Rick Perry is NOT a Tea Party candidate, not a conservative, and not the guy/girl we need in the White House. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
With the ruling elite and blue blood east coast Republicans rebuffed at every step, and their candidates (Romney, Gingrich, et. el.) not able to gain traction with the conservative base, Governor Rick Perry's name was floated last week as a possible Republican choice for the White House. His name was offered with two other Republican moderates, former Republican George Pataki (NY) and former mayor of New York Rudy G. The company that Perry was coupled with goes a long way in describing his ideology. Perry is a moderate, a progressive, a globalist.
Texas is a red state, a conservative state. Guns, anti-abortion, capitalism, the Bible, are all as important in Texas as high school football. But other issues are too, like the border. When Arizona passed its law to enforce the federal law concerning illegals, Perry was nowhere to be found. He did not stand with the governor of Arizona. He did not call for a Texas law like Arizona's. He has done nothing on illegal immigration. In addition, Governor Rick Perry carried the water for creating a New Jersey turnpike-like super highway from Mexico through Texas to the American heartland. Known as the Trans Texas corridor this roadway would have acted as a pipeline for illegals and Mexican and other foreign goods and people straight into the center of the United States! The only reason this initiative failed was because the entire state, Republicans and Democrats rejected it! If you want to know about Perry, talk to Texans on the border. Or talk to Texans in East Texas where recent polls about Perry's Presidential ambitions were totally embarrassing to the governor.
Perry is governor for one reason, no one ran against him. Incumbency and the money that goes with it are as powerful in Texas as in any northeast state.
Just this past weekend the theatre of politics was played out when a minor federal court attempted to block prayer at a high school graduation, threatening to jail students and parents who prayed at the high school graduation. When the Court was reversed...old Rick Perry was there...big deal. Perry has not been a moral conservative.
To his credit, Perry has remained opposed the creation of an income tax...but his position is one which reflects political reality in Texas. The House would never approve it.
Perry is a Bush creation. Perry has done nothing in Texas which required conservative principles and leadership. He is a western version of the blue bloods in Manhattan.
We are still waiting for Sarah Palin. We are still waiting for a conservative leader who can bring together the conservative base of the GOP. Let's stop wasting time with alternatives which have no conservative pedigree.
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