Posted on 08/10/2011 8:03:16 PM PDT by curth
Rick Perry has been widely touted as a Republican presidential candidate who could appeal Tea Party voters, but some in the anti-tax movement wonder if his record as Texas governor stacks up to his rhetoric.
After all, they say, there are reasons to think he's a spendthrift. He once campaigned for Democrat Al Gore, reviled by the Tea Party for being Bill Clinton's vice president and for his campaigning on climate change, and he even spoke kindly about Hillary Clinton's healthcare reform efforts.
Then there is the issue that he was once a Democrat.
So as Perry plans the 2012 White House bid many observers expect he may announce as early as this week, some Tea Party faithful wonder what to make of him.
"They're vetting, they want to know if he is for real," Dallas Tea Party leader Katrina Pierson, said, adding she has fielded questions about Perry's record from Tea Party members as far flung as California, Iowa and New Hampshire.
Tea Party voters could have a big impact on the Republican nomination if they vote heavily in early U.S. primaries, which historically see low voter turn-out.
Perry "speaks the Tea Party language," said Sean Theriault, a political science professor at the University of Texas. But such rhetoric could alienate independent voters, who play a crucial role in U.S. presidential elections.
"I think the Republican nomination for him would be much easier than the general election," Theriault said.
Perry, who followed George W. Bush as Texas governor in 2000 after Bush was elected to the White House, has earned headlines for saying that perhaps Texas should leave the United States and for holding a prayer rally this month that drew 30,000 people.
He was an early booster of the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement, which takes its name
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I don’t expect to see Bachmann still in by the time the Texas primary rolls around. I would vote for Palin over Perry if she gets in but I would vote Perry over everybody else.
Bill Clinton - Head of State - USA Attends Bilderberg meeting, Germany, 1991 - gets Presidential Nomination Aug 1992.
Tony Blair - effective Head of State - UK Attends Bilderberg meeting, Greece, 1993 - becomes party leader Jul 1994 - becomes Prime Minister May 1997.
Jack Santer - previous Head of State (sacked for corruption) - Europe Attends Bilderberg, Germany, 1991 - becomes European President Jan 1995.
Romano Prodi - Head of State - Europe On Bilderberg Steering Committee mid 1980’s, attends Bilderberg meeting, Portugal, Jun 1999 - sworn in as President of Europe Sep 1999 (term lasts until Jan 2005).
George Robertson - CEO - NATO Attends Bilderberg meeting, Scotland, 1998 - sworn in as Secretary General of NATO Aug 1999.
Lionel Jospin, participated in Bilderberg 1996. He became Prime Minister of France in 1997 (until 2002).
And Rick Perry attends Bilderberg 2007... and you're just ITCHIN' to vote him into the Oval Office... lol
Between some of the negatives I'm finding researching the guy and the way his overly enthusiastic supporters Alinsky those objections and those who raise them, I'm just not feeling it.
I keep having the opposite reaction instead. Weird.
You’ll have to talk the State Legislature into changing the law. However, I doubt you’ll have much luck with lock jaw.
Yes yes that’s what I think
Your an idiot,. We cant just put up machine gun nests
The gardasil thing was for girls in school. The state mandates lots of shots for kids in school, that is what I was referring to.
The only walk Perry walks is to his globocrat pals for campaign funding, and of course, for all the free p.r. about how he just might be running for President and ‘saving’ the GOP. None of the conservative candidates in Iowa for the last few months have been worth a damn to cover, evidently? No, the GOP simply MUST have a ‘savior’ in the form of a big-spending, crony capitalist, Formula-1-instead-of-NASCAR-lovin’, pointy-booted corporate puppet! /sarc
Look, even if you don’t like Ron Paul because he’s Texan or too libertarian for you, Herman Cain and Michelle Bachman are way better options than $10,000-a-month Ricky. And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you don’t know Slick Rick. I’d vote for Sarah Palin before I’d vote for Rick Perry, and I don’t know squat about where Palin stands on a lot of important issues. But I know where Perry stands on smaller government (just look at Texas budgets during ‘conservative’ Rick’s reign—and how he’s blown $300 million of Texans’ money on marriage classes) and where he stands on corporate payoffs (your aforementioned Gardasil, F1, his slush fund for tech) and eminent domain (TTC). He’s about as trustworthy a conservative as Orrin Hatch or Juan McCain.
He’s a professional politician. Of course he isn’t for real. Doesn’t mean I won’t vote for him. Last I checked, there are no angels running. I can live with a politician being a politician. It’s the cost of doing business. Within reason, of course. Would Perry govern within reason? I think he might.
Thank you. That's the problem I keep running into researching Perry, but I couldn't think of the right way to say it.
Hey, jackass, when you’re on the f’ing frontlines of the illegal invasion, you can have a valid opinion, otherwise STFU. You get back to me when you get to experience having an illegal that’s been in the country as long as Perry has been Governor try to murder two policemen in front of YOUR home or 4 straight years of open harrassment from undocumented neighbors who regard laws, ANY laws, as something to piss all over. Tell you what, you take your open borders pendejo Guv and stick him where the sun don’t shine.
Exactly. Simply put, he just isn’t trustworthy. Want a real walk the walk and talk the talk leader who isn’t in the running for President ? The brand new Governor of Maine, Paul LePage. He is a REAL Conservative and he doesn’t give a rats’ ass about pandering to the bad guys. If Palin doesn’t get in, I’d draft him in a heartbeat. He puts phonies like Perry to shame.
ahole? sorry. You lost me at that.
There is NO need for name calling.
Perry will say what he thinks you want to hear..
And will satisfy many that like to hear what they want to hear..
The rest of “US” must keep the horn on his nose sharpened..
So he does not begin to appear to be an Elephant..
I have lived on la Frontera for 30 years
There’s been so much talk about Perry and Gardasil, but missing from the discussion is that fact that we have fifty states.
What action, if any, did governors of other states take when Gardasil became available?
Like I said, my real issue is the whole ‘mandate’ thing. Fortunately for Texas, the legislature promptly voided the entire Gardasil mandate before it even started.
I am reminded of the story about Congressman Davy Crockett being scolded by the old man who said Crockett should have known better than to vote money from the Treasury for the Veteran’s widow. The logic was that the money was not Crockett’s but the People’s, and Crockett was supposed to be a servant of the people rather than someone who could be persuaded by an emotional appeal.
Supposedly, the next time such an event occurred, Crockett voted against the action but promptly provided a contribution from his own pocket. That, my friends, is what charity is for.
Heh. Yeah they seem to have forgotten the purge of all the Rudybots in 2007. Perry would have been tagged a leftist troll on FR, not a tea party favorite. How about all those freepers who were lynching Trey Greyson simply because he voted for ONE Democrat in 1992? Now apparently its acceptable to be Al Gore's campaign manager back then. Hmmm.
I think Perry would have lasted about 5 mins. here back in 2007. It would have went something like this...
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To: freepers
Rudy 2008! For the last six months, I have cogitated, I've looked, I've studied these candidates — some of them I know very well — and came to the conclusion that the individual who can lead America with clarity, the individual who has the experience, the individual who cleaned up a city that was absolutely on its back is mayor Rudy Giuliani.
1 posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2007 10:07:19 PM by GovGoodhair (Rudy is The Man with the Plan)
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ummm… Rudy is a leftist RINO. No thanks.
2 posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2007 10:08:39 PM by JimRobinson (Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. Hoo-yah)
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You’re wrong. Giuliani is the individual who will give us the results that will make America safer, that will move our economy forward, that will put strict constructionists on the Supreme Court…
3 posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2007 10:10:36 PM by GovGoodhair (Rudy is The Man with the Plan)
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Take your pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, gun-grabbing, big government statist shilling to some other forum. It’s not welcome on FR. This is a conservative forum.
4 posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2007 10:12:33 PM by JimRobinson (Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. Hoo-yah)
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No. I'm proudly and excitedly going to campaign for him and work for him.
I don't get tied up with the process. What I look for is results.
5 posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2007 10:15:06 PM by GovGoodhair (Rudy is The Man with the Plan)
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Bye.
6 posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2007 10:15:17 PM by JimRobinson (Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. Hoo-yah)
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What happened to GovGoodhair? He stopped posting lately.
7 posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2007 10:12:33 PM by Perryisawesome (GWB deserves a third term)
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GovGoodhair
This account has been banned or suspended.
Yes, it ended up being a moot point. I also have problems with government mandates in general.
As a Texas Conservative, I think we can do A LOT better than Rick Perry.
He’s a RINO.
As we say in Texas. All hat, no cattle. In Rick’s case, all rhetoric, no action.
In fact, action in the reverse of conservatism.
You forgot all about Margaret Thatcher! Does her fate await Rick Perry? The mind boggles.
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