[subterfuge]

I trust you have your flamesuit close by.

[Obadiah]

Same old cr*p from the left. Republicans are stupid. In reality Liberals are some of the most foolish, close-minded, dogmatic people you will ever meet. Really, it’s stunning how liberals profess themselves to be so wise and yet in reality they are intellectually dense.

[Designer]

"..talking points -- which it seems to me is all Perry has offered so far."

Perry is not the only one.

[SMARTY]

“Obama ...presidency was won on crude progressive populism anchored in emotion, not reason.”

Ain't it the truth!!

I would NOT want a leader (Conservative OR Liberal) who came to office in that way!!!

People with that kind of gut level, asinine, populist appeal are invariably DANGEROUS....think of Peron, Castro, Papa Doc, Hitler, Franco, Lenin, Il Duce, Napoleon I, Robespierre, etc.

Emotion is NOT the way to appeal to voters. Leaders who capitalize on emotion and pander to emotion will only exploit any advantage they can gain in this way. Everyone is a loser when this happens... except of course the 'drunk on power', ego-maniacal brute who succeeds with this kind of manipulation of people and the media. When we had a media worth the name, we felt a little secure in their 'watch dog' concern for public good. NOT NOW. We are on our own.

[LOC1]

Those of us in Texas know about Perry, including the warts. He does have some.

But we keep reelecting him, even when he runs against someone else that we like, Senator Hutchinson or Mayor White, for instance.

Perry is one shrewd politician. Seems like he often hits the right chord. And he is a ruthless administrator. Just ask any commissioner he has appointed. They do not dare oppose him.

[Nip]

Does anyone really walk to walk down this line?

Let's see: “Is Rick Perry dumb? “He is not an ideas man,” “

Well, do we really want to examine their real record of the “smartest man ever to hold the Presidency”?

Remember the last President that the MSM declared to be dumb, only able to read what others put before him, an actor without any original thought - President Reagan.

Of the two Obama and Reagan who is more likely to solve the numerous crises we find ourselves in?

Given a choice between Obama and Perry I'll take Perry - dumb and not an ideas man.

[InterceptPoint]

Ronald Reagan’s take on liberal intellectuals is worth repeating:

It isn’t that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
~Ronald Reagan

[Glenn]

This is exactly why I want to know who will be advising him before I vote to give him the job.

(And that is all I have ever said on here about him since he announced).