What Perry talking points? Don't have time for anybody’s talking points. If you want to discuss things as conservatives then please do so, and have something salient to say that isn't guided by ill informed assumptions or driven by amateurish personal characterizations.
There isn't one candidate that is the conservative Reagan was. Add to that the several here violating the Reagan rule for republicans, and you'll be spinning your wheels as you race each other to the circular firing squad.
Tiring to read the nit picks about penny ante state level pharma influence money, when the real threat is taking money out of our national lifeblood filling political coffers as he takes us into 3rd world oblivion. Merck and Pfizer and PHARM-PAC already got obamacare— on the texas level it's chickenfeed, and they grease everyone nationally, but especially obama. Markets developed for products like Gardasil (or viagra for that matter) because of our own moral decay. Personally, couldn't care less if the sub-classes are all made sterile by HPV, except for the fact it spreads to productive society thanks to the moral decay of our hip-hop diverse jived society.
We have to defeat an utter non American muslim creature who is destroying our nation. A narcissistic liar from start to finish, supported by a collection of neo-Marxists, race baiters, queers, welfare pimps and open border drug gangs propped up by internet global warming greenies and one world venture socialists with overwhelming govt. interference in every facet of our lives. Should be easy, right? Oh, nooooo.....
Y'all want to wallow in petty texas pissant politics instead— have at it, sure it will produce a winner. Recommend dumping karl rove asap-we don't need any more out of touch Bushies or Palin-bashers
Deo Vindice.
Perry is an ethical disaster. The guy is a walking October Surprise. He's poison. You can yell until you're blue in the face about Obama being worse, but the same red flags are there that were there with Obama. He's even got a Rezko-style land deal in his past.
So, it isn't just this Gardasil issue. There is a pattern. We aren't just a bunch of malcontents who want to screw everything up for the GOP. We're people who want someone who sincerely wants to work on FIXING the problems that have brought our nation to its knees. Rick Perry's past is littered with indications that he is part of the problem and not part of the solution.
DJ is 100% right about not bothering to listen to what any of these guys say now unless it matches what they've done in the past. I sometimes wonder what the hell is wrong with people when they believe some obvious BS like John "build the dang fence" McCain does when he's running for re-election. Same with Perry.
In addition to his ethical problems, which are my main beef, there is the additional fact that the Rick Perry who runs for office always seems to be a whole lot more conservative than the Rick Perry who actually shows up for work once elected. That's another huge problem.