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George W. Bush knockoff Rick Perry joins Michele Bachmann among GOP pretenders
NY Daily News ^ | August 15, 2011 | Mike Lupica

Posted on 08/15/2011 5:45:45 PM PDT by americanophile

So here comes the second coming of George W. Bush out of the governor's mansion in Texas, Rick (Dubya) Perry.

Or maybe just call him W2.

Perry is taller, has much better hair, seems to believe he has an even better pipeline to God than Bush did. And he comes out of Paint Creek, Tex., different from the Texas town that gave us Bush, the one we also know as Yale University.

Whether Dubya Perry is holier than Michele Bachmann, the new President of Ames, Iowa, remains to be seen. For now, though, Perry and Bachmann are the headliners of the moment in the Republican Party. Barack Obama must be rooting like crazy for both of them, at the beginning of a campaign where fringe Republicans might do a better job of saving Obama than he can of saving himself.

Perry is the latest guy in the race, announcing Saturday in South Carolina, not throwing his hat into the race as much as his helmet hair. This was the day after Bachmann, who really does think she can out-God Perry and everybody else in the race, wins a straw poll in Iowa with about 4,000 votes, which is a couple of blocks in New York City.

But that was enough for her to immediately be treated like some sort of front-runner on the Sunday morning talk shows. It was like watching the winner of a split-squad game the first week of spring training be declared the favorite to win the World Series.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bush; campaign; lupica; perry; perry2012
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To: americanophile

Then Obama is Blago. The come from the same city.

Let’s play that game.


21 posted on 08/15/2011 5:57:11 PM PDT by ilgipper
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22 posted on 08/15/2011 5:57:16 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DManA

PERRY: WHY I SUPPORTED AL GORE...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61428.html


23 posted on 08/15/2011 5:57:21 PM PDT by street_lawyer (www.georgiaright.com)
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To: DRey

“Perry and Bachmann are zealots ... trying to out-God each other .... Both of them acting like God likes them best. God help their party.”

What is the vicious anti-Christian attack from this loser liberal ex-sportswriter?

Bachmann and Perry, like the majority of Americans, are inspired by their faith. They, like other devout Christians, are not afraid to talk about their faith in public.

What is your faith, Mr. Lupica? You are a proud member of the godless, family-destroying, baby-killing Democratic party!

What is at the center of your cold, cruel soul?


24 posted on 08/15/2011 5:58:33 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: street_lawyer

I can forgive someone for being an ass in 1988.


25 posted on 08/15/2011 5:58:38 PM PDT by DManA
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To: americanophile

We lived a very comfortable life during the Bush years. Bring it.


26 posted on 08/15/2011 5:58:48 PM PDT by linn37
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To: GotMojo

sorry for the bad language, my emotions got to me!


27 posted on 08/15/2011 5:58:53 PM PDT by GotMojo
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To: DManA

Who flew fighter jets, Romney, Bachmann, Obama? I thought Perry flew C-130’s...which takes huge stones...I’ve logged more than few hundred hours in the back of a C-130. Not my favorite way to fly! But, for love of country, right!


28 posted on 08/15/2011 6:00:37 PM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: cripplecreek

I hear ya. Rick Perry proved he was a political opportunist when he became the only Republican governor to endorse pro-abortion Rudy Giuliani for president. Bear in mind, that at the time of his endorsement of Giuliani, there was a mass culling of Rudy supporters here at FR. Logic dictates that Perry himself would not have been welcome here. Either his supporters have a very short memory or they just don’t care how liberal the man is. Conservatives should and do.


29 posted on 08/15/2011 6:01:30 PM PDT by South40 (Primaries are about choosing a conservative candidate, not settling on a Rove RINO)
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To: mnehring
You can bet it ain't Saul Alinsky he's praying too...


30 posted on 08/15/2011 6:02:16 PM PDT by tflabo ( to have been selected)
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To: americanophile

I’m not exactly a Perry fan, but i have to admit, when I see drivel like this being published, it makes me think I’ll take another look at the candidate instead.


31 posted on 08/15/2011 6:02:26 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home." - Cicero)
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To: americanophile
We are now scrounging up Mike Lupica Commie leftist pieces to ding Perry? I will take Sarah Palins impressions of Perry over a Chris Matthews wannabe. Even his sports writing is garbage. Lupica blows.


32 posted on 08/15/2011 6:02:38 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

I am no fan of Rick Perry either, although his ridicule of AGW boosted him significantly in my mind, but I have a feeling he is going to get the pubbie nomination unless Sarah jumps in, and in that case, I have no idea what is going to happen.

We got lots of fireworks ahead.....I like fireworks!

FUBO GTFO!


33 posted on 08/15/2011 6:04:04 PM PDT by HerrBlucher ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
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To: americanophile

Lupica used to write poorly about sports.

Now, he checks with the daily DNC and Dabbie Washerwoman Slutz, then he writes a Pravda column.

He sure turned out to be his mom’s worst nightmare — a media whore.

Turns my stomach.


34 posted on 08/15/2011 6:04:25 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: DRey
Somebody's scared

Yes, anyone who wants to beat Obama is, or should be scared. This picture will be in every voter's mind when they go to the polls on November 6, 2012:


35 posted on 08/15/2011 6:05:18 PM PDT by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Yeh—let NEWSDAY Long Islands liberal rag keep Lupica all to its own. Blaaahhhhhhhhhhh such tripe from him.


36 posted on 08/15/2011 6:05:32 PM PDT by tflabo ( to have been selected)
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To: areukiddingme1
I'm saying more than I know. I saw this picture in the Wikipidia article on him:

Maybe someone who actually knows something about it can fill us in.

37 posted on 08/15/2011 6:05:52 PM PDT by DManA
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To: americanophile

Mebbe we can call perry dubya dubya


38 posted on 08/15/2011 6:05:58 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Give a little bit of yourself to me)
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To: Lazlo in PA
I wasn't exactly scrounging. In any event, I wasn't dinging Perry, I was after the predictable lefty media.
39 posted on 08/15/2011 6:06:07 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: americanophile

Helping the Lib rats out there, are ya?


40 posted on 08/15/2011 6:06:09 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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