...voted AGAINST Gov. Rick "good hair" Perry on 11/7/06. Texas is trending "blue" for '08. Folks think I'm crazy for saying it but. You be the judge:
http://streetlevel.townhall.com/g/40db1d93-d21a-468d-be6a-4a6abca758d2
Big mistake for Rudy to pick Perry. Perry is despised in Texas now. Especially after his pandering visit to Mexico a couple of weeks back. DD |
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Like Jorge, "Pretty Ricky" waited until immediately after his re-election for the "real" Gov Perry to surface.. Coinsidetally, you'd think Perry's new agendas came directly from El Presidente Bush! Insult to injury, not to mention he keeps vetoing important legislation which reflects the will of the Citzens of Tx....As opposed to the Mex Gov, Illegals, Corp, foreign & Transnationalist interests for the NAFTA Hwy, and the NAU..
Like Bush, Perry seems to preferr pandering to everyone, Except the people who elected him. Perry for VP..fat chance in Texas. |
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You believed the press releases. Yes, Gov. Perry is smooth, articulate and a nice politician. But he has either compromised his principles or he has none. Border security BEFORE re-election was very important to him; after re-election - nothing. He would have said anything to be re-elected. His first act this year was to start the fire storm about the HPV vaccine for all girls. WAIT a minute- so we will assume all girls will be sexually promiscuous? Now if we could just sterilize them we can check unwanted teen pregnancies.
Gov. Perry cannot get anything through the Texas legislature or even make them pass a bill -any bill...
This is what makes the Republican party different from the Democratic Party. Democrats accept that their elected officials will say anything to be elected or re-elected. I EXPECT my elected officials to tell the truth and follow through on their promises. I will correct them while in office with emails and phone calls to them - not to a MoveOn.org. Then, I will vote them out of office when they don't do what they said they would. I hope to get my chance with Gov. Perry. I did not like him, we had a great independent running. Not to split the votes, I voted for him and am sorry I did. |
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Im sorry, if a Bush or a Texan (Ron Paul excluded) is our party's nominee from now on, I'm not voting for them. |
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Matt
Rick Perry, if I remember correctly, received 38% of the vote in a four way race for governor of Texas. If it has been a two way race, traitor Ricky wouldn't have won. The reason he won was because some Christian conservatives ignorantly voted for this awful man. I wish my fellow Christian brethren would wake up and stop being fooled by liars like Rick Perry. |
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Matt, I respectfully disagree with you on this one. I suggest you consider writing a major correction to your article.
I merely echo my fellow Texan's comments above.
Gov. Perry campaigned on "protect the borders".
Now that he's re-elected, he travels to Mexico City and grovels at the altar of illegal aliens.
He campaigned on fighting the drug companies on forced immunizations.
After he was re-elected, he issued an "executive order" that would have FORCED young girls to be injected with an un-tested "herpes vaccine."
Only a major rebellion by the state senate and state house forced him to back down.
Perry pretends to be an honest-government-GOP man.
In reality, he has by-passed the Texas constitution by not filling appointed offices - thereby leaving terribly unpopular and arguably crooked cronies as hold-overs.
So Perry has soiled the Texas GOP even worse than his Mexico-loving crony, President Jorge.
Please Matt, write a correction to your article.
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From what I see from the comments, many do not want to see him at all after his term is up. Might not be worth watching. |
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Don't forget about the 5 million Rick Perry spent on virtual cameras on the border. He wanted us, the people working hard to pay our taxes, to watch the virtual cameras and report illegals crossing the border. Sorry, I have a job and besides, why? It takes hours for a BP agent to show up due to understaffing. Yeah, that virtual camera caught 100,000 virtual illegals, didn't it! I believe he shut it down within weeks. At least it only cost the taxpayers only 5 mil. |
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I'm a Texas conservative Republican.
Heck, I'm the local precinct chair.
I can count on one hand (with fingers left over) the number of non-Republicans I have voted for in my entire political life.
And I tell you truly -- if Rick Perry is on the GOP ticket in 2008, I will not vote Republican in the presidential race. |
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Ricky is always looking for the money. The HPV vaccine fiasco and the TransTexas corridor project exposed his agenda. He is finished as governor so now is looking for the bigger loot inside the Beltway. |
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Governor Perry is concerned only about himself and his political future. He runs commercials leading up to the November 2006 election acting like he is the Marlboro Man! He's going to get tough on illegals crossing the border. He gets re-elected and not a peep...Nothing. Operation Jump Start...what a joke! How many millions spent on that and what do Texans have to show for it?...2 Army guardsmen arrested for being "coyotes". What have we received from his leadership? Stories of wrong doing such as the Texas Youth Commission or he trys to force female children to receive vaccines their parents don't want. Thanks to his leadership...hello Trans-Texas Corridor. Is he really the governor of Texas, or of Mexico. He is unworthy of the position he holds...no way does he deserve to be Vice President! Here is one conservative who will not be voting if he is on the Presidential ticket!
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If you think Federal taxes are high you haven't experienced Texas property taxes that GGH promises to fix then does the opposite. People talk about dishonest politicians in Louisiana GGH has forgotten more than they know about broken promises and committments to the people that supported him. |
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Gove....err....Mr. "Goodhair" Perry is nothing but a low down dirty liar. This guy lied to get re-elected and has done nothing but try to push his (or who ever owns him) own opinion on everybody thinking he knows best. Having him as the VP on a Republican ticket is a sure way to lose a large number of the conservative base in Texas. |
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Perry is a drug store cowboy without a spine just like Jorge Bushee |
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Echoing the other TX conservatives on this thread, Perry is not the real deal. He's bought and paid for. If he could run for TX gov again I'd support him as VPOTUS candidate - only to get him the heck out of TX. |
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2nd to last sentence: "... a conservative Texas governor ..."
Rick Perry is the furthest thing from conservative. Mr. Lewis do some fact checking before putting labels on politicians. |
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Governor Perry serves two good purposes.
1. He shows how strong the Republican Party is in Texas because he can get easily re-elected even though he is almost brain dead.
2. Has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that GWB, was the "brains" behind his Texas Governorship - not Rick Perry who was Lt. Governor at the time.
Hopefully anyone choosing a VP candidate will choose one who can bring in a battleground State. Thankfully that leaves Perry out. |
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Don't be fooled by this wolf in sheeps clothing. This guy was a Democrat, and couldn't get elected in Texas being one, so he switched parties. Texas had billions of dollars left over in excess taxes, which Tricky Ricky wouldn't give us back. He passed a Business tax as well. He tried to innoculate our 11 year old daughters for an STD vaccine without any long term studies. He promised to be tough on our borders and failed. He is for the Trans Texas Corridor, costing tax payers over 180 billion of our money, selling it out to a Spanish company, Cintra, and the company keeps the profits.
Quit drinking the kool-aid, sheeple! |
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Here in Texas, we know him as the best pro bono lobbyist Mexico ever had, after Jorge Bush. The guy goes against his own tough re-election promises on the border and then takes every other opportunity he can find to annoy his base. He tried to use an executive order to mandate the HPV vaccine for all middle-school girls after the manufacturer hired his good buddy and former staffer. Governor Goodhair in the White House? Yikes. |
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Rick Perry would be impeached by now if TX had an impeachment mechanism. He ran a strong "secure the border" campaign, which got him 40% of the vote as the lesser of 4 evils. As soon as he got re-elected he reversed his position and became an open borders advocate.
Perry should run around the country. He is more popular out of the state than in it. |
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If you are a lobbyist with money, Rick Perry is your politician. Perry is responsible for deregulating electric utility rates. Prior to deregulation, electric rates were in the bottom 30% of the country. Now electric rates are in the top 30% of the country.
Rick Perry was so unpopular with voters that he was re-elected with 39% of the votes in a four way race.
Want more! Rick Perry is responsible for the NAFTA highway through Texas. |
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I worked for a hog farmer one summer, so you name it, I've validated it. |
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trying to cram and ram another CINO/RINO down our throats so they can keep their elite positions.
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how completely out of touch with reality, and with the people, the talking head elites like Matt are.
What a clown, and he gets paid? Is being naive and politically challenged part of the requisite?
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I am not old enough to have actually heard it from Cactus Jack (wouldn't he have laughed at our pc culture!). It may have been s___, but P___ is what was usually is in buckets. |
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How could ANYone think this guy has national possibilities? Living in Texas and observing his activities.. (like the mandated immunization for girls idea and the Trans Texas Corridor) there is no way he could survive a national primary. He's sunk his ship before the launch if there's any national ambitions in his head... |
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Perry was "peter principled" long ago.
He's got a nice head of hair, though.
I'm amused when outsiders put forward failures like Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison as possibilities for higher office. |
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Perry was "peter principled" long ago.
He's got a nice head of hair, though.
I'm amused when outsiders put forward failures like Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison as possibilities for higher office. |
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So far, it's unanimous. Those who know him best, by the way he has presided over our State, are less than underwhelmed with Mr. Perry's political performance. He switched from the Democrat Party in 1989 before running and winning the office of Agriculture Commissioner. Democrat office-holders in Texas are (or at least were at that time), by and large, much more conservative than in most of the rest of the country. To refer to him as a "conservative" makes sense if you're speaking of him as a Democrat. But as a Republican, the term "conservative" seems strangely out of place. He's much more of a "moderate," particularly on tax and spend, and immigration issues. Like the rest of the Texans who've commented here, I think he's already risen to (or above) his highest level of incompetence. I'd like to see Republicans start electing folks whom we can trust to take a stand for the right things, without our having to always watch and lobby them to do what they promised they'd do. Mr. Perry is not that man. |
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Gov Perry has often not told the truth. As a conservative I will not support him in any electio. |
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And I am here to tell you that Rick Perry is a dirt bag and in no way is a conservative, much less an American patriot.
Furthermore, the reason he has such close ties with Giuliani is because it is Giuliani's law firm that facilitated the secret deal between Perry and the spanish company, Cintra, who is taking over many of our highways in Texas.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56309
Here in Texas, we call him Governor "good hair", amongst other more colorful things. You want him? You can have him! He is made of the same traitorous cloth as Jorge Bush and is every bit as much in favor of open borders and Jorge's Security and Prosperity Partnership/North American Union, as is Jorge. |
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He must be an imposter. The Perry Texans know never talks like this. He is just too busy trying to sell our tollways to foreign companies or trying to force 6th grade girls to get the HPV vaccine for anything else. Then he hides under his desk instead of defending his unpopular positions. For those of you outside of Texas who are not familiar with him, he is extremely unpopular here in Texas even among conservatives. Giuliani may not be conservative but at least he is not a fake like Perry. |
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I wasn't there when Cactus Jack Garner is alleged to have made this statement. From what I have read, the word had the same letter count, and the p was substitituted to make it printable.
I didn't vote for Rick Perry. Sometimes it isn't the lesser of two evils, it is the evil of two lessers.
If he is on next year's ticket with Rudy the Urban Legend, I won't vote.
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My husband said, "Is he going for VP of the United States or of Mexico?" |
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John Nance Garner never said 'the Office of Vice President wasn't worth "a warm bucket of spit"'. That is the pc version. He said "The office of Vice President isn't worth a bucket of warm p___". Which sums up my opinion of Rick Perry.
Perry is all the things I don't like about Pres. Bush and none of the things I respect.
I think most Texans voted for Perry as the lesser evil, I was actually going to vote for Kinky (at least he is not a politician) but he flip-flops on the right to bear arms and that is one mistake Rick Perry has never made.
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Ricardo and Jorge are 2 peas in a pod. All Hat and NO Cattle! Regardless of what Ricardo says, he's an open borders amigo. He'd pave the entire I-35 corridor a mile wide tomorrow if he thought he could hoodwink the taxpayers, er I mean...LEGAL Americans! |
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Two term Vice President John Nance Garner is noted for saying that the Office of Vice President wasn't worth "a warm bucket of spit".
So in that sense, Perry would be perfect.
If you want someone who believes in the sanctity of our nation's borders, or, actually wants our children to have a "snowball's" chance at a future, look elsewhere.
Truly, you have got to stop drinking the party kool aid. How well did that work in last November's General Election?
WAKE UP. |
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Yea, real conservative. I'm not interested in anything he has to say. |
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With the way Gov. Perry has been acting since he got reelected, it is unlikely he could win in Texas. Any candidate who thinks he would make a good VP choice needs to think about that. |
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I'm also from Texas. There are a lot of people here who don't believe what he says. The general opinion: All Talk. No Walk. |
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As a Texan I am not convinced of Perry's conservative instincts. He is not tough enough on illegal immigration. |
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I live in Texas and follow our state politics. Perry talks a tough game, but his actions are many times contrary to his words. I was at the last State GOP convention in San Antonio and during his speech he went on and on about sealing the Texas/Mexico border. After he was reelected, he changed his mind. We need REAL conservatives, not empty windbags like Rick Perry. |
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For a giuliani nomination is perfect. Two cheap labor importers! |
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Perry would be an excellent VP choice if Giuliani gets the nomination! |
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