Topic: Rick Perry, eh? Think again.

[AmericanPatriot]

14 Reasons Why Rick Perry Would Be A Really, Really Bad President


http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/14-reasons-why-rick-perry-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president

Supporters of Texas Governor Rick Perry are not going to like this article at all.  Right now, Republicans all over the United States are touting Rick Perry as the "Republican messiah" that is going to come charging in to save America from the presidency of Barack Obama.

 Many believe that if Rick Perry enters the race, he will instantly become the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.  Perry certainly looks the part and he knows how to give a good speech, but when ordinary Americans all over the country take a hard look at his record, they may not like what they see.  The truth is that Rick Perry is a big-time globalist, he has raised taxes and fees in Texas numerous times, he has massively increased the size of government spending and government debt in Texas, he has been trying to ram the Trans-Texas Corridor down the throats of the Texas people and he tried to force young women all over Texas to be injected with the Gardasil vaccine.  No, Rick Perry is not going to save America.  In fact, he would likely be very, very similar to both Bush and Obama in a lot of ways.


Right now, Rick Perry is trying to portray himself as a "good conservative" so that if he enters the race he will be accepted by Christian conservatives.  If Rick Perry did win the Republican nomination, he would have a great chance of winning the general election because he would very much be an "establishment" candidate.
But before Republicans get too excited about Rick Perry, there are a whole lot of things that they should know about him.
The following are 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.
He is not the "conservative Republican" that he is trying to claim that he is.  He is simply another in a long line of "RINOs" (Republicans in name only).

If Rick Perry becomes president, he will probably be very similar to George W. Bush.  He will explode the size of the U.S. government and U.S. government debt, he will find sneaky ways to raise taxes, he will do nothing about the Federal Reserve or corruption in our financial system and he will push the agenda of the globalists at every turn.

Look, the truth is that another four years of Barack Obama would be a complete and total nightmare.
But so would four years of Rick Perry.

America deserves better than the "lesser of two evils".

Unfortunately, the American people have been dead asleep and have been sending incompetents, con men and charlatans to Washington D.C. for decades.

Hopefully things will be different in 2012.

[ToddF]

I'm gonna lay it out.  I believe that Perry has some issues

BUT

You lose me with the whole Highway 69 bit. 

  Seriously, it's just a highway.     Highways are good.      Leftists too often want to do away with highways    Because we'll ride their choo choo trains if they do     So enough with highways are bad because Bilderburgs are calling for the black helicopters that are being manufactured in Mexico to be transported into the US on roads that need to be a mile wide in order to surpress the movement that is about to discover that Sarah Palin is really a reptile in human form that was sent here from the Planet Ickes to foil a Perry presidency 

[Glock32]

I'm definitely not sold on Perry, but I couldn't help notice a few contradictions in that list. It, on the one hand, complains that Perry has as Governor seen state spending and taxes increase, but on the other hand the list complains about low teacher salaries and proposed toll roads. By implication, should those things be remedied by increased funding from the state then? What about that whole state spending thing?

As I learn more about Perry, I think the one thing that bothers me most (so far) is his squishiness on illegal immigration. I seem to recall him being basically dismissive of what Gov. Brewer was doing in Arizona with their 1070 law, saying it wasn't a solution for Texas or something like that. I'm looking for unambiguous positions in defense of our borders against this invasion, because an orchestrated invasion is exactly what it is.

[charlesoakwood]

Highway 69 is US-59 widened and repaved.  There is uncertainty if it will become Interstate-69.   

[trapeze]

America does deserve better than the lesser of two evils but I'll vote for Scooby Doo if that's the nominee.

[Libertas]

America does deserve better than the lesser of two evils but I'll vote for Scooby Doo if that's the nominee.

True.  But I don't want the "Scooby Doo factor" to give the green light to Ruling Class pukes in the GOP to do whatever they want and stick us with another doomed candidate either.  I want a fighter.  So far my gal Michele looks the most promising to me, as the field stands right now.

As for Perry, not near the top of my list, not on the bottom either, I think Huntsman occupies the latter for me!

[trapeze]

I heard on the radio this morning that Bachmann topped the latest poll (don't know which one but presumably it was a major) for Republican contenders. Cain was in second with Romney in third.

However, the leading candidate who respondents thought would eventually win is still Romney by a wide margin.

Need to turn that number around.

[charlesoakwood]

We need a lot of debates allowing the candidates to fully air themselves out.

[Glock32]

As for Perry, not near the top of my list, not on the bottom either, I think Huntsman occupies the latter for me!

Hell yes. I heard his grand announcement played on Rush and Mark Levin's shows yesterday. The guy sounded like he was declaring his candidacy for PTA Treasurer, not the Presidency of a country in dire straits on almost all fronts. And this civility BS? Who is this puke to preemptively admonish the conservative base when it's the Leftists who spew poisonous vitriol and form violent mobs when they don't get their way? That whole "I don't believe you need to run a candidate down; I respect President Obama and we simply have a few disagreements about how to help the country we both love" bit made me literally almost vomit. I had never even heard of this obsequious, pusillanimous little twerp until the past few weeks! The first I'd heard of him was when Mitch Daniels declined to run and his name began popping up everywhere as the Ruling Class began their efforts to insinuate another of their ilk to the top of the heap -- that tells you a lot about both him and the "leadership" brigade.

I am so glad Rush pulled up that recording of Reagan speaking at the same place in 1980, the contrast was amazing. Hearing Huntsman yesterday, I seriously wanted to reach through the radio and bitchslap that little milquetoast wimp.

[trapeze]

Here is the article on Bachmann's poll lead. And it was Zogby.

[ToddF]

Bachmann in first place.  Who could have possibly thunk? 

[Predator Don]

Huntsman/ Romney....last on list and Perry falls behind Bachman, Cain and Palin when she gets in. So I'm not too worried about him now, but I am concerned of his handling of the illegal issue and the whole mandate thing. Conservatives don't "mandate", imo.

[Glock32]

Here is the article on Bachmann's poll lead. And it was Zogby.

I see the Paulbots are out in force in the comments section of that article. God, they're obnoxious.

[Libertas]

Here is the article on Bachmann's poll lead. And it was Zogby.

I see the Paulbots are out in force in the comments section of that article. God, they're obnoxious.

Yeah, they're like a rash that won't go away!