Posted on 09/22/2011 10:20:57 AM PDT by RobaWho
"Venture Socialism" Perry Style! In Texas, bio-tech firm Convergen LifeSciences looks a lot like Governor Rick Perry's Solyndra. Governor Perry manages the Emerging Technology Fund (ETF), providing financial support to companies developing new technology in the hope of creating high-tech jobs. First created in 2005, ETF is made up of regional panels that screen proposals for a statewide advisory panel (all appointed by Perry). ETF dispersed $342 million through August 2010....Read more to understand the full stench of this Crony Capitalism love story.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Has American Thinker changed? I don’t seem to recognize any of the names any more and the opinions no longer seem to be as strong as in earlier postings by Clarisse Felman.
I have some very good Mormon friends. Good people!
Religion is not the reason I oppose Romney for our candidate.
I don’t like Romneycare and I don’t think he will stand in there and fight the dems hard enough to win.
He is too refined to get his boots dirty. Just my opinion. I do think he’s a nice man but just noth tough enough to do the job at hand.
Excellent post!
You expressed my sentiments about Perry. I will gamble that he won’t make the border issue worse than it is.
He will be so busy trying to undo Barry’s junk that he just might let congress do their job and insist that they do just that.
Now, we really need to help Harry Reid retire. That should be our #2 issue. Send Harry and Obama on a long vacay on their own $$ this time.
I didn’t think that I was putting you in the same group as those who are either supporting or facilitating Romney. I was referring to the former Huckabee supporters who used Romney’s religion to attack him and are now attacking Perry and helping Romney.
Romneycare was/is my reason to not support Romney. However, I did believe that Romney was better than either McCain or Huckabee. I almost didn’t vote in that election.
First, I don’t think Perry is a “real Conservative”; I’ve held the position that he’s more conservative than the obvious RINO, Romney, and that he holds Conservative positions on a spectrum of issues. I just think the tone of the article has too much “Geraldo” about it, which is better than having too much “Donohue,” but still...more “just the facst, Ma’am” would be preferable.
Now, that said, while I have fundamental disagreement with government at any level providing these kinds of loans; if it’s going to happen, I’d rather it be a State-level decision that serves the people of that State than a Federal-level decision that does not broadly serve all Americans. So, in that respect, while this isn’t “best,” it is certainly “better” than the Solyndra fiasco, and better than “Sunpower” and a host of other federal-level pay-outs that have been made.
Even at that, however, I emphatically agree seeing the money flowing in from key players at these companies makes the loans look a WHOLE LOT like shady “quid pro quo” from here.
I don’t have a problem with corporate bigwigs giving campaign contributions, so long as they do so AS PRIVATE PARTIES; NOT in their roles as corporate Directors, Executives, or Board Members. I object to corporations donating to campaigns as separate entities for the same elemental reasons I decry corporations being taxed as separate entities.
But where things really get ugly is in cases like these where donations from key corporate players go in one end, and money comes out the other later. EVEN IF everything is legal, and EVEN IF the loan ISN’T a “thank you” for the campaign cash; it still looks REALLY BAD on the surface, which should render the practice ethical kryptonite; certainly so for a Conservative candidate. That would, at least, limit the practice to Democrats who would be able to do it unscathed by the media.
No problem, I didn’t take it that way.
Agree that he is better than those two and he is a whole lot better than Obama. Just not the best candidate to beat Obama. The media is being gentle on Romney and that worries me that he is our next McCain.
“It’s his turn”...”he appeals to the Independents” all that garbage we heard last time the media picked us a loser.
“one would think you prefer to keep Obama in office “
One would have one’s head so far up their behind it would be impossible to excavate if one believed that were true about this particular social and fiscal conservative.
But, that is just one’s opinion.
If one thinks this country needs a replay of the last debacle when “Republicans” held all the cards, one is nuts.
It’s time to flush the Grand Old Potty and get some new blood in there.
The sexist remarks were not started by me I just commented that they have been prevalent on Perry threads and are common with his female followers. If you have a problem with that speak with the female followers who think Rick’s hair is a pertinent issue in this campaign..
There has never been a poll on Levin’s sit where Palin doesn’t beat the boots off Perry. I don’t care where Levin blogs, he would vote for Palin over Perry 25 times a well and 40 times on Sunday.
Face the facts, sport!
Whatever you say, pussycat.
You’re still not playing with a full deck.
You’re either out of touch, or touched.
The converse seems to be true for many on FR.
That’s exactly why I would rather see Perry than Romney.
As for American Thinker, they have a picture of Rand Paul on the web site, next to the article.
Sexist AND clueless? Not a flattering combination.
You discredit a great President by hijacking his honorable last name as your nickname. Study a bit of history and you’d realize you’re out to lunch, pussycat. Reagan would never endorse a Perry RINO knowing full well a candidate with a consistent, non wavering, 20 year track record that reflected his core principles was an option.
You’re nothing but a hit and run poster with juvenile whining straight out of the troll handbook... weak and pointless.
I don’t have to read the history of the Reagan Era, I lived through it. You know nothing about Reagan. Hit the road, punk.
You forgot to call him an anti-Mormon bigot. Oh, wait, that’s the other guy...
Plus, he didn’t say anything to suggest he was an anti-mormon bigot, while he clearly identified himself as at least a bit sexist with his comment denigrating the women who support Perry as doing so for shallow reasons of looks.
It is a standard way women are marginalized by men who can’t argue with them on the merits.
“What do you think now?”
Gimme a hint. What do I think about what?
“Cain would get slaughtered.”
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