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Perry Scares Every One....Even Me

Dittohead not! said:
Cain is a joke. His main qualification is that he has no experience? Can you imagine going to a job interview and saying, "I'm the best candidate as I have no experience at all"?
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His main qualification is that he is/was a business owner and knows how the economy works, allegedly. Yet he goes out and lays an egg like 999/909.
 
StillBallin75 said:
His main qualification is that he is/was a business owner and knows how the economy works, allegedly. Yet he goes out and lays an egg like 999/909.
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Yes, having run a business and met a payroll and balanced a budget is his real qualification. Why does he advertise "no experience"?

And, yes, what's up with that 999? His first attempt at a simplistic bumper sticker solution to a complex problem? Couldn't he have just stuck with "drill, baby drill" or something?
 
Dittohead not! said:
Yes, having run a business and met a payroll and balanced a budget is his real qualification. Why does he advertise "no experience"?

And, yes, what's up with that 999? His first attempt at a simplistic bumper sticker solution to a complex problem? Couldn't he have just stuck with "drill, baby drill" or something?
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That would have made him sound stupider than he is. Imagine if he did what perry did in the bloomberg debate about the economy and only talk about energy. Obama is just sitting back and enjoying the show.
 
99percenter said:
That would have made him sound stupider than he is. Imagine if he did what perry did in the bloomberg debate about the economy and only talk about energy. Obama is just sitting back and enjoying the show.
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Come to think of it, that drill baby drill mantra didn't do McCain much good. Maybe even experienced pols have problems thinking of simplistic solutions that people want to put on their bumpers. It must be more difficult than we imagined.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Yes, having run a business and met a payroll and balanced a budget is his real qualification. Why does he advertise "no experience"?

And, yes, what's up with that 999? His first attempt at a simplistic bumper sticker solution to a complex problem? Couldn't he have just stuck with "drill, baby drill" or something?
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It's a convenient anti-establishment approach that plays on the fallacious belief that the folks who have had "experience" haven't led us anywhere, so therefore someone without any must somehow be better.
 
StillBallin75 said:
It's a convenient anti-establishment approach that plays on the fallacious belief that the folks who have had "experience" haven't led us anywhere, so therefore someone without any must somehow be better.
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Yes, that's what it is, and it seems to play pretty well in some circles at least. The problem is, those circles contain voters who would vote for the Republican ticket if they were running Voldemort.
 
Ann Coulter - September 28, 2011 - DOES RICK PERRY HAVE A PERFORMANCE PROBLEM?

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Actually, it wasn't Perry's "performance" that was a problem. It was his "answers."

No fancy wordsmithery is going to get Perry out of supporting in-state tuition for illegal aliens. (Although I did think it was nice that he gave his answer in Spanish.)

We are not Democrats.

We already had a Republican president and both political parties try to foist amnesty on us. The country erupted in rage, forced Congress to withdraw Bush's "comprehensive immigration reform" and rewarded Bush with a humiliating defeat in the 2006 midterm elections.

It wasn't Perry's delivery; it was his policy that Republicans -- and apparently a lot of Democrats and independents -- don't like. Hispanic citizens who have undergone the arduous process of becoming citizens the legal way aren't crazy about the idea either.
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roughdraft274 said:
Come on, you aren't even trying. Rule number 1 when conservatives do something stupid, blame the liberal media. Claim that a lame stream media reporter slipped a pill in his drink. Claim they asked him a super tough question. Claim anything even if it isn't remotely plausible because about 51% of conservatives would believe it just out of their irrational fear of the liberal media...
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Why are you TRYING to stir up partisan bickering in a thread that it didn't yet exist in?

Troll much?
 
Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Read this if you want to be scared.

I'd forgotten about the UBS deal until I read it again:

Perry was going to allow UBS (everyone's favorite Swiss bank) to buy life insurance on retired Texas teachers, so every time one of them died, a foreign bank could profit. In return, the state would get a small cut of the insurance.

Never that he allowed a British lobbyist to write a piece of legislation that allows foreign corporations to borrow money from Texas taxpayers in order to buy publicly-owned land and buildings from Texas taxpayers at a discounted rate (and with very little interest on the loans).

How is it that he's a "conservative" again?
 
FilmFestGuy said:
Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Read this if you want to be scared.

I'd forgotten about the UBS deal until I read it again:

Perry was going to allow UBS (everyone's favorite Swiss bank) to buy life insurance on retired Texas teachers, so every time one of them died, a foreign bank could profit. In return, the state would get a small cut of the insurance.

Never that he allowed a British lobbyist to write a piece of legislation that allows foreign corporations to borrow money from Texas taxpayers in order to buy publicly-owned land and buildings from Texas taxpayers at a discounted rate (and with very little interest on the loans).

How is it that he's a "conservative" again?
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If the bank is a corporation, which I'm sure it is, and if corporations are people, then why can't they buy life insurance on other people?

Who would sell life insurance policies on retirees, though? The premiums must be pretty big for senior citizen life insurance.
 
nota bene said:
Here is the full text of Perry's New Hampshire speech:

In full: Perry's speech in New Hampshire - CBS News Video)

I'm not all that interested, but I would think that those bashing Perry as drunk or as a loon should, in all fairness, listen to the speech in its entirety rather than to selected clips that may be out of context.
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Admittedly, the short, editted version of the video makes Gov. Perry look very foolish. He really does come across as being drunk! But when you look at the full version, those moments are put alittle bit more in focus.

Most of his "bizzare" antics occur within the first 10 minutes of the video. He tries (alittle too hard, I think) to be funny, but comes across as being very goffy...weird. After awhile, he settles down and projects himself in a more normal manner. I think if people watched the entire video they'd probably come away with a similar impression. Doesn't mean he's not a nerdy guy, but he certainly wasn't drunk.

And now you have an non-bias assessment of the full video by a non-Republican.
 
Redress said:
The video is way too edited for my liking.
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I can't get it to play, but I am kind of interested what is going on... exactly what did he say that was so bad?
 
SheWolf said:
I can't get it to play, but I am kind of interested what is going on... exactly what did he say that was so bad?
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I saw an unedited version of it on morning joe...Perry was acting like a real flake and it was like he was high and whacked out...
As Joe Scarborough critiqued it...If hes not drunk or high there...then hes drunk or high every other time hes been in public...
 
SheWolf said:
I can't get it to play, but I am kind of interested what is going on... exactly what did he say that was so bad?
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He actually didn't *say* anything that weird. I first heard about on a Rachel Maddow podcast. She was (of course) making a huge deal of it. She aired a fair amount of the speech and as i listened to it I couldn't understand what the big deal was. Then I saw it....

It's all about the weird facial ticks and inappropriate gestures/expressions. You really have to see it to understand.
 
AdamT said:
He actually didn't *say* anything that weird. I first heard about on a Rachel Maddow podcast. She was (of course) making a huge deal of it. She aired a fair amount of the speech and as i listened to it I couldn't understand what the big deal was. Then I saw it....

It's all about the weird facial ticks and inappropriate gestures/expressions. You really have to see it to understand.
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I agree he was acting more like a silly ass...very immature and doofus
 
Frolicking Dinosaurs said:
Looks like Fox's golden boy is going down in a blaze of lunatic glory. Is Fox backing Cain yet?
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Yeah... They have.

"Our blacks are so much better than their blacks," Coulter told Fox News. "To become a black Republican, you don't just roll into it. You're not going with the flow. You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that's why we have very impressive blacks in our party."
linkypoo...
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lpast said:
I agree he was acting more like a silly ass...very immature and doofus
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I think it was beyond that. He really looked like he was stoned on something.
 
SheWolf said:
I can't get it to play, but I am kind of interested what is going on... exactly what did he say that was so bad?
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He didn't say anything out of line for him. He just looked and acted like he'd had a few too many--slight slurring in parts and some overly large gestures and facial expressions.
 
Dittohead not! said:
No, it's really no big deal.

Not unless the people of this great nation of ours does something foolish, like elect him president. Then it will be a big deal.

As it is, he's not affecting anyone except the Texans.
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On that note, I'd like to say that I'm embarrassed that Rick Perry is from Texas.
Good, I got that in before he gets elected President. I have little faith in the American voter.
 
Mickey Shane said:
On that note, I'd like to say that I'm embarrassed that Rick Perry is from Texas.
Good, I got that in before he gets elected President. I have little faith in the American voter.
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You shouldnt just be embarrassed over Rick Perry...most of the republican field has campaigned and acted like jackass's they have no one to blame but themselves....
 
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