Rick Perry: Texas tough

THE HERALD EVERETT, WASHINGTON ^ | September 10, 2011 | Rick Horowitz

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"Maybe it's time to have some provocative language in this country."

-- Rick Perry

"Because it worked so well the last time?"

-- Rick Horowitz

"Bring 'em on!" says the man from Texas -- or was that the previous man from Texas? Whatever.

Must be something in the water. (Industrial waste?) You come out of the Lone Star State and your default settings automatically go to Total Testosterone: You're the long-stridin', sun-squintin', gun-totin', plain-speakin', g-droppin', tough-as-nails, raw-as-a-rattlesnake son of the West with the sheriff's badge and the don't-mess-with-me jawline.

Pass the popcorn -- we think we're in love!

There's something about a swagger, right? When times are tough -- and aren't times always tough? -- we need a man who's tough. The kind of man who takes no guff from nobody. A man's man, not one of those namby-pamby types who wants to be "reasonable." Who'd rather "meet you halfway." Who prefers to "lead from behind."

Not that we're naming names. (But do we have to spell it out for you?)

We need a man who stands tall. A man who sits tall in the saddle. A man who's not afraid to speak his mind, no matter what's in it. A man who says what he thinks, even when he's not actually thinking. If he's got good hair, so much the better.

[snip]

He makes his bets, and then -- because he's a man's man, a swaggery man, a Texas man -- he doubles down on his bets. That's right: He doesn't back down, he doubles down. Try to set him back on his heels and he'll rip your legs off. Then he'll have your toes for breakfast.

Isn't that exactly the kind of man America is hungry for?

[LomanBill]

[I’m thinking that you are a GIRL because only girls answer that way. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU FOR FOR PRESIDENT?]

 

Whoever demonstrates that they can toss the Caesar Salad out of the White Hut by acknowledging the Truth about how America got raped into economic catastrophe. 

So far nobody The Party(tm) has fielded impresses me that they are willing do so.

So unless a dark-horse enters the race, looks like it's shaping up to be another Lesser Weevil year...

I'll plug my nose and pull the lever for Perry if that's what it takes to get the Marxists out of the White Hut.   But trading the Chicago Marxists for the Mozillo Mafioso isn't much of a bargain - and this state of affairs is a sad one for America to be in.

>>TROLL from DU.

 

LOL.   Right. Where were you on...

http://www.pbase.com/wm25burke/ninetwelve

 

...hmmm?

 

I know where I was.

 

I still owe JimRob breakfast.

[deport]

Don’t do marathons. Regardless there is a winner and the also rans.

[LomanBill]

>>Don’t do marathons.

Obviously.

[Ann Archy]

ooooooohhhhh....name dropper......

[deport]

My running marathons has nothing to do with there being a winner and the also rans.

[LomanBill]

[I was talking about the endless self worship coming out of Texas itself. It’s become knee deep with obnoxious trumpeting windbags.]

AMEN.

When he wasn’t on the job back in the day, my dad owned and operated a shuttle van that took skiers from Denver Stapleton to Vail, Aspen, wherever.

Few things irritated him more than having obnoxious drunken Texans as passengers - who would spend the entire trip loudly drawling/slurring how wonderful they were.

That was 20+ years ago.

Things have not changed.

[LomanBill]

20000 people run the Boston Marathon and only one comes in first.

If, from your couch, you think the other 19999 finishers are all losers, then that just means you don’t know diddly about marathons and those who train for and finish them.

[deport]

Didn’t say they were losers. You project to much. There is one winner and the rest also rans.

[LomanBill]

Like I said. You don’t know diddly about marathons or those who finish them.

Most who enter endurance events know we’ll never be across the line first. We prepare and run anyway.

It’s about something else.

Character, discipline, perseverance....

[LomanBill]

We’re on the same side FRiend.

http://www.pbase.com/wm25burke/heartland

E Pluribus Unum.