Meet Governor Rick Perry: Our Next President?

[Guitar's Cry]

Green technology is a sound idea, but I don't think any of us can afford to pay 50,000 for a little car or pay three times our current utility bills in the name of "green".

I hear that a lot, and often from folks who buy a new snowmobile every winter and a new four-wheeler every summer running trucks bigger than my house (mint condition, btw, since they never use them for hauling).



I'm being hyperbolic, obviously, but remarkably, not by much.

At any rate, I think career politicians are a dangerous element in this country.

 

[McBell]

What do you make of Rick Perry? Good for the country?

I think he is nothing more than a Big Oil Drone.
Add to this the fact that he is waving his religion around on a flag and you got the makings of a real disaster as President.

 

[Darkness]

Matthew Yglesias clearly spells out why Rick Perry is a radical: The Ten Weirdest Ideas in Rick Perry's 'Fed Up'.

 

[Dirty Penguin]

Let's just take a **** flinging chimp, put a bible in one paw, a flag in the other, and set him loose in the White House. We'll have to line the floors with pages from the constitution, bill of rights, declaration of independence and other historical documents as not to ruin the carpet.

It may sound like a horrible idea, but I'm sure history will vindicate it.

:clap

 

[Reverend Rick]

Way to walk into the right-wing stereotype of judging economic performance on the basis of how you personally made out.

Guilty as charged. :sorry1:

Right now if I was a progressive, I would be worried about black americans voting on their 16% unemployment.

 

[Engyo]

Two more for the collection:

 

[darkstar]

Guilty as charged. :sorry1:

Right now if I was a progressive, I would be worried about black americans voting on their 16% unemployment.

Wow... just wow...

 

[Dirty Penguin]

Guilty as charged. :sorry1:

Right now if I was a progressive, I would be worried about black americans voting on their 16% unemployment.

Sounds a little racist to me....

 

[Shermana]

A friend from Texas sent me this today along with her apologies and warning that Perry would be worse than Bush:

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What do you make of Rick Perry? Good for the country?

Mandatory Vaccines for everyone: Vote Perry.

Who doesn't love a good shot of untested vaccines?

And who doesn't love overriding the Congress to put an executive fiat in order to do it.

Imagine if he was in power when the Swine Flux Vaxes were going around. We'd be so fortunate to have a fiat signed so we can all have mandatory injections. Vote Perry!

 

[no-body]

That is why Obama is catering to centrists now.

Which is why Obama is probably going to lose. It's dumb strategy considering he will never satisfy the conservatives, no matter what he does, ever.

I voted for Obama last time because of Mccain/Palin and will probably vote for him again because Rick "It takes balls to execute an innocent man" Perry scares the hell out of me.

 

[Engyo]

I voted for Obama last time because of Mccain/Palin and will probably vote for him again because Rick "It takes balls to execute an innocent man" Perry scares the hell out of me.

Also because, unfortunately, a vote for any 3rd party candidate in this election will in effect be a vote for the GOP candidate.

We're back to the principle of least harm again, and I realize that people have VERY different ideas about what constitutes 'least harm'.

 

[Darkness]

Which is why Obama is probably going to lose. It's dumb strategy considering he will never satisfy the conservatives, no matter what he does, ever.

I voted for Obama last time because of Mccain/Palin and will probably vote for him again because Rick "It takes balls to execute an innocent man" Perry scares the hell out of me.

Obama is playing short-term politics, when he should be worrying about how a broken economy will prevent him from being elected again. Obama is a sell-out to his progressive base, but at least he is a sane man. And a sane man will get my vote any day over the ******* crazy Republicans. Republicans today are essentially the polar opposite of state-communists. Where state-communists believe the government can solve all of our problems, contemporary Republicans believe the market will solve all our ills. And yet, their base refuses to see it.

 

[Yeshe Dawa]

Which is why Obama is probably going to lose. It's dumb strategy considering he will never satisfy the conservatives, no matter what he does, ever.

Hi No-body!

I agree. The right will always demonize him no matter how much he gives them, and he is alienating all the liberals and progressives (like me) that voted him into office. He will not get my vote in 2012.

Peace and blessings,
Yeshe
:flower2:

 

[Kathryn]

Could he do any worse? Seriously, all politicians are quilty of this. Can you think of any exceptions?

I made alot of money during the Bush years.... well 7 out of 8.

I have been in survival mode for the last 4 years and have made it through the recession but if we have a double dip, I'm throwing in the towel.

Most small businesses are sitting on the teeter totter one bad quarter away from disaster.

Treating these 250,000 dollar companies like multinational billionaires will be the death of us all.

Can we raise the bar to one million? I don't have a prop plane much less a corporate jet geeze!

Amen, Rick. My husband and I don't have a prop plane or corporate jet either. We are, however, guilty of having a hot tub.

 

[Kathryn]

Eh, like I said before, both Republicans AND Democrats are to blame. In equal parts actually. If anyone from one party tries to make an improvement, it's inevitable that the other party will block it just so they can point out how badly their opponents are doing. And that is the problem, they view each other as opponents rather than working on the same team.

Could we do worse? It's hard to imagine right now. But I'm sure we could somehow.
As I said in the forum concerning Ron Paul, at this point I'm open to trying something radically different because otherwise there won't be significant change.
Either way I've become very pessimistic and fear that things won't be improving in a noticeable way for quite some time.

Right on, Darkstar. Did you see the drop in the stock market today in response to Europe's woes? We're ALL in a downward slide. At least Texas is holding it's own.

 

[Meow Mix]

I'm not going to make one of those silly "If Perry is elected than I'm leaving the country" type comments, but boy will I turn to misanthropy and whatever the opposite of patriotism is REAL FAST.

Oh wait, I'll probably do that regardless of who wins this next election based on who I know might be running. Nevermind

 

[Darkness]

I'm not going to make one of those silly "If Perry is elected than I'm leaving the country" type comments, but boy will I turn to misanthropy and whatever the opposite of patriotism is REAL FAST.

Oh wait, I'll probably do that regardless of who wins this next election based on who I know might be running. Nevermind

I will probably do a Masters/Doctorate in England. :yes:

 

[Copernicus]

I think that Rick Perry would be a disaster for Republicans. He does have all of the features that appeal to the Koch brothers--good looks, appeal to evangelicals, appeal to "budget hawks", and an eager willingness to take money and direction from billionaire backers. I still think that he will end up being a disaster for Republicans, even with virtually unlimited funds. He can't control his mouth, and he has too many enemies, even among Republicans. He will have to sell himself on the basis of his handling of Texas, which has some serious drawbacks to it. In a debate with Obama, he would probably "hold his own" in the eyes of conservatives, but I think it would become painfully obvious to others that he has neither the knowledge nor the intellect to run this country. For all of Obama's drawbacks, he will come off well with the majority of voters in comparison to Perry. Perry is scary enough to bring Obama a lot more enthusiastic support from his base than he is getting now, before he faces any real opponent. He is scarier than Bachmann, because he seems to have greater appeal to the general electorate than she does.

 

[Mathematician]

Two more for the collection:

Pretty much true. My state is the shining example that what's good for big business is not usually good for the working and middle class.

Unemployment in Texas is higher than almost every welfare state, but we need to cut even more taxes. Education is terrible by all standards, but we need to cut even more taxes. Health care coverage is the worst in the nation, but we need to cut more taxes. Oh just shut up already, Perry.

The sad part is the GOP has basically convinced everyone in Texas that we're doing well because corporations are still profiting. Ha.

 

[Meow Mix]

The sad part is the GOP has basically convinced everyone in Texas that we're doing well because corporations are still profiting. Ha.

I'm not saying the Dems are any better, but from my limited experience it seems to me that the GOP's grandest strategy is to convince the non-rich to actively vote against themselves and love it the whole time.

How to sum up the Dems... I don't know. They're just stupid. Just chant "hope" and "change" and appeal to everyone's emotions... yeah, that'll work. I dunno, maybe someone more politically clever can help!