Walk across the A&M campus and see how many times you are greeted with “Howdy”. Walk into any restaurant in Bryan/College Station and see how many times you are greeted with “Howdy”. It may not be a “salute” but it sure as H-— is an Aggie greeting. I am tired of people trying to make Perry out to be something he is not. He has been a good governor and the records of Texas reflect that fact. Geeze, there are surely some dorks out there who have a burr under their saddle!
Yeah, the latest experts of TAMU here on FR have now concluded that the Corps is just a group of gay cheerleaders. Clearly they have never been to the campus, or know anything about it.
I really did not know of the protocol of “howdy” at Texas A & M.
I really don’t know anything about the various intricacies of colleges and their traditions and rivalries in Texas, but I will say it seems to rival the complexity of Burke’s Peerage to a yankee like myself.
Fwiw, I thought Perry came across as great in his speech. Very authentic and down to earth.
And he did seem, more than anybody else I’ve seen, even Bachmann, to have the old “fire in the belly”. He seemed to really want to run for president and to win and to be president.
Of course, he came across as though he is always that way about everything. I imagine if he was your dad and he said “Kids, let’s go get ice cream” you know you’d be getting some ice cream, probably 3 scoops!
That might play very well against Obama’s “on the one hand, on the other hand” BS.
However, I know Obama buys his girls ice cream often and is concerned about illegal immigrants and their ability to go get ice cream, and in terms of all that I imagine he and Perry are equally matched.