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Kudos to the author for a very well placed Astros jab.
god no pleaseEditor's note: James Moore is a Texas-based Emmy award-winning former national TV news correspondent and co-author of the best-seller, "Bush's Brain."
Austin, Texas (CNN) -- As a resident of Texas for 36 years, I keep wondering why the rest of the nation pays any attention to our political and cultural absurdities and yet still chooses Texans as presidents. Our most revered historical moment, the Alamo, was arguably a mass suicide. The slaughter in San Antonio was followed by a massacre at Goliad, the fall of the Confederacy to Union forces, and later by the Houston Astros. Texas has a legacy of losing.
None of this apparently matters, though, because America is beginning the process of electing another Texan to be president. Gigantic tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, a trumped up war and a ruined economy from the last Texan seem incapable of dissuading supporters of Rick Perry.
His Saturday speech in South Carolina will make clear that he is entering the race for the White House and will spawn the ugliest and most expensive presidential race in U.S. history, and he will win. A C and D student, who hates to govern, loves to campaign, and barely has a sixth grader's understanding of economics, will lead our nation into oblivion.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Politics: Rick Perry surges in poll
The big brains gathered east of the Hudson and Potomac Rivers believe that Mitt Romney is the candidate to beat. But they are unable to hear what Rick Perry is saying. The Christian prayer rally in Houston was a very loud proclamation to fundamentalists and Teavangelicals, which said, "I am not a Mormon." The far right and Christian fundamentalists have an inordinate amount of influence in the GOP primary process and, regardless of messages of inclusion, very few of them will vote for a Mormon.
"We think a them Mormons as bein' in kind of a cult," one of the Houston rally attendees told me. "I couldn't vote for one a them when we got a real Christian like Governor Perry runnin'."
Perry, of course, can't come right out and print bumper stickers that say, "Rick Perry -- 2012 -- Not a Mormon." But he doesn't have to. He's wearing his faith like a power tie while Romney stays quiet as a tabernacle mouse on the topic of religion. Romney has business experience and intellect that are not on Perry's resume' but he is from "Massatoositts," (Webster's Texas Edition, see also "Massachusetts"), and Texans love to kick their political boots into New Englanders' squishy parts. Perry is about to remind the tea partiers and fundamentalists that Romney created a state health care plan, (the horror, affordable health care for everyone), believes global warming is real, and has a troubling history for conservatives on the matters of abortion and gay marriage.
So much for Mitt.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/1...x.html?npt=NP1
Kudos to the author for a very well placed Astros jab.
Only part of that article I disagree with (for better or worse) is that Perry would pick Palin as his running mate. Too polarizing and doesn't bring him any new voters that he wasn't going to get anyways.
Sounds like that got should move back to wherever he came from.
i guess this means a vote for perry.
Yeah I don't see that either. Palin introduces too many variables into the equation. With Perry, you basically know what you've got. He needs to add a steady influence that isn't a controversial figure.
Anybody who's been inside "dubya's brain" is terminally contaminated with ignorance and stupidity.
A Repug won't win, Barry will lose because his base is so disappointed in his weakness of attempted bipartisanhip with anarchic, sadisticcrazies, and full continuation of Repug/neo-con empire building and maintenance, while offering to cut SS, medicare, medicaid, safety net. Or maybe UCA will simply outspend Barry.
Or Barry will win because any of the Repugs are so extreme that the Repug candidate will be voted against, not Barry voted for.
"We think a them Mormons as bein' in kind of a cult," one of the Houston rally attendees told me. "I couldn't vote for one a them when we got a real Christian like Governor Perry runnin'."
America, YEAH!
I'm sure some people will suggest that Romney will be who Perry picks, but I don't see that either. Romney is who Perry has to go through to get the nomination and Perry fights dirty. After the Perry campaign gets through with him Romney won't have anything to do with the guy.
best part of the piece.
America, YEAH!
I don't give a .
Right now is not the time for having a cosmopolitan dumbass too afraid to release his college transcripts.
Rick Perry, is a fake anyway. He used to work for AL Gore, he's just a politician and a good one. At best, Warren G at worst LBJ.
LBJ > Obama.
nm.
LBJ = OBAMA
Nope, just a resounding you to the Texas smack.
But, yeah, if my choice ends up being Perry or Obama I will damn sure vote for Perry.
So that leaves Bachmann or Cain......or does Perry go off the map?
what's your guess?
Whoever the Republican is (particularly if it's Perry) should see if Bobby Jindal would be interested as the running mate. He's extremely articulate, has some views that are moderate, and would make it so less people viewed the Republican party as a bunch of racist white people.
My question is why Perry wants to be President. I know he thinks Texas should secede from the Union, why does he want to be president of said union? When the economy sucks with him as president, is he gonna suggest the union secede from itself?
Well, both did escalate a war.
this here is texus, git. if yew dont like muh state yew can git the out.
Why? Obama's a better Republican than Perry.
The only reason LBJ = Obama is because he sent thousands to die in Vietnam. Outside of the Vietnam war, LBJ > Obama.
Sorry. Kinetic military actions.
I like DOK's take....Jindal might be a decent choice. One thing Perry does extremely well, is campaign and get elected. For that reason alone, Palin has no place at his table.
that's just Perry being Perry.
No way he picks Palin... especially if, as people claim here, he's a savvy politician...
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