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Posted on 08/14/2011 9:20:10 AM PDT by Sudetenland
‘If Jeb Bush’s name were Jeb Smith, he’d be the next president of the United States,” says Texas governor Rick Perry, and then there’s a long pause in the conversation to let pass the unspoken corollary: “And if Rick Perry were the governor of Florida . . . ”
People constantly ask Governor Perry if he’s thinking about running for president. In fact, they ask him if he’s thinking about running for president so often that by now he almost certainly must be thinking about running for president, even if he wasn’t thinking about it before. He plays down that sort of thing (except when he doesn’t) and protests that he’s got plenty to keep him busy in Austin. And he is busy: He’s hip-deep in a ferocious fight to balance the state budget without instituting new taxes or liquidating the state’s rainy-day fund. He has a long list of parochial Texas action-items on his gubernatorial to-do list, like pushing down the cost of a bachelor’s degree from a state university to $10,000 and keeping his bespoke boot heel on the neck of the trial lawyers. But he’s also very busy in his campaign to renew — or reinvent — American federalism, taking an extraordinarily robust view of states’ sovereignty and an extraordinarily restrictive view of the “enumerated powers” listed in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. He’s written a book about the subject, Fed Up!, which is an order of magnitude more crotchety and idiosyncratic than your average raising-my-national-profile book. (He also published a very personal and occasionally hot-tempered defense of the Boy Scouts, On My Honor, lambasting the feminists and organized homosexuality in a way that suggests he’s not much interested in a Mitch Daniels–style truce on the social issues.)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Great article! Thanks for posting it!
Here’s an artlicle Michael Reagan posted on his Facebook Page as recommended reading. (he didn’t write - he just posted it).
I don’t know how to post wordpress stuff on FB so feel free to post the article as a post of its own if you want.
Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry
http://peskytruth.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/rick-perrys-negatives/
correction:
I don’t know how to post wordpress stuff on FR (freerepublic)
Rick Perry is a RINO New World Order soclialist.......
He is more Bush then Reagan.
He supports Mexico president Fox’s position on “OPEN BORDERS”
He needs to go home.....I don’t care where he is from, I care about where his socialism will take us.
but.. but.. Sarah Palin supported him ... how could this be ?!
Texas is doing a LOT better than Maryland. ;-)
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Rick Perry sent the Texas Rangers to the border to help secure it
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How many did he send? What results did they achieve?
There are only around 150 Texas Rangers, so you figure it out. He did what he could do. It’s not as if he has the U.S. military at his disposal. Obama refused him. Put the blame where it belongs. I blame the Feds not the states for the border problems since it is their duty to protect the border As much as I would liked to blame it on Obama he’s just the latest in a long line of presidents who haven’t addressed the problem. The dereliction of duty goes way back.
I was just wondering since I keep hearing that he sent the Rangers to the Border but can’t find any information on how many were sent and what they did there.
I would think that how many he sent, what their instructions were and what their results were would be something people should know.
I guess that information is a secrete since nobody else seems to know either.
Rick Bush...
Yeah. I mean, there's no facts to back that up, but yeah, totally.
He supports Mexico president Fox’s position on “OPEN BORDERS”
No he doesn't. If you read the full quote, he was talking about a border like what we have with Canada, not now, but some day in the distant future when Mexicans aren't trying to break into the U.S. for jobs.
Hey, do ya support in-state tuition for illegal aliens in CA, and is California’s illegal alien problem caused by the corrupt running the state, or their co-conspirators in D.C.?
We heard Rick Bush, I mean President Perry...(Sounds French) on the radio yesterday...I swear, the man sounds exactly like Bush...
Was that unqualified open borders?
Or was there a greater context and were there qualifications to his statements?
Some credible sources would be nice.
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