Posted on 08/14/2011 3:50:13 PM PDT by DRey
“I will work every day to make Washington, DC as inconsquential in your life as I can,” says Rick Perry as he announces for president. Well, there it is. The 2012 race in a nutshell—”America is not broken. Washington D.C. is broken,” as Perry said, in contrast to Barack Obama’s continuing insistence that government must somehow lead the way out of the economic doldrums with infrastructure banks and payroll tax cuts and extending unemployment insurance. If the dividing line between Republicans and Democrats is that Democrats want, in some sense, to direct America from Washington, Republicans believe the United States should not be directed, and should instead be managed as close to the citizenry as possible.
Most people outside Texas know very little about Perry, but given his standing as a kind of amalgam of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, he may soon occupy an unprecedented position in the imagination of liberals and the Left—perhaps the most frightening specter of anti-liberalism since Ronald Reagan precisely because he is electable. The conservative boogeyman is back."
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I love the theme— most real Americans would love for Washington to be inconsequential on an average day.
Yep. The liberals are terrified of Perry.
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As evidenced by the lib trolls on FR
“I will work every day to make Washington, DC as inconsquential in your life as I can,”
So he’s going to reform Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? No? Call me when he gets a clue about our entitlement problem.
Then there’s the adoring followers here who seem to think his ordure is scent-free.
Yep. The liberals are terrified of Perry.
Don’t know if they are all liberals but some are damn sure terrified of Perry. They must really think he’ll be the nominee and walk right on into the WH. FR is going to be an interesting place for a while.
Yup!
He has said on record he believes Social Security is unconstitutional.
I am not yet sold on Perry.
But this is a good start.
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And his solution is? Somehow I doubt he’s going to be calling for the program’s abolishment. Those older folks get mighty cranky when that monthly check is threatened.
And Ron Paultards.
They are so easy to spot yet so ashamed to admit who they are supporting.
I’m posting a new thread on his policies now. He’s been in the race less than 24 hours.
And when he says "I will work every day to make our borders as impenetrable as I can", he will be relevant.
My only objection is that I don’t believe him.
Yeah, well.. look here:
I'm in favor of Perry. I do NOT ascribe objections to him as being a result of FEAR.
That's stupid. Ate up with the dumb ass, it is.
Folks in the Palin camp say that about her, and it's just as ate up.
I dislike both Rye bread and Lima beans.
I don't fear either. In fact I don't think Rye bread or Lima beans could ever hurt me at all.
But yet I dislike them both. Fear of them is not a factor.
There may be folks who fear these things.
Rye bread and Lima beans and Sarah Palin and Rick Perry might be scary as hell to some folks.
But to normal folks.. not so much. Calm down, Charlene.
It’s already started from all quarters .. we’ll see if Perry can take the heat ... i suspect he can
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