I’m flattered, but I did not exhaustively research that post. I don’t know that Perry specifically has advocated state’s rights, etc., but they do seem to be positions held by Republicans in general.
Yup. They only hire members of the athletic department from the University of Tennessee.
Ya know, I heard there were some people from the Penn State athletic department looking for work. And, it’s closer to Virginia, AND they probably really like Virgins!
But if it’s already posted could you send me a link so I can bask in what passes for popularity these days?
Sounds like he has . . . plans . . . for Canada.
No worries. You’re good.
Seems he’s somewhat inconsistent on that front anyway…
[QUOTE=NY Times]
Mr. Perry uses the issue of states’ rights to give his candidacy an overarching theme, tap into the frustrations that have fueled the Tea Party movement and highlight the substance behind his swaggering style.
Though the governor has a claim to acting on these principles, he has come to publicly embrace states’ rights as a defining issue only in the past few years, a period when the 10th Amendment has been a rallying cry for many Tea Party supporters, libertarians and others who make up his party’s conservative base. And he has been inconsistent in applying those beliefs, drawing criticism from some states’ rights advocates and raising questions even among fellow Republicans about whether his stance is as much campaign positioning as a philosophical commitment.
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It was a primarily Democratic legislature, but you can blame the Republicans anyway. Here’s why:
First, the requirements for qualifying to appear on the VA ballot have been in effect since the 1970s. However, even though the law demands 10,000 valid signatures, it has always been up to the individual parties to establish the rules they use to “validate” the signatures, even if they do nothing at all to actually validate them. An Independent candidate running to be a state delegate filed suit because:
Up until this election cycle, the VA Republican Party merely required candidates submit the required 10,000 signatures and never bothered to validate them. But because of this pending suit (Osborne v Boyles, btw), the party decided to err on the side of caution and this time they sent out notices to all the candidates in October that they would need to collect 15,000 signatures to ensure that at least 10,000 of them were valid, which would get them out of actually having to sift through them one-by-one. Any candidate who brought in at least 15,000 signatures would be presumed to be in compliance and automatically certified by the state party.
Romney came in with well over 15,000 signatures and was automatically qualified by the party. Paul came in with just over 14,000, but because he didn’t meet the party’s arbitrary threshold of 15,000, every one of his signatures was examined. Once he was found to have had at least 10,000 valid signatures, he too was certified.
Perry & Gingrich each came in with around 11,000 signatures, and a line-by-line examination revealed that each had in excess of 1,000 invalid signatures, therefore disqualifying them.
In every prior election in every prior year, a submission of 11,000 signatures wouldn’t have been examined by the party, and the candidates would have been presumed to be in compliance and certified by the party to be on the ballot.
So the only people Perry & Gingrich have to thank for not qualifying to appear on the ballot are themselves and the Republican Party of the Great State of Virginia.
Mitt Romeny likes Big Bird, but he like Big Bird sponsored by Bud light a lot more.
So he wants to tell public tv stations what business model to use? I guess he doesn’t watch public tv. Even if they lost government money, they would try to live on viewer donations.
I’m curious as to just how long it will take for the Republican Party to go ahead and rename themselves the Ferengi Party. Chrissakes, if it ain’t made of money, they don’t seem to give a shit about it.
Well that’s not completely true. They also like their big military and toeing the party line no matter what. So they’re really the Klingo-Ferengi Collective.
Here is you path to economic success- guaranteed!
““Do you know if you do two things in your life — if you do two things in your life, you’re guaranteed never to be in poverty in this country? What two things, that if you do, will guarantee that you will not be in poverty in America? Number one, graduate from high school. Number two, get married. Before you have children. If you do those two things, you will be successful economically.” Rick Santorum
North Carolina Family Policy Council has a short memory about the whole crosshair imagery = bad PR move thing.
I can’t wait to see the response to this one. High school education and gettin’ hitched guarantees success eh? I know a whole bunch of people right now who are evidence to the contrary.
That’s hilarious. I should send him copies of my tax returns and my first husband’s medical bills during a few years. The one adds up higher than the others and… well… let’s just say that the higher number wasn’t my tax return.
I wasn’t just a married high school graduate. I was a married college graduate.
Rick, I never got married, but on the other hand my name hasn’t become synonymous with the lubricant froth of anal intercourse. So I guess it kinda worked out.
Can I nominate Frothy’s line for stupid Republican idea of the year?
Ugh, that’s stupid. Dog whistle politics at it’s most basic: if you’re poor you either didn’t graduate from high school (i.e., you’re stupid or lazy) or you had children out of wedlock (i.e., you lack traditional values).
Stupid as it is, there have been so many others that we’d have to do a careful review before granting that one. I mean, think of all those Sarah Palin comments on her bus tour.
That one’s a bit of a storm in a teacup.