Posted on 01/31/2015 1:45:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that governors are much better suited for the presidency than senators — a useful argument for him to make as he looks to position himself for a potential 2016 bid against a field likely to include several senators.
“Governors have to make choices every day. Governors are judged on the results of what we do,” Perry told The Daily Caller Friday. “Senators talk.”
He added, “United States senators, by choosing to go into that line of work, don’t get to do that. They don’t get to learn, or to exhibit their leadership ability and have clear results of their actions.”
While the 2016 Republican field is hardly set, potential candidates who are current or former governors include Chris Christie (N.J.), Scott Walker (Wis.), Jeb Bush (Fla.), Mike Huckabee (Ark.), John Kasich (Ohio), Mike Pence (Ind.), Bobby Jindal (La.), and Perry. Also at the center of speculation about running are serving Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Ted Cruz (Texas), and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) as well as former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn.). Perry said that someone who had served as governor was typically a “grizzled vet,” and asked rhetorically whether the country would want someone who’s all talk, or all action.
“Would you rather have someone who talks about aviation a lot and really gives a great speech about aerodynamics and about navigation and about weather and about all of the different things a pilot needs to know, but have only about 100 hours of being behind the yoke of an airliner?" he said.
“Or would you rather have a 10,000-hour individual who has had to fly through storms?”
While speaking at the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s Lincoln Dinner on Friday, Perry pointed to President Obama, a former senator, as purported proof of his argument.
“I understand why, in 2016, Americans are not going to have a desire to elect an unproven, untested, no-results individual to lead this country,” he said.
“We took our chance with this extraordinarily bright, capable, wonderful speaker who had no experience of running anything, and he proved it.”
This is not the first time that Perry’s disparaged senators. With Ted Cruz also weighing a presidential bid that could split support within Texas, Perry hasn’t been shy about jabbing senators in general and even Cruz directly.
“Ask me in eight years if Sen. Cruz has made an impact on the state,” he said this summer at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, according to CQ Roll Call.
“At this particular point in time, it’s a little early to say that a junior senator would have substantively changed the state.”
Yes.
To be perfectly honest, I am just fine without any sort of centralized power structure.
I do not trust my fellow man enough to give them power over me or anyone else.
Former Gov. Perry doesn’t seem to understand (ignores?) that state governors have the greater 10th Amendment-protected power to serve the people versus the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
In fact, just about the only power that the states have delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, to address intrastate issues is to decide policy for the US Mail Service (1.8.7).
Cruz is bad enough on immigration, wanting to eventually legalize current illegals, but Walker is abominal on the issue. Not only would he eventually give citizenship, after immediate legalization, for those already here, but his solution to border security is to have open legal borders—for everyone who wants to come here from any country in the world!—so there’s no incentive for people to enter illegally.
Walker is an absolute no for me.
Oh, but I heartily agree on the need to unify around an actual conservative candidate. Divide and conquer is the usual and usually successful GOPe means of handling the wishes of its base.
He is quite the islamophile.
Any generic Republican could have run Texas as good as Perry has.
Oh, Noooo! CRUZ, too??? What did I miss? Any info on this would be veddy much appreciated.
Perry's homie Dewhurst did not get the memo.
Read it and weep:
That too!
It is incomprehensible why so many in the GOP capitulate on this issue when opposing I.I. is an outright "winning issue" among the vast majority of Americans.
It most often a good idea to stick to things you know about.
Perry was an immensely popular Governor here in Texas. He could have easily won another term.
I personally don’t prefer his running for POTUS and it looks more like he’s campaigning for a VP spot.
It's because to really address the issue means confronting an inconvenient truth
— that this is not a mere criminal issue, but is actually an invasion.
Once it is seen from that perspective, the proper response is military, and the political caste is very uneasy with this for several reasone —
undocumented, but actually
them.
the storyimpacts behavior in how the political elite live/work/act.)
invasionis something that is explicitly named in many of the State constitutions as being under the governor's authority [to react with military force]; therefore, it would force the Tenth Amendment issue and Federal control.
Illegal Immigrationcannot be addressed, regardless of party.
I have zero trust in my fellow man or woman to have power over me.
Same.
I will represent myself.
I no longer wish to vote for or have any at all represent me.
And i will also govern myself.
The GOPe is just so good at torpedoing any candidates who aren’t “go along” types—and corrupting the few who do slip through.
I feel like time’s awasting while we haven’t forged the tea party into our UKIP replacement to the American Tories.
What has he done about the illegals or the border?
Surprised you don’t know about this.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gov-rick-perry-deploying-up-to-1000-national-guard-troops-to-border/
Not sure how weighty a rainy day fund when his Texas economy basically provided all the growth in the country for the last 6 years.
Great post.
Rule= make final decisions while Senators yap.
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