Posted on 08/15/2011 5:41:08 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
Rick Perry was a Democrat until Karl Rove convinced him to switch parties and run as a Republican against Jim Hightower for Agriculture Commissioner.
Perry is always mentioning Reagan... But no Yellow-Dog Texas Democrat who was a chairman for Al Gore in 1988 would have voted for Reagan. Some Democrats would have... but not a leading member of the Texas party.
Perry is just too slick. He is not conservative at all.
Why does it even matter? People change their minds all the time. This isn’t a manchurian candidate. This is someone who has been an elected republican for more than 20 years. There are plenty of Southern and western Dems that changed after Perry did.
“Are you nuts - your posts are ALL about YOU claiming him to be religious! YOUR CREDIBILITY IS SHOT.”
You are correct. All of my posts are about him running as a religious candidate.
And, I backed those up with links and quotes. Not something made up, like yours unsubstantiated, un-sourced quotes from the “Bent One”.
Oh, and I’ll post to whoever I want. Got it?
Stick that in your LOL, you troll.
I dont care who Perry voted for in 1980 > 30 years ago. He just signed a Texas hate Crimes bill and bragged about supporting a Texas Dream act for illegals. Those are recent.
Um, actually, I probably succeeded beyond your wishes. If Perry was a convinced Democrat and voted his convictions, I’d have more respect for him at the time (though NOT for his convictions) than for Rush. At least he would have done something about what he believed, beyond talking.
I agree with most of what Rush says. But he’s mostly a talker. There is no defense for him not getting his lazy butt to register to vote, while his big mouth was talking conservatism and Reagan. It’s a shame on him.
To respect the man’s ideas, there’s no need to respect every last action (or inaction) taken (or not taken) by the man.
I don’t really give a crap either but I can’t stand these liars/idiots who are trying to sanitize his past.
The Perry-bots have invaded in full force, however him recently signing that hate crimes bill didnt help their case. It looks like we got another compassionate conservative here.
Just stop this nonsense.
“Perry wants to hold the feds accountable.”
Not going to happen as long as a lib is in the WH. Meanwhile, the illegals continue to stream across our border every day and night. IMO Perry took the high road on this issue, which is NOT good. In my POV it is past time to get tough. The illegals are winning and we’re doing what? Hoping the feds will take care of it? Are we stupid?
“Perry wants to hold the feds accountable.”
Not going to happen as long as a lib is in the WH. Meanwhile, the illegals continue to stream across our border every day and night. IMO Perry took the high road on this issue, which is NOT good. In my POV it is past time to get tough. The illegals are winning and we’re doing what? Hoping the feds will take care of it? Are we stupid?
Were you not trying to draw similarities between Rush and Perry, because neither voted for Reagan?
If so, you failed. Miserably. Because as I mentioned, Rush didn’t register to vote till age 35.
If all you wanted to do was badmouth Rush, mission accomplished. As soon as you do 1/1,000,000,00th as much as he has for the conservative movement, get back to me.
I would love to know what YOU have done that has mobilized as many conservatives to vote or informed more people about the liberal agenda.
(crickets)
But your opinions of Rush, invalid as they are, have nothing to do with the topic at hand, which is Rick Perry’s extremely checkered past.
Which conservative who is so great that conservatives want him to now lead the conservative movement, was Al Gore's campaign Chairman wanting to end the Reagan Revolution, and then endorsing Rudy Giuliani in 2008?
My point was, if he didn’t vote for Reagan, he has that in common with Limbaugh. Point made.
As to the rest, try to remember the first and second commandment, and that’ll help you.
>>My point was, if he didn’t vote for Reagan, he has that in common with Limbaugh. Point made.<<
And an irrelevant point it is. Because it suggests that if Perry voted for Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale or Michael Dukakis, that should be just fine and dandy with all us FReepers. WRONG.
Not sure why you brought up idolatry. Respect for what Rush has done for conservatism is not idolatry.
Again, what have YOU done that begins to compare? So how bout you knock off the Rush bashing?
Welcome to FreeRepublic. I have been posting here since the late 90s. I have a medium-traffic blog (http://bibchr.blogspot.com) at which I HEAVILY wrote on political matters during the past election cycles, particularly in ‘08. I was all over the Obama issue. I laid into anyone and everyone who thought it was a cool thing for Christians to do to vote Democrat, let alone Obama. I turned at least one and helped others; traffic was around 1000+ a day.
I also write at another high-traffic blog (http://teampyro.blogspot.com), and though I’ve written on politics there, it isn’t the blog’s focus.
I’ve also given money, turned up at demonstrations, and basically done everything I can.
Nice to meet you, thanks for your interest.
Good for you.
I have been a FReeper since 88, under a screen name which was no longer topically relevant, so I changed it.
No one cares when you or I signed up.
Like I said, get back to me when you have done 1/1,000,000,000th as much as Rush Limbaugh has done for the conservative movement, before you go badmouthing him.
That’s a very silly standard. How about this: unlike Rush Limbaugh, I have done 100% of what I’ve been able to do?
BTW, if you want to stay with your silly standard of trying to excuse your Rushgod’s hypocrisy, where’s your bona-fides? If you haven’t reached as many as I have, doesn’t that mean (by your logic-book) that you can’t criticize me?
>>BTW, if you want to stay with your silly standard of trying to excuse your Rushgod’s hypocrisy, where’s your bona-fides? If you haven’t reached as many as I have, doesn’t that mean (by your logic-book) that you can’t criticize me?<<
Oh, I have done my fair share of evangelizing and spreading the truth too, through my blogs and social media. That’s pretty much how I spend my time, and I make converts to conservatism consistently. They write and tell me so.
I could elaborate on my bona fides and brag about them as you did, but that is beside the point.
If I were sitting here minimizing what you did, as you did to Rush, then yes, my criticizing your efforts would be invalid. You have a blog. Good for you. So do I.
I don’t remember calling you lazy, as you did Rush.
I really don’t have a lot more time to waste today, so unless you have something else earthshakingly significant to say, let’s be done, okay?
Do’t break your arm patting yourself on the back for a lieDRey.
I do not even consider Romney, who I characterize as “Malibu Ken” and “Plastic Man” as a viable candidate. The good Lord help us if a MOrmon gets into the White House!
We desperately need to get one out of the Senate!
Mormon is closely akin to Islam. Perhaps that is why the Establishment tosses him bouquets rather than barbs.
I am having difficulty adjusting to a new key pad, so I make many mistakes, and I also suffer from Macular Degeneration.
Of course you know that what I was saying was, “Too soon out of his Commie College Days.” I don’t see anything but wisdom in that sentence, for the Universities and Colleges, for the most part, have been widely infiltrated by Communist, or if you prefer, Progressive, professors. Students are being taught to hate the very things which made our nation a great one.
Another one in complete denial.
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