Below the fold I’ve embedded a YouTube of Texas Governor Rick Perry on the stump. His opening message is that he and the Tea Party are not angry, they’re indignant. He then lists all the things they’re indignant about. I don’t know how you can be indignant without being angry, but I guess there’s a sliver of difference there. I also guess Perry is feeling a little defensive about the fact that the Tea Party has never been more unpopular. He wants the support of the Tea Party wing of the GOP but he doesn’t want to come off like Grandpa Simpson.
Watching Perry, he’s uncomfortably similar to Bush is style, accent, and swagger. What’s frightening is that he doesn’t lose.
simple questions that require a yes or no answer from Governor Good Hair that a thinking journalist needs to ask.
1.is Medicare constitutional
wondering if there’s any there there, murder of Perry’s cousin
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/01/rick-perry-cousin-killed_n_306721.html
I’d heard the Bush comparisons before, but I’d never actually seen Perry speak.
Just wow. It’s like he’s doing a George Bush impersonation.
I’m not angry, I’m lightly fuming.
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great article in the Dallas Morning news
the truth about Texas
Sorry correct link
http://www.scribd.com/doc/62301364/Local-Economic-Snapshot-Rising-ranks-of-area-s-poor
“I’m not angry, I’m lightly fuming.”
Would you mind taking that out on the porch?
I continuously find myself amazed that there still are political moments where The West Wing comes in handy. Rick Perry doesn’t really remind me of W. He rather reminds me of Robert Ritchie, the Republican Governor of Florida and nominee to take on incumbent Bartlett. Wonder if I’m alone here but to me the similarities are eery.
Like Bush was under Karl Rove’s campaigning discipline. Rarely speaks other than prepared statements. Hangs back in debates. Gets in the talking points. Avoids gaffes.
And lets media carpet bombing deliver the marginal victory.
He’s an empty suit that fronts for a major marketing campaign. And no one outside of the Texas Observer has called him an empty suit yet.
But he’s up against Bachmann, not Kay Bailey. They operate out of the same playbook. And Bachmann can outpray him outside of the South. But his advantage is that Bachmann is a woman in an misogynistic party.
Cool your fear a little bit.
He doesn’t lose in Texas.
But can he go “humble foreign policy”, “shucks, gee whiz” like Bush did in the debates with Gore.
He won his last election in Texas with 39% of the vote.
The Dem got 29%. Kinky Freidman got 12%. Another Republican got 18%.
This is why folks say that even Texas Republicans don’t like Perry all that much.
That was the next to last election. The most recent election he cleaned Houston Mayor Bill White’s clock.
The one where he got 39% of the vote he was running against a Democrat, Carol Keaton Strayhorn (former GOP comptroller running as an independent) and Kinky Friedman.
I have said it in other places, his “problems” relying on prayer for rain, massive education cuts, secession, one of the worst states per capita for health care coverage……. these are assets with the GOP base not problems.