**CLICK Picture** [12:57]Republican presidential candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry (2nd L) arrives for the Huckabee Forum 2, a televised event, in Charleston, South Carolina, January 14, 2012.
Posted on 01/15/2012 2:31:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Republican presidential candidate Texas Governor Rick Perry (2nd L) arrives for the Huckabee Forum 2, a televised event, in Charleston, South Carolina, January 14, 2012.
MRC: Best showing yet for Gov Rick Perry in the Huckabee Formun GOP debate.
And you base this on what?
Thank you. I hope a lot of people can catch it.
Thank you, I hope that more people will be able to watch it. IT WAS GOOD!!
I just saw the last 30 min or so, Perry was great. It was a great format for all the candidates. So very tired of all the gotcha questions from the liberal media.
His performances in the debates.
Gov Perry on Huckabee’s forum 2 was terrific. You need to watch it. I have no doubt that you would change your opinion of him.
So are the wallets of all the big-bucks Perry supporters who persistently underpay their illegal-immigrant employees.
"Flexibility" on payday for cash-strapped entrepreneurs is such a key element of free-market capitalism, you know.
It's nice to be able to "meet your payroll" by just making it smaller with a pencil-whip or 200.
What was that old parable, about the prudent servant? "Take 100 jars, and write sixty."
I'll bet the Tyson family and Bo Pilgrim could tell you to the penny, how much per pound of chicken Rick Perry has saved them in production costs, by supporting open borders and protecting them from prosecution on a host of labor-law and immigration-law charges.
Actually, Perry's comments were fair game, and so is Romney's involvement in Bain. If Romney has a good answer, let him bring it.
Is Bain a venture-capital firm bursting with turnaround expertise ..... or are they a vulture fund, asset-strippers and economic termites who cheat creditors and retirees of their due, and shareholders of their equity?
It's a fair question. I don't know what the answer is, but I think Rush, Hannity, and other conservatives who attacked Perry for raising the charge on largely top-down theoretical grounds ("we DO NOT as Republican conservatives EVER EVER EVER criticize anything businessmen do to put money in their pockets" seemed to be what Hannity was saying) is a huge strategic error. You cannot win at politics, defending maggots like Michael Milken, Boone Pickens, Ken Lay, and other access-capitalists, greenmailers, and asset-stripping, self-dealing chiselers.
Agree. Placing the money men above criticism is tone deaf. I am a Christian and I cannot escape the words that Jesus directed at the rich. It seems that "rich" and "righteous" are usually at odds.
One does not need to be a wealth redistributing Marxist to see that something is wrong with the unbridled accumulation of massive wealth at the personal level.
I'm not saying that the bridle should be governmental coercion. Self restraint is what conservatives advocate.
Making a god of money is just as idolatrous as worshiping that rock in Mecca.
Whatever the sins or benefits of Bain capital, it really looked like Gingrich and Perry were grasping for something to attack the very attackable Romney with. I don’t know diddley squat about firms like Bain, but from comments I’ve read from people who know, Bain does a lot more good than bad. Even Gingrich backtracked from his previous criticisms of Romney concerning Bain. This has put conservatives like me, who don’t much like Romney, defending him from conservatives I do like, Gingrich and Perry. I want to tear my hair out or beat my head against a rock for defending Romney from far more conservative candidates. But it is what it is: Perry and Gingrich grandstanding and soundling like Chomsky or Nader in attacking a capitalist firm.
Richard A. Viguerie: Romney’s Real Bain Capital Problem is His Hypocrisy ....."Among the insiders who received the no-strings-attached cash were Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, Merrill Lynch, Societe Generale, Calyon, Barclays Plc, Rabobank, Danske, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia, Bank of America, and Lloyds Banking Group.
Not surprisingly, just a cursory examination of Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports shows Romney banked over $798,000 from employees of TARP recipients.
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10/25/11 Perry calls on Romney to release tax returns
12/22/11 Romney says he won’t release tax returns
01/11/12 Palin urges Romney to Release Tax Returns
Perry on Mitt. Some highlights:
Perry's ad: Carbon Copies [:60]
Perry rattles Mitt: That's -- I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals. [video clip]
And Perry's gone after Mitt (A LOT) on hiding his support for mandated health care (remember the $10,000. bet?).
Perry's ad: "Romney's Remedy"RomneyCare
I really like Perry, but he does not do himself justice in the cut and thrust of a conventional debate.
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