Publicly available information about Perry includes his plan to vaccinate all girls in Texas against HPV, a sexually transmitted disease.
Don’t we have a problem with a President who wants to force everyone to buy healthcare? Perry’s had to walk back his plan, which was rightly rejected by the legislature, but it seems that the difference between Obama and Perry on the proper role of government is one of degree, not kind. Perry is a Texas moderate, just like the last Republican President.
“Liberal” is becoming another way to say “corrupt,” but simply being honest instead of corrupt is still not enough to claim to be conservative. I plan to vote for Perry if he is the nominee against Obama, but I’m not going to call Perry conservative. Perry is no more conservative than Romney.
Conservative is a subjective term so your interpretation will differ from mine.
That being said, I believe Rick Perry to be THE most conservative person currently in the race and I say that as one who is a native Texan who has watched him from the beginning of his political career! Is he perfect? No he isn’t and no candidate ever will be! Is he the best currently available? I think the answer to that is yes!
Rick Perry was VERY conservative even when he was a Texas democrat!
If both Bush and Perry are Texas moderates, then I would say that Perry is to the right of Bush on that scale.
I think he is. Romney is politically a cipher; he has no agenda, just a need to be in office.
Bush 41, it was once said, had a conviction that "the right people", "people like us" (meaning, fellow Yalie elitist country-clubbers) needed to be in charge of the nation's affairs. He had other ideas and values to go with that. Romney doesn't have any other visible values beyond holding office that I can see. He's a freshwater stingless jellyfish, if such a thing exists, just jellying along and floating downstream. He is palpably decayed, a decomposition product of what was once an identifiable political class and grouping that had some sort of theme and texture to it. Now, in Romney, it's just jelly.
Perry so far has stood up for RKBA and the death penalty "no foolin'" and for rights of the unborn in some fashion (although that is not my issue, I let others carry that fight and measure people like Perry). He's not all bad; he's just sold, and that's the hell of it. He's like a pretty good dog that won't come when you call, runs off with the guy giving him gainesburgers and table scraps, and then pees on your car's hubcaps and dumps on the lawn.