Posted on 08/24/2011 5:55:33 PM PDT by Nachum
Forget today’s Gallup poll. If you want a solid sign that Perry’s achieved at least parity with Romney, here it is.
“Your feedback will help hold him accountable on the campaign trail, inspire fellow Texans to get involved, and introduce his record — his actual record — to voters across the country,” Hector Nieto, the campaign’s Texas director, told Texas supporters by email blast today. “Your words will remind him that even as he runs, he won’t be able to hide — a lesson he apparently hadn’t learned as recently as last week. That’s when his campaign explained that the positions he took in the book he wrote just nine months ago, like saying that Social Security is unconstitutional and `a crumbling monument to the failure of the New Deal,’ no longer represent his views.
“But what other Americans are just starting to learn about — and, frankly, reject — Texans have dealt with for more than a decade. It’s up to us to make sure he doesn’t get to run away from the truth.”
Nieto’s email says hundreds of Texans have already shared their dim views on Perry, directing critics to an online form where they can suggest their own favorite “failed policies” for which he should be held accountable.
Yes, they really do have an online form just for this on Obama’s campaign site. I’m intrigued by the fact that they’re not content to rely on standard oppo research in this case but want man-on-the-street grumbling from Texas liberals instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Really?
No.
Perry has moved Texas to the Right. We now have a GOP super majority in Texas. Not bad for a West Texas boy who few C-130s and started out as a Democrat (conservative) and now is in his third term as governor.
I think YOU need to read this -- TWICE!
Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the Future
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...."What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States.
It's scarcely arguable that, in the political sense, liberalism is on the ropes. Obama spent their last nickel. They have lost the House and will lose the Senate, with little chance of regaining them in the near future. The same is true of the White House once the messiah gets the bum's rush come 2012. Liberalism is on the skids, its programs uniform failures, its ideology barren, its slogans worn out, its long hold on the independents being relentlessly pared down by the Tea Parties.
So what is a political movement to do, particularly one as fanatic and apocalyptic as this one? Well, if you have an alternate system made up of outside organizations not subject to governmental oversight, a system populated with self-selected fanatics and true believers, a system poised and ready to march, you can do what was done in Wisconsin. You can turn the superstructure loose to threaten the public peace, smash things up, abuse the electoral process, create a media spectacle, and pressure the state to do things your way. You can use nonpolitical organizations (in the electoral sense) to get a political result....." [snip]
Muawijah, you are completely wrong, either trough ignorance or you have an agenda. If you support Palin, as has been suggested, I am sure she would not support your tactics. Most of us here also like Palin and you are doing her harm by trying to take out her opponents with your negative and untrue tactics.
Perhaps you are more of a troll than a Palin supporter.
THAT IS FREAKING HILARIOUS!
So stolen
Enjoy! :)
And most recently, followers of the popular anti-TSA groping bill in Texas (the Traveler Dignity Act), which gained nationwide attention, remember that, as Nalle put it, Perry “scuttled the bill.” Reports the RLC,
When Rep. David Simpson led the Texas legislature towards passage of an enormously popular bill ... to hold the TSA accountable for intrusive searches of airline passengers, Perry played a key role in making sure that the bill was not passed.
When the TSA and the Justice Department began pressuring him, although Perry had promised to submit the bill to the special legislative session, he delayed submitting the bill until it was so late in the session that it was virtually impossible to hold the constitutionally mandated votes necessary for passage. That way he could score points with the public for submitting the popular bill while at the same time making sure that it wouldn't pass.
Well then go with it, pick the candidate you trust more, the one that has no flaws, the one that always resists pressure from lobbyists, the one that always does the right thing as you see it. Good luck.
If you read the Declaration of Independence as a checklist, the USA in 2011 has a staggeringly high score. This situation is not tenable and not sustainable. We must do better than just more of the same, this is the last chance to right the ship before it goes under.
To the core of my soul I truly believe it is different this time.
Well, good luck finding your ideal candidate. When you do let me know who it is.
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