Rick Perry Channels Reaganomics, Will Attend First GOP Debate

The State Column ^ | Aug. 27, 2011 | Staff

[toddausauras]

I can’t believe the insanity of attending an NBC/Politico debate for these candidates, what in hell are they thinking?

[Son House]

and I will share my ideas on how to accomplish that during this important debate," Perry said

I prefer Newt Gingrich's sense of urgency in economic matters

[Hildy]

I am attending the CNN presidential debate in Las Vegas on October 18th (front row seats!). It’s part of the GOPAC campaign school through the Western Republican Leadership Conference. I am very excited. But I agree. MSNBC? CNN is bad enough.

[MestaMachine]

Good on you, Hildy. I am so jealous!

[Hildy]

I am so excited... check it out

WESTERN REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

[MestaMachine]

Are you going to be there all four days?

[DRey]

I was wondering the same thing. Perry must have some cajones because you know the questions are going to be out to finish him off early. Still, I’m glad he’s got the opportunity to reach so many. He’ll win over a lot of people.

[Darkwolf377]

This is just the kind of thing that shows candidates are not just capable of dealing with friendly crowds and/or press. This is EXACTLY what candidates SHOULD be doing. If you’re a candidate and you’re afraid of MSNBC, you’re not good for much.

[toddausauras]

Ok Chris Matthews whatever you say.

[Darkwolf377]

Ok Chris Matthews whatever you say.

Oh my GAWD that is SOOOO FUNNY? Comparing someone to Chris Matthews??? GENIUS! You should write for John Stewart! ROFL!

Oh, let me catch my breath...comedy gold, man, comedy GOLD!

I've never heard THAT one EVAH!

[trebb]

I can’t believe the insanity of attending an NBC/Politico debate for these candidates, what in hell are they thinking?

They will only damage a weak, wishy-washy candidate who wants to make everyone love them. A strong candidate can call them on the nonsense and turn the tables a bit, which might be very useful in the long run.

[TheRobb7]

I would agree with you, but. Too many liberals are talking up Huntsman. They will give him a chance to “shine” and afterward say that he”won the. Debate” or. “Sounded the most Presidential”.

That is the real danger here.

[SoJoCo]

One item missing from Reaganomics was large scale spending cuts. Will we be repeating that error?

[TexasFreeper2009]

lol

huntsman couldn’t shine if he had a flashlight in a cave.

He is in the wrong party.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This will be widely watched!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I prefer Newt Gingrich's sense of urgency in economic matters

"FED UP!"

Newt Gingrich: Rick Perry's book "almost came too late" [Foreward to "Fed Up!"]

"I wish this book had never needed to be written.

It almost came too late.

America is recklessly accelerating toward economic disaster. Fed Up! may be the last warning sign to the danger that lies ahead.

Rick Perry, Texas governor for the past decade, is uniquely qualified to offer a firsthand perspective on why the United States—the most successful civilization in human history—is being threatened with economic collapse.

First Principles

Faith, freedom, and free enterprise are the pillars of a strong, safe, prosperous society. Rick knows that when these principles are protected, America succeeds, and when they are undermined, America fails. But the Left has a different belief. The Left believes that most people are not capable of pursuing happiness and that a strong centralized government is best able to provide for them. While claiming compassion for humanity, the Left's policies are destructive to the human beings subject to them—as we have had to learn painfully again and again.

The Left's self-serving solution to every crisis, economic or otherwise, and many of their own doing, is always the same: inflict higher taxes on Americans to create more government programs with more rules and regulations that result in less freedom, less innovation, less safety, and less prosperity.

The problem with the Left’s one solution, as Rick forcefully explains in the pages that follow, is that it doesn't work. It's never worked, and it never will work. The record shows it.

But what the record also shows is that when power and freedom are returned to the people, when people are rewarded for work, and when government holds the line on spending, individuals and opportunity thrive. We have seen that result most spectacularly recently in Texas, and in the mid-1990s with the Contract with America Congress, when I served as Speaker of the House.

The Texas Record........................."

[dusttoyou]

Perry is used to the debates being held by leftards and will handle pmsnbc sabotage equally well.

What people don't realize is that Perry has been through more than one trial by fire and just kept getting re-elected.

[toddausauras]

You should see who I compared Darkwolf 376 to!

[toddausauras]

Of course they’re all going to do it with little choice but it is still insane given what NBC has been doing to the GOP for years.