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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.
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I like your thinking!
That would be awesome. They could have bowling match then!
I can pretty much guarantee that if Perry were a congressman he would not have done many of the things (Guardasil, TTC, etc) that people point to as proof he is a RINO. Since Bachmann has no record as an executive, she has no negative executive record that can be pointed to. I predict you will see more compromise from her if she ever represents more than a good sized town’s worth of people. For comparison, Bachmann had to get a majority of 600K of a fairly homogenous (95% White) population in an area the size of some Texas counties to vote for her to be re-elected. Perry had to get a majority of 25 million people from widely diverse social and economic backgrounds in a state larger than most countries to vote for him to be re-elected. The more people from different backgrounds that a legislator or executive represents, the more they have to do stuff they may not be entirely happy with. How many governors of large population states, are what most conservatives would call a real, down the line conservative? I can’t think of many and there is a reason for that. How many Presidents since WW2 were real conservatives? I can think of one, and he signed an immigration amnesty while he was in office. I think that is the explanation why many congressmen can act more conservative than the governors of large, diverse states or Presidents.
” 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. “
REPEATED FOR ALL TO READ!
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“Wasnt it Kenya?”
RINO ,George W Bush Born ,New Haven Connecticut, NE Liberal.
Perry has no “crossover appeal”. America’s already seen that movie, and we know how it ends.
Note to the GOP Establishment:
Quit trying to couch unprincipled RINO’s as “electable”. The rest of the US doesn’t want any more to do with them than conservatives. When actual conservatives with conservative records run on conservative principles, they win.
Perry polls worse among independents than Bachmann.
Please, only a retard would want Bush back. We need to elect conservatives, not more RINO’s.
Perry has already said re; some of the more rabid evangelists, that he can’t help who says they support him, and it doesn’t mean he supports them.
For most of you guys Reagan was a Rino and the last I looked Connecticut was a state. He moved to Midland Texas soon after he was born however and I have seen the house where he grew up...It is exceedingly Middle Class
Reagan an RINO What the hell is that all about? W Bush tried to cram Amnesty down our throats like some NE Liberal,Then the Sutton Crapola with the drug smuggler! I must stop here.
And when he did that, it inspired Sturm Ruger to produce the lcp-tex .380, thus helping Arizona jobs. The slides were engraved with a coyote howling at the moon, a Texas Star, The words "A True Texan", and "Coyote Special". This provided work for the engraving company in Connecticut.
When I saw that Democratic Puke, er Congressman, Charlie Gonzales saying Perry only knew how to help the Texas economy, not other states, I thought, "heck, by shooting a crapppy coyote, he's already helped the economy in two other states."
Did you know the president of the Heritage Foundation once said the GOP would have a difficult time because Ronald Reagan betrayed the American people, walked away from them in the end? Yep – that’s exactly what the Heritage Foundation said about Ronald Reagan.
John McCain and George W. Bush should be honored to be in such august company as Ronald Reagan.
Why?
While Reagan was President, contrary to the lies that are being told today by Richard Viguerie and Viguerie and fellow conservative leaders Howard Phillips and Paul Weyrich did their very best to undermine and bully him.
Now though, they protray themselves as the pure conservative, and are little more than rabble rousers, shrouding themselves with non-Republican conservatives who are about as well acquainted with history as Barack Obama.
If they knew the history of the GOP they would understand the PURE conservative is no friend. All these people are out to do is improve their position in the world and nothing more.
To paraphrase a famous saying, the moron who does not know history is doomed to repeat it. I’m not calling our suicide bomber conservatives morons, but you’re sure as heck acting like it. What I have below is proven historical record. The bottom line – you are being manipulated. Fool me once, shame on you – fool me twice, shame on me!
// The author goes on to cite all the criticism Reagan got from the “Real Conservatives” of his time
Sound familiar? It ought to////
From Here:http://www.thepinkflamingoblog.com/2009/04/29/how-conservative-leaders-betrayed-ronald-reagan/
What does this have to do with anything?? I do not see a RINO Like McCain Or Bush getting any support Ever! The country is in bad shape and a halfazz RINO is NOT going to fix it!
Ok you are right.... you ARE too dense to understand any of this .... Go ahead and let people lead you around by your nose ring . You can hate Bush, hate Perry, hate whoever you want, ( The left sold you the hate and you bought it) Someone says “they are a Rino” and you can start mooing your hatred, But remember they said the exact same thing about Reagan (that is my point) and if you had been there acting the way you do now you would be hating Reagan along with them.
It took a few years for the haters on the right to join the club that loved him, (They were outnumbered) Now for Gods sake dont start thinking as it will probably cause an aneurism or something
RINO You are out of your mind,Unlike you I have studied the issues and lived in the middleeast,in short Grow a Brain!
No one called Reagan a RINO. Reagan gave speeches against ‘RINOs’ the GOP good-ole-boys and spendthrifts.
Stick with principles not with politicians.
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