Posted on 01/18/2012 2:09:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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"Here’s the quotation that’s getting the most attention:
“Rick Santorum is a good man. He is a good father. He is a good Catholic. But he hasn’t always been a good conservative. And I make exceptions with his vote for Sonya Sotomayor as a for instance. That is a really liberal jurist that he helped put on track to become a Supreme Court jurist back when he voted to allow her to be on the Appellate Court. I mean, she is pro-abortion, would be my estimation of that. I mean, Obama is a very liberal president and she is reflective of his philosophy. So, I mean, there were 29 conservatives that voted against her. People like Strom Thurmond and Rick voted for her. So the idea that, you know, he is a pure social conservative, this flies right in the face of it … On the fiscal side, Rick, he has a horrid record when it comes to earmarks and defending spending. The idea that you can vote for all those earmarks and call yourself a fiscal conservative is just ludicrous on its face. That is why we have a tea party today. … So like I said, good man, good father and husband, good Catholic, but not always a good conservative.”
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It’s Romney that should be going home. Perry deserves to be in this race more than mitt any day!
I would like to point out something quite disturbing, which absolutely cannot be blamed on Rick Perry or on those who support him.
If polls are to be credited, Romney appears to be surging.
Even in the South.
Hardly. But if you feel better burying your head in the sand, I won't stop you.
There’s room for both on the establishment wagon of shame.
Perry and The Trans-Texas Corridor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HzB7O7cWXg
The GOP Establishment has lined up their party politics army, and they're on the move.
Where is the Tea Party?
Why should he put facts on the table when there is more Perry bashing left to do?
I think it’s noticable to anyone who reads these threads that Mitt and Paul fear Perry something awful. All you have to do is post an article and they descend on the thread like a bnch of rabid, raving harpies. You have tro ask yourself why they are so frantic.
And Tebow is just another football player...they’re all alike, especially off the field.
And you’d better believe that ‘cause I not only said it, I stomped my foot when I said it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2827246/posts?q=1&;page=51
…….”Much has been criticized of Governor Perry’s initial support for the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC). As President of the Conservative Coalition of the Texas Legislature, I was deeply involved in that entire process. My rural district was directly in the path of the TTC and the project was largely viewed by my constituents as an abuse of the governmental power of eminent domain.
Truth is, the TTC started as a expansion on the I-35 corridor. The plan was added to legislation by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) as a new “branch” of highway that ran from south Texas to the north right through my district. TXDOT presented facts that upon the completion of the Panama Canal expansion many of the trading freighters, which currently only serve the West Coast, would be able to bring their cargo to Texas ports.
It was anticipated that this would place a tremendous burden on the current highway system as it heads north.
However, the flawed TXDOT presentation of the plan and threats to private land ownership were not handled well. Citizens throughout Texas were insulted by the methods of potential property seizure, foreign control of Texas properties and other abuses.
It was wrong, and when presented with the will of Texas citizens, Governor Perry put a stop to it.
While driving my daughter back to begin a new semester at Baylor University, I received a call from the Governor’s office requesting that I invite a group of my fellow Texas Conservative Coalition legislators to his office to meet with him and TXDOT leadership. The following week several of us met with Governor Perry and the TXDOT Commissioner and Executive Director to share the frustration and opposition of our constituents across the state to the TTC.
After a lengthy meeting, Governor Perry did something that has made me respect him as I have no other leader which I have observed or served alongside. He sat back in his chair, gave our arguments thought and said, “Tell your constituents you talked to the Governor, and the Trans-Texas Corridor is no more.”
To this day, the handful of legislators in attendance at that meeting have respected Rick Perry–a man who was confident, honest, and exhibited absolute integrity to his citizens. He often does not receive the proper recognition and credit he deserves for his decisive response to the will of Texas citizens against the TTC. When presented with their objections and opposition, he brought a halt to the ill-conceived TTC.”……
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We will be seeing why he was considering the TTC idea very soon here in Texas.
Perry was trying to address a problem we in Texas will soon be realizing in that with the completion of the Panama Expansion Project, Texas roadways and ports will soon be overwhelmed with over 200% increase in cargo traffic and railway transport in the next 10 years. He was trying to get ahead of the game and get these roads, railways, pipelines and utilities built to deal with this and all the while by not increasing Taxes or using Washington DC to do it.
He did have the vision to be looking way way ahead.
......BTW I was mad at him too because I had property that would have been effected. But recently when I did some research into it, I did understand his motive and thinking.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2827246/posts?q=1&;page=51
No, no. According to Matthew 6:5 Tebow is much more than that.
Sorry, I’m not into the bread and circuses. I don’t care one iota how much someone can throw a ball while our country is being taken over by leftists.
***Where is the Tea Party?***
Perhaps Sarah’s comment that if she were in SC she would vote Newt is what passes for the Tea Party.
To be accurate, apparently she said she would do that so that Romney wouldn’t win SC, not that she was endorsing Newt. But that was taken to mean she was endorsing him without endorsing him. I know because I’ve been reading the thread comments about that event.
Remains to be seen what affect that will have, but as in the old NASA program...Houston, we have a problem.
Romney has opened up wide leads on everybody, in recent polling.
The same feeling I have each time Perry makes another good point and they swarm the thread to try to overpower the facts being presented.
Old saying...
A lie travels the world before truth even gets its boots on.
On the bright side, here we aren’t so stupid as to believe your statement when all evidence directly and overwhelmingly contradicts it, and we have the blessed freedom of speech to say so.
But as I mentioned upthread, Romney appears to be surging in polls, nationwide and by state/region.
THAT is the problem.
When you run low on Perry bile, merely for spewing out so much and need a moment to replenish the supply for more spew, and need something to do with that minute, you could always take action to address THAT problem.
Just sayin’...
Prior to this non-endorsement endorsement, Palin said she felt an endorsement from her would come with too much baggage and that the candidates needed to press on -- needed more vetting; that Santorum got a good thing with the meeting in Texas nod [a meeting of not so cohesive "conservatives" imo] BUT finished her thought by saying, the REAL issue of the election will be JOBS [only someone with no working brain cells would not understand that meant Rick Perry]. So it's a juggling act.
One has to wonder if this is the price of being paid by Fox News for your views.
More like, only someone whose brain cells were fogged by months of pimping for Perry despite his consistent single-digit polling would come to that conclusion.
Where is Perry's surge in SC? This close to voting in Iowa, there was a clear surge for Santorum in the polls in that state.
She DID juggle well...
Back to my recent point...if polls are to be believed, Romney is getting support from people who have decided the process needs to be shortened and it’s time to rally ‘round the next annointed one in line.
Appears to be happening across the country...more so in places...but still, everywhere.
Again, according to polls.
Time for all to wake up and smell the coffee as to what the true problem is...
There’ll be no surge. “Margin of error” Rick Perry has never been popular since he first opened his yap to tell us we were heartless bigots if we didn’t agree with his socialist subsidy of foreigners. Perry’s Mitt’s stalking horse, he’s never had a chance, and was going to get out after Iowa, but is making sure to rough up the other candidates on behalf of Mitt. Of the remaining candidates in the race Perry has come in DEAD LAST in every primary thus far. SC probably will be no different. No one wants him, not even the pimpers trying to pawn him off on the rest of the nation to get him out of Texas. He’ll soon pack his backs, put his tail between his legs, and run right on home.
Insults haven’t stopped her and they won’t.
What does that say about someone beating their head against the brick wall for months on end, thinking somehow they will stop her.
BTW, look at Romney’s poll numbers. That might give some pause when thinking about the real problem and whether one might want to address that, rather than spewing venom against someone who is supposedly a nowhere and nothing candidate, and his supporters.
Or is it somehow more enjoyable, head banging against that wall. OUCH. Oh boy, is this fun or what?
Romney’s numbers are now overwhelming every opponent’s numbers. In most instances even adding up all of the opponents’ numbers...excluding Ron Paul who can’t be included...Romney still pulls away.
That could change...lots of changes have happened already.
But it is what it is, now.
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