Vice President Perry *snicker*
Wanted: true-red conservatives (Salena Zito, PittsburghLive.com, via RAWBservations)
Contrary to popular belief, the core of conservatism does not spring from "life" issues; those just suck up all of the air and make all of the noise. Conservatives are, first and foremost, proponents of limiting government's power and strengthening national defense.
A search for someone who runs and governs as a Goldwater reveals three leaders from different parts of the country: former U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and Texas Gov. Rick Perry. All are preachers in the church of Reaganomics.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry is steadfast about governing responsibly, which translates into consistently facing resistance when balancing fiscal policies with social concerns. His maverick approach to remaining true-blue has earned him a solid reputation with conservatives. Beltway-types look to him as perfect vice-presidential material, despite his disdain for elbow-rubbing.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a fellow Republican, briefly considered running against Perry in 2006. Faced with a daunting primary against a truer Republican, she quickly backed down.
Apparently, the author missed the last budget that Perry and a Republican legislature put together. It's not exactly a symbol of fiscal austerity.
For that matter, the author apparently doesn't understand that Hutchison probably would not have won a primary against Perry because of social issues, not fiscal issues. The author gets things precisely backwards.
RAW does a nice job of batting down both the author and Glenn Reynolds over this silliness. And silly it is! That bolded part about Perry being vice-presidential material made me think it was a spoof the first time I read it.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/07/05 23:06 | Texas | Technorati
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On further review, there is a factually incorrect (or at least dubious) statement in every sentence regarding Texas politics.
Posted by R. Alex @ 09:45 on 11/08/05
I dunno, it's not as if the current republican administration has done much to restrain spending either, so I could see where some liberal knownothing (redundant statement?)might think that Perry looks presidential... PFFFT! what a crock.... that would be jumping out of the frying pan into the nuclear furnace....
Posted by Rorschach @ 13:16 on 11/09/05
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