Posted on 08/13/2011 5:10:13 AM PDT by BobL
Perry, as governor, is not in charge of budget.
Nor is the President of the United States.
read later bump
“Thank you, for posting this article. Excellent.”
You’re welcome. It come natural after living under him for a decade.
“Not everyone was a FDR democrat.”
Agree, an it nearly cost us WW2. If you need details as to why, I can supply that.
“Did Reagan run up a debt when he was the California governor?”
Don’t know...but wouldn’t surprise me either way. He certainly ran up the debt as president...but than that was the cost of the Democrats allowing him to defend this country.
“Did he sign an amnesty bill as POTUS?”
Yep. Probably the dumbest thing he did, in hindsight. I remember that event...we were promised a Steel Wall at the boarder (figuratively speaking). No more illegals getting in, period. Well, we saw where that got us. Reagan’s Amnesty ended up being a HUGE INCENTIVE for generations of future illegals. You sneak in, stay here long enough, and that’s it - you’re an American, benefits and all.
“This sorry episode of petty vindictiveness revealed an ugly side of Rick Perry that few Texans had suspected.”
Excellent, thanks very much. I didn’t hear anything about it, but then the media’s reporting here is in the stone age. As far as vindictiveness, naa, you can usually see it in a person, and I’ve always seen it in him.
“Be sure you keep this, so you can post it, when Perry runs against Obama, so you can help Obama. Actually this is exactly what you are doing now — the Dems want to knock out Perry in the primary, because they know that he can beat Obama. I am sure you will receive a nice signed thank you note from Obama for all your anti-Perry efforts.”
If you really believe that, you are VASTLY uninformed regarding the intelligence gathering capabilities of the Democrats. If Perry steps on an ant in his kitchen, they know about it. So don’t worry, the stuff that I post is the obvious stuff. I’d have to get really into reading Texas blogs to know anything that would be useful to them...and I don’t do that (although I’m sure that they do).
“In Texas, Perry Outshines Obama”
Correction. “Texas outshines the United States.” But most of that has nothing to do with Perry...and I did point out what Perry has done right for Texas.
“Your post had me curious so I did a quick search of my own on BobL. I discovered he has posted in every month in 2011 with thousands of posts on a variety of topics. So your above statement is not true. How did you come to that conclusion?”
I actually don’t enjoy having to waste energy on Perry, but when he’s being propped up like this because of being in the right place at the right time, and then he has these quirks and serious weaknesses (i.e., immigration), I do find it necessary to let the rest of the country know.
I suspect that Beagle didn’t expect you to do any research. Pretty cheap shot on his part.
“Do you intend to expose the warts of the other candidates?”
Yep, and I was all over Huckabee until he dropped out (for releasing that felon that killed 4 cops in Washington State). And I was all over Daniels until he dropped out (for selling off his toll road to Cintra and screwing the crap out of the people who live near there and drive through there). We also found out later that Daniels was a druggie in college. As to the others, I don’t need to waste my time on Romney...he gets near unified opposition here (and rightfully so). Pawlenty - I just don’t know anything about.
“If you spend half the time on each one as you’ve spent on Perry, we wouldn’t have a candidate left standing, IMO.”
I don’t consider any of the remaining conservative candidates to have nearly the baggage or questionable credentials as Perry...and if I later feel differently, I will post to that effect.
“I’m leaning Perry because we know so much about him that there would be few surprises left. He has a BC and I’ve already read his poor grades transcript from A&M...as compared to Obama. Obama couldn’t have survived being in the Corps at A&M!”
You may know a lot about Perry, but judging from the response to this thread, a lot of other people do not. I’m trying to help them get to your level.
“I watched Anderson Cooper last night and I think he gets most of his information from FR...I’m serious! He did a hit job on Perry and I’ve read it all on FR. Of course, the same could be said for all the other candidates as well because we tend to eat our own.”
As I mentioned on a different post, the Democrats are perfectly capable of doing opposition research and they don’t need my help. My stuff is insanely easy to find, and the Dems probably have 20x the amount of ammo to unload on Perry.
“I would prefer to suffer through 8 years of Perry as POTUS than the past 2.5 of Obama.”
Agree.
“I’d like to see him stopped in the primary”
Agree.
“Perry hasn’t damaged TX like Obama has damaged TX and the rest of the country. Obama has done all he can to hurt TX...i.e., NASA, the military truck company in Sealy that was sent to a union state, the EPA on refineries, off-shore drilling. Why don’t you address some of that?”
What’s the point? EVERYONE on this site knows that Obama has it in for Texas. I expect even more major shoes to drop from Obama. I think that you’ll see some of my posts about Democrats in general are very powerful and beyond what even most conservatives (and nearly all conservative leaders) are capable of comprehending - which is that Democrats would immediately JAIL Republicans if they could figure out a way. From there it would be off to re-education camps, or simply torture and then execution. Godless liberals have done that throughout the world and there’s no reason to believe that they wouldn’t do that to us...even people like myself.
Perry and Obama don’t even like each other...and I love that!
“Why?”
Because a defenseless nation generally doesn’t have to worry about a balanced budget, rather their occupiers have to worry about a balanced budget (in our case the Chinese if we follow Ron Paul’s plan of trashing the military).
“I know he’s unwilling to treat with hostility children born in Texas, regardless of their parents citizenship. “
The Texas Dream Act dealt with those NOT born in the US. We may differ here, but I do want those children evicted - they too are here illegally, regardless of how they arrived.
“The fact is, he wants closed borders and prosperity for ALL in Texas.”
If he wants closed borders, the least he can do is support a fence...he’s not even up to that.
“Thank you for the hard work! I need to know this about Perry before I make any decisions and you did the legwork for me. Much appreciated, my friend.”
You’re welcome. Glad to help. A lot of people on this thread gave me some great info, so I plan to post again when I can enough time for it.
“How would you feel about another state’s governor sticking his nose into Texan politics under the same justification? “
If I were doing something that was going to affect them, I would understand why he’s sticking his nose in.
“All your retread distortions are OLD NEWS. Quoting a Texas newspaper is same as NYT. Why take up lib tactics?”
Maybe OLD NEWS to you, but not the rest of the country. And a lot of it is not even old news to me - I’ve learned more about Perry from this thread and some prior ones, than I ever learned from the MSM.
Other than Perry’s campaign website, could you list some sources that I should be using to get unbiased information about the Governor?
“I met Senator Gore one on one back in 1992 when he was still sane. That man was a totally different person than this algore thing that he has become since then.”
I agree. And Gore was the most conservative Democrat running in 1988 (and don’t laugh, his voting as Senator from Tennessee was definitely more conservative than ANY Democrat in the Senate today), so if Perry had to pick a horse back then, Gore made the most sense. But what really bugged me about Perry, as I explained earlier, is how he could be a Democrat in 1988.
When it’s said that Perry favors instate tuition for illegal aliens, I think the conditions should be listed. He isn’t inviting them to come to TX to attend college. They must have lived and gone to high school in TX for a certain number of years...and amounts to 1% of the college pop. in TX.
“When it’s said that Perry favors instate tuition for illegal aliens, I think the conditions should be listed. He isn’t inviting them to come to TX to attend college. They must have lived and gone to high school in TX for a certain number of years...and amounts to 1% of the college pop. in TX.”
Agree...while he’s not ‘inviting’ them to come here for an education, he’s certainly not making them feel unwelcome, which is my main point.
What is your source for this misinformation?
Personally, I wish they would have to pay some tuition to attend our public schools.
It costs more per student in ESL programs than English speaking.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.