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 Rick Perry to Run for President Starting This WeekendPosted on Aug 8, 2011
The Texas governor will almost certainly launch a broadside against current GOP front-runner Mitt Romney this weekend when he takes the wraps off his campaign for president. Perry has been the governor of Texas since George W. Bush handed over the reins in 2000 and currently presides over a catastrophic drought and a rather embarrassing budget deficit. He is said to appeal to social conservatives and tea party types and could make a big splash in a GOP pool without many strong swimmers. —PZS
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By ra[ph, August 10, 2011 at 6:05 am Link to this comment
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It could be another obamanation.
Report thisBy SoTexGuy, August 9, 2011 at 3:57 pm Link to this comment
Perry is less-than-respected across much of the state of Texas. Hated even in many areas. Yet he remains? It’s a testimony to the fundamental nature of Texas Power Politics, if nothing else. The Radical Christian Right and End-Worlders are window dressing. Perry wears his faith like a cheap suit.. in my opinion.
Like ‘em or hate ‘em there is something special about Texas politicians and especially governors who seek national office and of course the big chair in Washington. They win big or, inexplicably, disappear?
After John Connally, an already popular and charismatic governor seeking higher office, took a bullet for JFK it seemed inevitable he would become President.. the Dems and the Power elite discarded him.. There’s some sewer treatment plants named after him.
Like most everybody, I was sickened and not a little scared by the antics of Bush and the cartel that supported him. Perry? he’s a total lightweight pushed only by vanity and self-interest. Kind of like the guy we have now.
Adios!
Report thisBy Jim Yell, August 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm Link to this comment
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Let’s be honest, no matter how modern Christianity becomes and no matter how much people say we should trust the good intentions of Islam it is clearly stated in their dogma that it is right and proper to kill heretics, to force themselves upon others. That is how Christianity and Islam became global religions by not having any respect for other people.
Our Bill of Rights regarding establishing a Religion or even financing Religion came out of this understanding. As it became clear that we would have to all hang together, or we would hang separately clear headed thinkers realized it could not be done without a guarantee that would give all people the right to live within their own definitions of right and wrong, so long as it did not infringe upon other peoples rights and did not advocate behavior that was clearly criminal.
Now we have Lunacy so bad that supposedly reputable politicians and supposed thinkers are advocating the establishment of Religion in the United States. This is disgusting. We should have moved past this type of scam. It is very much like the exasperation we feel when inspite of all the efforts to protect spouses from abuse, too many continue to facilitate their own abuse. Why?
Report thisBy Shenonymous, August 9, 2011 at 6:49 am Link to this comment
5 Yups ITW. But he is not elected yet!
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, August 9, 2011 at 6:15 am Link to this comment
His college transcript was released…He got a “D” in Economics. “F” in, I think, Biology. He’s going to fix our economy? He’s going to push Genesis as science?
Wasn’t 8 years of George W. Bush enough?
Report thisBy Rodney, August 9, 2011 at 6:06 am Link to this comment
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Another religous bigot running for President. After reading Richards post he said it best. Nothing more to say.
Report thisBy kerryrose, August 9, 2011 at 5:27 am Link to this comment
Read this article about another faux-Christian’s social priorities.
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/08/08-5
Report thisBy Shenonymous, August 9, 2011 at 4:22 am Link to this comment
The media loves a freak show. It’s what they feed us 24 hours a day.
Report thisRick Perry is about as mentally malformed as they get. And Hagee,
whose mind is a fiction, is Pious Perry’s ecclesiastical gargoyle.
By Richard_Ralph_Roehl, August 9, 2011 at 4:03 am Link to this comment
Hmmm… I see that Tex-ass Governor Rick Perry, a hard core ‘Jeeezass wacko’, is preparing to ‘Jim Crow’ his candidacy for the President of capitalist/fascist Amerika to the $tatus quo media machine.
Whoa! Another damn Texan… wanting to become the President! Wake up ewe fools! See what happened when LBJ, the Tex-ass bubbahh-bully who helped plot the murder of JFK, became the President in 1963-64. We ended up with ten years of war in $ovietnam.
No need to say much about George Bush the Lessor, a dry drunk $ociopathic EX-Tex-ass Governor… that pushed Amerika into Iraq-NAM and Afghanistan-NAM. Frat-rat Bush (a.k.a.: Jr.) had the insight of a rabid dog and the compassion of outhouse sewage. And he did everything that KKKarl Rove and Dick Cheney, the real President, told him to do.
Tex-ass is the death penalty $tate. It is a vicious mean-espirited culture where KKKristian/Zionist Jeezass folk carry big guns to bolster the low self-esteem of tiny penises… and even smaller brains.
Yeah! I mess with Tex-ass! And I’m not the only one out here that hates everything that Tex-ass squats for!
Report thisBy prisnersdilema, August 8, 2011 at 8:31 pm Link to this comment
The Republican party has become a pathetic freak show…It wasn’t always this bad…
Now it’s just a revival meeting, praying for America’s return, praying for rain, believing
with a stupidity rivalling the flat earth society, that some one else turned this country
into shit.
A Rick Perry presidency would divide this country like nothing else ever could exept
Report thisanother civil War, for which his candidacy would be but a prelude. Just remember our
military is made up mostly of southerners.
By California Ray, August 8, 2011 at 6:22 pm Link to this comment
?Let us pray.
Report thisLord, we ask forgiveness for the sins committed by the last guy who went from Governor of Texas to President.
Amen.
By grokker, August 8, 2011 at 6:20 pm Link to this comment
Not that the country’s brain trust resides in its politicians, but this guy makes G.W. Bush look like Louis Pasteur.
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