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I just flew from Dallas back to Austin on Southwest and pointy boots Perry was on my flight two rows behind me. As a conservative I've never been a big fan of many of his policies, but hanging out by gate 14 at Love Field for about a half hour I saw him in action while waiting on the flight.

He's smooooothe......slick smoooooothe.....used car salesman smoooooooothe. Now I know why I don't really like him. Maybe all politicians are like him but I don't hang around that type.

I was, for some reason, surprised he was flying southwest. He had a rather small posse with three aids/handlers and what looked like a Texas Ranger or DPS officer in a suit and tie. When PBP got off the plane he walked down to the tarmac where I assume his ride was waiting.
 
I think he's like every other politician and says what people want to hear to get elected. I say I'm conservative, but probably more fiscally conservative leaning libertarian politically wanting a small government to stay out of the general citizens business. That's probably why I don't like him.
 
I think he's a dumbass Aggie with very little intellectual curiousity regarding the world around him and that, foreign policywise, he'd be a disaster.
 
His being an aggy trumps everything for me. Can you imagine how horrible it would be to have an aggy president??
 
During the 37 days that America was held hostage in the 2000 "election". Arrianna Huffinfton, then still a Republican, made a comment about w that so aptly fits Little Ricky; "What concerns me most about the Governor, isn't the fact he is no intelectual giant. What concerns me, is that he doesn't appear to even be remotely curious".
 
George W. Bush was an undergrad at Yale and had a Harvard MBA. He had a lifetime exposure to people of intellect and responsibility on a national scale. Bush was no master orator, but don't confuse a few poor word choices for lacking conceptual understanding. I haven't seen test results, but in my estimation Bush would be in the skinny right side of the intellectual bell curve while Perry appears in the fat middle.

I should not be too demeaning when I talk about Bush and Perry. Bush has incredible personal charm and Perry has genius level ability to say what the Texas electorate wants to believe.
 
Maybe I was just young and dumb but I remember w as a good governor. Obviously, he was politically to the right but he didn't seem to make outlandish decisions or intentionally antagonize the left. He worked well with Hispanics and has a good number support him. I didn't always agree with his educational policies but he didn't go out of his way to inflame the educational community (is that a thing?) with hateful rhetoric. Basically he wasn't a giant ******* like the current governor. But maybe they are the same and are just giving people what they want. The political climate, especially amongst conservatives, is much more hostile than it used to be. Bush would have to be more aggressive or get beat out by a fire breather these days.
 
What kind of grades did the "most transparent" president have while at Harvard? I guess we will never know...
 
Obama graduated from Harvard Law and was on the faculty at the University of Chicago. He's not a great president, but comparing his intellect to Perry's is like comparing the sex appeal of a Ferrari to a Prius.
 
I join those who think that George W. Bush was a very effective Governor. He was a steady persona who was able to work effectively with members of both parties. Perry has been a pretty decent Governor, also - not that I want to see him in the White House.

Those of you who are on the left side of the political spectrum will never be pleased with a leader from the right side of center - and it goes without saying that we on the right will not be pleased with the policies of leaders from the left side.

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I was not comparing him to anyone just making the point nobody knows. The left's strategy of painting every republican as stupid is never ending.

Didn't Obama once say there were 58 states? Anyone rising to the level of POTUS is above average in intelligence. As I stated, Perry will not even get the nomination.
 
I think we in the left and center see Palin, Perry and Michelle Bachman as lacking the necessary intellect to lead the free world. Conservative leaders like Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mitt Rommney, Greg Abbott or Ted Cruz don't get the same criticism. I have big differences with Cruz, Santorum and Abbott, but I respect their intellect.

Too many equate "intelligence" with "He believes all the same stuff I do."
 
R35 has zero facts yet compares intellect. The teleprompter in chief couldn't speak from the heart intelligently about anything. He doesn't know nor write any of his material. He can barely read it but he has gotten better with practice.

He is fantastic at fundraising and dividing the population to polar opposite opinions.
 
LTS -- you and I have some common beliefs. But you are a Republican by choice and I'm Republican because it's the only way I can have a say in local races. I'm miss the days when center to conservative Democrats like William Hobby, Bob Bullock and Mark White held sway and the legislature was truly bi-partisan with Republican holding major committee chair positions in bodies dominated by Democrats.
 
Rog: JImmy Carter was a very smart president but a fiasco; Truman was not and was pretty decent,

We assume a Harvard law school degree means somebody is smart. It doesn't; I've worked with a couple who attended and graduated and they were not any more bright than the average at UT. And he got the Chicago gig because he had the Harvard resume and was black. How many black men have degrees from there and are willing to work part time at UChicago? His wife was an affirmative action admission and then went to work administering aa programs for a hospital district. Not impressed.

As for his great speech in 2004, it was all whey and no butter. I recall telling friends that I agreed with everything he said in substance, which was "isn't this a great country, where a black man like me can get elected to the Senate?" Yes, it is.

He said nothing substantive at all; go back and read the effing speech. It was inspiring and devoid of substance. I dislike charismatic leaders because they win with charm and then administer as if the world owes them a living.

JFK was the same way---he sounded great but there was little substance, he wasn't prepared for the job and he couldn't get zhit through congress.
 
Rog:LBJ passed the bills Kennedy talked about because he understood the requirements of the job and took it seriously, which Kennedy did not. He was too busy chasing *****.

He never saved me from anything that he did not start up himself. Krushchev put the missiles in Cuba to keep us from invading the country, which we had previously done on Kennedy's watch. And Kennedy and his thuggish brother were continuing to try to murder Castro. So pardon me if I don't get glassy eyed grateful to the man.

Obama's speech was inspiring but devoid of content. You read some into it and love the man. I don't and think he was unprepared for the job; he had spent his four years in the Senate getting ready to run and then running. You can't vote "
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resent" as president, as he often did in the Illinois Senate.

He has been a lot better in terms of foreign policy than I expected and oceans better than his predecessor. As for domestic policy, when you have a do nothing congress then, as a republic, you get nothing much done. That is the way the system is set up. You don't just go out and start ruling by decree.

As for his wife being smarter than me, I disagree. I read her Princeton senior thesis and it is not any better than a thousand term papers I read when I was a grad student in UT's history department.

She worked in a law firm for a while and then
went to work in an affirmative action program. People with near average IQs customarily handle such duties. I have seen nothing from her that suggests exalted intelligence,

I am a middle of the road democrat and you are a denizen of the left wing and bring your own history and political baggage with you every time you post.

Try looking at the world through the other end of the glasses some time and your left wing views might soften a bit; mine did.after a while.
 
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