Texas Gov. Rick Perry Entering 2012 Race

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CMatt25 said:
Howard Dean was talking about this on MSNBC tonight. Gilliam, do you think there’s any chance Rove and the Bush team will destroy Perry nationally.
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No. Rove might run his mouth, but he won’t destroy Perry. Bush “team”? Bush, most likely, won’t say anything at all.
Or that Bachmann and Perry split the base vote which will aid Romney?
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Perry’s got a record in Texas that more than just his base like. Romney’s slowly fading away. His ability to keep quiet and watch the polls favor in his name is quickly coming to an end.
 
sub_rosa said:
Nor really a threat because he is so far to the right. He is so patriotic that he thinks TX should secede from the union? Now that is very American. He is another D student from TX and I think the country knows what happens after that and he does have the "gay’ thing to contend with. Hey, I don’t care if he is but others might.
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I think there is wailing and gnashing of the teeth in the Republican party.
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Umm…

:confused:

Do you come up with this stuff on your own or are you invoking some blogger?
 
sub_rosa said:
and he does have the "gay’ thing to contend with. Hey, I don’t care if he is but others might.
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These are old rumors meant to smear him. He has denied them. To bring them up on a public forum is the sin of calumny or at least detraction.
huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/rick-perry-gay-rumors-_n_880969.html

catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0713.html

You now owe him a public retraction and apology.

By the way your comments look like the ones by “Gestas” on the huffington post article link I posted above. Search his posts he seems to have an adjenda to smear Perry and others. Search his posts here:

huffingtonpost.com/social/Gestas?action=comments
 
sub_rosa said:
He is another D student from TX…
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I think if liberals are going to lampoon a Republican’s college record, they should at least demand to see Obama’s. He won’t share them? Why do you think that is?
 
It looks like some posts (or portions there of) have been removed by the mods. This is good because they contained gossip meant to slander Perry. Unfortunatetly, removing such hides the true agenda of a certain poster, hence the confusion. Also 2 threads were merged.
 
This morning Michelle Malkin has an interesting piece on Rick Perry. It takes a critical look at one of his policies while governor.

“Rick Perry’s bad, Obama-style medicine”
Beltway types are obsessing over GOP Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign trail comments about the Fed and Ben Bernanke.
Blah x 3.
I’m far less aggravated by Gov. Perry’s injudicious toss-off remarks than I am by his profoundly troubling, liberty-curtailing actions in office and his fresh batch of specious rationalizations for them. My syndicated column today dissects Perry’s recent, so-called “walk backs” of his odious Gardasil vaccine mandate for children. I’ve written and reported on vaccine bullies in the schools and on informed parental authority over vaccines previously. But as you’ll see from my column below, Perry defenders who dismiss critics as “single-issue” activists are willfully blind to the Gardasil disgrace’s multiple layers of rottenness. Related must-reads on Perry and Gardasil: Tom Bevan, Rhymes with Right, and BA Cyclone at RedState. (See also this flashback on Hillary, Merck money, and Gardasil.)
While Perry and his campaign staff have now paid lip service to making a “mistake” in shoving the executive order down families’ throats, they remain defiant in defending the decree and Perry’s zealous, big government overreaching. From the latest story on Perry’s “reversal” in the Washington Post: “Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner dismissed the criticism. Governor Perry has always stood on the side of protecting life, and that is what this issue was about…”
Oh, no it wasn’t. Please read this, get informed, pass it on, and make sure that you don’t fall for a purported cure to our political ills that’s worse than the power-grabbing disease in the current White House.
As for the ridiculous idea that scrutinizing Perry’s much-bragged-out gubernatorial record is tantamount to “smearing” him, toughen up, buttercups. This is just the beginning of 2012 campaign heat. Limited government activists already know Perry’s ready, willing, and able to dish it out against them. If Perry can’t take it from supposed allies and friends on his own side of the aisle, why should he be trusted as the GOP contender against our Democratic enemies?
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The rest can be seen at:

michellemalkin.com/2011/08/16/rick-perrys-bad-obama-style-medicine/
 
Today: Perry on global warming: “a scientific theory that has not been proven and from my perspective has more and more been put into question.”
 
Catholic_Press said:
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“You don’t accuse the chairman of the Federal Reserve of being a traitor to his country and being guilty of treason and suggesting that we treat him ‘pretty ugly’ in Texas.”

If he becomes the GOP candidate, I, for one would have to vote for Obama, which I don’t intend to do, because of accusations such as those. :mad:
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
“You don’t accuse the chairman of the Federal Reserve of being a traitor to his country and being guilty of treason and suggesting that we treat him ‘pretty ugly’ in Texas.”

If he becomes the GOP candidate, I, for one would have to vote for Obama, which I don’t intend to do, because of accusations such as those. :mad:
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Rich, it’s just campaign rhetoric. Joe Biden called the Tea Party terrorists.

Vote for the man’s stance on the issues.
 
qui_est_ce said:
Rich, it’s just campaign rhetoric. Joe Biden called the Tea Party terrorists.
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I, for one anyway, see a difference between broad rhetoric like Biden’s, and specific accusations directed against particular people like Perry’s.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
I, for one anyway, see a difference between broad rhetoric like Biden’s, and specific accusations directed against particular people like Perry’s.
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Agreed.

Perry was targeting a single man for his specific acts that are treasonous and damaging to the nation, Biden’s was directed at people that are preventing him from feeding at the public trough.
 
SamH said:
Agreed.

Perry was targeting a single man for his specific acts that are treasonous and damaging to the nation, Biden’s was directed at people that are preventing him from feeding at the public trough.
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Precisely.
 
SamH said:
Agreed.

Perry was targeting a single man for his specific acts that are treasonous.
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Treason is a very serious crime. There have only been 30 convictions for treason in our nation’s history. If Bernenke has committed treason, his accusers better be prepared to prove it. If they bring him to trial and do so, I won’t complain, but if he hasn’t committed treason, then anything Perry says will be flatulence as far as I’m concerned.
 
bbarrick8383 said:
No. Rove might run his mouth, but he won’t destroy Perry. Bush “team”? Bush, most likely, won’t say anything at all.
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The Bush angle is interesting. The Bush team is more than “W”, it’s the whole clan and the clan is not monolithic on Rick Perry. “W” did endorse Kay Bailey Hutchinson in the last govenor’s race (the primary) but Bush Sr endorsed Perry. The fact is that both Hutchinson and Perry are solid conservatives. I wouldn’t be surprised if the split endoresements were a way to just be nice to both of them. Jeb Bush has come out endorsing Huntsman for the Florida primary. But Florida’s primary isn’t until Jan and Huntsman may not even be in the race then. He was only polling in the single digits in FL, even with Jeb’s endorsement.

A couple of the papers are playing up a Bush-Perry feud but I don’t think there’s much to that. There does seem to be a Gramm-Rove feud. Gramm likes Perry and Rove doesn’t. The two of them pull a lot of Republican purse strings.
 
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