All I need to know about Rick Perry

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So when Perry got in, I didn’t know much about him. I had heard that he supported mandatory std vaccines for school children, which I am absolutely against, but I didn’t know much else.

Well, I found out all I need to know.

He endorsed Rudy Gulianni in the runnup to the 2008 election. You can’t back the MOST pro-abortion candidate in the field and credibly claim to be pro-life. At best it shows that Perry thinks abortion is wrong but thinks it is an extremely minor issue.

I’m sure my friend David Lamb might chime in here. While we disagree on many things, his criticisms of the GOP are appearing more and more on target. In an election where many things point to the GOP candidate having an excellent chance of winning because of the poor economy, the GOP STILL seems absolutely determined to nominate someone who isn’t pro-life.

I’m an enthusiastic Ron Paul backer. Obviously, if he gets the nomination, he’ll get my vote in November. But beyond Rep. Paul I’m having a hard time finding a Republican candidate not just that I’d like to vote for, but that I COULD vote for.

I don’t want to make this into a Ron Paul thread, I just wanted to be clear I wasn’t bashing Perry in order to boost Romney- who I also couldn’t vote for.

Pax and God Bless.
 
I think you are slightly mistaken, I belive it is a sign of ideology being more important to him than principals. Rudy Gulianni ran in '08 that Roe V Wade should be overturned, not because abortion was wrong, but because it was a State& local issue. Perry’s endorsement of him in '08 shows the 2 are not far apart idiology wise. If my understanding of Ron Paul is correct, he is in favor of banning abortion because it is wrong, even though a simple overturning of Roe V Wade would be more in line with his ideology. That would make me belive that Rick Perry is more of an ideology over principal man and Ron Paul holds principal over ideology.
🤷 But then I am open to hearing more over the next year about them both.
 
the_7th_one said:
I think you are slightly mistaken, I belive it is a sign of ideology being more important to him than principals. Rudy Gulianni ran in '08 that Roe V Wade should be overturned, not because abortion was wrong, but because it was a State& local issue. Perry’s endorsement of him in '08 shows the 2 are not far apart idiology wise. If my understanding of Ron Paul is correct, he is in favor of banning abortion because it is wrong, even though a simple overturning of Roe V Wade would be more in line with his ideology. That would make me belive that Rick Perry is more of an ideology over principal man and Ron Paul holds principal over ideology.
🤷 But then I am open to hearing more over the next year about them both.
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Ron Paul holds principle over ideology? Ron Paul who thinks the states should have the right to legalize drugs and prostitution, Ron Paul who thinks the government should provide no recognition of marriage whatsoever, Ron Paul who thinks America shouldn’t have entered World War II and should tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran?

No, Ron Paul holds ideology over party, there is a difference.
 
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This is news to me. Where, when did he say this?
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Actually, I was wrong; he said being attacked made it justified. But I remember him, somewhere, saying something silly about Germany not being the ones who attacked us at Pearl Harbor. He also said we shouldn’t have gone to war in World War I, which would’ve resulted in tens of thousands more deaths at the very least (though, admittedly, the Allies probably already would’ve won).

And he does deny any duty whatsoever to any other countries; he is essentially a radical isolationist, somewhere between Pat Buchanan and Tokugawa Iemitsu. He would have us abandon allies like Japan, Israel, and Taiwan, and cease even our current flaccid protests over China’s treatment of Tibet. Which is directly contrary to church teaching:
1941 Socio-economic problems can be resolved only with the help of all the forms of solidarity: solidarity of the poor among themselves, between rich and poor, of workers among themselves, between employers and employees in a business, solidarity among nations and peoples. International solidarity is a requirement of the moral order; world peace depends in part upon this.
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He also denies we have any right to interfere in Iran or North Korea’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
 
I too am rather worried about phony pro-lifers giving me lip service to woo my vote, but not having any real convictions on the matters. I’m concinced Bush Senior was one of those guys.

Lip service isn’t enough. I want track record.
 
Santorum seemed to have his ducks together in response to the questions he got regarding pro-life issues and same-sex marriages in the last debate. He is not a front runner, but it was good to hear some well thought out answers.
 
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