Thread: Rick Perry

"PERRY: I’d say that’s misinformation. We just want to fix it."

WOW!! The ponzi scheme is the plague of lies from the far right fox news robots. Pathetic. Keep voting outside your own best interests.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry

Just setting the record straight here folks...

Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry | Pesky Truth

Times sure have ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changed!!

Those too young to remember wouldn’t recognize the Al Gore of 1988. He opposed the federal funding of abortion, supported a moment of silence in schools for prayer, approved funding of the Nicaraguan contras and was against the ban on interstate handgun sales. Gore’s platform was one that a conservative West Texas Democrat like state representative Perry could support when he signed up to chair the Senator’s Texas campaign.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Rick Perry vetoed 79 bills on the last day of his veto period

Something Obama could sure learn from if he had cojones.

More truth about Perry you Republicans should know,………

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Apparently Ron Paul has gotten into Rick Perry's head. After the last Republican debate, Perry grabbed Paul's arm, pointed a finger in his face and proceeded to lecture him. Perry has taken Texas bravado one step further than George Bush by arguably assaulting one of America's most principled and dignified elder statesman. Rick Perry has all the class of an Afghani warlord. His crude personality isn't going to win over many of America's independent voters. Even an ineffective Obama would crush Perry in a general election.

What you (Senior/s) Republicans should know about Rick Perry.

In flier, Romney hits Perry on Social Security

Mitt Romney didn’t wait long to begin his attack on Rick Perry over Social Security—his campaign is doing door-to-door distribution of a flier attacking Perry on the issue.

The flier, which a campagn spokesman said is being left at the doors of Florida GOP primary voters, portrays the GOP primary as a two-candidate race—“Two candidates. Only one will protect what’s important to you,” is the headline.

Of those two, it says, Perry is “reckless and wrong on Social Security.” The bold-face tagline: “Rick Perry: How can we trust anyone who wants to kill Social Security?”

Link: Fresh Squeezed Politics: In flier, Romney hits Perry on Social Security - from TBO.com Breaking News

Seems Bachmann will be right behind Romney on this SS issue.

Mitt Romney and his advisers have been pushing hard against Rick Perry over the Texas governor's description of Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme." Now, another Republican rival, Michele Bachmann, is preparing to hit Perry on the same issue.

Link: Bachmann plans to hit Perry on Social Security | Campaign 2012

Well, it looks like another candidate bites the dust. The experts on this site continue to amaze me with their insightful discussion of American politics. The problem I have is there seems to be no "moderate", conservative candidates. There only appears life long politicians, all of whom I can no longer trust to have my best interest at heart.

I know that somewhere men/women of a very conservative background exist. Is it simply money that keeps them in the bushes and not in the limelight?

I'd also like to add this, the Social Security program may be a Ponzi scheme but until the liberal Democratically controlled Congress figured out they could steal the money which was building in the program to buy more pork and votes for the multi-generations of cradle to grave welfare folks, there was way more money than expenditures. It was not an unfunded liability. Since the majority of American workers during the time SS was created were agrarian vs industrial there was no help for older workers who lived longer than they could work. With the modern medicine miracle
of long life the costs of SS did become greater but the added side programs were where the lions share was being spent, not direct money to the "retired" workers.

IMHO,
Jim

Perry Sticking to His Guns on Social Security

“Americans deserve a frank and honest discussion of the dire financial challenges facing the nearly 80-year-old program,” he wrote, saying that the program needs to be reformed to make it “financially viable” for younger workers."

As usual, the Lamestream Media are distorting what the man says. Imagine that...

Perry Sticking to His Guns on Social Security - Olga Belogolova - NationalJournal.com

This just in:

WASHINGTON -- Two new national polls show that Republicans give Texas Gov. Rick Perry the best chance of beating President Barack Obama in 2012, even better than that of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. But how important is electability to rank-and-file Republican voters? Although much scholarship shows that it matters a great deal to party insiders, its importance to ordinary voters is open to debate.

Rick Perry Polls Best On Electability, But Do Voters Really Care?

Where Perry stands on immigration, border control and small government (?) at 0:55 and young collage age kids at 3:00 & 7:50.

I keep trying to get on the 'Ron Paul bandwagon', but he keeps making himself look like an ass (on AC360 in August and in the debate)- I think he's done (he's to damned old to be president in any case).

another ad from Bachmann's supporters that all Republicans should know about Perry,..







other news,............

In fact it appears that Perry's rhetoric on Social Security could already be causing him problems. When PPP did a national poll three weeks ago Barack Obama led Perry by only 6 points at 49-43. Now that gap has widened to 11 points at 52-41.

link: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/m...dential-d.html

cased closed

he has spoken,...............

Rush: Texas Dream Act an albatross around Rick Perry’s neck

Despite Rick Perry sticking to his guns, Rush says that the Texas Dream Act is an albatross around his neck. Citing a popular tweet, he asks why give instate tuition fees to students who can’t legally work in the United States? It just doesn’t make sense.

He also mentions Perry’s answer to Bachmann when she hit him for the conflict of interest with Merck. He doesn’t believe Perry meant it this way, but given his answer that he couldn’t be bought for five thousand, Rush says it could be interpreted to mean that Perry does have a price much higher than five or six thousand dollars. In other words it was a bad answer.

GOP god: Rush: Texas Dream Act an albatross around Rick Perry’s neck | The Right Scoop

"Republican presidential hopeful Gov. Rick Perry on Monday turned a South Carolina forum question into a quip, on an issue where no Texas politician dare be caught on the “wrong side.”

“Honestly, the next question is so easy that I don’t even want to ask it: Are you for gun control?” asked Rep. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina.

“I am actually for gun control: Use both hands,” Perry shot back. He put on a wide old-boy grin and gave thumbs-up to his listeners."

You tell 'em Rick!

The Captain's Journal

If governors try hard enough, though, they can create lots of lousy jobs. They can drive out unions, attract low-wage immigrants, and turn a blind eye to businesses that fail to protect worker health and safety.

Rick Perry seems to have done exactly this. While Texas leads the nation in job growth, a majority of Texas's workforce is paid hourly wages rather than salaries. And the median hourly wage there was $11.20, compared to the national median of $12.50 an hour.

Texas has also been specializing in minimum-wage jobs. From 2007 to 2010, the number of minimum wage workers there rose from 221,000 to 550,000 -- that's an increase of nearly 150 percent. And 9.5 percent of Texas workers earn the minimum wage or below -- compared to about 6 percent for the rest of the nation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state also has the highest percentage of workers without health insurance. Texas schools rank 44th in the nation in per-pupil spending.

The Perry model of creating more jobs through low wages seems to be catching on around America.
Robert Reich: How to Create More Jobs By Lowering Wages: Texas and America

That's because it isn't the 'Perry' model at all- it's the Republican model. You would have to be seriously nuts to want this America. Unbelievable- most of the USA's second largest state is paid by the hour?? That means no job security, no health insurance unless you cover it yourself, and a grim quality of life that befits a third world or developing country, rather than an industrialised nation. Is this what right wingers call Freedom?

Calling a spade a spade, eh? Perry Rips Obama Regime: “They Are Socialist,” Their Policies Are “Socialism”.



In an interview with Time magazine, Gov. Rick Perry showed that he had no intention of softening the cactus-thorned rhetoric he developed during his decades in Texas politics, notably repeating his characterization of President Obama’s policies as “socialist.”

“Look, when all the answers emanate from Washington, D.C., one size fits all, whether it’s education policy or whether it’s health care policy, that is, on its face, socialism,” Mr. Perry told Time’s Richard Stengel and Mark Halperin.

In 2009, Mr. Perry told a Republican group in Texas that the Obama administration is “hell bent on taking America towards a socialist country.” This year, as he faces charges from his rivals for the Republican nomination that his positions are too extreme to win the general election, Mr. Perry said he will not change the way he speaks to appeal to the nation as a whole.
He also refused to back down from his characterization of Social Security as a “Ponzi scheme.”

“American citizens are just tired of this political correctness and politicians who are tiptoeing around important issues,” he said. “They want a decisive leader.”

No shit, Sherlock...

Now that you’ve been in the race for while, do you feel pressure to temper some of your rhetoric, like calling the Obama administration socialist?
No, I still believe they are socialist. Their policies prove that almost daily. Look, when all the answers emanate from Washington D.C., one size fits all, whether it’s education policy or whether it’s healthcare policy, that is, on its face, socialism.


http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/15...-and-rhetoric/

Perry Repeats Socialist Charge Against Obama Policies - NYTimes.com

Perry To Hold Press Conference This Week With Israeli MK Danny Danon Ahead Of UN Statehood Vote, May Endorse His Plan To Annex West Bank


Whatever one thinks of Perry his pro-Israel credentials are rock solid.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry will hold a press conference with American and Israeli-Jewish leaders in New York on Tuesday in which he is expected to address the upcoming deliberations at the United Nations, MK Danny Danon (Likud), said on Saturday night.

Danon, who will participate at the press conference, said he would ask Perry ahead of the conference to adopt the initiative the MK is advancing to annex Judea and Samaria in response to the unilateral Palestinian moves at the UN.
On Friday, Perry accused US President Barack Obama of distancing himself from Israel and blamed US foreign policy “errors” for the Palestinian push for statehood at the United Nations.

Seeking to capitalize on this week’s Republican election victory in a heavily Jewish New York congressional district, Perry said Palestinian leaders believe US-Israeli relations have weakened and said “the ultimate Palestinian solution” remains the destruction of the Jewish state.

“Errors by the Obama administration have encouraged the Palestinians,” the Texas governor wrote in a Wall Street Journal column.

“It was a mistake to agree to the Palestinians’ demand for indirect negotiations conducted through the US, and it was an even greater mistake for President Obama to distance himself from Israel and seek engagement with the hostile regimes in Syria and Iran,” he wrote.

Perry to hold pro-Israel press conferenc... JPost - International

Many Palestinians want Israel to annex the occupied territories too- that way it just becomes one country with Jewish and Palestinian citizens. Colonel Gaddafi proposed the same thing about twenty years ago.

Accompanied by Jewish leaders from the United States and Israel, Texas Governor Rick Perry blasted Barack Obama today on his “naive, arrogant, misguided and dangerous” Israel policy.

Rick Perry is looking better and better...

YID With LID: Was Rick Perry's Israel Speech Over-The-Top? Let's Look At the Facts

Rick Perry releases a withering ad on Obama. Everything that is mentioned in this Vid is spot-on.

Sympathy For The Devil: Perry Tells Social Conservatives To Pray For Obama



Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday asked an audience of social conservatives in Florida to pray for President Barack Obama.

“As I campaign for president, I not only ask you for your vote and your support, I ask you for your prayers,” Perry said. “I ask you to pray for our country. I ask you to pray for our president to give him wisdom, to open his eyes.”

Perry was addressing a rally organized by the conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition ahead of Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate in Orlando.

As he was deciding whether to run for president, Perry said prayer played a powerful role. The governor said he couldn’t have entered the race “without being driven to my knees on many occasions.”

Perry tells social conservatives to pray for Obama – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

All for that. Obama needs every bit of help he can get!