Posted on 07/05/2011 9:16:27 PM PDT by presidio9
Even though they have the exact same style of speaking and propensity to execute innocent people, current Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Texas Gov. George W. Bush are very different politicians. And they don't like each other, according to the New York Times. Or rather their staffs and "camps" don't like each other.
Rick Perry was Bush's lieutenant governor. Whether the two men personally like each other is totally unknown (politicians don't like other humans anyway; that is why they go into politics), but Perry is "signaling" that he is very different from Bush because Bush was a terrible president who left office hated by everyone and Rick Perry would maybe like to be the next president (or he is at least surrounded by people who think he could be the next president).
Perry is distancing himself from Bush mostly by hating immigrants and healthcare for poor people and by basically announcing that he is against the small number of things Bush did to convince people that the Republican Party had grown a heart.
The conflict is really about class (just like most other conflicts), because Bush is a Connecticut Yankee from a rich and powerful family and Rick Perry was just some guy until Karl Rove made him a Republican and Bush made him Lt. Gov. Perry (and began imitating him, I think). As the Times noted:
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
While I don’t hate Bush, I don’t like him either.
If Perry has the same “Big Government” attitude Bush had, I don’t like him either!
Good Lord - can’t they find something relevant to write about! But at least this isn’t about Anthony.
At what point has anyone executed in Texas ever been proven innocent?
That's a misleading headline. Big difference between two men not liking each other and their staff's and camps not liking each other.......
So poorly written it was a struggle to get through the first 4 paragraphs. I stopped reading
George Bush was elected primarily because a small majority of the American people were creeped out by Al Gore.
On September 11th, 2001, 2752 Americans were murdered by Islamic terrorists, and immediately the rest of his presidency became about protecting Americans from another attack, and destroying al Qaeda's ability to project terror within our boarders. Like the man or not, given where this country stood in 2001, his presidency was quite successful, and you owe him a debt of gratitude.
Amen to that!
I don’t agree that he was a terrible president nor hated by everyone. I miss my Dubya
Learn to write, Mr. Pareene, please...
In the mind of a liberal, advocating the enforcement of the current laws on the books against illegal immigration is the the same as "hating immigrants."
The governor does not convict people and sentence them to death... that is for a jury to decide.
RE: "Rick Perry was Bush's lieutenant governor"
No... the lt. gov. is not the governor's lacky... in some respects the lt. gov. of Texas has more power than the governor.
GWB was a bad executive. He was a poor salesman who surrounded himself with bad talent, and left the country worse off than he found it.
See post 7 Angel
So who take what the New York Times write as gospel?
they are just trying to stir something as they are filling space, the grand old gry lady ain’t what she use to be
What else from Salon?
Whoever whote this article HAS to be still in high school. All I get out of this is Perry may have enough sense to pick on a nice guy like Bush and not pick a fight with Dick Cheney.
LOL ... That’s still a sign of “some” intelligence in my book.
Yeah, one of those stories where I had to refer back to see if it was The Onion, or Weekly Reader, or Mad Msgazine, or what......
Even though they have the exact same style of speaking and propensity to execute innocent people,.....
That’s where I stopped reading.
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