Posted on 07/17/2011 6:59:38 AM PDT by Clairity
If Texas Gov. Rick Perry runs for president, he'd bring along strong conservative credentials.
He's advocated laws that require a sonogram before an abortion and that force police to enforce federal immigration law.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
You are incorrect, when you say he is for open borders, just the opposite.
Please read my post 65.
“We cannot have homeland security without border security. Under Gov. Perry, Texas has been a leader on border security while the federal government has faltered. Under his leadership, Texas has put more boots on the ground, more technology to use, and more targeted operations to dramatically reduce all crime along the border.”
” “We cannot have homeland security without border security. Under Gov. Perry, Texas has been a leader on border security while the federal government has faltered. Under his leadership, Texas has put more boots on the ground, more technology to use, and more targeted operations to dramatically reduce all crime along the border.””
Sorry, but that is a lot of hooey. He was for the Bush amnesty, has commiserated with Mexican officials, and is for in state tuition for illegal immigrants.
Strike 3, no sale.
Yet it was Sarah Palin who made her our Gov.
Man,I hope both Perry and Palin run cause then our first in the South primary in February will be so much more fun.
I just hope Haley and DeMint wait til almost then before they endorse anybody.
(watch yourself with that Texas playboy Nikki—he will just end up kissing his horse and then riding off to his next conquest)
Thank you for the quick reply. I couldn’t find that coverage anywhere. I am glad to see he has joined people like Demint and several others. That is encouraging.
I fear the plan because I can see Obama tricking the Republicans yet again. They agree to a cap and spending limits and the Dems just say “screw you”, but the debt limit is raised and there is nothing we can do about it. They don’t follow the rules. Obama was told to lift the drilling moratorium but won’t. The Dems say they will just ignore the debt limit and spend anyway. They don’t follow the law.
Right now the GOP Congress has all the power. If they simply hold the debt ceiling, they force the Democrats to come to the table and force them to make concessions or else they share the blame for exceeding the debt limit. Default on the T-bills is not going to happen, so that is not an issue. Some checks would be held up a few days while both sides negotiated furiously and came up to an agreement of immediate cuts. Then the Congress would agree to MONTHLY debt ceiling increases - you show me a cut, you get a ceiling raise — month to month.
With this cut, cap, balance all you get is a promise of cuts once you raise the debt ceiling. You’ll never see the the cuts. If anything, you would have a repeat of this debt ceiling fiasco, only the GOP would be weakened by having already blinked and folded, so nobody would expect the GOP to hold.
I don’t like this cut, cap, balance. It won’t work. The GOP need to hold the ceiling right to the August 2 deadline and then make the president pay the t-bills and other debts first. Then what doesn’t get paid just doesn’t (temporarily) while the Dems are FORCED to make immediate cuts.
I will be shocked if the GOP can force the Democrats to comply with their idea of cut, cap & balance. I’ll be shocked.
Ronald Reagan was a fine president with a fine spirit who made mistakes.
I could list a number for you and if he were with us today he would admit to them as well.
That having been said the United States is at a crucial moment in time that will grow to be more critical unless the spending and taxing policies of the last 80 years are reversed.
I MEAN REVERSED.
All that GOP leaders can “claim credit” for is a slowing of the downward trend towards bankruptcy.
I think a major component of the mess is that the political leaders and many of the business leaders who support the political leaders are totally committed to pet ideas about spending taxpayers money.
Business leaders support spending on everything from subsidies for ethanol to trade subsidies to even Planned Parenthood and public broadcasting aid.
They even wanted Obamacare so that their bottom lines would be improved by not having to pay for medical coverage for employees.
Perry is part of the circle of destruction in my opinion, no different from GW Bush, Fred Thompson, Orrin Hatch and “the beat goes on” Republicans.
We need outside the beltway leadership including outside the conservative beltway of Ann “Romney” Coulter, CPAC etc.
Its way past time for someone like Sarah Palin.
Apart from her I don’t see much hope for this country other than some eventual European style tax increase-benefit cut band aid on the road to financial ruin and collape.
That’s what the business as usual Republicans and Democrats with their business leader friends of the Davos-CFR insider clique have in store for us.
Sarah Palin is the only chance we have for FDR IN REVERSE.
Unfortunately looks like you are right.
Congress tees up crucial votes on debt limit (Republicans cave?!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2750001/posts
The growing sentiment for raising the federal limit on U.S. borrowing sets the stage for a week of largely scripted actions on Capitol Hill, where leaders in both chambers are looking to build support for the plan being crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Insanity!
We are running an annual deficit of $1.3 trillion. That is $13 trillion new debt in 10 years. So the big cut, cap, balance deal would reduce that new debt by $1.5 trillion, from $13.0 to $11.5.
BULLCRAP! Where is my shotgun! BULLCRAP.
Hold the debt ceiling. Tell Obama to pay the Treasury debt so we don’t default. Pay SS recipients. Cut all money for Obamacare. Cut all money for Iraq and Afghanistan and bring the troops home. Just bring them home. Cut all food stamps by 10%. Cut college loans. Cut all subsidized Green jobs. Eliminate the TSA. Eliminate Homeland Security. Cut EPA and Depts. of Education & Energy & HHS & a dozen others in half. Make them decide what half of the things they currently do are necessary and which are expendable.
Raise the debt ceiling as necessary to pay the unemployment benefits for all of these laid off people for the typical 36 weeks, not 52 or 99.
Adding $11.5 trillion to the national debt over 10 years is UNACCEPTABLE.
The House freshmen need to hold the line and run right up to August 2nd and get deep permanent cuts from Obama, in writing, with an aggressive timetable. They own the funding. They can stop funding any agency where Obama breaks his promise.
Also, after getting concessions from the commie Dems, raise the debt ceiling only month to month so there is no way they can eat it up. That raise in the debt ceiling would be for additional unemployment ONLY for all those laid off government workers.
ENOUGH BULLCRAP.
Thanks for the ping FINF.
Thanks for LINKING the longer version Clairity.
Interesting how editors (depending on where they are and who they want to reach) excerpt longer articles.
Perry has them sweating in their Birkenstock sandals.
You are welcome. I just wanted an answer and I got a good one from Clairity.
Perry’s teaming with people like Demint raises my opinion of him. I am still trying to get to know the guy so I am applying healthy skepticism and going from there. All of the additional information people like you can supply helps to inform me. Thanks for the help.
I currently support Palin but she is not yet running and frankly, I know not to fall in love with ANY politician. The best of them are still somewhat liars, somewhat manipulators, somewhat masters of spin and deceit and that applies to Perry and Palin.
There is nobody in politics clean as the driven snow. They are all stinkers and backstabbers and sheisters to some extent or another. I’m just looking for the one who is the least bad.
The best of them will eventually make me angry and betray some principal I value. Look at all of the Palin supporters bashing her for backing McCain. Look at all of the Bachmann supporters bashing her for farm subsidies. Perry gets bashed for Giuliani.
Nobody is pure and clean. I’m just looking for the lesser of evils and that person will get my vote in 2012.
Your comments made me think of how the Clinton’s wanted to clean up the CIA — make it touchy feeling friendly — get rid of all those types that gave it a bad name. In other words the effective ones. We saw how well that went. Now we have an Attorney General that wants to give equal rights to enemy combatants — read them THEIR rights. The same attorney general who tells some Americans that he can not protect them against hate crimes as they have never been historically oppressed.
This is what we are faced with. I don’t want some scared of his/her shadow candidate running against this mob. An effective politician has to have some rough edges to be effective, form alliances and successfully rally the forces who will do battle against the anti-American forces that have us surrounded.
Battle scars count.
Voters are like dogs.
This what the 71% of all voters that are not Republicans will hear:
"Blah, blah, blah, EXPERIENCE, blah, blah, GROWTH, blah, blah, JOBS, Blah, blah."
It's a winning messasge in 2012. ..... If your goal is to actually win the White House and not merely to win the primaries for your favorite and really cute candidate.
And wouldn't that also allow "all things Texan" to go far more easily to the Northern U.S. markets to the Canadian markets and to the Mexican markets?
I hate to break the news to you but a system of "super highways" going North-South has been around since the 1950's. It's called the Interstate Highway System.
On the Florida Atlantic Coast, we have both I-95 and the Florida Turnpike serving North-South traffic and on the Florida Gulf Coast we have I-75 serving North-South traffic. Those three separate North-South super-highways, in relatively narrow Florida, are crucial to the Florida economy.
Looking at the Texas highway system, it looks like most of Texas is in the "You can't get there from here" category.
In the 1800's, America used to build "Eire Canals" and "Chesapeake and Ohio Canals" and "Trans-Continental Railroads" to stimulate trade and to grow the American economy.
In 2011, some people are frightened of some Mexican goods traveling north while the large majority of manufactured goods in their house and the keyboard they type on has a label that says "MADE IN CHINA" on it.
Go figure.
That is why we don’t want old country club RINOs like McCain and Graham and McConnell. They don’t fight. They surrender. They “compromise”.
Not only all that, he forced parents to give their little girls a type of STD shot. Wasn’t it 11 year olds? Does a conservative do that? Also, The Bush’s are not fans of Perry. They endorsed Kay Bailey Hutcheson when she was running for governor. I have a feeling that they are not fans for political reasons, but for personal reasons. Perry and his wife had marital problems awhile back for, uh, Clintonesque type issues......last time he ran for Governor the Austin American Statesman made a joke about goosing Anita to get her to smile....I feel sorry for her.
Chief of staff is totally a different thing than the Chairman of a campaign...which is what Perry was to Gore.
And notice, after serving with the democrats...working on the inside of that shady organisation; Perry QUIT the Dems and came to his senses!
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