Feeling sorry for Gov. Perry

Crockett

Crockett

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I think my postings on Hornfans will show me to be less than admiring of our Texas Governor. But stuff showing up on facebook is too ugly for politics. I imagine you have all heard about the Austin Chronicle ad with the query "Have you had sex with Rick Perry?"The Link
. I caught some television tape of a child, being prompted by a mom with an agenda to ask Rick Perry the age of the earth and his views on evolution. As much as I enjoy reading about science, that would not be a question I'd be ready to handle.The Link
Is Rick so handsome this antipathy is from simple jealousy? Has he hurt some people so bad they hate him? Are there so many ugly folks in politics that everyone who starts looking like a potential winner gets showered in sewage?
 
Texas has a balanced budget.
The US is 16 trillion in the hole.

So, no, we are nowhere near even.
 
I would hold my nose and vote for Perry over Obama. How much of the balanced budget is due to the one time toll road sales over his term to foreign companies?

Should we expect the same thing at the national level under Perry?
 
We get a balanced budget because of the absolute requirement that we have one, not due to the trustworthiness of Perry or anyone else. Still, I would rather have someone who has lived for any time at all in an environment where "no" is in the vocabulary.
 
Why in the world would local debt be on Perry? If it is, then why wouldn't state debt be on Obama? Silly game we're playing here.
 
yeah, the local bebt issue is a major problem in tx. of course, in houston, we can thank lee brown and in dallas we have one of the most corrupt local governments in the country.
 
Some of you can't respond to a single thread without making it an Obama-bash. We get it. In your opinion he failed as POTUS and you want to replace him. Great. Now try to have a discussion about who you want to replace him, and that person's merits without turning it back to Obama.
 
Why? I think the general theme is that Rick Perry surely has his warts but we'd take him in a heartbeat over the current officeholder. Look, Obama is just in way over his head. The debt negotiations highlighted that all to well. He had to call in Biden to get that sorry deal done.

I think most people are hoping someone better than Perry will emerge but if not we can at least mercifully end this 4-year mistake.
 
Some of you can't respond to a thread without making it a BUSH-bash. We get it. He failed as the POTUS...Sound familiar? We listened to it from the other side for the last 10 years, sometimes with merit, sometimes not. Get used to it, your man is in the hotseat at this time and people want change.
 
So Perry is a solid choice because he governs (in the way Texas governors do) a state that has notably high local debt that absorbs the place of state debt? How is that his doing? Further, the state budget would likely be balanced with or without him, right?

Curious to know what any of you think will translate from Perry's resume to the job description connected with the White House.

Aside from papier mache-ing himself with passages from his bible.

I don't feel sorry for Perry in the least. I might if he didn't go out of his way to clown with jesus, but that is a central part of his MO for the presidency, apparently.

He will energize the Dem base in a way that none of the other GOP presidential hopefuls can.
 
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