American voters should run as fast as they can from Rick Perry. Please dear God, if Rick Perry were elected POTUS in 2012 may the powers of heaven help us all.
The danger of Perry rule has little if anything to do with his embarrassing lack of debating skills in which he is either as slow on the uptake as molasses or whether or not he looks dazed, confused and hopelessly unprepared.
As debate watchers may have noticed by now, the Governor of Texas is far more comfortable showing off his high school bullying credentials than he is with demonstrating his potential leadership skills and knowledge of foreign and domestic affairs. This could very well be because the Governor lacks most of the above. And so he attempts to cover up his ignorance and lack of intelligence by aggressively focusing on his opponent's negatives. He has won election after election in Texas by being the nastiest attack dog candidate. Slick is likely very proud of serving as the meanest snake on the debate stage.
Nor is Rick Perry's bumbling debate performances particularly worrisome because as voters in Texas are learning quite quickly, Govenor Deal Doing Slick is certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed. Texans are meeting a Governor they never really knew.
But while Rick Perry may come across as a blithering idiot and mean guy who outshines other GOP junkyard attack dogs during debates, the real danger lies with his right wing extremist ideologies and policies. Rick Perry packs a lot of money ammunition that is amply provided by his supporters who expect the Governor to deliver.
For them.
Voters should know that Rick Perry and all GOP Presidential contenders embrace a secretative right wing group called ALEC.
ALEC is not your friend, folks.
The video posted above is a copy of a Romney attack ad on Rick Perry. Perry rose up and did the same to Romney soon after. I am sure it is out there on the Internets somewhere.
Both candidates are seriously flawed. One is an oily serial flip flopper while the other serves as a sleazy used car salesman who sells lemons to middle and working class Texans while he saves the cream of the crop of the lot for his political donors and cronies. They may wear different costumes and speak with different regional accents but when it comes down to it both the serial flip flopper and sleazy used car salesman represent the same ol' same ol' GOP agenda: tax cuts for the rich, supply side, i.e. trickle down economics, no regulation or oversight of any entity whatsoever and free market zealotry. A trickle down economy is supposed to mean that the wealthy, i.e. the job creators, will bestow middle and working class American with top notch jobs that include sustainable salaries, health care benefits and a retirement savings acount. I think we've been doing this economic kind of voodoo black magic since St. Ronnie Reagan the Great and yet look where we are today.
I guess it works well for Wall St. but it has wreaked financial havoc on Main St. over the last thirty years.
It must be really tough to be a middle and working class Republican voter these days. I guess its like having to choose between having a root canal or a colonoscopy. Voters don't find out until it is too late that there is no pain medication included in either procedure.
The cold reality is that the GOP mantra of low, low taxes, no tax increases ever, small government and no regulation of anything whatsoever, whether it is air quality or clean, safe water, is bad for the vast majority of Texans.
Read below the fold to learn what Governor Rick Perry did to Texas.
As G.W. Bush is known as the worst President in recent history, Rick Perry will go down as the governor who destroyed the hopes, dreams and future of the once great state of Texas. Rick Perry decimated the state budgets to the point that schools can no longer function as viable learning places. The Governor has claimed he has brought new jobs to Texas and yet when I spoke to the Director Career Services at a university in Houston recently I learned that the available higher paying jobs today require degrees in engineering or computer science.
How on earth, may I ask, are Texas school children going to be prepared to major in such areas that require advanced levels of knowledge in math and science if their schools have been downgraded?
Rick Perry and the super majority Texas GOP don't give a damn about Texas school children.
As everyone should know by now (and if you do not know, um, where have you been?) Rick Perry racked up a $27 billion deficit during the last fiscal year. Rather than increase taxes and use some of the rainy day money, a fund created to deal with such emergencies, Perry said no. He cut, baby cut, instead. Of course one has to consider that the Governor is running for POTUS and so he intends to run around country bragging about how he balanced the budget while saving the rainy day funds.
Except that the tall tale telling Governor did not balance the budget at all. He kicked a chunk of his deficit can down the road to the 2013 legislative session. And he ruthlessly balanced his budget on the backs of Texas school children, teachers, fire fighters and state workers.
As we all hopelessly know Texas is experiencing one of the worst droughts in its history. Tragically thousands upon thousands of homes, farms, and ranches across the state have burned to the ground. Crops and cattle have died. Trees are dying everywhere. But this nightmare of a weather condition did not stop the Governor from cutting the firefighter budget by an unimaginable $34 million.
The budget cut to the Texas Forest Service and rural fire departments could have been avoided if Rick Perry and the super majority of Republican lawmakers would have considered a tax increase for their sugar daddy donors and big supporters like home builder Bob Perry and John McHale to name just two. But no, the Republican lawmakers failed the people again and again. Their lips and closed minds remain super glued to neoconservative right wing voodoo. They obey orders as handed down from their puppet masters and spin doctors: Frank Luntz, ALEC and the wizards of oz behind the neonut curtain, the Koch boys.
But good news lies ahead, IMHO, because we are finally waking up to the nightmare that has haunted our country and our planet for nearly 30 years.
Check out the Wall St./Washington D.C. game called three card monty. Wall St. and the politicians whose peckers they hold in their pockets, as LBJ would say, have been betting against the American people for years.
It is no longer about yes we can. It has everything to do about oh yes we will. Yes we will get rid of corrupted lawmakers who do not serve the people. That would be most in Austin and a majority in Washington D.C.
Earth to Blue Dog Democrats and the GOP.
We the people refuse to eat the jobless cake anymore.
