Rick Perry advisor: The campaign is “ready for launch”

Obama could hype the connection to Bush and claim Perry would be a return to the “failed policies of the past.” But that won’t work on anyone with a brain; Perry can simply compare his record as governor to Obama’s record as president.

Splashman on June 10, 2011 at 11:16 PM

Actually, Obama would spin Perry’s record in Texas as proof that one can raise taxes on businesses; triple the debt; dramatically increase the size of Government; increase spending…. if only one does it just right.

Obama’s spin is simply going to be that we just haven’t done it right because the Republicans wouldn’t let him, and that Rick Perry’s record is more in line with what he (Obama) has in mind if only those “evil” Republicans would let him!!

Perry raised taxes on business called the business margin tax (not an income tax) so as you can imagine that it is an unfair tax, as it certainly is because businesses within a certain margin of sales have to pay whether or not they make a profit! Patently unfair!

So yes, every tried and true conservative State candidate has to run against Perry’s record in order to built any street cred among conservatives.

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You probably all think I am just a crank, but take note that Perry himself gives credit where credit is due for Texas’s comparatively good economy when he says that: “Texas has a record of a business friendly environment”….and then goes off and brags about his administration, never mentioning that he acted like a liberal Democrat, coming through looking fairly good, ONLY because his counterparts did far worse..!!

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The business friendly environment factors here consists historically (before Perry) of primarily two (2) elements: #1. A right-to-work state, and #2. Plenty of cheap land. This latter factor is not something I have seen or heard mentioned lately, but it is a HUGE HUGE factor!! You can go outside any large metro area just minutes away and buy huge tracts of land for prices unheard elsewhere! Add to that capitol expense being low, the existence of cheap illegal labor (which Perry isn’t opposed to) for construction and Viola! you now know the reason Perry can act like a Democrat and lie about his record without breaking the bank!!

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Yes we had tort reform and Perry brags about that. So why then did he have to do it again in this session? Pssst…..dirty little secret is that it still rewarded his crony businesses who donate huge amounts of money. I know this because I am personally privy to a huge lawsuit in process that will expose and put to shame his last tort reform, that’s why.

The problem is, just like his executive order for a HIV vaccine and the largest land grab/eminent domain abuse, ala the (TTC) Trans Texas Corridor, he only does things partially right when pushed against the wall, NOT BECAUSE OF PRINCIPLE, mind you, but because of out and out strident outrage does he change his liberal big government centric policies!

Thus even his much ballyhood latest tort reform (just like his eminent domain reform) still contains loopholes for his cronies, albeit less than the one before, AND….he still defends his vaccine executive order by saying that they could’ve opted out (never mentioning that they couldn’t go to public school if they do), AND he still is implementing a TTC although only in hush hushed segments so parced and spaced out that people don’t readily see or believe it, AND, he still defends his business margin tax as a tax reduction (just like a good democrat does), AND, he still repeats the lie that the TTC is dead when TxDot specifically stated that they can start it up anytime anywhere they so please….

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And that’s the problem, you see,everything about Rick Perry is a lie, even to the point of appointing liberal judges to courts even though he claims to be pro-life…!!

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You all seem hell bent to believe a lie until such day the national media goes about destroying him with the above factors.

Just don’t come crying to us Texans when Rick Perry gets destroyed because the media, rightly so, points out that he (Perry) is the perfect example of a successful liberal…!!

Take your sniveling tears and wash your stinking feet for messing with Texas politics..!!

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We don’t wish him on our worst enemies, let alone our friends!

Mcguyver on June 11, 2011 at 1:12 AM

Seriously, you Texans don’t kow how good you have it. You should have to deal with the governor unions hoist on us in my state. We would love to have someone like Perry as our governor. Maybe we would have a chance to get out of the whole our present governor has put us in.

Voter from WA State on June 11, 2011 at 10:54 AM

You are missing the whole point and every point that I made about the facts of Rick Perry on the ground, here: He has not acted like a conservative, and he only gets away with these lies because the foundation for Texas’s economic stability was there looooong…. before Perry ever “converted” to a Republican by name at least.. (after being Al Gore’s manager among other things).

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The problem with you people, including Rush Limbaugh, is that you are so ready, chomping-at-the-bit willing to project your conservative hopes and dreams onto any candidate who is willing to lie – and be good at it – in order to save our country.

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You are too lazy to do your own research and/or listen to opposition voices on the ground (where it counts), instead you want to keep believing the lies that all these RINO’s keep spitting out because you want to believe that saving our country is as easy as electing a GOOD President…..which is patently not true because even Obama has admitted that the Government is too big too control – a la the Gunrunner Case, just for example.

Our only real hope is to get each individual state legislature to do the right thing and push back on our overreaching Federal government, and that is precisely where Rick Perry, despite his much ballyhooed rhetoric to the contrary….has dropped the ball despite his more lies as laid out in a book (his book Fed Up! was written by a lawyer – the way it is written betrays that).

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Let’s go back and very carefully read the post as quoted above, shall we?

You might just learn something about doing your own research, and actually comprehending what is said instead of projecting your hopes and dreams onto a lying poltician….AGAIN…

Ready?

I doubt it, but let’s try anyway (from the quote above):

Perry has a reputation as a policy lightweight, but he knows how to fire up a crowd and give the kind of straight talk Republicans are itching for…

Let’s go through this line by line, as if you were my 1st grade debate/civics/political science class, since you have demonstrated denseness in understanding basic critical thinking:

- Perry has a reputation as a policy lightweight…

STOP RIGHT THERE…!! (as Rush would say) DID YOU HEAR THAT?!
Let me explain this to you in very clear terms by interpreting what it really means, and to do so, let’s reword it a bit: Perry has a reputation as a conservative policy lightweight….

Get it now? Perry has not done much in terms of policy….conservative policy, that is. Oh yes he throw us some conservative bones here and there, as all lying RINO politicians do to keep the ignorant conservative voters to keep on voting for him, but the rest is all hat talk and and no cowboy.

Next quote:
- but he knows how to fire up a crowd and give the kind of straight talk Republicans are itching for…

BINGO!!

HE TELLS YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR!!

YOU HAVE EARS THAT ARE ITCHING TO HEAR…. THAT IT IS EASY TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY!!

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS VOTE FOR RICK PERRY…. and all your troubles will go away…!!

“Just come to Houston and join my prayer rally, repent and pray to Jesus to have your sins forgiven…. yea, that’ll solve y’alls problems because, I, Rick Perry have ascended and descended to and from the heavens, and I know this to be true…”

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I have a better idea: – that is if you still think that Rick Perry is even an iota closer to being the solution that Obama is – (because remember if McCain or any other RINO would’ve been/would be elected, there would have been/won’t be, no “fanged outrage” as we have seen with Obama….Think Bush) Go out to the edge of the Hoover Dam and sacrifice one single bullet to the brain before sacrificing the country.

Idiots.

Mcguyver on June 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM