Posted on 08/16/2011 6:17:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
** Did Perry go too far? A day after appearing to outshine Michele Bachmann on her home turf in Waterloo, albeit with some tough rhetoric aimed at President Obama, Rick Perry might have gone a bit too far in criticizing Obama and even the Federal Reserve while campaigning in Iowa yesterday. For Texans, this is typical Perry. But for Americans who do not know him, it's eyebrow-raising rhetoric. In fact, he sounded more like Trump or Gingrich. "I think the greatest threat to our country right now is this president trying to spend his way out of this debt," Perry said last night in Cedar Rapids, per NBC’s Carrie Dann. (A greater threat than international terrorism?) When reporters asked if he believes Obama doesn’t love America, Perry responded: “You need to ask him.” And then he upped the ante in remarks directed at the Fed. "Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous or treasonous in my opinion," Perry said, per Dann. He went on to say that promoters of such an idea -- hinting but not naming Ben Bernanke specifically -- would get an "ugly" treatment in his home state of Texas.
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I would really not like to see Conservative candidates BECOME the petty and ugly voice in American politics that Liberals have become. It is not necessary
I know, it’s just the blatant hypocracy that gets to me sometimes. I hope that this “do as I say, not as I do” code of ethics they practice comes back to bite them.
GOOD, I am slightly more impressed with Perry.
Surprise, surprise...CW
>> Rubio is not a good pick in my opinion <<
Don’t worry. He’s not eligible, because Vattel says he isn’t a natural-born citizen.
If someone finds this to be "eyebrow-raising rhetoric," at the time they must have been lying on the floor sweeping up cobwebs with their eyebrows.
[ Of course Bush’s boys are defending their arsonist at the Fed.
This shows Perry is not a Bushie, and he may well be a real conservative, unlike the fake Bush. ]
Perry could very well still be a “Bushie” and is just doing this to create “distance” from the old Bush Legacy. Perry is pretty slick.
Too far?! He didn’t go far enough!!
Have we forgotten about how far Obama has gone in criticizing the “failed policies of the past 8 years”?
I agree.
The administration, from the top on down, is loaded with socialists and or commies who are intent on destroying the economy of this country. The word treason is not that outlandish.
Here's an FR thread explaining the Texas dream law.
(Along with deficits and amnesty, devaluing the dollar was on of my list of pet peeves under W.)
What I would like to know is, what would he do to repeal Obamacare in case the SCOTUS doesn’t rule it unconstitutional. Would he Michele Bachman has made it pretty clear that it would be top of her agenda.
Former Bush Official: Rick Perry Is The ‘Ice Cold Glass Of Water’ The GOP Needed
Rick Perry’s wife: “As an experienced political wife, Anita Perry has been stepping into the fray with her husband since he ran for the Texas House in 1984.
Holding a master’s degree in nursing, she worked as a nurse for 17 years.
Perry said his wife is worried how the new health care law will affect health care.”
Anita Perry’s father was a family doctor.
Perry has called for the repeal of Obamacare — that it is unconstitutional.
9:20 into that interview comment about “cold glass of water” AND she defends Perry telling the media to ASK Obama (not him) if he loves America.
I’d be surprised to see her on any ticket at all.
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