Rubbish. Rick Perry has called for the elimination of three overgrown and intrusive bureaucracies and should he succeed in simply cutting the Dept. of Education by one-third this alone would be huge.
Today he wants to cut down lawmakers salaries and have a part-time Congress, and adopt strict constructionists to the federal bench. And of course repeal Obamacare. He gets an A+ rating from the pro-life group.
I didn’t like Perry over his “heartless” comment but I’m ready to give him a pass on what was a clumsy off-the-cuff remark. With Cain (the first choice of many FReepers dropping like a rock in a pond) I prefer Perry to Gingrich or Romney any day of the week.
I consider Governor Perry a practical minded conservative. He is a man who considers those things that can work and not some-pie-in-the-sky scheme. Sometime conservatives get all wound up in theoretical ideas and fail to consider the pragmatic consequences.
Perry may not come off as the brilliant sage of a Newt Gingrich or the deft orator of a Mitt Romney. He is the salt of the Earth candidate who loves America and knows how to fix the most important issue: unemployment. As a pragmatist myself, I know that all of the other issues are secondary for the voter. To my dismay, Governor Perry’s debate performance has not convinced anyone that has the aptitude to get under the hood and fix America’s problem. However, neither has my auto mechanic when I hear him talk. I will say that I am impressed with his results when I get my car back. And looking at the work that Governor Perry has done with Texas, I would say he does a good job under the hood.