Posted on 09/01/2011 2:12:25 PM PDT by AAABEST
PS, And I’m sorry I did not react to anything vulgar first. I was in that mode I mentioned I sometimes am with my kids, the mode of trying to lift someone up whom I thought had been hurt. I was thinking “ I see MestaMachine seems really hurt or upset, and I know it was not written directly for MestaMachine, so I’ll tell MestaMachine how it happened so they will know that comment was not for them.. and maybe that will lift them up right now... “ Well, that sounds kind of stupid now that I’m describing it here, but that was basically my thought process. While I know debates go on here, and I know you and I could easily be debating each other with the best of them, it just struck me as a time to lift someone up that I thought felt really hurt. I wasn’t thinking about any vulgar part right then. Just wanted to share. Again, thanks for the talk here and for giving me a pass on nib nosing into your business here! Believe me, I can tell you can stand up to the best of them. LOL It just seemed like a good time to reach a hand out and pick someone up.
Will I give you an extended grip next time? That depends on if it is ME you are debating. :) (JK, sort of)
Excellent post. And, awesome points. The sad spectacle of this ad and strategy is that she has nothing to show for. Casting votes on bills as congressperson carries almost no risk and responsibility. So, what is her counter? That she voted against blah blah blah? What has she “actually” done? That question can never be convincingly answered by this woman.
Wow, interesting. I have not thought of Bachman as angling in that way. In that case, she deserves a lot of scorn.
If (big if) Romney were to beat Perry to win the nomination, he would be infinitely better picking Nikky Haley over a firebrand like Bachman.
I made that mistake in 2004 with Bush. One of my political regrets.
I think that we are going to be looking at a Perry/ROmney ticket. From the intermingling of the camps already, it would appear to be the case. I say this as a Perry supporter, and I do NOT like Romney....But I understand why that ticket could be powerful in the general. With Romney they probably split a lot of the blue states with Obama....
or at least that would be the theory.
I’d prefer Perry/Pawlenty myself. If ever there was a pol with “VP” written all over him it’s T-PAW.
I’m sorry, you seem to have made a mistake, this article has NOTHING TO DO with Sarah Palin.
It’s more fun just to troll and post hate and bile.
Thanks for the tagline.
indylindy, I had already responded to this post and was already off FR, but I kept thinking about this and wanted to come back and answer your question.
I am supporting Rick Perry, I like him very much overall and I am saying that and am not going to feel badly about that, but I could have supported Sarah Palin and have not spoken ill of her here or anywhere else for that matter. I even defended her here on FR when I felt one poster was mocking her and was being a part of something that would hurt Sarah Palin. (Whether I was right or wrong on that poster, I don't know, but I respect Sarah Palin enough that I did not want what that poster was doing to go untouched.)
I adore Herman Cain. I think he is better right now in a one on one interview and is still learning politics, but I certainly hope he has some way to continue in politics in a big way.
I love to hear Newt Gingrich speak and think he is brilliant. I probably would not support Newt because he has too much baggage and too much ego, but I am glad he is a part of our debate process. I believe he raises the level of our debates. BTW, I also feel GOOD when I hear Newt Gingrich speak. I compare his knowledge and comfort with understanding how our country works with how stupid Obama is and acts. It's an incredible difference!
I am not so sure about Michele Bachmann in an executive position because I think she is still so young on the scene and has not had a chance to build or exhibit leadership. Also, and I know this is silly, but her public appearance turns me off. While I am thankful she has been fighting fiscally conservative principles in Congress, and I love seeing a mama of 23 stepping out to do something great in service for our country, I would like to see her find a way to get experience somewhere other than the White House. We have already had too much inexperience with Obozo in our nation's capital. I believe we will see more from Michele Bachmann, that is unless she continues to allow herself to be pulled down in character as this article from this thread seems to indicate. I hope she steps up and changes something after this!
And I absolutely LOVE Rick Santorum. Yea, Yea, you all tell me about whoever he endorsed. I like Rick Santorum. He is a social conservative and does not falter on that. He is a good leader. He's a great speaker. I was tickled when he did SO well in that last debate. I was hoping he might move up high enough for any frontrunner to pick him up as a VP. I was also disappointed when he started punching Perry and seemed to leave Mitt Romney completely unscathed. I don't feel comfortable with it, but I feel like he and Michele Bachmann are both trying to settle in with Mitt Romney. Call me paranoid, but it looks that way. Still, I SO like Rick Santorum for so many reasons.
Yet, I am supporting Rick Perry. I just think he is the best candidate, the one that can win, he IS running, AND I think he has done the best any politician could have done for all his time serving a big state like Texas. I just like him.
Does Rick Perry OWN me? Well, I absolutely love Rick Santorum. I love Sarah Palin. I love Newt Gingrich (some, lol), I like Michele Bachmann in some aspects, and I love Herman Cain too.
I am not owned by ANY of them.
I have simply made my choice as to who I am supporting
As for your question if anyone "owns" me. Obviously not ANY one of those people above.
The only One who owns me is Jesus Christ.
You tell me:
"The Tax Foundation’s Tax Policy Blog notes that the TLC reality show Sarah Palin’s Alaska “received a $1.2 million subsidy from the state of Alaska,” which means “Alaskan taxpayers covered a third of the cost of the show.” This leads the Tax Foundation bloggers to wonder “how government subsidies for reality TV fit into Palin’s broader view on the proper role of government.”"
Perry's 2012-13 budget cuts about 10 billion off of Perry's budget of 2010-11. So if one were to do the calculation thru the current budget of 2010-11, adjusting for population growth and inflation, one would find Perry's 2010-11 budget to be several percentage points higher than his first budget.
FALSE CLAIM: “Covering his deficits with record borrowing.” TRUTH: Texas does not have a deficit. The state’s recent sale of Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes (TRANs) is cash-flow management tool that dates back to 1987. These notes are sold every fiscal year to manage cash flow and to provide up-front payments to public schools. They are repaid within the fiscal year with tax revenue that comes in after the upfront school payments are made. Texas earned the highest possible ratings in anticipation of this offering, receiving a rating of SP-1+ by Standard & Poor’s, MIG 1 by Moody’s Investors Service and F1+ by Fitch Inc. Texas’ net interest rate of .27 percent is down from last year’s rate of .34 percent, representing the state’s lowest net rate ever for these notes.
Hmmmm.
Hello! McFly!!!
I found essentially the same as Perry's response now claims on the budget #'s: population growth and inflation make the spending look out of control creating a false impression.
At the Texas Debt Clock, the numbers are going in the right directions: GDP up, Revenues up, Spending down, debt down, debt-to-gdp down.
I don't think much of Bachmann's camp for stooping to such obvious distortions. There's plenty she can hit Perry on without resorting this. It's the kind of disingenuousness we get out of liberals and the kind of misinformation that she has tried to position herself as being above.
John Wayne/John Wayne Gacy, Elvis birth & death, Lexington & Concord, "Hoot Smalley" (actually Smoot-Hawley) tariff act & FDR when it was Hoover... and still others.
Apparently you must be on something. You are seriously going to try to claim that the subsidy for Sarah's show (to one of those evil multi-billion dollar corporations) is somehow different than the ones given by the TEF? Now that is desperation. The Alaska subsidy was a "state initiative" - so was the TEF. And from what I can tell, the TEF was much more effective in achieving the goal of improving the economy than the Alaska subsidy.
So are you saying that corporate welfare is not corporate welfare if Sarah is the beneficiary? But if it comes from a program that was created by Perry and benefits the people of Texas, it is evil corporate welfare, regardless of the thousands of jobs created and the billions in additional tax revenue the state receives from the additional economic activity.
You take Palin worship to a whole new level...
At the start I thought Bachmann had potential but it's been disappointing and almost surreal how her candidacy has unfolded.
Don’t let Normy play you like a fiddle his a RINO lover, playing victim.
I was always under the impression that some people who didn’t have Michele Bachmnn’s best interests at heart, hyped her into running thinking it would stop Sarah Palin...not because I am a Palin supporter, but because everything I saw leading up to her announcement pointed in that direction. There was just no way she was ready for this. And once rollins got control of her, and control he did, I feared this. It was almost like she was a prisoner and he was sabataging her on purpose.
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