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.
Your reply proves my point...you can’t read and comprehend.....I said none of those things.....and your reply indicates that you really do need help....I never compared you to faggots or Nazi’s ...I said that like them you have a big mouth and tell lies to support your demented visions.....
What law? There are several that could apply in the Texas Penal Code. Look them up. Unfortunately, he'd probably only get a slap on the wrist.
It is unfortunate that since politicians write the laws, they tend to be soft on politicians who take graft.
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.
You asked that dumb question and keep repeating it, so you must not mind looking silly. There is no answer to that question anymore than if you asked "What if aliens landed and stopped Perry from issuing the EO?"
Step up your game before I reassess my initial impression of your intelligence.
That's not a silly question. That's a key condition to a quid pro quo, and would be asked in a court of law.
And since you’ve admitted that there’s no answer to that, then he’s not guilty of it.
Frankly, I think we don't have as big a problem in TX as you do with our "public servants" because we don't tolerate a lot of what yours get away with. Sheila Jackson Lee is an idiot but she is no Charlie Rangel.
BTW, I have a young very conservative friend who worked in Perry's office during and after law school for a while, who can't say enough nice about Perry. I pay more attention to people who know what they're talking about than people who get their info from news or internet.
I don't have a favorite candidate yet...don't like Romney.
Nonsense. It’s a hypothetical. There is no fantasy world where they didn’t give him the money. There is reality, right here, right now, where they DID. Period. End of story.
What law was broken with the 5k donation? That’s not a quid pro quo.
So, we’re both supposed to whip out our majority-minority morons and see which one is bigger?
I wasn’t really talking about Texas vs. NY. This is a national issue. Why isn’t Barney Frank in jail? Chris Dodd? Franklin Raines? Jamie Gorelick? Sandy Berger? Need I go on?
That’s great that you pay attention to someone who worked for Perry. I’m totally sold. Perry 2012!!!
Sure it is.
Elaborate how accepting a $5k political donation is a quid pro quo? I’m looking forward to this answer.
He took the donation and then mandated that all girls in Texas needed to use a product from the company that made the donation.
Quid Pro Quo. You can defend it all you want. You can make little pissant technical legal arguments all you want. It doesn’t change the fact that Rick Perry took money from Merck and mandated the use of Gardasil, a Merck product days later.
Those are the facts and they are indisputable. I’m sure Perry will need a lawyer for one of his many indiscretions at some point, so maybe you can give him a call after you’ve finished school.
I guess Perry’s wanting HPV vaccinations couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the CDC’s 5 Jan 2007 recommendation that HPV be administered to females. The HPV vaccine only protects against HPV-16/18 that cause 70% of cervical cancers and HPV-6/11 that cause 90% of genital warts. I guess we can be thankful that the manufacturers of vaccines for Hep-B, Rotavirus, Hib, IPV, DTap, PCV, MMR, Varicella, Hep-A, Influenza, and MPV4 also didn’t contribute to Perry since we would need to pull all those vaccines as well for fear of the appearance of a quid pro quo. This was sound public health policy,
• In 2005, Perry signed a historic $15.7 billion property tax cut for homeowners and businesses that also included new taxpayer protections against appraisal increases.
Gotta’ tell you that was a farce. Nobody got a tax cut on their property taxes. All the taxing entities did was raise the tax rate. Perry knew this would happen but continued to hype it in his campaign. This is fact.
You are supposed to ignore facts. Got it? /sarc
Got it!
Ok, so when I asked you that but for the donation, would Perry have issued that EO (quid pro quo)? You said there's no way of answering that. Therefore, according to your answer, there is no quid pro quo.
I didn't initiate the legal issues. You made the accusation that Perry should be in prison. I then in turn asked you to explain. You didn't. You ran in circles.
And he did a little fake crying when he signed the bill into law forcing 14 year old girls to get the vaccine.
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.
Really? If it’s such ‘sound public health policy’ why did the legislature override it?
Shouldn’t we vote those evil guys out of office for practicing ‘unsound public health policy’ and overriding
And nevermind that Merck stopped pushing the Gardasil mandates in states right after the Perry debacle embarrassed everyone involved.
Inhaled some Agent Orange?
I wasn't aware I was still in school. Don't let the >10 year old screenname fool you.
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