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Posted on 08/02/2011 11:07:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
First there was Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson back in the 1960s who became a larger than life accidental president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Then there was George Herbert Walker Bush who made the Lone Star State his residence while building a successful oil business. And, of course, George W. Bush, was a proud Texan who left Austin to run for the White House leaving the door open for his then Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry to take over as governor.
Now, after being in that office for the past decade Governor Perry is approaching the starting gate in the not too distant future to throw his Stetson hat into the ring. Is it too soon after the presidency of George W. Bush for another Texan to try for the White House and win popular support to capture the Oval Office in the 2012 election.
George W. Bush ran in 2000 as a compassionate conservative. After just finishing Governor Perry’s book Fed Up! Our Fight To Save America From Washington I would definitely say he is conservative but would not add the term compassionate in the title to describe him.
It is an excellent title for his book as he really does seem genuinely fed up with many things, first and foremost the federal government in Washington, D.C.
After criticizing in detail the federal government and arguing that his goal is to save the people and the states from Washington and most definitely the Supreme Court one wonders why in the world the governor would want to move to the nation’s capital if it is so terrible.
He argues for states rights throughout his book and really dislikes the New Deal saying …”the whole thing was a fraud and simply does not stand up to history.”
It seems a bit late in time to blame the New Deal for our problems today but he feels the New Deal has set “the stage for a massive federal government” and that progressive politicians have romanticized FDR and his programs in order to justify more federal government spending even though he feels they were bad for the nation.
Even worse than the New Deal is the Sixteenth Amendment.
“This leads me to the great milestone on the road to serfdom: the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment. It gave Congress the authority to levy an income tax on American citizens and absolved the federal government from a previous requirement that any such taxes be returned to states proportionally to their collection. This was the birth of wealth redistribution in the United States.”
The 47th and longest serving governor of Texas doesn’t like the policymaking role of the Supreme Court and offers an answer to this problem by stating : “One such reform would be to institute term limits on what are now lifetime appointments for federal judges, particularly those on the Supreme Court..”
The man who is most likely going to run for the highest position in our federal government feels “our fight is to save America from Washington”.
After reading Fed Up!, my first thought was that this was a well-named book. The governor from Paint Creek, Texas seems quite angry at the way things have gone wrong including the federal income tax, the Supreme Court, the New Deal, Obamacare — which he wants repealed-to the role of some members of his own party who he feels do not believe anymore in conservative views once they have been in Washington too long.
The former Eagle Scout and Texas A&M graduate is ready to join the race for president and we will see if the baggage from the previous president from the Lone Star State is too much and too soon for Perry to overcome.
The governor and former Air Force Captain is very telegenic and has a great economic story to tell about Texas being a leader in job creation in these difficult economic times. The former Agriculture Commissioner certainly has executive experience and is popular with the conservatives in his own party.
The GOP field is still fluid with no overriding frontrunner. The governor of Texas has charisma and can raise money. The question is why would a person who seems to dislike much of Washington want to come and try and govern this place when he could stay back in his state and speak out more forcefully on states’ rights issues from his state capital?
And the big question is: Is America ready again for a conservative president who hails from Texas? And can a politician who believes in a limited central government actually run a central government?
Governor Perry is a politician with a story of successful job creation to tell the American voters but will his story get lost in comparisons to George W. Bush? Or is America so angry and upset up after our pathetic manufactured debt debate that they will turn to the current Governor of Texas who is Fed Up!
Thanks for your information about this gentleman. I’ll be paying more attention to the candidates now. He seems to be stirring interest as without even declaring he is starting to eclipse the flakes and this implies people are looking at him seriously.
LINKS?
1.) In the economic sphere; Low regulation of business, advocacy of business moving to the state; probably big on business infrastructure at the expense of property rights etc. (trans-Texas corridor). He is not an economist nor does he have any private sector experience.
2.) In the political sphere i.e. laws, alien control etc.: Better than given credit for; some call him a RINO in this area, but he governs a border state and likely has better insight than, say, a Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney. Gun rights advocate.
3.) Cultural sphere; A cultural conservative which makes the Gardisil controversy somewhat strange.
4.) Religion & philosophy; Not evangelical, but close to it. Believes strongly in American exceptionialism, apple pie and Mom.
5.) Foreign affairs-about which a state governor may not have experience. Likely knows south of the border circumstances well, but is an unknown in this area except to the extent that he would not be bowing and scraping to anyone overseas.
Summary: Bushian values but without the silver spoon. Knows where he came from and is a patriot. Likely doesn’t possess the nuance that many moderates and independents like and academics drool over. Not a mental giant, but who wants one of those anyway? A consummate state politician and appears to be putting together a formidable political apparatus to run, which he probably would not if he thought he could not win.
Thanks, for the information.
You’re welcome. I could write a paragraph or two but that really wouldn’t tell you what you need to know. It sounds like you want to do this right and do some research, and find out the truth.
LET'S FIX THAT ONCE AND FOR ALL:
DAVID STALL and his wife, LINDA STALL.
TAKE A LOOK
The MOVEMENT behind blocking TTC :
[CorridorWatch.org Files Comment and Complaint at NEPA Tier One TTC-35 DEIS Public Hearing During the July 27, 2006, Public Hearing in Dallas, Texas, David Stall presented oral comments and submitted written comments on behalf the members of ”CorridorWatch.org
Texas ENVIRONMENTAL Grantmakers Group “David Stall of Corridor Watch, a 501[c][4] monitoring the Trans Texas Corridor project, began our discussion about transportation and environmental impacts. He explained that his background was in government, both as general manager of the cities of Nassau Bay, Columbus, and Shoreacres, and as a 4th generation public servant. With that experience, he considers the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) project to have little to do with transportation, nor with the Texas Department of Transportation, the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M, nor regional urban traffic planners. To Mr. Stall, the TTC seems to be a rather desperate effort by the Governor’s office to generate revenue……………”
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CorridorBotch.org, or David Stall-ed “It appears that as a political issue, the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) does not cut nearly the swath its opponents allege the asphalt itself will.
For we find CorridorWatch.org (CW.org) founder David Stall falling pronouncedly flat in his bid to become District 18's state Senator. In a jurisdiction he has spent the last two years dousing with disinformation regarding just what the TTC will be, his attempts at grassroots movement failed to translate into grassroots support…………
According to their website, Stall's wife Linda founded CorridorWatch.org in February of 2004. Of course her beau had a hand therein, but because he was the City Manager of Columbus, Texas, at the time, the website leans heavily on her influence at the organization's inception.
David Stall's involvement in so political an institution as this quickly led to his dismissal from his city post. Columbus officials were also less than thrilled that Stall had registered CorridorWatch.org using the city's account. Oops.
The Stalls immediately began driving hours in any direction from their Fayetteville home to attend Texas Department of Transportation (TxDoT) meetings to disingenuously participate in the open forum process. As their disinformation spread, they began culling fellow travelers on the no-Road to Anywhere; we here know from first-hand accounts that either the Stalls or members of their growing circle of lubricious surrogates have fanned out across the state to pitch false information on the potential throughway.
If everything with which these CW.org miseducators, and their brethren in groups such as Texas Toll Party, have been frightening or angering these poor residents into intellectual submission were true, the TTC would be a slab of concrete spanning from Beaumont east to El Paso west, and pave the state in totality between San Antonio and Dallas.
Every town to which these people pay a visit is told that they are in dire danger of being diametrically bifurcated by the coming highway, no matter how far east or west they might be. To cite but one fraudulent example, residents of every single city, town and village along the Taylor-Manor corridor have been regaled with egregiously fabricated tales of municipalitive destruction and vociferous eminent domain pillaging.
The problem is, Corridor Watch et. al. are by no means allowing the facts to get in the way of a good beating. Every proposed path (and there are still at the very least three) currently under consideration places the TTC on the northern and southern ends of planned SH-130, which is a good fifteen miles west of the villes in question and in crisis over their alleged impending devastation.
That these Corridor clowns are asserting anything with certitude belies their veracity on all things, because right now NO ONE outside of the TxDoT TTC circle knows anything about any aspect of the plans…………………..”
Bachmann> Herman Cain> John Bolton> Pawlenty> Perry> Romney> Santorum> Christie> Ron Paul> “Any Republican But Huntsman”> “Jeb” Bush.
Huntsman does not compute.
I do have a question what is his position on the control of illegal aliens? Some claim he is like Bush in that regard. Being a Californian the illegal alien issue is as important to me as other areas. We are being ruined by the influx of those people.
“Obama will make Perry all about a Bush third term”
If Perry asks the “Independents” if they’re better off than they were 4 years ago, and the answer is no, he will win.
The Dems and Reps won’t win or lose the next election.
Thank you very much for your time and thought.
The article I posted gives him fair treatment on the front half...then reveals the story of the judge. For those focused on economy and jobs he could seem a very attractive candidate. I happened to meet this man in Austin sitting through hours of testimony on sanctuary cities,he was very humble,knowlegeable and willing to spend his free time monitoring the goings on in Austin. Not many people fit this description so when I ran research on him I was astounded that Perry did this to him.
Rick Perry’s Tenth Commandment: a key soundbite ...
The guy that NPR executives and the New York Times and your average Subaru-driving Whole Foods shopper were afraid George W. Bush was? Rick Perry is that guy. George W. Bush was Midland by way of Kennebunkport. Rick Perry’s people are cotton farmers from Paint Creek, a West Texas town so tiny and remote that my Texan traveling-salesman father looked at me skeptically and suggested I had the name wrong when I asked him whether he knew where it was.
Rick Perry will act on the border but that is not the same as internal enforcement.The men who bring in bags of cash are counting on keeping the institution of cheap labor in place.
You can view my video on the Texas Ruling Class and how Texas slipped past any enforcement on immigration at all in the 82nd legislature by using the above words in the U-tube search field. It should pop up right at the top.
And I still await a reply to my response to you on Sunday.
Panders his bible like him.
You mean like this? A President and the Bible
Perry will not be nominated.
You must be afraid Perry will be nominated. You make the declarative statement that he won’t be but spend the rest of your rant telling us how Obama will compare him to Bush. Obama can’t do that as you’ve already stated Perry won’t be nominated. So are you lying about Perry being nominated or just ranting to see yourself in bold print?
We've been dealt a hand here in Texas (and if you've read my threads you know much of this) where we have a federal government that has not answered the call to protect the 1250 border miles Texas shares with Mexico. So we do the best with what we have ($100M/yr of our own state money put up to help secure an international border). We have a lot of crime to combat and pay for because of the illegal activity (drugs, human smuggling and trafficking) generated by an unsecured international border.
We can't refuse to educate or give health care, as everyone in every state is faced with the same situation, but since Perry is a border gov, he's held responsible for illegal aliens, where everyone vents their frustration about the problem using him as a whipping boy (and to make political points and take pot shots). Perry's asked for drones (went to Israel and asked how they protect Gaza Strip), has asked for 3000 people here on the TX border (crickets). Perry has set up an elite Texas Ranger unit to work on the border. Then we find out the Feds have been "running guns" across the border and we've had people killed because of that.
The Texas Dream Act was set up because we have a lot of kids here from the way the feds have allowed this to snowball. Students who have been in Texas for 3 years and graduated from a Texas high school get instate tuition (no benefits -- they pay their way) The entire Texas Senate voted for this in 1991. (The Texas Dream Act does NOT have all the hidden goodies the U.S. Congress "Dream Act" was trying to get into law.)
Perry has said: “If you show up illegally, without your card or you’re here as a criminal element, I’m for throwing the book at those folks, but the issue of people who want to legally, thoughtfully and appropriately come to America to work and help us build our economy — we should quickly come up with a program and an identification card to do that.”
The Texas legislature meets every 2 years for 140 days and the governor is allowed to call Special Sessions. He called a Special Session because he had put "sanctuary cities" on the agenda and the legislature dropped the ball -- but the Senate and then the House left again -- giving Gov. Perry nothing to sign (Texas legislators also have elections they'll be facing and no doubt didn't want a vote on this shadowing their re-election bids).
In this just ended session, after about 3 tries to slip it into a bill, a law that required people to show their birth certificate to get a drivers license got through [The amendment, added by Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, to the education funding bill legislators needed to balance the state budget had originally been included in Senate Bill 9, the so-called "sanctuary cities" bill that failed in the special session. It also had appeared in an omnibus homeland security bill by Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, that died in the regular session......By putting it into law the state potentially undermines an ongoing lawsuit that argues DPS doesn't have authority to check legal status.]. However, that law was just overturned by a judge.
Texas has a long history with Mexico and being "Mexican" does not mean that you aren't an American, or a Texan. A lot of Texans have Mexican heritage or are married to someone who does. Perry doesn't lead with his chin. He's a thoughtful man.
He's as ready to fix this as anyone and understands it probably better than anyone running -- or commenting anonymously on a chat site.
One more point.
In this last Texas Legislative session Gov. Perry signed the Texas Photo ID Voting Law — it took 6 years to get it through — Only 6 states have a PHOTO Voter ID requirement.
...and then Perry will call Obama Carter's second term, and using RED SOUTH politicalogic (and HTML)...PERRY = REAGAN!
Are you calling out the Perry Derangement Syndrome coyotes or what? They will pipe up shortly with a load of half-truths and hateful smears.
Pay attention to CW, no brag just fact and most importantly no sliming other candidates.
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