Posted on 10/03/2011 11:13:51 AM PDT by bullypulpit
Even some of Perry's fiercest Texas critics say they do not believe he is racist. They point to his record of appointments as evidence: He appointed the states first African-American state supreme court justice, Wallace Jefferson, and later made him chief justice. (Jeffersons great grandfather was a slave, sold like a horse, Perry once said with disgust.) Perrys former general counsel and former chief of staff, Brian Newby, is black; so is Albert Hawkins, the former Health and Human Services Commissioner who Perry handpicked to lead the massive agency in 2002.
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Don’t forget they leased it back when Perry was DEMOCRAT...
and by their standards:
I am a racist
I am a homophobe
I am an environmental polluter and malcontent
I am a sexist
Me too.
Kinda liberating, isn't it?
damn flower...pretty when it blooms in Texas
I have aunts,uncles cousins galore that were democrats back when Perry was.Down south back when you were a democrat and Catholic/Christian.JFK Democrats in generations of southern families.It took a long time before everyone woke up and disavowed the democrats. (As the jewish vote is slowly doing right now.)Cain endorsed Romney in 2008.Bachmann was a former democrat.Palin endorsed Perry and said she would be Romney’s VP you betcha in 2012.Perry is a former democrat.Let’s throw the baby out with the bathwater all banking on Palin or Jack Daniels or Captain Morgans saving us or the lone ranger or Chuck Norris and we will re elect Obama eating our own.
Obama is making yet another shady deal as you read this with our tax money and selling us off to the UN.Let’s all fight over a rock on a ranch a candidate hunted on or discuss migraines or quitting Alaska,or Herb Cain meeting with Trump and tabloid trash garbage and throw out all of them as weakest links and eat our own.Obama is counting on it.
It figures. F’n liberal media clowns.
Incredible that NO ONE ever brought this story up in Perry’s last gubernatorial election, yet most people seem to think that Perry had behaved like a racist.
For crying out loud, people...THINK!!
Horsehockey- Cain should have kept his mouth shut.It's an historical name. Do you want to change the name of the "White House"? This PC BS has gone to far.
Wasn’t Perry a Democrat when the rock bore the offensive word?
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