I’ve been saying this for a couple of months now. There’s too much infighting among our own ranks. Palin fans hate Perry. Cain fans hate Gingrich. Etc, etc. I’ll be glad when someone (hopefully Perry) emerges as the dominant candidate. I like Perry and I’m a native Texan 47 yrs old. My name on here is Russian and that’s my son’s middle name, or it was when we adopted him. Anyway, Perry started off a little “gimpy” as governor and I wasn’t a huge fan until the past couple of years. By “gimpy” I mean that he got a media beatdown over the Gardasil story, and also irritated quite a few when he wouldn’t go strong on immigration. It turns out, he had the wisdom to see the Arizona law as a problem before a district court shot it down. There was a strong push here (tea partyers) for him to exercise some muscle when Jan Brewer was doing the same. But he didn’t. So which governor had it right? You tell me. The whole Gardasil thing kind of blew up in his face. I honestly think he thought it was a public service and good for public health. Went into it sort of blind and naive. Certain percentage of the population went nuts and saw him as insensitive to teenage girls and their parents. Blew up in his face. He also had the Trans-Texas Corridor project get nasty. He supported it, and imminent domain would’ve gobbled up a ton of private property. A lot of farmers and landowners turned on him. But once again, I think he just wanted a good infrastructure project to get people moving around easier in this gigantic state second only to Alaska.
I'm a fan of Palin and Perry.
And I've posted threads about both of them.
It isn't only Palin supporters who are having a swing at Perry (then there are the few -- like uninvited disrupters in a crowd, who start trouble to make the entire group look bad).
Rick Perry and Sarah Palin (along with all the others) will stumble or soar (probably some of both along the way). In the end it will be their ability to campaign that will seal the deal. I believe it is important to have all facts and not the hype -- to let them begin with some truth and understanding and not have it lost in the din of hate and destruction.
Currently, it is the behavior telegraphed by the fans and/or distracters that shows the type of follower candidates attract -- as it will the voter base at large.
One note on that TTC -- the ICC in Maryland was needed and after the 40-50 years it was fought (cities do expand) it was even harder to design and build, but the voters hung on (voted in the people needed to get the votes -- including a Republican Gov -- in Maryland!). The ENVIRONMENTALISTS continued to fight tooth and nail and hammer and sickle but it's almost built now (and there were very few people in the end hurt -- but many people benefit -- and the brown fish -- something or other is well and will no likely remain so).
Roads give us freedom -- the ability to move freely, assist commerce, shorten a 4 hour stop and go drive between major population centers, aid hurricane evacuation in this state, create jobs -- it is a big basket of ideas -- it does not create victims, rather the opposite. In this situation the ranchers and others would have been compensated. Not all eminent domain cases are the same. (I don't have any connection with this road other than my understanding that it will be a good thing for Texas and Texans -- and when Texas is strong, the country is stronger too).