Noted on Twitter today that Palin is kinda poking at Perry (pointing out how often he said he wouldn't run) but that's not the story. I found a link, too, to this long piece on NRO about perry from a writer who's clearly a big fan. Obviously one has to factor that in, the guy doesn't hide his admiration, but the story is teased with "The guy Dems were afraid George W. Bush was? Rick Perry is actually that guy." I haven't had time to finish it yet but the interesting bit to me, so far, is the passage about how intensely the Bushes dislike perry, and the associated comments about how unconservative Bush really was, in both the author's opinion and Perry's. It's far too long to quote here in anything like it's entirety but I'll give you that bit, and a link: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/265309/rick-perry-s-tenth-commandment-kevin-d-williamson#
You keep on fooling yourself chief. I last voted for "the establishment candidate" in either the primary or the general in 1992. But you probably overlooked that I've said like three times as much about Gary Johnson as any other candidate...
Buy the way, some of you fuckers are supposed to have posted a "More love for Katey Perry" parody by now...get to it!
Less love for Rick Perry Seems like he's not into the whole "evidence" and "facts" thing when it comes to justice.
Might be a guy that I'd want to have beer with, but he hasn't shown me anything that would give me a reason to vote for him.
A trigger happy dimwitted asshole who's always carrying, i.e. Perry, is pretty much the last person anyone should ever want to have a beer with.
Rick Perry signed off on the muder of a person he had the ability and evidence staring him in the face to save. Not only that, but when a gov't review board was set to say Texas killed someone it shouldn't have, he killed the inquiry and buried it under the rug. Then again, I suppose in today's Republican Party that would serve as strong leadership and vision blahblahblah.
Not that I don't believe you, but educate me. If true, that alone is enough to write him off in my book. I ask because some of my friends are hoping he'll jump into the race and I want to be able to provide them with information.
Check out my link for more details - WWW.theagitator.com/2011/08/12/rick-perry-poster-boy-for-limited-government/
Rick Perry is one of those few politicians who has changed my mind on a topic. He convinced me that there should be no death penalty.
This, also. I'm with O2C. I was already starting to lean away from capital punishment, but this case cinched it for me.
Aye. Read up on the same case and my conclusion was that no government should have the power to kill its own citizens in such a manner.
Damn... it finally happened. An undeniably innocent man was put to death and we're willing to start accepting the risk that a dozen guilty ones may get life instead? Nice.
Look up the case of Cameron Todd Willingham. He was convicted of arson that killed his children in his mobile home. While on death row the Innocence Project got some experts to look at his case. They to a man concluded that the fire was probably an electrical fire and there was no evidence whatsoever of arson. They concluded the local person who did the case relied on techniques that had become obsolete 30 years ago. This was presented to Governor Perry and when asked for a stay for further investigation he denied it and Willingham was executed. During the last campaign for reelection for Governor, there was a committee set up by the legislature investigating the application of the death penalty, two days before testimony by the arson experts in the Willingham case was to be given Perry fired half the committee and the people he appointed to replace them buried the case.
It's not just that the techniques were obsolete; they were complete bunk even when they were in use. Willingham was convicted almost entirely on the basis of the equivalent of phrenology or astrology, and that was known with absolute certainty at the time he was seeking clemency. Perry and everyone on the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles who voted against clemency are murderers.
So did Perry back Gore because he agreed with him, or because he hated Bush? I probably won't vote for the guy, but his track record on environmental issues as Governor of Texas would not exactly make Gore proud.
Based on his track record, it seems the only candidate Rick Perry really believes in is Rick Perry. Pity you guys can't find a credible candidate. Maybe it's because you spend so much time redefining yourselves. What's the byword for this week? "I'm not a Republican...I'm a..."
If the religious right would stay out of politics, we might get some reasonable conservative candidates. From what I've read about Rick Perry, he has flip-flopped on pretty much every major issue. Why is Ron Paul getting marginalized? Is it because of his age? Or because he is a libertarian?
As I understand it - he backed him because he (Perry) was a Democrat. In any case, among the man's many faults, I'm not worried about the fact that he had the AGW issue wrong 23 years ago. We have watched it fall apart a lot since then. He's got plenty of other flaws.