Perry talks like Bush; Could win like Reagan
Perry, the straight-talking three-term governor, is bringing to the race a message and biography that couldn’t contrast any more starkly with President Obama’s.
He grew up in rural Paint Creek, Texas, farming cotton in his early years, and attending the state’s land-grant university, Texas A&M.; Obama went to Harvard Law School, earned his political chops in Chicago, spending much of his early career in academia. Perry has governed a low-tax, low-regulation state at a time when the president has sought to expand government’s role in the economy. The Texas governor’s blunt advocacy of conservatism and faith-tinged rhetoric couldn’t be any different from Obama’s nuanced rhetoric and cautious governing style.
And he’s going to be bragging about his record of job creation in Texas, compared to the economic stagnation that’s been prevalent nationwide.
The money line from his kickoff speech: “I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can.” Those 18 words will define Perry’s candidacy, and is a pitch-perfect appeal to a Republican primary and caucus electorate angry at Obama’s policies and a November electorate disenchanted about the lack of jobs and economic growth. If he becomes the nominee, it would also set up an epic general election with two divergent visions of the appropriate role for government in American life.
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keeper 2011/08/15 17:23:09
This is why I don't intend to vote for him.
2nd: "Opt out is just one step away from force.
Obama's regulatory czar wants to make organ donation presumed consent, where you have to opt out. I cannot BELIEVE the government thinks, in any way, it has any kind of authority to do this to human beings. It is a complete, tyrannical abuse of power.
No FREE citizen should be treated as though government were the parent, wherein by having to ask PERMISSION from their parent to not be treated as a lab experiment.
You don't NEED to ask permission. NO OPT OUT.
They shouldn't be spending taxpayer money on shit like this anyway. It's a citizen's responsibility to take care of their health, not the government's.
I will have to do as i am doing for every candidate wait till I have had teh chance to hesr him answer the questions i would vet him with rather than hear him answer the questions he would vet himself with
Good one..
Toll roads - hey, I love them - after all it can take over half a day to travel across Texas! Gardasil vaccine - it had a parential 'opt out' and considering that Junior High students are having oral sex at a high rate they were in danger of contacting the HPV virus.
I see many criticizing low paying jobs, I say any job is better than no job, or else just live off of the government. My area is booming, oil is being drilled to the north and south of me. And finally, the border. Texas has 2 thousand miles of border with Mexico. Build fences and they climb them or cut them or tunnel under. Perry intercepted Obama at the Austin airport to request help on the border, Obama refused.
He's not perfect, who is? We MUST get rid off Obama!
In that article where they mention the appropriate role for government in American Life, I wonder if they are referring to using eminent domain to help foreign companies make a profit and executive orders to have schools administer the Gardasil vaccine to children.
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If Perry convinces America that he really intends to live that line he will find himself in the Oval Office sometime in January of 2013, but he has to know that Americans have been taken to the brink and the old complacency is gone and we will be watching to see if he lives it too.