Rick Perry Has To Go; Adios Mo Fo!
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Rick Perry makes sense for once
Now
I am no fan of Rick Perry but yesterday, for the first time in my
memory, he made a very sensible statement, no doubt written by someone
else and containing some odd words and phrases more fitting to the
Evangelicals he courts, but a very sensible statement nevertheless. Here
is a Politico article about it.
Rick Perry: Donald Trump will destroy the Republican
Party
By Katie Glueck
Politico 7/22/15 3:38 PM EDT
Updated 7/22/15 9:51 PM EDT
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who
has already emerged as one of the GOP presidential field’s most vocal critics
of Donald Trump, ratcheted up his rhetoric again Wednesday as he slammed the
real estate mogul’s presidential bid as a “cancer on conservatism” and warned
that, left unchecked, Trump could be the demise of the Republican Party.
“He offers a barking carnival act
that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery,
mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition
if pursued,” Perry charged during an address at the Willard Hotel in downtown
Washington. “Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on
conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.”
Trump drew the ire of the bulk of
the Republican field Saturday, when, during a social conservatives confab in
Iowa, he questioned the heroism of Sen. John McCain, who was a prisoner of war
in Vietnam. But Perry was lobbing harsh and persistent criticisms before that,
bashing Trump last week over controversial comments the provocateur has made
about immigrants who came to the United States illegally, a theme Perry
returned to Wednesday.
“Donald Trump, the reality
television star, is a great generator of ratings. But Donald Trump the
candidate is a sower of division, wrongly demonizing Mexican-Americans for
political sport,” Perry said. “He has piqued the interest of some Republican
voters who have legitimate concerns about a porous border and broken
immigration system. But instead of offering those voters leadership or solutions,
he has offered fear and sound bites. This cannot stand.”
In 2011, during his disastrous first
presidential run, Perry tussled with his Republican rivals over his defense of
the Texas DREAM Act, which allows in-state tuition for the children of
undocumented immigrants, charging that those who disagreed “don’t have a
heart.” The remark drew fury from conservatives, but with the GOP routed among
Hispanic voters in 2012, Perry’s supporters again believe his more
compassionate tone will resonate, though he remains a long shot.
(Eric Walker, a spokesman for the
Democratic National Committee, however, said in an email that Perry also has
used hot rhetoric about undocumented immigrants, though certainly not on par
with Trump. He pointed to a 2014 statement in which Perry claimed there were
“over 3,000 homicides by illegal aliens over the course of the last six years,”
something PolitiFact concluded was wrong.)
In the meantime, some in the GOP
field, including Scott Walker and Ted Cruz, have avoided criticizing Trump over
his immigration remarks, though they took issue with his comments about McCain.
(Cruz, however, has refrained from criticizing Trump directly.)
But Perry, who is on the bubble for
qualifying for the first Republican debate next month, has found that fiery
attacks on Trump are the easiest route to national media attention, and he
dominated political Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.
He earned loud applause from the
audience when he expressed outrage over Trump’s comments concerning McCain.
“He couldn’t have endured for five
minutes what John McCain endured for five-and-a-half years,” jabbed Perry,
noting his own military experience.
And he got in a dig at Trump over
remarks made in Iowa that some considered unseemly for an event aimed at social
conservatives.
“Most telling to me,” Perry said of
Trump, is “his admission that there is not a single time in his life that he
sought the forgiveness of God.”
In language that bordered on
apocalyptic, Perry urged Republicans to “beware of false prophets” and warned
that the Republican Party could go the way of the now-defunct Whig Party if
Trump isn’t reined in, likening his views to those of the nativist Know-Nothing
Party from the mid-1800s.
“I will not go quiet when this
cancer on conservatism threatens to metastasize into a movement of
mean-spirited politics that will send the Republican Party to the same place it
sent the Whig Party in 1854: the graveyard,” he said.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Rick Perry's latest slip
Perry's "Accident" Incident
From the Texas Trubune
From the Texas Trubune
- by Patrick Svitek
- June 19, 2015
The one presidential candidate who
cannot make a mistake did just that Friday.
Addressing Wednesday's massacre at a
South Carolina church, former Gov. Rick Perry referred to it as an
"accident." His campaign quickly clarified that he meant
"incident," but not before the apparent slip of the tongue sparked a
social media backlash, inviting inevitable comparisons to the so-called
"oops" moment that defined Perry's last bid for the White House.
The comment came during a TV
interview in which Perry was asked about President Obama's response to the
shooting, which left nine people dead at the historically black church in
Charleston. In a speech Thursday, Obama suggested more gun control might be
necessary to prevent tragedies like it.
"This is the M.O. of this
administration anytime there is a accident like this," Perry told
Newsmax's Steve Malzberg in an interview published Friday. "You know, the
president's clear. He doesn't like for Americans to have guns, and so he uses
every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that
message."
Shortly after Perry's remark began
making headlines and ricocheting around social media, spokesman Travis
Considine indicated the former governor misspoke. "From the context of his
comments, it is clear Gov. Perry meant incident," Considine said in a
statement.
But the sound bite had already
become a hot topic online, evoking memories of the 2012 debate where Perry was
unable to remember the third federal agency he would eliminate if elected
president.
In the Newsmax interview, Perry
spoke extensively about the shooting, saying he did not know whether it was an
act of terror but did know it was a "crime of hate." He also
suggested the alleged shooter, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, may have been
"medicated," apparently tying the issue to his campaign's outreach to
current and former members of the military.
"I know for a fact, being a
substantial supporter of our military and our veterans, that the Veterans
Administration, for instance, is handing out these opioids in massive
amounts," Perry told Malzberg. "And then people question, 'Well then
why can't these young individuals get work?' or 'Why is the suicide rate so
high?'"
Perry was also asked whether the
Confederate flag should fly over the South Carolina Capitol in the aftermath of
the shooting, which many consider racially motivated. In his response, Perry
reminded Malzberg that the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Texas has the
right to refuse to issue Confederate license plates, a decision with which he
agrees. And Perry indicated he would be open to taking down the flag in South
Carolina, saying, "Maybe there's a good conversation that needs to be
had."
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Rick Perry must never be President
Rick Perry is once again throwing
the U.S. Constitution under the bus to pander to the right wing religious
extremists.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry made
some startling remarks Tuesday, Sept. 18, as he addressed a conference call
to a meeting of Christian conservatives. His remarks displayed an utter
disregard for the concepts outlined in the U.S. Constitution, American and
Texas history and indicated he had no interest in other Christian faiths,
other religions or people who had no religion. He knows which side his bread
is buttered on.
Below
is a good summary in an article by Christy Hoppe of the Dallas News.
Rick Perry, speaking on a conference call with Christian conservatives
Tuesday, called the separation between church and state a false premise that
is advanced by the devil.
He also said that the Obama Administration and court system are working
to remove religious references from the American way of life and that is it
up to “Christian warriors, Christian soldiers,” to prevent it from
happening.
Since his presidential campaign, Perry has been publicly outspoken about
what he sees as the strong role of religion in public service, but the
statements and audio, posted by Right Wing Watch, are among his most strident.
Perry was participating in conservative pastor Rick Scarborough’s “40
Days to Save America,” which calls for prayer and fasting that seeks God’s
intervention for the nation and leading up to the November election.
Perry told listeners that instead of staying away from the political
fray, people of faith have, “a Biblical responsibility to be involved in the
public arena proclaiming God’s truth,” Perry said.
He said it is particularly true on the abortion issues, where it’s
“important that we as Christians put legislation into place, that we elect
women and men that defend life.”
“Satan runs across the world with his doubt and with his untruths and
what have you, and one of the untruths out there that is driven is that people
of faith should not be involved in the public arena,” Perry said.
Perry also struck a theme he used frequently on the presidential campaign
that the Obama Administration has declared a war on religion, mostly citing a
decision that health insurance policies include coverage for contraceptives.
“The American family is under siege, traditional values are somehow
exclusionary, a simple prayer in our public schools is the basis for these
secular attacks,” Perry said, calling it “spiritual warfare.”
“It falls on us, we truly are Christian warriors, Christian soldiers, and
for us as Americans to stand our ground and to firmly send a message to
Washington that our nation is about more than just some secular laws,” Perry
said.
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