So the dipshit is going to run for President. Bachman needs tougher competition in the crazy pool.
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-perry-run-president-cnn-201057459.html
When was the last time a Texas Governor ran for President? How did that work out?
Can we please, please give Texas back to Mexico. Is there a lower form of life than a Texas politician?
Texas voters?
Perry is an Aggie.
Watched about ten minutes or so of the Republican debate this evening. It’s a sad commentary when all of those loonies can make Newt look like the best choice.
As if that’s an excuse.
I think Perry, Santorum, or Bachmann would all make fine representatives of the Republican party. Of course, as such, they aren’t fit to lead a troop of girl scouts. Did Romney reiterate his contempt for human rights and due legal process? I seem to remember him adamantly supporting Bush’s torture policies during a similar so-called debate on Fox so-called News some years ago.
Well, the Republicans are going to nomimate someone for President, eventually, and as much as Perry completely fails to interest me (and I’ve lived in Texas for most of his tenure), the Press seems almost to be quivering in anticipation of the juicy headlines that Tea Party carpetbaggers like Perry and Bachmann promise in the months to come. Whether that translates into a serious chance at nomination I cannot say.
Didn’t pay any attention to the debate tomight, but really should have. Guess I’ll have to haul my ass in front of the TV at some point to see what, if anything, concrete he has to say.
It’s going to be interesting to see whether he throws the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) under the bus. He was a member in the 1990s- it’s not clear whether he still is. For anyone unaware, SCV was a benign ancestry group dedicated to preserving Confederate historic sites and talking about the Civil War (originally it was to help provide for veterans, but the last ones died two generations ago). They admittedly were propagating the Lost Cause mythology for most of their existence but they were generally apolitical.
In the late 1990s-early 2000s they underwent a change and are now an ultraconservative group that not only has double downed on Lost Cause rhetoric but is about as close as you can get to being openly white supremacist/anti-government/pro-secession without being openly so (and many of its members are also members of groups that are openly so)- it was radical enough that some former presidents and many lifelong members of the group resigned.
So Perry can denounce them- which pisses off a whole lot of members of his base (because SCV is still hundreds of thousands strong with some influential members) or say “Yeah, I’m a member” and piss off many others, though admittedly some of the ones he’d piss off would never have voted for him anyway. It’s going to be interesting to see how he plays it.
I’ve had some run ins with the SCV (I work at a museum) and my very first encounter with them was in the form of one of their Camp Commanders telling me that Lincoln was a Communist and so is Obama. I have no idea how the conversation wound up going in that direction but it did. One of our former board members used to be a member of the SCV. He quit when history and preservation took a backseat to complaining about black people and the government. It really has become an ugly organization even compared to their Lost Cause origin.
A few years ago I rather enjoyed discussing parallels between Bush and Lincoln with my local SCV folks.
I guess this was after the shift that Sampiro describes, but I never heard anything I’d call white supremacist rhetoric. Possibly a remark of two about the blacks in the cities, but you don’t have to be at an SCV table to hear that. I was employed by an SCV guy in another area (in unrelated work) in 2009, and he was a good guy as far as I could see.
Yeah, it appears his long flirtation is almost over.
Perry was featured on the BBCamerica news this morning. A shot of him leading prayers at The Response proved he could draw crowds! Looking all folksy in jeans, he seemed a real man of the people; & he can “create jobs!” No mention that he’s been sucking off the government teat since 1984, when he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives. As a Democrat; he switched in 1989. Darn, too bad that riot coverage wasn’t taking up so much time on my favorite morning news. (I’m joking, I’m joking!)
The Texas Observer (where they still miss Molly) has a whole web page on The Perry Trail.
On the lighter side, The many moods of Doug Niedermeyer. How did he do at A&M? Well, he couldn’t get into veterinarian school. And let’s hear from Stephen Colbert.
He got a C in gym. That’s my kind of candidate.
As a Texan, I wish there was somewhere and some way we could deport Rick Perry. The man is an unprincipled cretin who longs for the good ol’ days of the robber barons. Yeah he has created jobs in Texas; minimum wage crap jobs with no hope of advancement, that, once you have one you are trapped in Texas forever. Not so long ago high tech jobs with relatively good pay were flocking to the I-35 corridor in Texas, then came Bush, and those high paying jobs started fleeing once again. Perry didn’t help things at all. We don’t need some inbred, lying, small town, anti-intellectual, bible-thumping hick as president. We all see how well that worked last time.
On a positive note, Perry running for President means he has to give up being governor of Texas.
When was the last time before President Obama that a senator from Illinois ran for president? How did that work out?
(I’ll save you the trouble of looking this up.)
These are two separate Texas governors. They aren’t the same person - and in fact there isn’t much love lost between Bush and Perry. It was Bush forces behind Kay Bailey Hutchison’s primary challenge against Perry in the last election.
I don’t think I favor Perry for a couple of reasons but this statement in your OP was asinine.
Only if he wins.
Or any mention of how under the Good Hair, unemployment rate isn’t any better than that liberal Northern bastion of New York or mention that somehow all this demand for jobs hasn’t led to anything resembling higher wages. Or that we’re near the top among states with number of minimum wage jobs and people living under the poverty line. Or near the bottom in education and uninsured children.
He likes to put it out that he made the state welcoming to business.
What’s really happened is that there’s a ton of cheap land and people decided to move here, and the businesses naturally followed. Our unemployment rate should be lower if we’re actually so business friendly.
Besides, it’s the Lt Governor that holds real power in Texas, due to that unfortunate argument between states. It’s a weird modern phenomenon that Governor of Texas is a prominent position.
The thing is, Perry’s a politician first, and an idealogue second. He’ll do whatever’s good for Rick Perry, not necessarily what the party says. If you watch him, he’ll be into whatever’s the big deal for Republicans at the moment- tea party stuff, religion, etc… even though at the beginning of his governorship, he didn’t really talk about any of that stuff too loud.
I find a little comfort in that; if the powers-that-be in Congress can maneuver him in such a way that what’s good for him is what’s good for the country, then things will be ok.
On the other hand, he’s tried for a definite “Imperial” governorship in Texas. He’s presided over more naked power grabs than any other governor I’m aware of- he meddles in the affairs of his alma mater, he makes unilateral decrees (see the HPV vaccine mandate), and generally acts like he’s king, even though the Texas governor has no real power. That “weird modern phenomenon” mentioned is due entirely to Rick Perry.
I’ll give you a slight bit of reminder as to why this isn’t asinine. Moseley Braunmay have run for President but she didn’t create a blip in the polls and didn’t win. There was a governor from Texas who was totally incompetent, a tool for the Texas political machine, and who did assume the office without winning except for having some outside help from the Supreme Court (If the Supreme’s were what they pretend to be two of them would have recused themselves).
Your comparison is asinine. You have made my point.
I don’t want to give a “f” about Perry, Bush, Hutchinson, Cheney, Rove, and the other crooks that are part of the Texas political machine that seem to have far too much influence on the election of high level executives in the Executive branch of the government. Comparing Obama to Braun is a shame on you.
Perry is a POS. It’s a shame to America and it’s Constitution that somebody like Perry can even consider himself to be fit to assume the highest executive office of the USA.
Some more fodder:
http://gawker.com/5831159/rick-perry-wants-to-execute-the-chairman-of-the-fed
Perry is challenging Bachman for “blithering idiot of the current and last century”.
Bernake printing money? Read the fucking paper you moron. Don’t pray over it, read it. Last week the Fed said that they intended to keep interest rates at “near zero” through 2013. How is that “printing money”?
Perry, pull out your loaded pistol that serves as your limp dick, take off the safety, put it to your temple and pull the trigger. That would be a great service to this great country and the condition (I can’t say State) of Texas. It would get another dangerous psychopath out of our way.
One might have thought he’d be able to learn from his experience trotting out Al Sharpton as an example of Democratic support of wingnuts. But one would have been wrong.