Posted on 08/15/2011 5:41:08 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
When Perry was at A&M it was an all male, military school. Largest in the country. It has contributed more officers to the military than West Point.
Calling it a Commie School would be like calling West Point a Commie school.
When Perry graduated from Texas A&M he went into the Air Force as a commissioned officer.
Like the militry schools, the cadets are committed to military service upon graduation amd many make it a career.
A&M is coed now and has changed a lot but is still one of the most conservative universities in the nation.
I agree with most of your posts on this topic, PD, but I have to say, Texas A&M is a very conservative environment.
Not sure why someone who went there would campaign for Weird Al, though. That’s a real head-scratcher.
Then Progressive leanings are like bed bugs, come out in the dark of night first to anesthetize, then to inflict their infectious bite and hide anywhere they can if one looks for them.
See 283
Now do you know why I thought what you said was one of the most ignorant things I ever read on FR?
I see a lot of misleading comments on FR today...but I don't think you intended to mislead. You are just ignorant about Texas A&M.
Almost!
First, thanks for what you do. I appreciate it. More = better.
Second, it is funny for you to fault me for “bragging” after challenging me twice as to what I’ve done for the Cause. I don’t answer, you’re mad. I do answer, you’re mad. Hard to find the “win” with you here.
Third, so, to you there are only two settings: approving of everything Rush does, or trashing him? I’m in a different place. I agree with almost everything I hear him say, I quote him, I think he’s remarkable and I can admit it was lazy of him not to register to vote when he could while talking talking talking politics. I registered as soon as I could, and voted as soon as I could, and I’d bet you did too.
Rush was hypocritical. He is about other things, too. He’s not really much of a role-model; but he is a wonderful and sage critic and talker. Thank God his hearers don’t just talk, but actually DO something about what he says.
I don't remember exactly what it was all about...it was before rap...but he was the conservative candidate at the time.
I think Gore went way overboard after that election. He was even pro-life at the time, IIRC.
Hard to believe but that's the way it was. Might explain a lot that he and Tipper are no longer together. Gore is nuts!
On our side, what happened to Goldwater ...he turned liberal.
If you knew shi’te from shinola you would know about Texas politics before Reagan gave the conservative dems a way out. Since Reconstruction, (you do know about Reconstruction don't you?) there was almost zero GOP in the South and Texas. To get elected to any office required being a dem (ever hear of Yeller Dog Dem?). Most of these dems were fairly conservative and just like Reagan said, the dems left him when they went liberal.
About the same time as Perry switched to GOP a mass of Texas voters left the dems and turned Texas into a very conservative GOP state.
Whether you or any of your nutty circular firing squad freeps care to admit it, Perry has been the most conservative Governor in Texas history. Your Perry algore thingy is a non-story. Find something pertinent to 2012 or STFU.
You are obviously a certified idiot to make some absurd claim Texas A&M was or is a “Commie school”. Go back to DU.
>>Do you remember that when Algore was running for POTUS Tipper was leading a national movement to rid recorded music of risque language?<<
I remember it well. :-/
But that doesn’t sound “conservative” to me. That is more “statist.”
Apprently Gore wasn't even pro-life in '88. Some freeper looked into it and Gore had a fairly pro-life voting record in the late 70s and early 80s when he was a local Congressman, but by the time he became a U.S. Senator in '85 he began voting pro-abortion. By '87-'88 he was definitely in the pro-abortion camp and anyone paying attention knew it. It seems Gore was even getting some heat over it when ran for President as a "social moderate" so he did what abortion-loving Mark Kirk does and put out a letter saying he was against making taxpayers pay for abortion. He used lots of weasel words in that letter like saying that abortion was "ARGUABLY the taking of a human life" (note that Gore didn't say HE believed abortion was the taking of a human life, just that people have argued that). And of course, like Mark Kirk, Gore didn't actually vote against using taxpayers money to fund abortion, he just claimed to be against it in public.
These Perry fans are really trying to weasel out of the facts too. Now after it's been established that Gore WAS a big "global warming" alarmist in the 1980s, they're splitting hairs and saying Perry was correct that Gore wasn't known as "Mr. Global Warming" back then because there's no documented proof that was his NICKNAME at the time (I don't even think it's his official nickname now!)
My respect for Perry and his fans would greatly increase if Perry could simply man up and say "I support Al Gore's liberal platform in 1988 and I regret it. I'm sorry I bought into the liberal agenda and opposed Ronald Reagan's policies". But no, they will argue to death that Perry was a staunch conservative back then and the southern RATs were to the right of Reagan.
Honesty goes a long way in politics.
I’ll admit I know very little of Texas A&M. Frankly, I didn’t even know what college Perry attended. I was speaking of ‘higher education in general.
Your abrasive attack reveals your below average breeding. So many on ‘conservative’ FR seem to use the uneducated tactics of the far left. I find this very sobering. But I forgive you, and rest assured that God loves you anyway.
As I said in 294, I didn’t even know what college Perry attended. I was speaking of ‘higher education’ in general.
Speaking of Generals, Patton was great, but he dates back to the ‘40’s, unless you have the date of that statement was made. Things were a great deal different in the ‘40’s than they have been since the ‘80’s.
What a dumbass. Breeding? When they cut out the paperdoll they forgot the brain.
So you don’t know a damn thing about Texas A&M but feel its OK to slime one of the best colleges in the US?
As my In-Laws would say, “Go piss up a rope” idiot!
Count on EVERYTIME I see one of your stupid posts I will make the point of calling you out, FOOL.
When Rick Perry was deciding to saddle up and become a Democrat politician, it was in the same election that Reagan won 64% of the Texas vote, after Reagan winning Texas with 55% in 1980.
Perry followed that up by fighting to replace Reagan with Al Gore in 1988.
Well, I just don’t know. Maybe you would better serve the cause of removing nobama by focussing on details more relevent than when Perry first ran for office.
Then again, feel free to fire away in your circular firing squad and we’ll all end up with Mutt or the WON really being King.
Guys like you don’t have much regard for the truth and spend your posts distorting facts.
But that’s ok, I’m a veteran of the infamous war on drug threads with the long gone dane and kevin curry types. I don’t have a problem with full contact posting.
Fact is that I’ve not once stated any admiration for Gore’s politics other than to say that when I met him he was nice, polite, and personable, not something I can say about other politicians I have met.
But that was back before he ran for VP and eventually went insane.
The whole point is that when Perry was aligned with Gore, Gore was a whole different person than he is now.
I really don’t expect your smears to have any impact.
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