Your strawman notwithstanding, folks are better informed now. They’re also not willing to just accept the status quo.
Asking tough questions and vetting a potential candidate is not attacking or bashing or whatever the Perry supporters want to call it. This guy needs to answer the questions. By not doing so, he’s indicating he’s got something to hide.
Hell, even the Perry supporters can’t answer simple questions or even engage in honest discussion about the BS “no cost to taxpayers” spew on this in-state tuition legislation.
As soon as some proof comes out showing there is, they just slink away. If he’s your candidate, then it’s your damned responsibility to sell him to me, not the other way around. Prove to me he is what you say he is.
If that’s what qualifies as bashing, then you all might want to check your emotions at the door before trying to cram some guy down our throat we know little to nothing about.
As for your comparisons about FReepers voting liberal instead of for Perry. What a laugh.
If that’s what qualifies as a “winning argument”, in the Perry camp, Perry is toast.
People didn’t want to accept the status quo in 1980 either, and we got a great president as a result
My point is that more than a few Freepers demand purity in their candidates. If they’re no good on one thing, then everything has to be rotten.
Let’s take Sarah Palin, as an example.
Gov. Palin did the following:
1. raised taxes on an American industry, the oil industry.
2. increased spending as a governor
3. increased spending as a mayor
Raising taxes — Taxed Enough Already, remember us? — is a big no-no in my book.
But I would be more inclined to see Palin through the lens of the overall performance and then determine if I’m going to vote for her, were she to become a nomination or general election candidate. I would compare her to the opponents.
Should I then apply the same rigorous standards as do you? One strike and you’re out? Do we really want another tax-and-spender as president?
Isn’t tax-and-spend the status quo?
Or is that answer found only in Sun Tzu as well ?
-George