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Perry's credentials: As conservative as they come
Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | July 17, 2011 | Chris Tomlinson

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 ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; amnesty; conservatives; elections; gardasilperry; gorescampaignmanager; perry; perrybotshere; propaganda; rickperry; rinoperry; therinoperry
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Since it's a short article with AP copyright warnings, I didn't excerpt any more than above. Article at the link.
1 posted on 07/17/2011 6:59:41 AM PDT by Clairity
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To: Clairity

Longer version of the article at ABC News:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=14090666


2 posted on 07/17/2011 7:02:38 AM PDT by Clairity ("The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected." -- VP Dick Cheney)
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To: Clairity

He used to be a democrat.

But he will sign obamacare repeal - saving us trillions instantly.

Not sure how he is on enforcing invasion laws. But I would like to see him in the race.


3 posted on 07/17/2011 7:02:48 AM PDT by Principled
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To: Clairity

The article to read is the one I linked in my post 2.

Unfortunately I saw this after I posted the previous very very short version.


4 posted on 07/17/2011 7:04:05 AM PDT by Clairity ("The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected." -- VP Dick Cheney)
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To: Clairity
Palin’s better,nyaah nyaaah;)
5 posted on 07/17/2011 7:05:57 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("Sans Sarah-Bachmann's The One.")
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To: Clairity

Perry can get the base to contribute and do ground roots activity...
And he has been around enough to be vetted and knows how to deal on the talking points.

But most of all...He can attack Obozo head on!!!


6 posted on 07/17/2011 7:05:57 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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To: Principled

Another plus:

“In June, Perry signed a largely symbolic bill that allows Texas companies to continue producing incandescent light bulbs banned by the EPA, as long as they are sold within the state. Texas is the only state that has refused to put in place the EPA’s new rules regulating carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.”

He doesn’t want to allow the EPA to wreck the economy.


7 posted on 07/17/2011 7:07:44 AM PDT by Clairity ("The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected." -- VP Dick Cheney)
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To: Clairity

As conservative as they come

if that means as in politics, it is a sad testament


8 posted on 07/17/2011 7:09:12 AM PDT by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: Principled

Good Grief...so was Ronald Reagan and Reagan was also head of a union....


9 posted on 07/17/2011 7:10:13 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 "Woe unto those who say they are Judah and are not, but are of the synaGOGue of Satan.")
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To: Happy Rain

I know you were just being sarcastic.

If Palin does’t run, and I think that is very likely, Perry would be the only conservative in the race with executive experience and a strong history of pro-growth, pro-jobs record.


10 posted on 07/17/2011 7:10:51 AM PDT by Clairity ("The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected." -- VP Dick Cheney)
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To: SF_Redux

Actually I would say he’s as conservative as he needs to be for now. He hasn’t always been and likely would return to his more moderate positions once he had nothing to lose.


11 posted on 07/17/2011 7:12:11 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Principled
Not sure how he is on enforcing invasion laws.

How is he on transnational organizations?

12 posted on 07/17/2011 7:13:44 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows.)
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To: Clairity

I expect him to announce his candidacy 6th of August!


13 posted on 07/17/2011 7:13:44 AM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 "Woe unto those who say they are Judah and are not, but are of the synaGOGue of Satan.")
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"He does what is right regardless of whether it is popular. He walks the walk of a true conservative," Palin wrote.
14 posted on 07/17/2011 7:15:57 AM PDT by Clairity ("The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected." -- VP Dick Cheney)
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To: Principled; xzins
He used to be a democrat.

So was Reagan. So was I.

I think that in the last 2 1/2 years Obama has cured a lot of democrats of that disease.

15 posted on 07/17/2011 7:16:29 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o)
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To: Clairity

Really? Being AlGore’s chief of staff in Texas is as conservative as it gets?


16 posted on 07/17/2011 7:17:07 AM PDT by riri
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To: Clairity

“a largely symbolic bill”

That’s how business as usual Republicans do it.

Make conservative sounding speeches to play with our emotions and take symbolic actions like this one on EPA regs.

Jan Brewer in Arizona did a good one with the symbolic SB 1070 to win her re-election and it got tied up in the courts without being enforced meaning it was ultimately useless.

The games politicians play and Perry is the latest player.


17 posted on 07/17/2011 7:21:10 AM PDT by Nextrush (President Sarah Palin sounds just right to me)
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Credentials so convincing, we need to be persuaded.


18 posted on 07/17/2011 7:21:56 AM PDT by Gene Eric (*** Jesus ***)
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To: cripplecreek

that’s what i wonder about too


19 posted on 07/17/2011 7:22:57 AM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: Clairity
Was this the guy who got kicked around on FR for wanting a large highway through the middle of Texas, or was that someone else?
20 posted on 07/17/2011 7:23:17 AM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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