I watched the debate last night. I don't usually do that, but Rosey wanted to watch it, so I did. All the way through, which is even more unusual. I am not a member of the GOP. However, there were candidates there who seemed to me to be no better than Obama. Some might even be worse. So I don't have a dog in that fight.
But it is clear that Obama probably won't be re-elected (unless some of those mokes last night get the nomination), largely because Rick Perry is going to throw his hat in shortly.
Perry is not my guy, either. I'm actually done voting for "the lesser of two evils." But after talking with some folks that I know, I can just about guarantee you that the 2012 election is Rick Perry's to lose, particularly if he picks up Marco Rubio's early endorsement, who will then later likely be his VP candidate.
Knowing where somebody comes from tells you a lot about who he is. That being said, I found this piece of interest:
A Boy’s Life.
Now, I'm sure that a lot of folks are going to comment on what an unprincipled SOB Perry is. We are, after all, talking about politicians. Go ahead. You can't insult me. Like I say, I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just saying that this guy is most likely to win, both the GOP nomination and the White House, and therefore it probably doesn't hurt to know something about him.
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As a lifelong Texan, and as a strong detractor of Governor Perry(I was pulling for medina for governor in 10), I can absolutely tell you a few things about that article and Perry's accounts of his youth.
!) he is absolutely right about west Texans being very friendly, honest people. The land is ugly as pockmarked shit once you get west of mineral wells, but the people are among the nicest in the world. east Texas is the opposite, beautiful terrain, but there is a lot of cliqueshness.
2) His account is highly romanticized/sanitized. Half of my family is from out in west texas and the panhandle, and the culture of honky tonkin, drag racing, drinking and plinking, and fistfighting is just as prevelant as the little house on the prairie scene he seems to be trying to paint.
Personally, I wont vote for him for any reason. I'll do what I did in 2008---Ron Paul in the primaries and if he doesn't get the nomination, then I'll vote third party in the general
Gov. Perry is a plastic-faced fraud. He was neck deep in the SPP and the Trans-Texas Corridor. He is the opposite of the Constitutionalist we need.
Don't buy the bullshit, people!
SSDD
I,m a lifelong Texan as well. Perry has done a lot for our gun rights as Governor. If Ron Paul runs he has my vote again if not I will vote for Perry and feel good about it.
Well I'm a Texan and have to say I HATE PERRY but it is my desire that he is elected POTUS. Then my next wish is we have an election for the Gov position and Medina is elected and we succeed. But as they say, spit in one hand and wish in the next and see which one fills first.
Like bitter clinging Texan, I plan on voting for Ron Paul in the primary.
Of the mokes currently running Perry is the one I'd least have to hold my nose to vote for. Sorry, bcT, but in my book Debora Medina took herself out of the race with that utterly stupid remark.
I voted for Perry the other times he ran. Reckon I'll vote for him again for POTUS. At LEAST we know he really WAS born in the US of A. I have not agreed with some of the things he did but over all I believe he has done pretty well by Texas.
bcT, you know darned good and well Ron Paul - while he has a few good ideas - is too far out in SOMEWHERE (definitely ain't LEFT field) to have a chinaman's chance of even getting the GOP nomination for POTUS. If the 3rd party candidate is even nominally conservative - or even just NOT PROGRESSIVE - then you DO realize that by voting for them you might as well just go ahead and vote for Obama. As Bismark said, "Politics is the art of the possible." As things now stand in our country, a 3rd party candidate can ONLY siphon votes from the main party candidate he is most like. If the far left puts up a candidate then you will have to vote for someone who might very well make BHO look like a centerist and if someone who is even somewhat conservative - Trump? - is the 3rd then BHO wins an electorial landslide despite having more vote AGAINST him than FOR him.
You do what you have to do. But If Obama wins a rebellion is virtually assured. Of course if BHO declares Martial Law then there will BE no election fall of '12 and a revolution will likely follow not long after the declaration.
To-Do List:
Pray
Vote (assuming you get the opportunity)
Stockpile essential supplies (while you still can)
Practice and perfect your marksmanship.
@ Bad Cyborg
Firstly, although I will reluctantly say you are probably right that Dr Paul is not likely to get the GOP nod, he has got an exponetially greater chance than he did before. for christs sakes, homie, look at how many of his ideas and catchphrases are now being repeated by mainstream GOP'ers and conservative talking heads. Hell, Glenn Beck and hannity hated him in 2008, now it looks like they hired him as a speechwriter if you watch their shows.
and secondly, I could not vehemently disagree on the third party issue. IMO wasting your vote is to vote for the lesser of two evils. I voted third party in the general in both 04 and 08. Reason being, in 04 it was between a warmonger and a gun grabber. I dont vote for warmongers or gun grabbers. in 08 it was between a border-jumper enabler and a gun grabber, again, I dont vote for border jumper enablers and I god damn sure dont vote for gun grabbers. So I voted third party, because of all the bad fucked up things I have done in my life, I can at least say one of them isnt putting these same assclowns who have been FUBARING our great country in the white house
I'm a Texan, and the only Texan I'd vote for is Ron Paul. Perry supported the TransTexas Corridor, and forcing minor females to get that Guardasil shot that does nothing to protect them and may be harmful. He has done nothing to close the boarder, as he said he would. The guy is a fake conservative, actually not a conservative at all, though he'd have you believe he is. And he's not very bright, and has no principles.
If Ron Paul doesn't get the Republican nomination, I'll vote for whoever the Constitution Party runs. I agree with Mike, I'm done voting the lesser of two evils.
WarriorClass
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RON PAUL or BUST!
I'm voting for Ron Paul in the Primary and if he don't win the Nomination,I'm WRITING IN his name in the General Election.
Anyone who CLAIMS they want a return to a CONSTITUTIONALY limited government and don't vote for Ron Paul is LYING to themselves.Paul has never made a vote that went against the Constitution.
OH Yea, as far as Perry(Gov. Pretty Hair)goes can you say NWO in the third degree.It would be better to vote for Obumass and let the fire works begin.
Dennis
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Texas
looky here Perry is Bilderberger approved, tried to force little girls get an unsafe vaccine Guardisil (by his own self-imposed dictate), tried to sell out Texas land to Spanish owned companies via imminent domain (aka Trans Texas Corridor) and was AlGore's campaign manager back in the day.
He's no better than O'Barakbama just wears a cowboy hat with his sheep's skin. He will/ would sell you and I out in a heart beat.
They are gonna try and run him as the anti-Obama don't take the bait
Hmpf! Five 'you know's" in the article.
Obama being re-elected would ensure a bloody civil war from which we may never recover. It isn't the internal fighting between the polarized factions of our own society that scares me; it is the external meddling that would doom us.
There is no exceptional candidate in the race. I will vote my principles in the primary (Ron Paul) but support whoever the nominee is. Goes against the grain, but we are in far too much trouble to stomp our feet and go third party, thus ensuring Obama's win. If it ends up being Perry, so be it. I don't like a lot of things he has done, but he would be a damn sight better than the current occupant of the WH.
It is more important in 2012 to get solid control of the Senate, increase the TP presence in the House, and increase our gains at state level.
I am not voting FOR anyone in November, because there so far is no one to vote for. I will be voting against Obama.
azcIII
Perry supported Gore's presidential bid:
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Ramsey-Defends-Perrys-Gore-Support-127525978.html
He's just another scumbag, globalist, political opportunist whore for sale to highest bidder.
Like Rep. Paul or not, it's a fact that not voting for him because he can't win is classic circular logic.
One of the biggest problems we face is that we all have been exposed to "the koolaid" for so long that even the beliefs of the founders as expressed by the Libertarian Party sound fringe to the most conservative of us.
The fact is that most of the stuff FedGov does today is none of the government's business. MOST!
But we all sip at the government teat from time to time. We all have bad habits we need to break.
Get a copy of "For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto" and study it until you can go through it without once saying "These people are nuts!"
Then maybe you will understand better where "wacky Ron Paul" is coming from.
Face it Ron Paul can't get elected. The most qualified person in the field is Newt but he can't get elected either. Perry and Rubio is the ticket and will assure a Republican in the White House for the next 16 years.
It's far too late for any candidate to make any difference at all to promote actual liberty (if there ever was such a time)
Whoever becomes (or stays) "president" this next time will reap the wind of the storms that have been loose for at least a hundred years. We actually rest in the eye of that hurricane now, and I hope each of us is ready for when the wind slams us from the other direction. Soon.
Forget about "voting." Prepare for the storm.
For Anonymous at 7:27 AM et al:
Rubio is arguably not qualified to be President under Article 2 Section 1 of the Constitution. And no, the damnable swill running this country has NOT enforced that for the Muslim in Chief, but we do NOT need another Constitutional usurper, regardless of how good he may otherwise be.
Perry would be a hold your nose moment. I ain't votin' for him. Ron Paul or nothin'.
"Get a copy of 'For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto' and study it until you can go through it without once saying 'These people are nuts!' "
The Libertarian Party folks are nuts. Don't get me wrong, I like Ron Paul. Wrote him in in the last election. But the Libertarian Party leaders lothe Ron Paul. They also spend an overabundance of time and copyarguing that gay marriage should be the federal law of the land. They are anti-constitutional, fringe liberal kooks.
"The Libertarian Party folks are nuts."
Newsflash:
The Democratic Party doesn't have much use for real democracy.
The Republican Party is not really very interested in preserving our republic.
The Libertarian Party has about as much relationship to the Libertarian principles put forward in "For a New Liberty" as the TEA Party does to Sam Adams and The Sons of Liberty.
Forget the labels and read the damn book!
If more Americans took an interest to what All of the clowns in ALL of the parties were screwing up in our names, we wouldn't be in the shape we're in. But then, if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass near as much.
"Forget the labels and read the damn book!"
Problem is, without labels you are hard pressed to build coalitions and win elections. The Libertarian party has been hijacked by idiots and therefore libertarianism (notice the label) as libertarianism is dead. You will have to build it under another name (read: "label") if you want to further the political philosophy to the point of influence. Problem is though, that once you raise it to that level, it too will be hijacked and you're back to square one.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
You can't change the math, doesn't matter who gets in. Whoever is elected POTUS in 2012 is gonna be remembered in history as being President when America died.
No matter what anyone thinks of Alex Jones (I think he's right about a lot of things, even if he thinks Mike is a government mole or something), he predicted long ago in the video "Endgame" that Perry would be a presidential candidate due to Perry's association with the Bilderberg group. And that represents nothing less than a deal with the devil himself. Literally.
Ron Paul has my vote.
But it'd be wacky if it were Obama vs. Bachmann--the extremes of either party. Obama's special interests would still prop him up, I suppose.
::G
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