[palinsupporter1]

How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?

[rjeffries]

The same way Palin fanatics defend her from cutting and running from office?

[mbynack]

This is the kind of thing that makes me skeptical of Perry. Some of his ideas sound pretty good, but when you go back and look at what he's done and some of his opinions, he starts looking like a RINO. He criticized the Arizona immigration laws. He voted for hate crime laws and he was a Democrat for a long time. It makes me wonder if he's just changed parties to increase his chances of being elected.

Obama campaigned as a moderate. He didn't revert to his liberal ways until after he was in office.

I would take Perry over Romney, but I wouldn't vote for either of them in the primary.

[RitaOK]

” How are Perry fanatics going to defend this? “

In 1993, health insurance was sky rocketing. Some of us long wished that it would be addressed by our side. Since it wasn’t, it was Hillary who dove off the cliff. That being said, what is wrong with the true and accurate statement Perry made about rural considerations?

[dragnet2]

How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?

Perry could turn the Alamo into an illegal alien medical clinic, and they'd defend it.

[Jess79]

How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?

The same way they always defend him.
1. Claim it is old news.
2. Ridicule anyone who disses their boy.

[EternalVigilance]

How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?

Rest assurred, they'll defend it.

Shoot, they'll even defend "La Raza."

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My God, fanatics? You don't even post on anything unless it is about Sarah Palin. Obsess much?

[11th Commandment]

How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?

Well as someone who is not a Perry fanatic, but someone who reads the posts before commenting... I mean, the title of the article was "RICK PERRY's CAMP DEFENDS 1992 HILLARYCARE PRAISE".

From the article

“You need to read the letter,” top Perry political strategist Dave Carney told The Daily Caller. “He praised her efforts in trying to tackle the issue and urged her not to overlook rural Americans. The letter was at the onset of her efforts before she proposed anything. No one could have imagined the horrible monstrosity she cooked up, in fact not to be outdone until ObamaCare years later.”

[CA Conservative]

How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?

Pretty easily, actually. At the start of the process, before anything was proposed, Perry commended Hilary for trying to reform the healthcare situation, and asked her to remember the needs of rural farmers and ranchers. Now, if you can point to ANY evidence that he supported Hilarycare, the proposal that was presented to Congress in the fall of 1993, then you might have an argument. If not, then this is pathetic and desperate sniping by supporters of a bunch of also-rans.

[Wright Wing]

Seriously? The letter praises nothing about “Hillarycare”. Perry simply praises a task forces “efforts” into investigating issues and then goes on to suggest other areas that should be focused on.

Everytime one of these things pops up, I have to read the article for myself since I know the reading comprehension crew will have fail to grasp the full meaning of what was written.

[Dudoight]

He was still in that transition period from Democrat to Republican?

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?

By noting that he will repeal Obamacare when elected.

[org.whodat]

The Perry fanatics will do the same as with his support of amnesty and global warming, spin and lie.

[cuban leaf]

—How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?—

I just read the letter. What’s to defend, exactly. I think it is a great letter! Notice it does not call out any specific thing she had proposed. It was a very politically savvy document that basically said, “I think it’s great that you (a first lady who is not on the government payroll) are spending your time seeing if you can come up with a way to improve the health care system, and please think about the farm community which I represent while you’re at it”.

You can almost seeing him say to himself, after he signed it, “And good luck with that.”

[CharlesWayneCT]

He didn’t praise Hillarycare. Read the article.

[Sudetenland]

What's to defend?

He praised Hilary for being willing to take on one of the biggest problems facing America both back then and now . . . Oh yeah, and he had the temerity to ask that she consider the plight of the ranchers, agricultural workers and rural communities and their difficulty in obtaining good medical care.

Oh the horror. /rolleyes

How startling. I'm sooo shocked, the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture praising Hilary for her "efforts in trying to reform the nation’s health care system” and daring to ask her to see what can be done to expand coverage availability to the rural population, ranchers, and agricultural workers. Really??? What a nightmare! /sarc

This is a non-story. Everyone in America knew then and knows now that our health care system is on a one-way trip to hell if something isn't done to slow the rapid growth in costs. Note, he didn't praise what she came up with, he praised her efforts.

Just another sad attempt to smear Perry over nothing.

[BobL]

“How are Perry fanatics going to defend this?”

Oh come on, he was a DEMOCRAT just 5 years prior. It takes time to figure out how you’re supposed act when you change parties.

There. LOL.

[RockinRight]

A lot of people liked the idea of healthcare reform both this time and back then, until they saw the bill.

This is a nonstory.

If a Freeper writes a letter to a Congressman who is an obvious liberal, does it make them a RINO too?