Posted on 08/14/2011 4:15:55 PM PDT by DRey
GREENLAND, N.H. - Following an announcement speech full of anti-Obama rhetoric, Texas Governor Rick Perry answered questions from New Hampshire political activists for nearly a half-hour on Saturday that fleshed out his policy views for a group, a state, and a country that barely knows the latest Republican presidential contender. Like most in the GOP, Perry espoused a muscular support for Israel amid a turbulent Mideast, saying, Israel is not ever gonna have to worry, if Im the president to the United States, where were gonna be. Like most Republicans, he also labeled himself a fiscal conservative bent on reining in government spending. Were going to stop spending the money, unless I run out of ink in a veto pen, the governor pledged. Perry also professed a pro-business bent, a calling card of his party, especially when it comes to small business support. I can go small community with you; thats how I grew up, said the native of Paint Creek, Texas. We didnt even have a post office. But in a bold-yet-folksy way, the Texan also put his own spin on an array of questions from a crowd of more than 150. Asked about how the country copes with the growing cost of Social Security and other entitlement programs, Perry said political leaders had to show courage especially in dealing with Social Security, which he labeled a Ponzi scheme. He said: I can promise you, my 27-year-old son, Social Security, under the program that we have today, will not be there. Perry, himself 61, pledged to back a base level of support for needy retirees, but he said calling the current retirement system a Ponzi scheme - in which contributions from one group is to pay immediate benefits to another group - is the first step in deciding how...
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How would you act differently if you were being paid? I would not go so far as to call Perry a Rino, but I think we have others with a better record of being steadfast. I am not convinced he would stand up to the media, and now his stance in illegals has been explained by you, and is a serious problem. We can do better, and I hope we do. If he takes the nomination, he is better than Romney, TPaw, and the country clubbers they are trying to shove down our throats, and I would support him. But we can do better, and win.
How would I act differently if I were paid to promote Perry? Well, for one thing, I would be a whole lot more reverent. I’ve been pretty much telling it like it is without regard to causing hysterics in the Palin/Bauchmann camp. I would think a paid operative would have no desire to stir things up so much as appear the level-headed grown-up in the room. I have no such qualms. I know Rick Perry. I KNOW who he is. And I take it personal when people act like @ssholes spewing lies about him. He’s a good man. He’s a conservative man, a Christian man. He is a FEARLESS man. And he is smart. He understands limitations. The lies being told about him with regard to “amnesty,” “no border fence,” and...whatever...his good hair...good grief. This is the man that can and will beat Obama. Reagan would be proud, and yet I have to defend him against my own people on FR. It’s disgusting. It’s like the liberals attacking Palin. It’s truly disgusting. If we can do better, I have not seen how. I will vote for Bachmann, Cain, Palin...anyone but Paul...but I know full well Rick Perry is the STRONGEST of all the candidates. That’s it.
No. That’s not a lie. He endorsed Giuliani. Let’s hang him.
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