Why I'm Against Perry

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Rick Perry Unveils Reform Plan to ‘Uproot and Overhaul Washington’

As presidential plans go, this is about as bold and sweeping as it gets. The realist in me says that much of it is impossible to achieve. Get Congress to work part-time while cutting their salaries and staffs? The most dangerous place on earth tends to be the space between congresscritters and a camera, and many of them use their padded office budgets to reward friends and family. Changing the federal judiciary at such a fundamental level? Putting term limits on Supreme Court justices is so far outside the box that it’s a bit tough to get your head around.

But going big as this plan does might enable some of these reforms to be enacted, and they are good reforms. Some, such as the moratorium on regulations, can be done through the executive branch alone. Reforms of EPA and DHS are long overdue. It’s heartening to hear a presidential candidate propose it.

The Uproot and Overhaul plan is the third major policy that the Perry campaign has rolled out in recent weeks. It joins Cut, Balance and Grow and Energizing American Jobs and Security as some of the most sweeping and detailed plans any presidential candidate has ever put forward.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/11/15...ul-washington/

[Ferd]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Glenn Beck "If you're going to vote for a guy based on stats, on economic prosperity and job growth, it would be Rick Perry." 11/15/11

I agree with Glenn Beck. I agree with Perry nearly right down the line on his economic package and tax plan.

I dont like 9 9 9. In fact I hate 9 9 9. You just do NOT have both an income tax and a consumption tax. you just dont do that.


But Im not sold on Perry just yet. I am starting to like Newt again...

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Originally Posted by Ferd

I agree with Glenn Beck. I agree with Perry nearly right down the line on his economic package and tax plan.

I dont like 9 9 9. In fact I hate 9 9 9. You just do NOT have both an income tax and a consumption tax. you just dont do that.


But Im not sold on Perry just yet. I am starting to like Newt again...

I'm sticking with Perry. To the death!

And, BTW, Perry NEVER bought into the Climate Change, Global Warming debacle. Newt supported it. Just sayin'....

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Originally Posted by Ferd

I am starting to like Newt again...

Ferd, I can't forget Newt saying that Paul Ryan was conducting right wing social engineering with his budget plan.

Another interesting point is that Newt, on the immigration issue, called us "heartless" if we took the view toward wanting to kick out 20 million immigrants. Funny, that is was not all right for Perry to have the same view.

"GINGRICH: No, but let me say this, John. No serious citizen who's concerned about solving this problem should get trapped into a yes/no answer in which you're either for totally selling out protecting America or you're for totally kicking out 20 million people in a heartless way.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP.../13/se.02.html

And if Gingrich was so great in what he was doing, why after being the first GOP Speaker of the House, after 40 years, is he not still holding some office in the Government?

And why, after Gingrich threw his hat in the ring, did American Solutions start to fold? http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/08/26...imploded-june/

I want someone who is and has been consistent and that is not Newt. Don't get me wrong, if he, somehow, gets the nomination, I will vote my party line. But, to say that he has been conservative the whole way down the line and supported conservative causes the whole way down the line, I'm not buying it.

And, if we are so impressed by his intellectual verbiage against a debate with Obama and that is our greatest concern, that is troubling to me. He is an intelligent man, but it isn't enough for me. I want someone with a record.

Perry has been a consistent conservative even when in the Democratic Party. Texas was largely a Democratic state, hardly having any Republican counties. When the party began to change, he made his move to the Republican Party. He has been consistent.

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Congress fulfilled Gingrich's Contract promise (which laid out ten policies that Republicans promised to bring to a vote on the House Floor during the first hundred days of the new Congress) to bring all ten of the Contract's issues to a vote within the first 100 days of the session, even though most legislation was initially held up in the Senate. Over the objection of liberal/progressive interest groups and President Clinton, who called it the 'Contract on America', many aspects of the proposal were implemented in subsequent legislation.

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Foreign Policy: Newt thinks that the U.S. is setting up a confrontation with Israel. He thinks that Israel is in great danger and by not supporting Israelis, we're setting them up for a nuclear holocaust.

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Poverty: Gingrich promotes moving the powers of government back to the states and local governments where volunteers better know the needs of the people.

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As a co-author of the 1994 Contract with America, Gingrich was in the forefront of the Republican Party's dramatic success in that year's Congressional elections and subsequently was elected Speaker of the House.

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In the time Gingrich has been out of public life, he's run four businesses, authored books, and has served as a conservative public policy advisor. Frankly...he's written and suggested a number of the policies his opposition is chewing on to offer the American people.

Having been out of Washington running businesses means that he has a handle on what business needs. Having served in Congress as Speaker and pushing through a great conservative movement under Clinton, he knows how to GET THINGS DONE in Washington. His knowledge of American history can make one's head spin. He knows what has worked historically and what hasn't. Now is the time for a man like Gingrich.

The last thing we need is a cowboy from Texas making absolutely unreal promises. Newt is an established and formidable politician who knows Washington.

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Following Republican losses in the 1998 mid-term elections, Gingrich resigned both his Speakership and his congressional seat. Since resigning his seat, Gingrich has maintained a career as a political analyst and consultant.