He doesn’t look like a conservative to me:
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2011/08/17/rick_perrys_bad_medicine
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2011/07/25/rick-perry-stands-by-texas-dream-act
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304760604576428262897285614.html
http://www.rlc.org/2011/08/12/texas-rlc-sends-out-warning-on-rick-perry/
It's an easy read, and you'll want to have this for the vetting that is coming on Rick Perry.
Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry
Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry
2) Supporter of muzzy mosque and outreach
3) Supported ALGORE and Rudy
No way...open borders alone is a deal killer.
You know, all the Republicans, to me anyway, seem real good. Real good.
I like Perry, too. I don't have a worry about this guy. If he wins the nomination, God bless. And if someone else - God bless. Right now, anyone who gets anywhere, it is because of the Tea Party. So I say God bless, go get Obama.
He hired the treasurer of Stephen Colbert’s super PAC to run finances for his campaign. I hear that he’s combing the staff of the Daily Show and MSNBC to fill out other open positions.
After reading the ten things, I honestly like him more. You know, the state tuition for children of illegals isn’t such a bad idea. It helps them integrate. College tuition is already heavily subsidized for citizens.
The forced immunizations bothered me, but this is the first time I heard that he now considers the decision a mistake. That is reasonable. The man can make mistakes. It sounds like a good policy to prevent cancer. But, the facts don’t support the claims once you find out that this should be voluntary.
That he as a former Dem is OK. We need people to switch to the right side.
On balance, I think he is worthy of support.
I’ve watched Perry for the six years I’ve lived in Texas. I’ve even voted for him twice in that time, but only because he stank a lot less than his competitors.
In my observation, he’s a center-right Moderate. All of the tough conservative talk out of him is reserved for election time. Once he gets elected, it’s back to being the professional politician’s politician.
We could do a whole lot worse than Perry, but he will not be the sort of president this country is in desperate need of right now. We need a fighter, a crusader, a bare-knuckled reformer, who will set this country back on its Constitutional, small government, individual freedom track.
Perry will give lip service to all of that, but none of it will happen on his watch.
I find the statement in Point #4 astonishing:
“These people are for Ron Paul already.”
He’s talking about all those millions who vociferously protested against Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor and eventually made him back down.
To the idiot who wrote that: I AM one of those people. I know many others. We collectively and decidedly think Ron Paul is a nutcase and an embarrassment to Texas.
You’re talking about salt-of-the-earth farmers and ranchers and small-town Texans.
What nonsense.
There is such a vast difference in what someone from Texas would consider conservative, and someone in New Jersey or California.
Then, within the vastness of Texas, there is going to be a difference in what someone from the Valley, Austin, or the Texas Hill Country some 30 miles west of San Antonio would consider Conservative.
In the last Governor’s race here in Texas, Perry got about 55% of the vote statewide, but in my county he got just under 73% of the vote.
The world holds no prefect men, the world of politics least of all.
As Benjamin Franklin once said Politics is the art of the possible. I have been made quite aware of Perry’s questionable past, and political history. What concerns me most about our canadit is their rhetoric.
Why?
Simple because I don’t serous believe any of them are going to be able to(even if they were so inclined) seriously cut down the Federal Government.
Indeed even if they did it would be almost as temporary a victory as their term of office. Any power the Federal government “voluntarily gives up” it can and will almost as quickly “voluntarily reclaim”.
We are dealing with a systematic problem here not a political problem, and we require a systematic solution. That systematic solution will of course requires political will & action to implement but not from Washington D.C..
If we are to systematically check & balance this Federal monster over the significant long run (as is required) we must create and empower anther competing force to challenge and hold it in place over the same period. In these United States that force is the self-interest of our States.
So no I don’t much care what a president Perry does (It doesn’t much matter), it’s what he says that motivates others to act and helps further reshape and reposition the political climate to where we need it to be. That is what matters at this stage in the game.
What I do know, however, is that I'd much rather see everyone here and elsewhere hammer down hard on shaming the media, our friends, neighbors and fellow citizens on the COMPLETE lack of vetting of our current occupant of the White House than actively ripping into emerging Republican candidates.
He wears more makeup than most porn stars.
Perry talks a good game. But he’s no Conservative.