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In His Mug Shot, Rick Perry Comes Out Smelling Like A Texas Yellow Rose
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 20 August 2014 | Editorial

Posted on 08/21/2014 11:17:50 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Leadership: Texas Gov. Rick Perry smiled confidently for his mug shot, as if to signal he would prevail over politicized big government. In fact, that may resonate as a campaign theme for voters weary of the same abuses. Until now, the prevailing "narrative" was that a governor under indictment on two counts of "abuses of power" would be political toast. Because even if the charges were baseless, as these are, the mug shot and the screeching headlines would bring certain opprobrium. It certainly happened that way for now-exonerated House leader Tom DeLay, whose career was ruined by the same tactics that the same Travis County prosecutor's office is using against Perry. But these aren't normal times. Perry's deft use of his own mug shot, positioned with a tight "I've got you right where I want you" smile, is already being heralded as a campaign poster in an age when government itself is the biggest issue.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; mugshot; rickperry; texas; traviscounty
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Why does he come out smelling like a rose? Because so many Americans have also suffered under big capricious government. Rick is our standardbearer, he knows what it's like.
1 posted on 08/21/2014 11:17:50 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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2 posted on 08/21/2014 11:22:49 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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He’s not my “standard bearer”, but everybody knows the charges against him are bogus. Even the RATS admit it.


3 posted on 08/21/2014 11:23:32 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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4 posted on 08/21/2014 11:24:21 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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If we ever get a real conservative as president and he/she appoints a REAL Attorney General, that AG should file charges against the Travis County attorneys, prosecutors, judges and councilmen.

Disbar the lawyers for fraud.


5 posted on 08/21/2014 11:24:48 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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Info: The “Yellow Rose” of Texas was a name for a female mulatto.


6 posted on 08/21/2014 11:26:57 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Thats a Democrat on the right and Republican on the left for anyone that might have missed the contrast.


7 posted on 08/21/2014 11:30:01 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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And the Prosecution and Jury smells like fertilizer.


8 posted on 08/21/2014 11:31:27 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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Maybe this is a life changing event for Perry that will push him permanently to our side. That’s what I’m hoping anyway.


9 posted on 08/21/2014 11:32:03 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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Wow! What a brilliant photo RESPONSE!

Good for Rick!


10 posted on 08/21/2014 11:32:39 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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"And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed: Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye, And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly."

~By Mary Howitt, 1829

11 posted on 08/21/2014 11:32:39 AM PDT by JPG ("So sue me". OK, we will.)
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Hes cute in that pic...


12 posted on 08/21/2014 11:33:45 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Perry’s got some very bright boys handling this. It will be fun to watch! Hell, it already is!


13 posted on 08/21/2014 11:34:30 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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My thought looking at her was, not even with yours would I.


14 posted on 08/21/2014 11:36:36 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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15 posted on 08/21/2014 11:37:08 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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16 posted on 08/21/2014 11:37:54 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Roflmao!!!


17 posted on 08/21/2014 11:38:53 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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Perry should turn around and level the same charge against her.


18 posted on 08/21/2014 11:39:04 AM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost (Real men scare liberals)
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Doesn’t she look a little like John Belushi in that picture?


19 posted on 08/21/2014 11:40:17 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Don Corleone

some say high yellow.......

she occupied Santa Anna in his tent. When Sam Houston attacked at San Jacinto she insured Santa Anna had his pants down

She is the metaphor for victory ...... the yellow rose of Texas


20 posted on 08/21/2014 11:45:19 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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