Did you not even bother reading the figures I gave you? Texas has the 2nd lowest state debt to GDP ratio and the 2nd lowest state debt per capita in the nation, and it went down from 8th lowest and 7th lowest in 2000, respectively, during the Perry administration.
In any event, any way you look at it, Perry’s spending record is not strongly conservative.
Okay, name another state or governor that you do consider to have a strongly conservative spending record. I'd like to take a look at that. Because if 4th lowest in spending and 2nd lowest in debt is not a conservative enough record, I'd like to see what is.
If everyone is a drunk, but Ralph only gets blotto once a week while others are drunk most or all of the time, am I supposed to think that Ralph is a responsible drinker because others are drunk more often?
Alternatively, if I were to chose the least socialistic EU country, would that entitle me to claim that that country is fiscally “conservative”?
This applies to both your comments.
If you knew more about Texas you would stop waving the pom poms for Perry. BTW, do you know how our budget was balanced this year? With the same kind of smoke and mirrors accounting dodges that CA uses. We just haven’t done it as often as CA. You can contraqst that with Mitch Daniels’ fiscal record, which is better than Perry’s. (Nevertheless, I wouldn’t support Daniels if he were a candidate because I don’t think he can be trusted on “social” issues, which is one of Perry’s strengths)