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Not all this is directed at you, and I think you'll know that when the time comes.

Sounds like you have a good Conservative for a daughter, no reflection on Perry intended here, because I don't say that with regard to her opinion of him, but rather because you trust her judgment. I don't know what her concerns are with him, so I don't want to capitalize off thoughts I'm not privy to. I will say that it sounds like you have already been blessed since you trust her, and I salute you for it. Good job.

As for policy statements, they concern me. I've watched too many folks come up with great comments, after spending decades doing the opposite of what they now advocate. As for explaining away things they have done, it impresses me a lot more when they don't need to. I'm not going to categorize what you read, because I have appreciated an awful lot of your post on the forum, and I don't want to cast dispersions when they probably aren't warranted at all. Besides, you didn't draft them.

As for Perry being a clone of Bush, that's a statement that express an overall vision, that can't be explained more accurately with as much ease. When it came to Bush, there were things that he had done, that told me he wasn't a Conservative at his core. Does that mean he was an evil man trying to destroy this nation? No. Neither is Perry. None the less, people who are Conservatives at their core won't be fooled as often as people who need to ask what the right thing to do is. That's not to say that Conservatives shouldn't listen to voices advocating alternative actions, but they need to come down on the right side at the end of the day. If you're not a Conservative, you're not going to have the right yard stick to measure the true worth and implications of legislation, or an executive decision.

Did the dangers of a man not being a Conservative at his core materialize during the Bush administration? I believe they did. Others aren't willing to buy into that.

Over time we have come to this conclusion about Romney, and I think it is a sound one. Despite major spin, we saw through it and over time came to the conclusion he was unfit to represent us. Today we have a guy before us that most of us didn't know much about at all several weeks ago, and he's already not only being touted as the winner of the primaries and caucuses, but he's being touted as the next president. Three weeks ago he was a bight shinny new bobble. Now he's the next president? This is an exact repeat of the last Texan pushed off on us.

There has been no public vetting of this guy on the grand expansive landscape. Texans tell us he's swell, and we're supposed to fall in line. Not just no, but hell no! I'm not buying this routine this time around. These tactics are designed to ram this guy through before anyone really knows who he is. Is that what Conservatives consider a reasoned process? Of course not. That he would actually try to get away with this, and his supporters would, reveals quite a bit to me. What's the bum's rush all about anyway?

We've gone from hardly any talk of Perry, to he's our next president, shut up and accept it. Uh, no thanks. Not a chance...

I appreciate your comments. You will come to a decision that is reasoned. I hope we'll agree when you do.

I appreciate the sentiments expressed, and extend them back to you.

Take care BlackElk.