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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LOL! I totally love it.
Perry's no dummy. He's shoving it right back in their faces as he should. I say kudos to him.
Whatever his faults, you have to admit he’s a handsome devil.
Carville? Some white guys look good with a shaved head. Yul Brenner comes to mind. If Carville took a black magic marker and drew a line on his head from front to back and held his breath until his head turned all red, then he would look like what he is.
Whatever his faults, you have to admit he’s a handsome devil.
I wish Ted Cruz and he could exchange faces.
He makes me closer to voting for him in 20156 !!!
well unless theres someone else left by the time we have the primary in TN..
Yul Brunner was sexy
Carville looks like “Precious”
I don't think he's going to be around then.
LOL
silly fingies ..
2016
So was Monica! (Or Bent Billy one was just a bit ‘short’ with his incoming......)
I predict Rick Perry will ride Rosemary Lehmburg all the way to the White House.
The video is just waiting to be made; the raw material is already out there waiting to be photoshopped. I know....not enough eyebleach exists.
Anyway, Gov. Perry will get a huge positive backlash out of all this. He’s being literally shoved into the frontrunner role. A real conservative vs. the libertarian Rand Paul. And as much as I admire Ted Cruz, the MSM has been successful in making him look dark & sinister, a latter day Joe McCarthy (whom I also admire).
But this trumped-up indictment of Rick Perry will backfire on the Dems like a premature IED blast on muzzie terrorists.
Well Rick Perry isn’t perfect but at least he is trying to do something. Its incredibly hard to buck the Federal Govt. He’s managed to put troops on the border and he definitely hates Barky’s guts. All plus’s in my book.
Perry’s face would certainly help him out.:)
Add lesbian to that list.
I nominate her to the hallowed position of successor to Helen Thomas Freeper Punching Bag. Andrea Mitchell is a close runner-up.
Perry has Tony Buzbee heading up the defense team. Buzbee is in a class of his own. He is absolutely brilliant and will cut the other side to pieces. It is going to be super fun to watch. The lawyers on the other side will be crapping their pants once Buzbee starts deposing people. Tony Buzbee is so smart it is scary. I’ve seen him work firsthand. God gave Tony an amazing mind. Having a photographic memory helps too. I’ve seen Tony read a two foot stack of documents in about 20 minutes then let someone pick a page out of the stack at random at he can read back the entire page.
I was never a Rick Perry fan until I met him last year in person. He is very impressive if you hang out with him even for a short time. He has not been perfect but he learns from his mistakes. Perry has an odd memory quirk himself which is interesting to see. It’s ironic that he could not remember something during the debate (back pain and mends messed that up truth be told). Perry has a very weird knack for names. I saw him stand in a room greeting people and if he had met them before he remembered their name. If he meets a family member for the first time once he knows the family he can recall all the other family members he has met or names he has been told in the past. It’s really amazing.
Perry gets the economy and he gets rule of law and most of the other things needed for a president. Like I said, he has not been perfect but remember that Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat.
Anyway, I predict that this case will be toast in pretty short order. This is political shenanigans typical of those idiots in Austin. Tony Buzbee is going to hang them up by their toes, skin them, cook them up and serve them to the hogs for dinner. The morons that manufactured this bogus case are going to get schooled in ways they can’t even get their little heads around.
It would be a fantastic thing if Rick Perry was elected President and someone like Tony Buzbee was put in a high position in Washington DC. If this country can be fixed it will take gifted minds like his to fix it.
The Democrats that ginned up this garbage against Rick Perry are about to enter in to a bare knuckled fight with a Marine who is not there to just win he is there to destroy and conquer. He’s an ex Democrat and one of the most gifted trial lawyers alive and a patriotic American who loves this country. Tear them aperture Tony!!
What an excellent point.
I may be able to vote for him if he has learned that you can't play nice with Democrats, ever.
I didn’t make it, but I wish I had! It’s as clever as can be! ;)
Mighty poor lighting angle for a mug shot!
“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.”
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