Posted on 06/03/2012 11:37:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Back in 2010, Governor Rick Perry was in trouble here in Texas. He was running for re-election and faced stiff competition from not only a Tea Party challenger [whose campaign would later implode after she was exposed as a 9/11 truther] but Washington insider Kay Baily Hutchison as well.
What did Perry do? He called in the closer, Sarah Palin:
Gov. Rick Perry will be joined by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at a rally in support of his re-election campaign on Sunday, Feb. 7 in the Houston area.
“I look forward to standing with Sarah to promote our shared conservative values of limited government, low taxes and individual freedom,” said Gov. Perry. “Gov. Palin is a true conservative leader whose priorities and message resonate with Texans, and I am honored to have her in Texas supporting my campaign.”
Gov. Palin will campaign with Gov. Perry to highlight the positive momentum Texas is experiencing through conservative leadership that has cut taxes, created jobs, strengthened education and secured our border.
Visit http://rickperry.org/sarah to sign up now!
On Super Bowl Sunday in Cypress, Texas [Houston] Sarah spoke to a packed house:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Perry was overjoyed! And of course, he won re-election, thanks, in no small part, to Sarah’s endorsement.
Old Slick Rick is singing a different tune today though. According to the Houston Chronicle he’s not happy that “outsiders” are supporting Conservative star Ted Cruz over the Establishment™ candidate David Dewhurst.
It should be noted that Perry’s runnin’ buddy, Dewhurst, has been endorsed by Mike Huckabee, also an “outsider.” Dewhurst has been bragging about the endorsement [No, seriously, he has] and Huckabee has cut TV commercials for him.
Perry: We don’t need outsiders’ views on Senate race (Are you listening, Sarah Palin?)
Gov. Rick Perry is once again slamming “out-of-state interest groups” backing former solicitor general Ted Cruz in his runoff with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst –this time tweaking Sarah Palin, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and Rick Santorum by suggesting their states could learn a lot from Texas, but Texas doesn’t need their advice on choosing its next U.S. senator.
Perry, standing staunchly behind Dewhurst, brushed off the question about whether his own tea party credibility may be damaged by his opposition to Cruz, who has been endorsed by national conservative and tea party groups and figures (including Palin, DeMint and Santorum) in the runoff for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate.
“There’s a whole lot of people who don’t intimately and expertly know how Texas operates that have come in and endorsed in this race, and with all due respect – I respect each one of those individuals, but they don’t know anything about how Texas works,” said Perry after a hurricane preparedness tour at the Austin airport. “And if they did, they would be endorsing David Dewhurst.”
Without naming Palin, DeMint or Santorum, Perry called them to mind by naming their states: “I appreciate everybody paying attention to Texas – as well they should, they could learn some things on how to run South Carolina and Pennsylvania and Alaska.
“Come to Texas and learn how to do it right, but don’t come down here and tell us who needs to be our next United States senator, thank you very much. We’ll decide that without your outside, Washington, D.C.-oriented help,” Perry said.
Cruz spokesman James Bernsen said his candidate has overwhelming support among Texas grassroots conservatives, “most of whom Dewhurst has not even bothered to meet with.” And, he said, Cruz has “exponentially more Texas donors than David Dewhurst, including more donors from the Houston area than Dewhurst has in the entire state of Texas.”
UPDATE: Some people have written to note that Dewhurst is trumpeting his own out-of-state endorsement from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, so Perry’s outrage may be a bit selective.
Perry’s comments came the day after former ESPN football analyst Craig James (who came in a distant fourth in the U.S. Senate GOP primary) endorsed Dewhurst, earning a “Congratulations to Lt. Gov. Dewhurst” from Bernsen.
His comments also came as Cruz pressed Dewhurst to debate, saying he’s accepted a proposal for a series of five debates to be hosted by the Grassroots Texans Network.
Dewhurst has repeatedly indicated his willingness to take Cruz up on a challenge for multiple debates before the July 31 runoff. His campaign said it’s looking at this invitation, which was signed by Ken Emanuelson.
Emanuelson, as highlighted on the anti-Dewhurst “Dewbious” site, was quoted in January as saying, “David Dewhurst may be Texas grassroots enemy No. 1 right now.”
Selective outrage indeed!
Look, there’s no question that Rick Perry hasn’t screwed Texas up too bad. Texas is a great state and we have policies in place that make the state business friendly. Perry has taken advantage of this, and has gone to liberal states like California and poached businesses in a big way. All of those newly minted Texans are keeping our state rolling, but it’s laughable that he thinks he could teach Sarah Palin anything about running a state!
For those who don’t know the difference, Texas, like many southern states, has a relatively weak Governor. The Lt Governor has as much if not more actual power. On the other hand, when Alaskans wrote their state’s constitution, they wanted a strong executive. Someone they could look at and know “the buck stops here.” So, Alaska’s Governor is a true CEO, one of the two most powerful state executives in the country. Sarah used her position to bring about sweeping ethics reforms well as massive fiscal reform.
When it looked like Sarah was going to run for president, our Whitney Pitcher compared the fiscal records of all of the Governors who were running. While Sarah’s record was the best, Rick Perry’s record on fiscal matters was downright horrific in comparison.
Sarah took office as Governor at the end of 2006. Her first budget was fiscal year 2008, written in 2007:
During the fiscal years for which Sarah Palin exercised budgetary authority as Governor of Alaska (FY08 through FY10)
• Debt outstanding increased 12.7%, or 4.2% per year • Per capita debt outstanding increased 7.4%, or 2.5% per year • Total liabilities decreased 34.6%, or 11.5% per year • Total liabilities per capita decreased 37.7%, or 12.6% per year
During the fiscal years for which Rick Perry exercised budgetary authority as Governor of Texas (FY02 through FY10)
• Debt outstanding increased 184.2%, or 20.5% per year • Per capita debt outstanding increased 140.4%, or 15.6% per year • Total liabilities increased 60.6%, or 6.7% per year • Total liabilities per capita increased 35.8%, or 4.0% per year
Outstanding debt grew a whopping 184.2% or 20.5% PER YEAR on Perry’s watch! [as of FY2010]
Yeah, I’m sure he can teach Sarah Palin a whole bunch of things.
Look, I know it’s all just politics, but you’d think Perry would remember who helped him stay in office, and have a tad more respect. People across the nation are backing Ted Cruz because they want a real Reagan Conservative in Washington, not another Establishment™ hack.
Texans know David Dewhurst’s record, and understand the mediocrity he brought to Austin has no business in D.C. We need someone who will fight for Texas and fight for America. Someone who will defend Liberty and Freedom with his last breath. We need Ted Cruz.
This Texan is glad Conservatives across the nation are supporting Ted Cruz against the Republican Establishment’s machine!
ngat,
I have NEVER witnessed an a$$ kicking to anyone like I’ve seen on this thread. You need to stop now before your small brain gets the jello quivers.
Vote for your guy, but you are not capable of convincing a single voter to your side.
windflier,
Nicely done.
Thanks, Randy. I just couldn't let the GOPe talking bot blather on without comment. I've rarely seen such arrogant, elitist posts on this site.
Yes!
and I see that the Perry haters are still alive and kicking.
“2010 Governor’s Race:Perry 54.97% of votes to Bill White’s 42.48%
2010 Primary results against Kay Bailey Hutchison: Perry 53% Hutchison 31%”.......
So Palin’s endorsement worked out pretty well for him?
I have seen people go over the edge and start babbling before, when they are confronted with facts that run counter to their assumptions, especially when they were told things they wanted to believe by people they like and trusted.
I know it was naive of me to hope you guys would actually consider the reality that David Dewhurst is not the liberal the Cruz campaign’s attack ads say, when I told you in a positive manner about the conservative record and background of Lt. Governor David Dewhurst. I knew that is the opposite of what you were led to believe by the Cruz negative campaign, so I just posted the truth.
However, since it was just a little bit older conservative Freeper against the negative Cruz TV and radio ads, and you were so sure you were right because the out-of-state interests attached the magic words tea party to Cruz, you still could not accept that Dewhurst is a proven reliable conservative Texan.
But only because you keep insisting that David Dewhurst is the “elitist” in the race, I am forced to mention things that you obviously were not aware of in order to help you recognize an elitist when you see one.
It is Ted Cruz that is endorsed by Bush, not David Dewhurst. It is Cruz that has the private school education and is the Princeton/Harvard Lawyer in this race, not Dewhurst, who went to Houston public high school and played basketball at Arizona. It is Dewhurst who went into the military after college, not Cruz. It is Cruz that has worked for Government all his life (except for lately, when working for a big international law firm on the behalf of a billion dollar Mainland Chinese Corporation using typical delaying tactics to avoid paying a judgement owed an American they stole from) - while it is Dewhurst made it in the private sector, making products people voluntarily purchase in the agriculture and energy businesses before entering politics at age 53. You thought it was Dewhurst who bounced around as a government lawyer and litigator with the idea of becoming a career politician at age 40? Nope, that would be Cruz. I’m guessing you never heard about the Cruz-Goldman Sachs connection either. I’m beginning to wonder in what universe Lt. Gov. Dewhurst is the “elitist” and Cruz is the regular joe?
How you guys ever got the idea that David Dewhurst is the “elitist” in this race, when the facts above prove the opposite, is proof of the ability people have to twist facts around so they can make themselves believe what they want to believe.
VOTE FOR YOUR GUY!
Others will do the same.
Yes, the Perry haters are still around, but the worthy of Coast to Coast am stuff on FR is just ridiculous..
Just this week we had:
Perry forgets Palin was responsible for winning the Primary against Kay Rino,
Illegal Immigrants are responisble for Bubonic Plague in the Southwestern US
Konarka is just like Solyndra BS, even though there was no comparison.
I am sure there are others on FR, but those I remembered for their total absurdity.
Coast to Coast...Long time since I listened to that. It did get a little strange at times.
:)
Pffffft! Using your info, then Perry asking Sarah to come on down to Texas was nothing more than a big ego-c*ck-stroke. Just putting her on stage like a circus act so he can say “See, see....look what I brought for show and tell.”
What a sick monkey...no wonder he flamed out.
So which one is it? Did he need her help or was it juat an ego trip?
You’re right. The Palin endorsement was nice and appreciated but Perry did not need it.
He won easily.
Dang Kolath, you really hit the nail on the head. Brutal yet a salute you for the imagery.
Sarah has been back-bitten by malcontents since 2008 and has thick skin by now. I can’t really say that for Perry’s supporters.
Neither. The families are good friends and have been for a good long time. Perry and Sarah met at an oil conference and hit it off. They are very much alike.
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