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Science is overrated anyways
Fox has a GIANT chub for Perry, game over.
2012 Obama vs Perry
Game over for the U.S.
Science is overrated anyways
The more Perry talks, the more extremist he seems.Fox has a GIANT chub for Perry, game over.
2012 Obama vs Perry
Game over for the U.S.
Global warming denial, Texas secession, calling the Fed Chairman a potential traitor, etc, etc, etc, will not play well with the independents he will need to win a general election.
The GOP candidate needs to say juuuuust enough to get the base, and avoid anything too poisonous to independents and moderates.
The problem with the current Republican party is that may not be possible anymore, given the extremist tilt the party seems to have taken. You almost *have* to mirror the nutter fringe of the party to get the nod, it seems to me.
That is not a recipe for general election success.
Meh. Perry's always been the fire and brimstone Perry in the primaries. Once he has that wrapped up he'll become the kindler, gentler general election Perry who will try to woo the independents. Will the independents remember and/or care how Perry sounded back in the primaries by then? They'll probably remember, but whether or not they'll care will depend on what mood they're in. Their mood likely being determined by what the DOW and the unemployment rate look like at that particular moment.
If Perry is the best the GOP can do, which probably is since all the moderate candidate who have any chance to attract enough independents to win in the general against Obama are dropping out, then Obama's re-election is a lock....
Top Ten Things that Rick Perry does NOT want you to know about him.
Courtesy of Think Progress:
(1) PERRY ALLOWED THE EXECUTION OF A LIKELY INNOCENT MAN, THEN IMPEDED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MATTER
(2) PERRY WANTS TO REPEAL THE 16th AND 17th AMENDMENTS, ENDING DIRECT ELECTION OF U.S. SENATORS AND THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX
(3) PERRY PROPOSED LETTING STATES DROP OUT OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICAID
(4) TEXAS IS THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST POLLUTER, BUT PERRY SUED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR DISAPPROVING OF THE STATE’S AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
(5) PERRY DESIGNATED AS “EMERGENCY LEGISLATION” A BILL REQUIRING ALL WOMEN SEEKING ABORTIONS TO HAVE SONOGRAMS FIRST
(6) PERRY GUTTED CHILDCARE SERVICES EVEN AS TEXAS CHILDHOOD POVERTY HIT 25 PERCENT
(7) PERRY WAS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF TEXAS’S ANTI-SODOMY LAWS
(8) PERRY IS A STIMULUS HYPOCRITE WHO LOUDLY CRITICIZED FEDERAL RECOVERY MONEY BUT USED IT TO BALANCE HIS STATE’S BUDGET
(9) PERRY SAID THAT TEXAS MIGHT HAVE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNITED STATES
(10) DESPITE HAVING THE WORST UNINSURED RATE IN THE COUNTRY, PERRY CLAIMS THAT TEXAS HAS “THE BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE COUNTRY”
I think I would like to add an eleventh one to this list:
(11) PERRY STOLE MONEY SET ASIDE TO HELP THE POOR AND ELDERLY PAY THEIR UTILITY BILLS DURING THE CURRENT HEATWAVE, TO HELP BALANCE THE STATE BUDGET.
All of those will be advantageous to him in the primary, imo.
What about the $400 gardasil shots mandated by executive order though? That's going to be hard to spin.
Think Progress continues to show a penchant for taking things that most people can agree on and distorting them to a level so one-sided and beyond reality that it invites skepticism and defeats the purpose.
He said he just hates cancer and loves cervixes so much he had to try something. It's not going to be an issue.
Yep. That one looks bad any way you slice it.
But tend to agree with ChumpD that it won't amount to much.
Media is in full spin already... including unfortunate phrases like "Adios, mofo"
Why don't you let us get on down the road?
Gardasil created a whole network of women marketing their product for free. You couldn't go into a hospital without getting a brochure about cervical cancer, HPV, and how pretty much everyone had it or was going to get it.
Not that awareness of cervical cancer is ever a bad thing but I really think there was a coordinated effort to get women to feel that it was such a widespread epidemic that mandatory vaccines were necessary. The timing was just too good.
Either that, or Merck just bribed Perry.
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