America Must Save Itself From Gov. Rick Perry (A Liberal Tries To Tell us Who To Vote For)

IBD Editorials ^ | August 30, 2011 | Left wing lunatic RUTH MARCUS

[Kaslin]

Rick Perry is no George W. Bush.

This is not a compliment.

Perry's 2010 Tea Party-steeped manifesto, "Fed Up!," makes George Bush look like George McGovern.

Perry has said he wasn't planning to run for president when he wrote the book, and it shows:

• The Texas governor floats the notion of repealing the 16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax. Perry describes the amendment as "the great milestone on the road to serfdom" because it "was the birth of wealth redistribution in the United States."

Raise your hand if you believe, as Perry suggests, that it is wrong to ask the wealthiest to pay a greater share of their income than the poor.

• He lambastes the 17th Amendment, which instituted direct election of senators, as a misguided "blow to the ability of states to exert influence on the federal government" that "traded structural difficulties and some local corruption for a much larger and dangerous form of corruption."

Raise your hand if you'd like to give the power to elect senators back to your state legislature.

• Perry laments the New Deal as "the second big step" — the 16th and 17th amendments being the first — "in the march of socialism and ... the key to releasing the remaining constraints on the national government's power to do whatever it wishes."

• He specifically targets Social Security for "violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles of federalism and limited government," and asserts that "by any measure, Social Security is a failure." Not by the measure of the share of elderly living in poverty.

[Red6]

Intended as an attack, this piece only makes me like him. My reaction must be odd.

[freekitty]

No he’s not. He is Gov. Rick Perry.

[I see my hands]

Barick Perried:
ProGore whores.

O L E !

[Kaslin]

Excellent point. Also you will never get a candidate that is perfect. No candidate can please everyone

[GunRunner]

There's no way that without Barack Obama we could have a candidate who seriously talks about repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments and states the truth about the Social Security Ponzi Scheme, and be at the top of the primary field and tied with Obama in the polls.

These ideas are becoming more mainstream after generations of brainwashing by leftists and progressives, and if Perry can be the vessel for that, maybe there is a chance we can turn this mess around.

[DustyMoment]

America Must Save Itself From Gov. Rick Perry (A Liberal Tries To Tell us Who To Vote For - AGAIN!)

Fixed it!

[Kaslin]

Correct

[Aevery_Freeman]

Me too! I was lukewarm on Perry, thought that he would be too easy to paint as W's evil brother by the LSM until I read this...

The Texas governor floats the notion of repealing the 16th Amendment

That is my mantra - the only thing that can save America. And he hates the 17th, too! The Amendment that gave us Al Franklown.

I'm really considering him now.

[GSWarrior]

When Perry said he wants to make government as irrelevant as possible, I knew I had found my candidate.

Even if it's just rhetoric, it's my kind of rhetoric.

[RichInOC]

Ruth, I know an excellent way for America to save itself from the Rickster...but she’s probably not what you had in mind, either.

[Kaslin]

No, you didn’t fix anything. The left is doing anything to vilify Rick Perry and you are falling for it.

[bfree]

Like any rational person would listen to you and your crackpot buddies.
Perry can beat obami. That is really what I care about, certainly not some kid yelling RINO about every candidate.

[chesley]

He’s beginning to grow on me despite his abominable stance on immigration.

[Cheetahcat]

"Like any rational person would listen to you and your crackpot buddies. Perry can beat obami. That is really what I care about, certainly not some kid yelling RINO about every candidate."

Cut the crap you sound like a fool!

So the Anmesty ,Dream Act,Open border and LaRaza buddy buddy means nothing to you?

[Cheetahcat]

Things like this and his love for Muslims and the Mexican President makes him a RINO King size.

[13Sisters76]

This leftie nutball needs to learn about “mainstream” conservatives...I like these ideas- a LOT!

[kennedy]

I wasn’t so found of Perry, but after reading this... :-)

My sentiments exactly.

I have voted for Perry in every election since he was first elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner in 1990, but always felt like I was simply voting for the least bad candidate.

The more the lamestream media bashes him, the more I think I like him.

[GotMojo]

That’s some hope and change I can believe in!

[RIghtwardHo]

Well the last time I listened to a liberal ... oh wait. That never happened. =)

[RED SOUTH]

In a letter to Clinton about Hillarycare in 1993 , Perry wrote:

“I think your efforts in trying to reform the nation’s health care system are most commendable.”

“I would like to request that the task force give particular consideration to the needs of the nation’s farmers, ranchers, and agriculture workers, and other members of rural communities,” Perry continued, noting his administration’s focus on economic development for rural Texans.

“Rural populations have a high proportion of uninsured people, rising health care costs, and often experience lack of services.”

“Again, your efforts are worthy,” Perry concluded, ”and I hope you will remember this constituency as the task force progresses.”