Quote from: elmerfudd on August 13, 2011, 03:49:46 PM
And you really, honestly believe that would be Sarah Palin?  Or Michelle Bachman?

Your lib colors are showing...

Pretty good read but I'm still having trouble getting to understand how he went from being a Dem to almost being a lobbyiest to becoming a Repub. ???

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/rick-perry-democrat-years/

Quote from: WoodBurner on August 14, 2011, 01:06:57 PM
Pretty good read but I'm still having trouble getting to understand how he went from being a Dem to almost being a lobbyiest to becoming a Repub. ???

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/rick-perry-democrat-years/

It's not that hard. Read up on Ronald Reagan. He was a union Democrat for a long time, but saw the light later in his life. Twenty-two years have gone by since Perry switched from Reagan Dem to Reagan Pub -- not much of a switch!

Quote from: tbone0106 on August 14, 2011, 07:29:32 PM
It's not that hard. Read up on Ronald Reagan. He was a union Democrat for a long time, but saw the light later in his life. Twenty-two years have gone by since Perry switched from Reagan Dem to Reagan Pub -- not much of a switch!

There was a big difference in the ideology of the Dim party of the 50s and 60s as opposed to when Perry was a Dim.
I understand what you're saying, but I really don't think the comparison applies today.

Read this T, and maybe you'll see why I'm so against a Perry Presidency, he has no core values, None!!!

Rick Perry is a former Democrat, Al Gore's state chairman in 1988, a big government type who used an executive order to try to force Texas children entering 6^th grade to be injected with Gardasil, a drug to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.  Mandated -- sound conservative to you? So you think government is getting intrusive?  Think ObamaCare is forcing you to choose one kind of healthcare?  So just how does it feel to have your 11-year-old daughter tell you she has to be treated with Gardasil to protect her against STDs?
That's Rick Perry, folks.  And fortunately both houses of the Texas Legislature overruled him after he signed the executive order demanding such a fatuous action.  Sound like a small-government conservative to you?
Any concerns on illegal immigration?  Maybe you feel open borders are a problem?  Well, Rick Perry has quite an answer for you.  His signature legislation was the Trans-Texas Corridor, where Texas would use its eminent domain to take a mile-wide swath of land from the Texas border to the Oklahoma border and turn it over to a Spanish company for a highway, rail corridor.  And, anyone from Mexico could travel into Texas, with no customs check until they hit Kansas.
If you like open borders, you will love Rick Perry.
And the Arizona immigration law passed last year?  "It's not for Texas," says Perry.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/rick_perry_a_moderates_conservative.html

Some pretty damning facts regarding Perry. He's got a lot  of explaining to do.

Quote from: The mighty wu on August 15, 2011, 06:50:16 AM
Some pretty damning facts regarding Perry. He's got a lot  of explaining to do.

There really is only one explanation, RINO.
This is why I say he is not Conservative, he has no core values, governing the way he has proves he has no anchor from which he works.

Column at the Wall Street Journal - Link - that accuses Perry of using a state/federal business loan program to solicit campaign funds.

Quote from: arpad on August 15, 2011, 09:34:10 AM
Column at the Wall Street Journal - Link - that accuses Perry of using a state/federal business loan program to solicit campaign funds.

Goopd find.
I guess he learned a lot from Gore, or vice versa.

Quotethe fund has committed nearly $200 million of taxpayer money to fund 133 companies.

This alone shoes lib values, not to mention the corruption that follows.

Quote from: Solar on August 15, 2011, 10:03:00 AM
Goopd find.
I guess he learned a lot from Gore, or vice versa.
This alone shoes lib values, not to mention the corruption that follows.

The hole just keeps getting deeper.

But he has great hair...

Quote from: arpad on August 15, 2011, 09:34:10 AM
Column at the Wall Street Journal - Link - that accuses Perry of using a state/federal business loan program to solicit campaign funds.

Looks like a hit piece to me. WSJ is hardly a dependable conservative media outlet, even with Murdoch at the helm.

Quote from: taxed on August 19, 2011, 03:36:28 PM
But he has great hair...

So does John Edwards. :))

I didn't know some of these things about Perry and of course will do my own research but if what I have read here is true then I am no longer a Perry hopeful, but a Perry hope not..

I'm liking Bachman and although I really like Palin I wonder if she isnt to polerized. I also like Cain but doubt that he would be elected..

  As far as the Magic Negro not getting four more years, I will not again waste my vote on anyone who does not plan on making the hard choices to begin fixing our problems. I understand it cannot be done over night, but at this point, I would rather see 4 more years of the Magic Negro then suffer thru watching a Rino lead us to a slower death.

Quote from: AmericanMom on August 22, 2011, 04:50:19 PM
I didn't know some of these things about Perry and of course will do my own research but if what I have read here is true then I am no longer a Perry hopeful, but a Perry hope not..

I'm liking Bachman and although I really like Palin I wonder if she isnt to polerized. I also like Cain but doubt that he would be elected..

  As far as the Magic Negro not getting four more years, I will not again waste my vote on anyone who does not plan on making the hard choices to begin fixing our problems. I understand it cannot be done over night, but at this point, I would rather see 4 more years of the Magic Negro then suffer thru watching a Rino lead us to a slower death.

The more I look, the more I see Cain as the logical choice. That doesn't mean he'll get the nomination though. Look at the last guy that got it...

Quote from: AmericanMom on August 22, 2011, 04:50:19 PM
I didn't know some of these things about Perry and of course will do my own research but if what I have read here is true then I am no longer a Perry hopeful, but a Perry hope not..

I'm liking Bachman and although I really like Palin I wonder if she isnt to polerized. I also like Cain but doubt that he would be elected..

  As far as the Magic Negro not getting four more years, I will not again waste my vote on anyone who does not plan on making the hard choices to begin fixing our problems. I understand it cannot be done over night, but at this point, I would rather see 4 more years of the Magic Negro then suffer thru watching a Rino lead us to a slower death.

Well said and I agree!