The Swimmer: "Wow. This dude really is a liberal at heart?! What a lame, but useful tool."
Posted on 08/25/2011 11:08:37 AM PDT by Baladas
In his first national radio interview since announcing his presidential bid, Rick Perry posited the healthcare law implemented in Massachusetts will prove to be a blemish on Mitt Romney’s record.
“I think Mitt is finally recognizing that the Massachusetts healthcare plan that he passed is a huge problem for him, and yeah it was not almost perfect,” Perry said on the Laura Ingraham Show Thursday.
Perry, who leaped over Romney to claim the top GOP spot in a Gallup poll released yesterday, said he advocates allowing healthcare to operate in the free market and hopes the Supreme Court will rule the individual mandate is unconstitutional.
The Texas governor defended his decision to cut $4 billion from the Texas education budget, arguing that Texas public schools have made improvements in accountability and college readiness since he became governor in 2000. Last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan criticized Perry’s influence on the Texas public school system, saying class sizes have increased and major funding cuts harm the children’s ability to learn since he assumed the governorship
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Romney is bad news all around.
Says the man with five to ten huge problems of his own.
Nice try Slick Rick.
Say what you will about Perry, but he is deconstructing Romney’s campaign.
Mitt Romney is Mitt Romney’s biggest problem...
Yep. I’m glad Perry isn’t shy about attack slick Williard.
Perry forced gardasil on Texas to take care of the drug maker because he took lots of campaign cash from them , what is he willing to force on America to payoff his 2012 campaign?
romneycare is a bad idea. It might be legal to do in MA (although there are some US Constiutional arguments against it), but that’s not the point. It’s a bad idea at any level and we have years of data now to prove it. And this begs the question, if romney supports this bad big government program, what other bad programs will he support.
This also shows that Perry is not afraid to go on the offensive and I think we will happily see more of the same against 0bama in the general.
There are no constitutional issues at play if a state chooses to do what Romney did in Massachusetts. His Massachusetts plan was constitutional. What his plan does show however, is that Romney has no faith in the marketplace to fix the health care system in hi state. Romney generally lacks free-market virtues, because he favored greater government control over health care. Thus, Romney is unfit to serve as President.
ObamaCare is unconstitutional because the Constitution gives the federal government no power to regulate health care. We have ObamaCare today because 70 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government has the power to regulate almost all commercial behavior (and some non-commercial behavior) using the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Newt Gingrich has bought into this theory, when he proposed an individual mandate in the early 90s. Obama obviously bought into this theory, because he helped get ObamaCare passed. Romney buys into this theory as well, although you won't hear him admitting it these days.
Kinda like the DREAM Act is a “huge problem” for Rick Perry?
Governor Perry is absolutely correct. I said as much to the phone caller looking for contributions to Governor Romney’s campaign. I had the opportunity to attend a small gathering in West Palm Beach way before the 2008 Presidential Election. I liked what Gov. Romney said, but there were doubts. Now I know why. We really need a TRUE Conservative in the White House and so far Rick Perry is the closest person! I just hope that he has reconsidered his former stand on immigration. People on both sides of the aisle want our immigration laws to be enforced. If a person is here without jumping through the proper hoops, then he/she needs to be returned and come in the proper way.
Wasn’t it something like $6,000? If it was, is that what you consider “lots of campaign cash”?
Romney is comfortable with the concept of universal health care. He says it ought to be left to the states. But even the state has no right to trample on individual rights. Indeed, the great argument made for the existence of the states, of the concept of fecderalism, is that the States should stand as the guardians of our liberties, and that we cannot rely on the central government to do this. Indeed, the history of all state government is that governmental power should be devolved to the greatest degree possible, since the closer government is to the people, the better. Romneycare is against this concept.
I think it would be a worse problem for Perry if Obama had ever gotten the DREAM Act passed in the first two years of his term.
I agree...Romneycare really stands out over and above Perry’s Gardasil, open border, Dem endorsements and Bush family connections. Kinda works like a nice cool sunshade.
And write this down and record it: I will bet that he did not write his book ("Fed Up"). He doesn't have the intellectual skill, nor does he have the time, what with speeches to La Raza, meeting with the Aga Khan, campaigning for President, and showing his supposed "executive skills" running the State of Texas.
Sure, and before that. Nixon supported the idea in the 70's as well as the Heritage Foundation in the late 80's. It represents a Gov't solution to things that is abhorrent to the ideas of liberty.
As a whole, every candidate has flaws.
You’re in for one miserable ride coming up.
Perry has been in public offices from legislator to Lt Gov to Gov for 27 years.
He could be headed to the WH to dethrone Obama.
Thanks all the same but we don’t need any help evaluating him.
We’re plenty capable.
Tell it to Sarah Palin, whose money quote in her official endorsement of Perry for re-election was:
“He walks the walk of a true conservative”.
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