Perry the GOP frontrunner in Ga., and nationally as well
Via Jim Galloway, a poll of Georgia Republicans by Channel Two Action News and InsiderAdvantage:
Rick Perry: 24 percent;
Herman Cain: 15 percent;
Newt Gingrich: 9 percent;
Michele Bachmann: 8 percent;
Mitt Romney: 6 percent;
Ron Paul: 5 percent;
Jon Huntsman: 1 percent;
Undecided, 20 percent.
It’s no surprise that Perry’s doing well in Georgia, but the size of his lead is a little startling so soon after his entry into the race. The fact that Romney, the longtime frontrunner who has been in the race for months, draws just 6 percent here in the Peach State is a stark reminder of his problems with the party’s conservative base.
In a similar poll taken in Florida earlier this month, before Perry’s official entry, Romney pulled 25 percent, with Perry drawing support from 16 percent and Bachmann getting 10 percent. I doubt those numbers would be duplicated today, with Perry now an official candidate.
The most recent numbers out of South Carolina, another important primary state, date back to mid-July, when Perry was just beginning to make noises about a serious run. Romney drew 25 percent, with Sarah Palin at 16 percent, Bachmann at 15 percent and Cain at 13 percent. But again, Perry’s entry into the race has no doubt altered that landscape.
That’s certainly what has happened nationally. Here’s Rasmussen from earlier this week:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters, taken Monday night, finds Perry with 29% support. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, earns 18% of the vote, while Bachmann, the Minnesota congresswoman who won the high-profile Ames Straw Poll in Iowa on Saturday, picks up 13%.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who was a close second to Bachmann on Saturday, has the support of nine percent (9%) of Likely Primary Voters, followed by Georgia businessman Herman Cain at six percent (6%) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with five percent (5%). Rick Santorum, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, and ex-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman each get one percent (1%) support, while Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter comes in statistically at zero.
At this point, Perry is probably the frontrunner in the race, with the important proviso that like Bachmann, he has the potential to self-destruct at any moment.
– Jay Bookman
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josef
August 20th, 2011
3:47 pm
Okay, so what’s sticking in my overly sensitive craw today?
“Midori
August 20th, 2011
10:11 am
it’s “bigoted” to observe someone comes off as an uneducated moron?
RW-(the original)
August 20th, 2011
10:15 am
it’s “bigoted” to observe someone comes off as an uneducated moron?
Well it would certainly be bigoted against uneducated morons.
Can an actual moron even be educated I wonder…something to ponder when the groups ahead back things up on the tee this afternoon I suppose.”
RW
You asked a question which I think needs to be answered, even if perhaps it was posed in jest.
As many here know, I can be rather “thin skinned” when it comes to issues I feel strongly about. This is one of them. I am always offended when someone throws out the term “moron.” When someone who would like to parade as a champion of the weaker ones of society and who is ready to throw out terms such as “bigoted” in his/her challenges otherwise goes to calling someone a “moron”, I find it questionable and reflective of a limited in range of vision.
That said, I will go off on another of my family experience stories. I have two cousins who would qualify as “morons” under the criterium of an IQ between 51-70. Can they be educated to become productive and happy citizens? Most assuredly, they can.
My female cousin is a high functioning Down’s Syndrom. She reads, writes and figures at an elementary level, possessing the basic skills. When she and her husband, an equally high functioning Down’s Syndrom, announced their engagement, the majority of the local community was scandalized that their parents would not only agree to, but take pride in their decision. The couple were economically self sufficient, employed in menial jobs, even though both their families were able to “take care of them,” they also felt that they should be “able to make it on their own.” They established their own household separate of their parents.
When they announced the impending birth of a child, the scandal escalated. Well, the child was born, they made sure he went to school, helped him with his homework until he passed their abilities to do so at which point the extended family stepped in and took on the task. Today the son is an engineer, well off financially and the parents have their own home at his place, taking joy and pride in their grandkids and their successes.
The other cousin is lower functioning and his “retardation” the result of birth defects. While his scholastic education is more limited, he does have elementary literacy and calculation skills. He cannot function entirely independently. He did, however, “work for a living.” He was a bag boy at the local grocery, and, yes, a union thug! The chain has a corporate practice of hiring these individuals in these positions. My aunt and uncle, his parents, recognized and dealt with his specialness. He lived with them until they died. His older brother was deeded their home with the understanding that he would “take care of P.” P. is now retired on a fairly decent pension plan which my other cousin, of course, manages. P. spends his “golden years” puttering around the gardens my aunt and uncle took such pride in. He knows which plants need what care and the home remains on the “spring tour” and he a respected member of the local garden clubs in a city known far and wide for being a showpiece thereof.
So, yes, RW and midori, morons can be educated. And next time you start to throw the term around a bit too loosely, stop and think about it. To do so is, indeed, highly ignorant and bigoted.
josef
August 20th, 2011
3:55 pm
Common sense
One of our college roommates, Shiksa Belle, was from South Carolina. She claimed that gin and tonic was the perfect health elixir. The gin keeps the blood flowing and the nerves calm, the tonic keeps away the fever, and the lime gives you your vitamin C. The more you drink, the healthier you are…
getalife
August 20th, 2011
4:05 pm
I am sensitive too.
I just don’t understand why the cons do not like me.
I am just trying to get them to be better Americans
Paulo977
August 20th, 2011
4:16 pm
Josef
…..as to blinks and their partners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49clc2eqkBg
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
4:17 pm
josef, there are two definitions of the word “moron”
“1.Informal . a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment.”
This is the term we use for getaclue, Taxpayer, TruthBe and others. (and Taxpayer’s vaunted “3 degrees” proves that you can, indeed, be educated and still be a moron
)
2.Psychology . (no longer in technical use; considered offensive) a person of borderline intelligence in a former and discarded classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69.
This is the definition you (rightly) use for your relatives.
And, yes, you can be thin skinned.
Thomas
August 20th, 2011
4:20 pm
I guess there is no rule against being an ignorant liberal although a little fact for you-
•Conservative households give on average 30% more to charities than their liberal counterparts – despite the fact that liberal households make 6% more.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
4:21 pm
dave,
“This is the term we use for getaclue, Taxpayer, TruthBe and others. (and Taxpayer’s vaunted “3 degrees” proves that you can, indeed, be educated and still be a moron”
Are you capable of stopping the personal attacks?
getalife
August 20th, 2011
4:22 pm
Thomas,
Linky?
Midori
August 20th, 2011
4:23 pm
Thomas
may I have attribution/cite on that “statistic” please?
josef
August 20th, 2011
4:26 pm
DAVE
Yeah, sure. You and CT been getting together on the sly for drinks and lessons in parsing? Oh, that’s right, it’s spelled with a lower case “m?” The Imam must be proud of your conversion!
Midori
August 20th, 2011
4:28 pm
Thomas?
Buehler????
BUEHLER???????????????
Mick
August 20th, 2011
4:28 pm
At least dave r is consistent about his self love, go ahead give yourself another hand.
Midori – thanks for all the smileys
Brosephus
August 20th, 2011
4:29 pm
Jay
August 20th, 2011
2:06 pm
“The eye never blinks…”.
Oh, no! The Grand Cyclops is here…
It’s wonderful to see quote’s like this considering the sweetheart deals Ohio has given Tata consulting(Indian owned) in the state of Ohio since Tata hires very few US citizens and prefers H1b visa holders.
Once Infosys is done in by their shenanigans, Tata is next!!!
josef
August 20th, 2011
4:32 pm
Brosephus
Missed you last p.m. Several of us went over the Kyle’s place and had a few drinks chit chatting with Hillbilly. It was sure good to hear from him and know he’s doing well.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
4:32 pm
“Are you capable of stopping the personal attacks?”
I don’t know. Are you capable of stopping your lying and generalizing and willing to have a debate on facts?
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
4:34 pm
Josef – Thanks for the story. My cousin Jackie is also Downs and has worked at a grocery store most of his life. He will retire next year with a full pension. His parents also deceased (his little sister lol) sees he has a roof over his head. But he is far from a moron. He thinks, sees, and drinks beer lol. More than we can say for some of our more less lightened viewers here.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
4:38 pm
Thomas usually posts lies so he is consistent.
HD left because dave can’t stop the personal attacks.
Thomas
August 20th, 2011
4:39 pm
As you gentlemen appear to have all day to google- go for it. I assure you it was a cut and paste. The internet is “littered” with these studies and, like gravity, it is simply the truth. Having said that
google “charitable donations liberals v conservatives”
You may come back and say there are 2100 studies supporting and 235 studies opposed. I simply don’t care as I am neither conservative or liberal and simply think folks time is better spent elsewhere than saying “treasonous cons” “bush sucks” 24/7. It has to be a rather empty life.
If you gentlemen took 50% of the time you blogged and channeled to helping others you can change lives
Paulo977
August 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
Josef
that’s the thing with the English language , there are shades of meaning attached to words – sometimes defined as denotation and connotation . I am not sure that MORON , in the context it was used , referred to any type of retardation but rather to a lazy mental disposition that refused to figure things out…IMHO
getalife
August 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
dave,
Sure, when you are intellectually honest about your party.
Thomas
August 20th, 2011
4:40 pm
Oh, so that is how you do a smiley face- kind of neat.
josef
August 20th, 2011
4:41 pm
Common Sense…
Of course the term moron is offensive…those of us with some experience in the prejudices and limitations heaped on those previously “categorized” as such know how harmful and hurtful those prejudices and bigotries born out of ignorance are. To use the term so freely in Dave’s cited definition is but a continuation of those prejudices and bigotries, imho.
And, thanks for sharing your own family story of your relative who is “far from a moron.” I saw a program once on a high end stylist who does free makeovers for Down’s Syndrome women. Amazing. And the sense of self-esteem that comes with that.
Thomas
August 20th, 2011
4:41 pm
Thomas usually posts lies so he is consistent
Yeah, right you angry old key banger.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
4:41 pm
Bro (Brosephus)
Tata is next (we can only hope), How are things at the airport.
I go through there weekly now. You guys need to step up the pace. I haven’t had a good grope in a while
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
4:43 pm
I do not belong to any political party.
For the hundredth time.
And since you love to stalk the internet for personal information on people, I give you permission to ask the RNC about me.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
4:43 pm
“angry old key banger.”
There ya go again.
At least this personal attack is original.
josef
August 20th, 2011
4:45 pm
PAULO
With all due respect we could say the same thing about “n*gger rich,” “Jew somebody down,” “Indian giver…” “gypsy cabs,” and an endless list of others, some of which we use freely and without a second thought, others which receive a round condemnation should they make their appearance.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
4:45 pm
“I give you permission to ask the RNC about me.”
Funny.
It is not about you dave.
I don’t care.
Midori
August 20th, 2011
4:48 pm
Any time, Mick
Midori
August 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
I assure you it was a cut and paste
No!!
I’m gonna have to borrow Del’s fainting couch………..
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
“others which receive a round condemnation should they make their appearance.”
Yes, but only from the overly sensitive. . .
Brosephus
August 20th, 2011
4:49 pm
josef
I ran through pretty quick last night and posted a few chuckle vids. Kinda in and out here now. Sometimes, I understand HD for abandoning this place. Reading some of the stuff here give me a real pessimistic outlook on the future of this country.
NoCom
If I have to grope somebody, it’s usually leading to a stint either at club fed or a local government-run bed & breakfast. Not too sure if you want me to give you the business.
@ the airport, business looks like it’s about to go to warp speed. The new international terminal is coming along pretty good. I can’t wait to get it open so I can try to be the first one to give somebody the Bobby Cox.
Midori
August 20th, 2011
4:50 pm
Richard Engel (NBC) The fight for Tripoli has begun……….
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
4:51 pm
I had to Jew down a gypsy cab driver to take me to my hotel. he was n*gger rich so I didn’t feel bad about being an Indian giver when I promised him a tip and didn’t give him one.
like George Carlin I tried to use ALL of the most offensive terms. But I used them all in one sentence.
josef
August 20th, 2011
4:53 pm
DAVE
Two classes of overly sensitive…those who are only so when it hits too close to home or runs afoul of the party line Sharia and those who try to be EOI in their sensitvity…
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
4:54 pm
Almost time to rehab the back. That blonde looks interesting LOL
josef
August 20th, 2011
4:54 pm
common sense
Bravo! That was good…!
getalife
August 20th, 2011
4:54 pm
Midori,
It will be over soon.
Another victory for our President.
Thomas
August 20th, 2011
4:55 pm
and as expected…
No!!
I’m gonna have to borrow Del’s fainting couch………..
a little cute response-
carry on Jedis- always believe what your mom said everyone does love you.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
4:57 pm
And don’t forget the polar opposite, josef.
The “honey badger don’t give a f*ck” folks.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 20th, 2011
4:58 pm
Two Morons figured out a way of escaping from their prison cell. They got outside and found a 20 foot wall. At first they couldn’t figure out how they could get over it. Then one said, “Hey, I have this flashlight. I’ll shine it to the top of the wall and you can climb up the beam and get on top. Then I’ll toss the flashlight to you and you can hold the beam so I can climb up.” His friend said nothing for a long time. Then he said, “Think I’m crazy? I’ll get halfway up and you’ll turn the light off.”
I told that one just to bother josef, since I’m one of two people in the whole world he don’t love. LMR, josef.
Streetracer
August 20th, 2011
4:58 pm
josef @ 3:47 – Good stories. I like to hear about success by the less fortunate. Had two grand kids that were born way premature. Had they survived, they would have both been severely handicapped, but we as a family would have dealt with it. (BTW I’m a pretty tough guy, and have proven it here and there, but the hardest thing I ever did in my life was stand next to my son with my arm around his sholuders while he held his 20 hour old less than 1 lb daughter waiting for her to die.)
Also, hope your book did well. Both my sons bought it and liked it (don’t know about my daughter), but I’m a cheap SOB, I borrowed it and also enjoyed it.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
4:58 pm
Some people are about as sensitive as a toilet seat
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
4:59 pm
“Another victory for our President.”
Three cheers for the Almighty Federal American Imperialism!
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
5:01 pm
Hey RC – I haven’t been around for a while and have missed the humor. I hope the beer is flowing freely there.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:03 pm
Way to support your country dave.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:04 pm
assad is next because America supports freedom.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
5:05 pm
Regressives only support OUR President when he has a R beside his name
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:06 pm
My country is the United States of America, getaclue.
NOT Libya.
But I’m sure that YOU’VE been consistent in your failed “supporting your country” logic when we invaded Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, right, getaclue?
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:11 pm
dave,
Your country engaged to fight for freedom.
No US casualties.
This is a glorious victory but you are a failed American against it.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
Damn why don’t we invade Canada? At least some of them speak English
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:16 pm
“Your country engaged to fight for freedom.”
My country is engaged in a fight to free another country from a dictatorship we don’t like that will result in a brigand-style leadership we won’t like. And it is not our business to do so. North Korea isn’t free, nor is China. Are you going to use your logic consistently and say we should attack them as well?
But my country is NOT engaged in a fight for freedom for THIS country.
At least, not with bullets.
josef
August 20th, 2011
5:18 pm
DAVE
Just so long as they aren’t selectively honey badgers!
Streetracer…
Thank you for the story. It’s probably just the Jew coming out in me, but I am of the firm and unshakeable belief that every human life is sacred and worthy of dignity. Thank you for the comments on the book. It’s doing a little better than I expected. I got tickled when the first royalty check came. THREE DIGITS! Unfortunately there was that pesky little decimal…framed and on the wall…glad the kids liked it and, hey, not to worry about borrowing it…I just wanted it read. Never expected to make anything off of it!
and Duk-sha-nee U-ni-lu-tsv-hi…
I dislike you intensely and even last p.m. when willing to have a drink with Helen Thomas I still wished you nothing but ill will. You are a mean spirited miscreant at least in your persona as here presented and that’s all I have to judge you by…
josef
August 20th, 2011
5:21 pm
getalife and midori…
I’ve been watching it…hopefully it will be over soon. And yes, President Obama (well, Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice) did the right thing and did it the right way.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:26 pm
Thanks josef.
Reminds me of Clinton’s victory.
The cons were against that too.
Dems can win wars.
Disgusted
August 20th, 2011
5:29 pm
It’s doing a little better than I expected. I got tickled when the first royalty check came. THREE DIGITS!
Interesting. A book I edited on an utterly pedestrian topic has been out for six years now. It apparently has been adopted by some college instructors. Just got the royalty check for 2010 sales—$2,136, not bad for a hack job. And I’m only one of five editors. Thanks, all you parents of college students, for providing me with throw-away money.
pogo
August 20th, 2011
5:29 pm
Getalife is a one trick pony and and name calling is all it has. About 14 months from now getalife is going to one miserable human being. Either Obama will be politically neutered by both houses of congress being in republican hands or bot houses are republican hands and the moron loses. Either way, the future ain’t looking too bright for you liberals getaclue.
Midori
August 20th, 2011
5:30 pm
that’s ok Thomas – I made sure to leave enough room for you.
You can even borrow my pearls.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:30 pm
So josef, getaclue, et al:
When does the American military intervention begin in North Korea? China?
josef
August 20th, 2011
5:31 pm
getalife
Well, there are a lot of folks alive in the Balkans who think pretty highly of the United States and Clinton, and in all fairness, Bush as well…George and Bush are two of the most frequently given names in Albania. America, Hillary and Susan are popular in parts of Libya…so are Barak and Hussein, but kinda hard to know whether they were named for the grandfather on the mother’s side or the President of the United States of America…
Midori
August 20th, 2011
5:32 pm
Getalife has 14 months, Pogo.
Your’s is so very evident right now.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:33 pm
Lets just celebrate this victory dave.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:35 pm
pogo,
Thanks for caring but I am a very happy and very proud American.
It is not about me.
Stalk much?
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:35 pm
Sorry, getaclue, but I do not ever celebrate the trampling of our Constitution.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:36 pm
“Sorry, getaclue, but I do not ever celebrate the trampling of our Constitution.”
Sad.
josef
August 20th, 2011
5:37 pm
Disgusted…
The one we’re talking about here is for popular audiences with a retail price in the affordable range. Now that it’s been picked up by some classrooms, the checks are a little better, thanks to the taxpayers of those locales! Those royalties from the academic and their prices….? Those help make for some nice little extras… Overall, though, it’s the translations with no royalties that I tend to go for…I can honey badger the sales!
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:38 pm
Getaclue?
You’ve twice failed to answer my question.
When does the American military intervention in North Korea begin?
josef
August 20th, 2011
5:39 pm
DAVE…
When? Perhaps when the North Koreans rise up to take their destiny in their own hands.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:39 pm
dave,
Ask the Pentagon.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:41 pm
dave,
The people of North Korea did stand up and ask us for help.
You know when I call you traitors, you should not prove it.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:43 pm
Oh I see, josef.
We wait for the poor, starved huddled masses to find some way (in the world’s most brutal dictatorship, mind you) to cache weapons and organize before we decide that freedom is right for them?
Really?
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
5:43 pm
Sorry
I must have slept through it, when did the trampling of the Constitution happen? other than the Patriot Act/
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:44 pm
“The people of North Korea did stand up and ask us for help.”
When?
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:44 pm
No casualties and the Libyans are paying for it.
Major accomplishment so the cons are against it.
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:45 pm
not.
Oppps.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:46 pm
“I must have slept through it, when did the trampling of the Constitution happen? other than the Patriot Act/”
Yes, you did sleep through it.
Every “police action” since the 1950’s has been a trampling of our Constitution.
Including the mis-named Patriot Act.
Common Sense isn't very Common
August 20th, 2011
5:46 pm
Dave R. – by that reasoning we would be in EVERY ME country not just the few, GEESH
josef
August 20th, 2011
5:47 pm
DAVE
Did they have them in Libya (an Axis of Evil partner)? Do they have them in Syria? I never said that pick and choose wasn’t a modus operandi…this choice was correct…and you don’t have to be a fan of President Obama to see that…
getalife
August 20th, 2011
5:47 pm
Weak dave.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:51 pm
josef, “pick and choose” as a modus operandi is not the measure of a great nation.
Especially when you’re not on their list.
Soothsayer
August 20th, 2011
5:51 pm
14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really, Really Bad President
1. Rick Perry is a “big government” politician. When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion. Ten years later it was approximately $90 billion. That is not exactly reducing the size of government.
2. The debt of the state of Texas is out of control. According to usdebtclock.org, the debt to GDP ratio in Texas is 22.9% and the debt per citizen is $10,645. In California (a total financial basket case), the debt to GDP ratio is just 18.7% and the debt per citizen is only $9932. If Rick Perry runs for president these are numbers he will want to keep well hidden.
3. The total debt of the Texas government has more than doubled since Rick Perry became governor. So what would the U.S. national debt look like after four (or eight) years of Rick Perry?
4. Rick Perry has spearheaded the effort to lease roads in Texas to foreign companies, to turn roads that are already free to drive on into toll roads, and to develop the Trans-Texas Corridor which would be part of the planned NAFTA superhighway system. If you really do deep research on this whole Trans-Texas Corridor nonsense you will see why no American should ever cast a single vote for Rick Perry.
5. Rick Perry claims that he has a “track record” of not raising taxes. That is a false claim. Rick Perry has repeatedly raised taxes and fees while he has been governor. Today, Texans are faced with significantly higher taxes and fees than they were before Rick Perry was elected.
6. Even with the oil boom in Texas, 23 states have a lower unemployment rate than Texas does.
7. Back in 1988, Rick Perry supported Al Gore for president. In fact, Rick Perry actually served as Al Gore’s campaign chairman in the state of Texas that year.
8. Between December 2007 and April 2011, weekly wages in the U.S. increased by about 5 percent. In the state of Texas they increased by just 0.6% over that same time period.
9. Texas now has one of the worst education systems in the nation. The following is from an opinion piece that was actually authored by Barbara Bush earlier this year….
• We rank 36th in the nation in high school graduation rates. An estimated 3.8 million Texans do not have a high school diploma.
• We rank 49th in verbal SAT scores, 47th in literacy and 46th in average math SAT scores.
• We rank 33rd in the nation on teacher salaries.
10. Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meetings in 2007. Associating himself with that organization should be a red flag for all American voters.
11. Texas has the highest percentage of workers making minimum wage out of all 50 states.
12. Rick Perry often gives speeches about illegal immigration, but when you look at the facts, he has been incredibly soft on the issue. If Rick Perry does not plan to secure the border, then he should not be president because illegal immigration is absolutely devastating many areas of the southwest United States.
13. In 2007, 221,000 residents of Texas were making minimum wage or less. By 2010, that number had risen to 550,000.
14. Rick Perry actually issued an executive order in 2007 that would have forced almost every single girl in the state of Texas to receive the Gardasil vaccine before entering the sixth grade. Perry would have put parents in a position where they would have had to fill out an application and beg the government not to inject their child with a highly controversial vaccine. Since then, very serious safety issues regarding this vaccine have come to light. Fortunately, lawmakers in Texas blocked what Perry was trying to do. According to Wikipedia, many were troubled when “apparent financial connections between Merck and Perry were reported by news outlets, such as a $6,000 campaign contribution and Merck’s hiring of former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey to handle its Texas lobbying work.”
Rick Perry has a record that should make all Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Independents cringe.
Like I said, George W. Bush on steroids. None of this don’t matter to the American public, they just want change. No matter if the change is worse.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
5:54 pm
Getaclue, you’ve now failed three times in answering my question on North Korea.
And you’ve failed to answer another. When did the North Koreans stand up and ask us for help?
pogo
August 20th, 2011
5:54 pm
Schoolkids Records is closing. I guess it is just another victim of the Obama economy. Digital is “where it’s at” and nevermind all the people that won’t have a job anymore working in the small businesses like this. I guess they can all get the “green” jobs that Obama promised. Yea, right.
Midori
August 20th, 2011
5:55 pm
I’m STILL waiting for you to take me to dinner, Sooth
Soothsayer
August 20th, 2011
5:57 pm
DWR: you’d better vanish before I open a can ‘o woop-ass on yo’ ass!
Soothsayer
August 20th, 2011
5:58 pm
Why, Midori! I’m blushing from here to there! Is Golden Corral all right? You can just strap yourself in and eat all you want!
josef
August 20th, 2011
5:59 pm
DAVE
Look, Yankee imperialism is what it is, from 1803 forward. I never said that the Libyan stance was the action of a “great nation.” I simply said that it was right.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
6:00 pm
The next time you accomplish that would be your first time, Sooth. (yawn)
Noticed you once again can’t think for yourself and have to post someone else’s opinion rather than your own.
F. Sinkwich
August 20th, 2011
6:03 pm
Sooth is trying to capture the ol’ c & p crown from Granny.
Good luck.
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
6:04 pm
Silly me, josef. I thought that “right” might include something other than killing innocent civilians with bombs in nations halfway across the world that do not threaten our national interests.
Soothsayer
August 20th, 2011
6:04 pm
Oh! I think perfectly well for myself! I just prefer to post actual facts rather than conjecture and bluster and bravado
Dave, face facts: you’re a loser! You got drummed out of town and now I have no idea what you do! I hope you have some kind of gain full employment rather than your previous “job.” What a laugh!
Curious Observer
August 20th, 2011
6:05 pm
Common Sense isn’t very Common
August 20th, 2011
5:43 pm
Sorry
I must have slept through it, when did the trampling of the Constitution happen? other than the Patriot Act/
Just maybe is when the Supreme Court decided that corporations had the same rights—and more—of U.S. citizens. The rest of us are limited in the money we can give to campaigns of political candidates. Not so with corporations, who are free to give to their hearts’ content to fund libelous films and other media regarding the candidates they don’t like.
You will see the outcome of such a distortion of the constitution in the years ahead. Meantime, enjoy the fool’s paradise you apparently inhabit.
Soothsayer
August 20th, 2011
6:06 pm
Yes! And right on time, here comes Fish Sandwich! Care to joist tonight, Fish? I would think that after all of your previous humiliations, you would just give up!
Soothsayer
August 20th, 2011
6:09 pm
Dave R:, “I thought that “right” might include something other than killing innocent civilians with bombs in nations halfway across the world that do not threaten our national interests.”
A cogent thought from Dave R: I salute you!
It’s amazing what strange bedfellows politics makes. I disagree with most everything the Libertarians believe in except getting our fiscal house in order and ending frivolous wars.
josef
August 20th, 2011
6:11 pm
DAVE
What are the casualty figures from that as opposed to what they would have been in the bloodbath planned for Benghazi? You’re the eternal relativist…tell me…
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
6:15 pm
“You got drummed out of town and now I have no idea what you do! ”
Actually, Sooth, I still live exactly where I lived before, so THAT part of your comment is, like so many of yours, incorrect. In other words, I’m STILL in town and STILL active in local issues. Just ask our harried county commissioners.
And the mere fact that you even care what I do and state that you have no idea what I do displays a bit too much of the cyber-stalker trait found common in all too many posters on this site.
“I disagree with most everything the Libertarians believe in except getting our fiscal house in order and ending frivolous wars.”
Really? You disagree with virtually open borders and relaxed immigration? You disagree with equal rights for every adult in all things private?
Dave R. - 3k/4k/5k
August 20th, 2011
6:17 pm
“What are the casualty figures from that as opposed to what they would have been in the bloodbath planned for Benghazi?”
Don’t know.
But it would have been a possible bloodbath at the hands of Libyans, not of ours.
F. Sinkwich
August 20th, 2011
6:18 pm
“Not so with corporations, who are free to give to their hearts’ content to fund libelous films and other media regarding the candidates they don’t like.”
No, CO, you mean Unions don’t you?
Soothsayer
August 20th, 2011
6:18 pm
“You disagree with virtually open borders and relaxed immigration? You disagree with equal rights for every adult in all things private?”
I agree with harsh penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants (much cheaper than a fence). And I agree that what to consenting adults do in their own bedrooms is their own business. And, further, I think that if two people love each other, the government should not be able to control whether or not they get married.
Bud Wiser
August 20th, 2011
6:22 pm
At this point, Perry is probably the frontrunner in the race, with the important proviso that like Bachmann, he has the potential to self-destruct at any moment.
– Jay Bookman
Wishful thinking, Bookman.
Your goon in the WH has already lit his own fuse, and his meltdown is as rock solid sure as Chernobyl.
Even some of his AA support is leaving his camp. He is the captain of a Titanic of his own construction, or should I say destruction?
No matter – Peter only denied Jesus twice; by this time next year, Obozo’s surrounding cast will already be on the highway to obscurity, and he shall take his place there as well.
First AA president? Big damn deal, look what a job he has done screwing the pooch. History will remember him more for his abdication of leadership, watching a rudderless country flail along until 2013 when sanity is restored, and America’s four year nightmare /social experiment will be through.