.
I also asked you how you know that Perry wouldn't have made that EO had Merck had not given him 5k. No answer on that one, either.
I do know that the CDC in 2007 recommended the vaccine. I also know that Merck was the only company approved by the FDA to make the vaccine.
So, with that in mind, what did Perry do to break the law, and what law did he break?
All the more worrisome. Perry aside, why do we accept this kind of crap from ANY of our supposed ‘public servants’? This is exactly the same kind of cronyism that went on with Zero and the health care bill.
Everything’s so broken that our politicians don’t even bother to hide it anymore. I guess they think we’re too stupid to see it. Maybe they’re right.
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