He's been a decent for us, though not as steadfast conservative as I'd like... but in this environment...  ??  Eleventy

as long as he doesn't reach out to the politico's of 43, ie, Rove, to help him shape his message...

He has to strike a clear and sharp path towards reestablishment of states rights, limited federal government and a federal judiciary who isn't the most bestest branch of the three, but an equal one that has been unchecked by the other two since the 40's.

It's time for a shakeup... but I don't know if Perry has the people he needs around him to do it,... but then again, none of the others that are true conservatives do either...

Don't worry.

The RINO hunters who outed Bachmann, Cain, and Palin as "total Rinos" will be here to blast away yet again.

Remember, the only totally, totally pure non-rino is Christine O'Donnell's 2nd grade teacher's older cousin Bob who sniffs from the bag of visions on the corner of 9th and Figueroa.

show me with herfano and TXMarko ...  he is squishy... kinda like Romney with cowboy boots on and not quite as liberal,..... cut from the Bush family cloth... both in the good and the bad that that implies.. 

Let me guess...

He supports cap and trade

He dated Rosie O'Donnell

He was in a reality TV show

He lobbied for farm subsidies for Texans

He's pro-choice

He's only given to Democrats

Dash my hopes now, before I build them up.

A slimy operator, possibly less principled and and competent than George II, the former Texas governor.

Lots of potential scandals with how he's run things and with back room deals, too.  Texas has been run by Perry in a very crony friendly way.

Allah is easily jazzed.

When he opens a window and a breeze rolls in, hes jazzed.

When he eats a grape, he's jazzed.

When Ed whispers in his ear that he wants some more, he's jazzed in his pants.

Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday told a group of national Republicans that the 2012 presidential election would center on state sovereignty and limited intervention from Washington.

"The federal government was created by the states to be an agent for the states, not the other way around," Perry said at the Republican National Committee's state chairmen's meeting in Dallas. "The things they supposed to be doing, all too often, they are failures at. All the other things they decided they know best in, and are forcing themselves upon the state, they need to get out of."

Perry, the chairman of the Republican Governor's Association, said his group would work with the RNC to assure the GOP had sweeping victories next year, including winning the White House and adding to the party's majority of governors throughout the country.

The longest serving governor in Texas did not endorse a candidate for president, or express concern about what some Republicans have described as a weak field.

At a news conference after his speech, Perry told reporters that he had not reconsidered his decision not to run next year against Barack Obama.

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 07:17 PM (pW2o

I already know.  He's just not officially toast yet.

But I'd prefer Perry to Huntsman.

Huntsman is like Romney in that they are both moderates and got elected in a state where most people didn't share their convictions.  The difference is that Huntsman is a moderate Democrat in conviction and lied like crazy to cash in on his family name.

Posted by: sifty at May 17, 2011 07:19 PM (2dbd9)

Perry's got a big enough state that it could be its own country.  And he could be like, a duke. 

Just sayin', Rick.

Dr. Spank,

I've read things, but most of this is based on my own personal dealings with Texas administration and my own contacts in Texas politics (not Dems, fyi).

But I'd prefer Perry to Huntsman.

Huntsman is like Romney in that they are both moderates and got elected in a state where most people didn't share their convictions.  The difference is that Huntsman is a moderate Democrat in conviction and lied like crazy to cash in on his family name.

And that fucker is a believer in global warming. 

A lot off people might object to Perry because Texas has an express lane for the death penalty. But I consider it a big plus.

Be still my beating heart.

Posted by: Tough US Immigration Policies at May 17, 2011 07:20 PM (x/4B/)

Yeah, and we had it before him also.

Gabby Giffords sent her husband a message today!!

sent her husband a message today!!

she sent a message

sent a message...

Perry just doesn't seem very bright to me. He'd probably give Hawaii to Hu Jintao at their first summit and not even know it.

If China wrote off its loans to the US it would be a fair trade.

@36: "*singing*

Just a small town girl,
Livin' in a lonely world!
Took a midnight train goin' anywhere.

Just a city boy,
Born and raised in south Detroit!
Took a midnight train goin' anywhere...!"

In the lame "rock" song milleu - what is the point of Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer":

"We've gotta hold on to what we've got/It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not...."  followed later by: "Take my hand/We'll make it, I swear"

Um, dude, you just said it doesn't matter if you make or not - why are you now swearing to make it?

Oh Good God NO.

He has the Presidential hair, that much is true-

sadly, it is cloaking an empty space.

I didn't want to vote for him in the Governor's race, but we were stuck. The Dem was a liberal idiot from Houston.

In the Primary, we had Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who is quite the Washingtonian elitist- She actually said "we can have STATES deciding issues like that for themselves" IN TEXAS! No wonder she lost.

...and then we had some activist twit who sounded alright until she was exposed as a Paulbot and 9/11 truther.

So we were stuck with Perry. Good ol' varmit shootin' Perry. No word on if uttered his most famous political statement before he shot the coyote-

"ADIOS,MOFO"

If Perry is our saviour, I submit, we are truly, truly, FUBAR.

#77

I C W Y D T.

A I A M E.

U K?

Soona-

We haven't been beating them as much as I like! I am a Sooner Diehard who actually lives down here in Austin. Freaking sucks when we lose.

--

I read at HotAir that the administration has started attacking Huntsman.  I don't know if that means they think he's seriously planning on running.  Well, I guess he is, sort of, because he just hired someone from Huck's team. 

But I have yet to meet any Republican here in Utah who is a fan of Huntsman.  They are mostly Romney supporters, some quite intensely because of the Olympics, and a few Palin supporters.  My husband works in philanthropy, so he's been meeting many of the top LDS donors.  They're almost all for Romney. 

The folks I've spoken with who worked for Huntsman's gubernatorial races say that they feel betrayed by him.  It's not so much that he's super-liberal as much as he's perceived as unprincipled.  He abandoned his support for school vouchers, for example.  And he signed Utah up for some regional cap and trade.

But I don't see that he's really a "liberal," per se.  For example, I think his support for civil unions (which is cited as a sign of how liberal he is) is actually a pretty mainstream position in Republican circles.  (He's still opposed to gay marriage.)  He is reportedly consistently pro-life and governed that way in Utah. 

I read that he loosened up liquor sales here in Utah, so he can't be all bad.

Posted by: Dr Spank at May 17, 2011 07:30 PM (1fB+3)

We do give asylum to student athletes who truly want to better themselves.

@59: "Dig up Reagan.  I am a bigger fan of his corpse than I am any of these people."

I love the dead!

Posted by: TXMarko at May 17, 2011 07:34 PM (IPK10)

Those things do not have to be mutually exclusive.  Indeed, I would expect the latter would necessarily precede the former.

Posted by: TXMarko at May 17, 2011 07:15 PM (IPK10)

Can I have her number?

@82

Were you in the path of that train wreck?  That plan would of have us driving 60 miles to get to town-which is only ten miles away.

I love the dead!  Posted by: Alice Cooper at May 17, 2011 07:35 PM (xy9wk)

Oh, yes you do !!!

Perry is an Aggie, not a Longhorn, if that helps.

Make that an Aggie Cheerleader.

mpur-

Aggie is one of the few saving graces for Perry. I root for them after my Sooners.

I DO cheer on the Longhorns one game every year, though-

when they play the Cowpokes from OSU

Posted by: Dr Spank at May 17, 2011 07:36 PM (1fB+3)

We've found that they have a complete turnaround once they experience a winning season.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at May 17, 2011 07:39 PM (D+phB)

It's Firefox?  I thought it was tired hamsters.

If we're going to go with a Texas pol as the GOP candidate, let's use Kinky Friedman.

He'll be entertaining, and the saracens will lose their shit at the thought.

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 07:38 PM (pW2o

Ditto, Y-not. 

They'd show her if she was a Republican

just sayin'

@133: "Huntsman both sucks and blows."

How about the Huntsmen of Annuvin?  We just need to keep them away from any frozen rivers and we should be good.

another question we should be asking: Can the Bruins go 2 minutes without allowing 3 goals tonight?

A general pessimism has come over me reading this thread and so I'm thinking probably not.

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 07:38 PM (pW2o

Ditto, Y-not. 

Posted by: MWR at May 17, 2011 07:44 PM (CA2NO)

Who was that stupid "pageant mom" who was injecting her eight year old with Botox for so-called wrinkles?

This country is over-run with stupid.

another question we should be asking: Can the Bruins go 2 minutes without allowing 3 goals tonight?

Jeez, I hope so. When does the game start?

It's no secret at all that the Elders' trip to North Korea was viewed as extremely unhelpful by the governments both in Washington and Seoul. Chris Nelson reported on April 29 that Clinton reacted strongly when asked in a morning meeting if she wanted to meet with Carter. From the Nelson report:

The performance of President Carter and his delegation in N. Korea this week was either shameful or fatuous...or both...and exemplifies why Carter had no...zero...USG support going in, and even less coming out, per an alleged eye witness account of Sec. St. Clinton at the morning meeting the other day:

@132

Jan Brewer he isn't. Talks about securing the border as long as it doesn't effect cheap labor. Remember he wouldn't support the arizona law as seeing it not right for Texas.

Stop doubting me. I'm a soon to be two time Vezina winnah bitches!

Help us  ZombieObi Ronaldus

You're our only hope

Newt just called Ryan to apoligize. Let the backtracking and but kissing began.

@138: "There's an unofficial embargo on Gifford photos. She's missing some head."

*insert random skull-fucking joke here*

Sidney, Clayton, Jugdish, and Mohammed

Lt Suits????  is that you Cobra RedLeg?

*insert random skull-fucking joke here*

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at May 17, 2011 07:53 PM (xy9wk)

Hey assholes, she needs your fucking jokes like she needs a hole in the head!

Vote, Fuck, Kill: Perry Edition

Vote Rick Perry, Fuck Katy Perry, Kill Tyler Perry

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2011 07:26 PM (nj1bB)

Ace, the point is, it's mine and my wife's decision if we want to get our daughter this vaccination...not the fucking government.  But the fuck out big brother.  This isn't like an airborne or casual contact virus that I believe the government has a role in preventing.  This is a sexual contact disease and none of their god damned business. 

Guys, making fun of Gifford....is that really necessary?
Just sayin'.....

I think the larger issue is her staff is saying she's fine, she's almost back to normal. But no photos, no interviews, no reporters.

They're pushing for her to run for Kyl's Senate seat, but the fact is she can't do her House job as it is. Sympathy, sure, but we don't need a victim candidacy.

Didn't Perry outlaw the old "you can drive and drink as long as it's beer" law?

Posted by: Sphynx at May 17, 2011 07:57 PM (fEmj2)

Could you stop with the profanity please?

Posted by: KZnextzone at May 17, 2011 07:57 PM (ZUWaD)

And I say bullshit.

Posted by: Damiano at May 17, 2011 08:02 PM (3nrx7)

I'd vote for the ball cheese under my taint before the JEF but Perry's big gubmint tendencies scare me. 

Didn't Perry outlaw the old "you can drive and drink as long as it's beer" law?

Posted by: Soona at May 17, 2011 08:00 PM (LgItj)

Fuck him. Now I have a legitimate gripe with the man.

please keep the jokes tasteful

Steve Irwin at the devil's Halloween party with a sting ray hanging off his chest

Devil: You can't come in. Too soon dude.

Steve: It's me Steve Irwin

Devil: You still can't come in....No costume.

Yeah we're sick f*ckers here sometimes, but we like it that way!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 17, 2011 07:59 PM (7YzRS) 

Not so much. I like the freewheeling fuck it all cussing and debate and always have. Just not the gratuitous 7th grade slurs and (some) racist remarks. That seems to have crept in the past couple years.

Posted by: mpurinTexas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 17, 2011 08:01 PM (J4Pnx)

mpur, i don't know if you have a daughter but I do and this kind of shit scares the hell out of me.  I'd like to know more about Perry.

Posted by: mpurinTexas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 17, 2011 08:05 PM (J4Pnx)

Oh well now I know I wouldn't vote for him.  If he's from Texas forget it, we already had one idiot from Texas already, why repeat an error? 

Heck I'd vote for mittens over him and I can't stand mittens.

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 07:59 PM (pW2o

Nope. He might have been acceptable based on past performance, but taking the CIA spot.......

Besides, no one has any idea what his personal politics are. 

But I'll grant you that he's as close as possible to the "exception that proves the rule".

@178: "All you LGF refugees please keep the jokes tasteful and non-hateful. And I'm talking about the shitty Gabby Giffords remarks here."

Don't worry. She can't defend herself - she's got no head.

Posted by: Marlee Matlin at May 17, 2011 07:37 PM (FYCiJ)

This sock always makes me laugh, even though I know I shouldn't.

Y-not et al- I absolutely agree with you on the HPV vaccine. It was some major marketing and lobbying by Merck [after the Vioxx debacle] to push that particular pice of crap. So it was a vaccine for 4 or 5 of the HPV strains. I believe there are about 40 or so that can cause cervical cancer. A lot of money in the pockets of the Merck shareholders- and the politicians they bought.

Bruins Playoffs or Jon Stewart's breakdown of the GOP field on O'Reilly?

Hmm.

Posted by: KZnextzone at May 17, 2011 07:57 PM (ZUWaD)

And I say bullshit.

Posted by: Soona at May 17, 2011 08:04 PM (LgItj)

Yeah, they never made any jokes about Reagan. True Story.

Posted by: Sphynx at May 17, 2011 08:11 PM (fEmj2)

Every non-shitty (stop with the cursing, please!) remark is fodder.  Or hadn't you noticed?

Posted by: booger at May 17, 2011 08:15 PM (9RFH1)

That's what Congress is for.

Bruins Playoffs or Jon Stewart's breakdown of the GOP field on O'Reilly?

Hmm.

Can I opt for Door Number Three: Swatting my junk with a cactus?

There are two types of Southern Republicans.

Type 1 is like Mike Huckabee.  Fiscally a RINO, socially authoritarian due to their religion.

Type 2 is like Ron Paul.  Fiscally conservative, socially libertarian.  Wanna smoke weed?  It's all good.

Which type is Rick Perry?  Any Texans wanna fill me in?

Posted by: booger at May 17, 2011 08:17 PM (9RFH1)

Along with everyone else in Texas.

While he could have a collection of gnomes in his yard, I like what I know so far as well as his immigration ideas. I also like Texans, being a fair flower of the South. Plus he is currently mad at O'Barky.

Count me in on Perry 2012.

Perry/Ryan 2012. Heck, Perry/Anyone 2012.

Posted by: fluffy at May 17, 2011 08:17 PM (SwkdU)

Ah, but with orbital lasers, we won't have to wait!

Just... don't call it "star wars," please.

Perry flirted with a couple of ideas (eminent domain on the Trans Texas Corridor and the HPV vaccine), but was smart enough to see they were very unpopular and dropped them.  So he can self-correct.

In his first term he presided over a paper-thin Republican majority in the state house.  Last two budgets (well, this one they're working on and the last one delivered) had/will have actual cuts in spending (Lt. Gov Dewhurst has been leading the charge on that).  There was one odious little tax, the new franchise tax, but other than that we're better off than most of the rest of the country.

Job growth, reasonable on illegal immigration (not kicking ass, but not giving up shit), he's put up a sincere effort to fight Obama's EPA on facility permits.

I'm not crazy about the guy but I certainly don't hate him.  I wonder if the rest of the country can get enthused about another Texan in the White House. 

In other news:

A man who won $2 million on a Michigan lottery show has told a TV station that he still uses food stamps.

Leroy Fick of Bay County admitted he still swipes the electronic card at stores, nearly a year after winning a jackpot on "Make Me Rich!" He told WNEM-TV in Saginaw that more than half the prize went to taxes. Fick says the Department of Human Services told him he could continue to use the card, which is paid with tax dollars. He told WNEM: "If you're going to ... try to make me feel bad, you aren't going to do it."

@242: "#235, et al.  -- Every shitty remark you leave here is fodder for your enemies to use against you, capisce ?"

If that's the best my enemies can dig up on me, I'm utterly unconcerned.

"Oooh, he made a mean comment about a political enemy!!!"

Guess I'm rooming with Hitler in Hell.  If that's the case, may the stay there be as fun as the way there.

Sphnyx left?

I was gonna make espresso....

@254: "Dark Lord of the Sith for President: Do You Seriously Think He'd Negotiate with Terrorists?"

Negotiate? No.  Lose two major bases, his entire navy, and have the best units of his army defeated by midgets terrorists with spears? Big yes.

Posted by: fluffy at May 17, 2011 08:21 PM (SwkdU)

A-10s are for business, AH-64s are for fun.

Besides, we have to get to work on the Twin Ion Engine fighter program.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2011 08:27 PM

I'm going with "Low-Grade"

Negotiate? No.  Lose two major bases, his entire navy, and have the best units of his army defeated by midgets terrorists with spears? Big yes.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at May 17, 2011 08:26 PM (xy9wk)

Luckly, our terrorists don't have spears, so we are safe.

@271: "All right then, I'll quit trying to polish turds for the night. Enjoy."

Shitty, shitty, turds....bit of a coprophiliac, huh?

Posted by: booger at May 17, 2011 08:20 PM (9RFH1)"

I think this is largely true, aside from the TTC nonsense.  There is a need for more Texan infrastructure, though, so perhaps this isn't just doing something to do something.  The Merck vaccine was dropped quickly enough too.

Yeah, I think Rick Perry would be a better President than most GOP candidates and any Democrat one.

>> Whatever happened to politicians that were satisfied that flirting with, you know, enforcing the laws, making sure the roads were maintained, and keeping taxes as low as possible??

He's solid in those areas.

TTC and the vaccine, if those are the biggest criticisms, they're pretty weak is all I'm sayin.  Hell, they're probably less popular with him than me now.

Wouldn't it have been great to have a President who could see how massively unpopular a piece of legislation was with a majority of Americans, and just let it go?

That would have been cool.

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 07:38 PM (pW2o

This was exactly my problem as well.  You're taking a vaccine that was never tested on women under 16 and asking 12 year olds to get it.  Also, with no long-term studies on the efficacy.  They don't know if it will wear off in ten years or not.  It's just a stupid move to do by executive order, and shows that all Perry was looking at were dollar signs.  It is NOT a cancer vaccine and it makes me crazy when people say that.  It does not protect a girl from anything but a couple of types of HPV which may cause cancer.  You can get cervical cancer from other things.

Perry sets off some alarm bells with me, but I don't think he's running so ultimately it doesn't matter.

"Rick Perry is a moron who is trying to turn Texas universities into diploma mills"

Aren't public universities already diploma mills/make-work programs for dead weight academics?

@321: "Luckly, our terrorists don't have spears, so we are safe."

The spear-carrying terrorists only got the Sith's best troops.  The bases and the navy fell to gun-toting leftists led by a guy with a penchant for deviant sex.  That is a lot more troubling.

Posted by: House of Payne at May 17, 2011 08:35 PM (z79gW)

Or is he trying to make a college education affordable for all?  Why do you hate poor people?

Posted by: mpurinTexas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 17, 2011 08:34 PM (J4Pnx)

Well, maybe, or she was spoofing back. Either way, EOJ's reaction seems a bit off kilter for such a lightweight.

I like Rick Perry.  Maybe later.  Hey!  What about Gabby Giffords?  Why are they still showing the picture of her before her Lobotomy?  (just kidding)

If she is no longer competent to serve in the Congress (God bless her!)  she should be replaced.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 17, 2011 08:26 PM (hlY6R)

Thank you, dear Jeff. I remain convinced the short one (who takes the short bus) is Meggie McAinst. Either that, or, like, she is Ace or another dude or 'ette, like, messin' with us in a Valley Girl sort of way. Peace out, I can always depend on you and your empire to get to the heart of the matter.

If she is no longer competent to serve in the Congress (God bless her!)  she should be replaced.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 17, 2011 08:36 PM (FI38b)

That's kind of a low bar, isn't it?

*ducks and runs*

@343: Posted by: Geronimo at May 17, 2011 08:36 PM (KVI8B)

First Gabby Giffords, then this guy? Is there anyone on this thread who hasn't been shot in the head?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2011 08:24 PM (UOM4

I seem to recall this prick literally saying on stage that Sarah should go fuck herself following a comment she made suggesting that concentrations of patriotism vary across the country.  And she's the thinned skinned one?

Wait; why am I even talking about this douchebag?  I haven't enjoyed The Daily Show since Kilborn hosted.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at May 17, 2011 08:36 PM (c0A3e)

Bad attention is better than no attention.

Now that I think about it, how many major social and political problems are the result of daddy issues? Seriously?

The Bruins just scored a power play goal.  Anything is possible.  Buddy "Fucking" Roemer is going all the way.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at May 17, 2011 08:38 PM (Wh0W+)

Awesome. I approve.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at May 17, 2011 08:36 PM (c0A3e)

That's what I've always thought.

@371: "Did we mention he discovered the North Pole?"

No, that would be me, in the bathtub, right around my 12th birthday.

@375: "Is there an Empire of Jeff here?  We've got a warrant for ya."

Not necessary....

How about this.

Texas leaves the union, Perry becomes President of Republic of Texas and then we devolve into a  second civil war?

please keep the jokes tasteful and non-hateful

You have GOT to be fucking joking

Huntsman is a freaking global warming enthusiast.  And fuck Barry.

Is everyone looking forward to the new $50 lightbulbs?  Saw an article about the shitty curly cue lightbulbs that were supposed to last so much longer than the old ones, etc, etc.Of course we knew they contained mercury and you had to have a haz mat suit to clean up if one of them broke in your house but I only recently saw that they also release a mercury vapor when they are turned off/on - and apparently they shouldn't be turned off/on frequently.  Great.

@David "Messin' with Tex's Ass"

"Everything's Bigger in Texas"

"Remember the Alamhoes"

Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2011 08:50 PM (4q6A5)

40 minutes.

american's R the rudest ppl and fattarst on the planet

fattass!!

I keep telling you guys Herman Cain.

and any one that says he is for bail outs tarp and not auditing the fed reserve , have them prove it to you with video.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2011 08:54 PM (UOM4

I just had some delicious leftover pork chops.

@371: "Did we mention he discovered the North Pole?"

Hey that belongs to us.

american's R the rudest ppl and fattarst on the planet

fattass!!

Posted by: Bilal at May 17, 2011 08:53 PM (1uMOt)

Awesome!  The little boy-raping goat fuckers have arrived!

When your savior looks like this motherfucker, you know you've done stepped in it one time too many.

american's R the rudest ppl and fattarst on the planet

fattass!!

Posted by: Bilal at May 17, 2011 08:53 PM (1uMOt)

In February, ZZ Top were one of the recipients of the 2011 Texas Medal of Arts; the awards spotlight and celebrate the creative excellence, exemplary talents and outstanding contributions by Texans in selected categories, ultimately saluting the best in Texas.

Presented by Gov. Rick Perry, the awards were handed out at the Texas Cultural Trust's annual gala on Tuesday, March 1, at Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts.

Now comes news that guitarist Billy Gibbons has been named the official Texas State Musician for 2012.

These were smart appointments.

Posted by: David at May 17, 2011 08:58 PM (4t9J5)

Obama's just a white man in disguise.  Herman Cain is tr00 black, as the kids say.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 17, 2011 08:57 PM (FI38b)

Nah, he probably followed the Pakistani Porn Thread back over here.

They're slow.

"These were smart appointments."

Unfortunately Obama got Michael Bolton in as America's official musician as a recess appointment.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2011 08:54 PM (UOM4

I just had some delicious leftover pork chops.

Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2011 08:54 PM (4q6A5)

recipe for leftover pork chops:  Get invited to dinner with a friend who is making pork chops and cooks way to many.  get sent home with some pork chops.  put in refrigerator over night.  microwave 2 minutes. eat.

I saw ZZ Top from the first row but oddly don't remember much of the concert back then. If Rick Perry likes them, then I'm in!

fattass!!"

Samoa in the house, bitchez!!!!  The men in my family are very large.

Ok. I'm calm now. My 4 year-old girls just told me I'm more handsome than Michael Jackson.

You know it's against the law to ply kids with Jesus Juice, right?

american's R the rudest ppl and fattarst on the planet

fattass!!

Posted by: Bilal at May 17, 2011 08:53 PM (1uMOt)

I don't know. I have no proof whatsoever, but something tells me that an inexperienced black guy might not be the way to go.
Posted by: David at May 17, 2011 08:58 PM (4t9J5)

Hmmm.... would a retired Col. from the combat arms of the US Army be 'inexperienced'?

Or, is it just POLITICAL experience that matters? 

Personaly, I'd like LESS political experience, and more real world experience, in our politicians.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 17, 2011 09:06 PM (FI38b)

heh.  And by the way, a big ol' *high five* over your earlier handling of....something.

Key bit in that passage: the guy's got a decade of experience actually in charge of stuff (in a perfect world Sarah Palin would still be governor instead of dropping out mid-first-term, which was a game-changer for me), is more conservative than not, and pisses of President Gutsy Call to no end, so the base is happy.

Bad news is almost as important as his qualifications---the optics.  Perry looks like a sleazy mortgage broker circa 2007 used car salesman, like Angelo Mozillo's kid brother or something.  Image means everything.

Your mouth feeling empty? Feel free to blow me.

Posted by: fluffy at May 17, 2011 09:11 PM (SwkdU)

---

Hey!  That's my line!

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 09:12 PM (pW2o

Least not until queer chain bangs become mandatory.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 17, 2011 09:20 PM (UOM4

I've got a stash of Cadbury Creme Eggs, but no cookies.

And I still got one pork chop left.

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 09:21 PM (pW2o

boo! Go Bolts

Oh yeah, forgot.  Perry was commissioned into the Air Force after graduating, flew C-130s, and left as a Captain.

So, military experience, check.

Posted by: RushBabe at May 17, 2011 09:16 PM (Ew27I)

has he looked at the polls?

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 09:21 PM (pW2o

Never had PF Chang's.  Not even sure if there is one around here.

There's a Chinese restaurant here, locally owned place, that...well, used to be really great but it seems in the past few years they've been staffinf their restaurant with ex-convicts.  If I go there I just get take-out, lest they take one look at me and decide to spit in my food.

"So, military experience, check."

Where are the documents?! This stinks worse than a motel 6 hooker after a Cleveland steamer.

Posted by: Trimegistus at May 17, 2011 09:21 PM (EQSlS)

It worked with Palin, so they'll never NOT do it again.

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 09:26 PM (pW2o

ugh, so gay

well the game ain't over yet, but it looks harsh right now. next 2 to in Tampa though

Speaking of cookies, do not get the Newton Fruit Crispies or whatever they are called as they are horrible. Now I sound like someone who we should not speak of...it's all your fault, Jane.

1 - I not only want a candidate who can bring a gun to a knife fight, I want a candidate who knows how to use a gun when at a knife fight.

2 - I want someone who can get the base excited and motivated and activated.

3 - I want someone who is a real conservative.

4 - I definitely do not want someone who refers to the Dems as his friends across the aisle. I don't recall Churchill ever refering to Hitler as his friend across the channel. I cannot imagine Bristol Palin turning into Meggy Mac

Perry might be a good choice -- I mentioned him in Nov 2004 (when I used to blog) as a possible 2008 candidate, but I think I'll go with Palin for the time being. Can you imagine McCain beore the 2010 election saying (pardon me if I have the quote wrong) "Nancy Pelosi, the people have spoken and you're fired!"

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 09:26 PM (pW2o

That's some funny shit right there. 

Posted by: Marcus at May 17, 2011 09:29 PM (ORAKC)

well the drunk driving charges almost cost him the election, the National Guard stuff blew up in their face. but W was a front-runner early on for the GOP nomination

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 17, 2011 09:33 PM (FI38b)

Hell yeah, I'm bitching.  He wouldn't listen to me when I showed him nice corner stands.  Insisted on ordering the cheapest POS he could find.  Now he's "spend whatever it takes for my Precious." 

Men.

Posted by: Sarah Palin at May 17, 2011 09:36 PM (JKX4x)

you don't excite me right now but frankly no one does so far

Posted by: Y-not at May 17, 2011 09:36 PM (pW2o

or maybe the Bolts are just good, you don't get to this round just being lucky

Posted by: Jaimo at May 17, 2011 09:36 PM (w738x)

the 8/28 rally people are angry at anyone who ain't Glenn Beck

How is this a moot point when we are discussing Perry for President?

The fact the Texas Legislature prevented him from injecting all female children with a drug of dubious value by Executive Order makes his brazen attempt Moot? 

Seriously?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 17, 2011 09:33 PM (FI38b)

Thanks, Christis, but we have southern traditional cherry and mahogany.  An old friend of mine in Chicago saw my dining room for the first time and said, "This just screams 'fuck you British Colonial'"  heh

The family room is casual, though, so I'm just looking for a nice corner unit that will hold the 55" and all the other crap.

Posted by: fluffy wants a bush cookie at May 17, 2011 09:42 PM (SwkdU)

HAHAHAHA!!!!  Strangely, I can't look up info on video games through Wikidingdong at work, but I can look up al the sex info I want.

Then I get bored and screw around with the info on the page for "erection."

Posted by: David at May 17, 2011 09:44 PM (4t9J5)

I didn't think it was that confusing.

What's Perry's position on high speed rail?

5-3 bitches!

The fact the Texas Legislature prevented him from injecting all female children with a drug of dubious value by Executive Order makes his brazen attempt Moot? 

yeah losing to Boston and New York teams in one night is so fun/sarc

Posted by: Flying Manatee at May 17, 2011 09:51 PM (jVdDe)

and Reagan campaign for FDR and Truman

I'm fine with Perry jumping in.

Can I say something, though, Ace?  You're really becoming a disappointing blogger.  Seriously.  You've wrote some fairly good recent articles on this site talking about how, "look, the narrative is that we don't have good candidates to beat Obama, that's not true, we do, and you should consider several of them, instead of just casting them all aside as unworthy".

And now here you are with this "WE NEED A NEW GOP JESUS TO SAVE US!!!!111" hysterical bullshit.

You've been schizophrenic for a while now.  Angling between "okay, some of you Tea Partiers are getting a little out of hand" and "man, FUCK the Establishment!".  Is it too much to ask for consistency?  I usually consider you a reasonable person.  Knock off the emotional horseshit.  Don't fall into this whiny bitchfest that so many other conservatives are in now.  "Wah, all of our candidates suck, they're not exciting enough, whine whine."  Act like a fucking man.

yeah losing to Boston and New York teams in one night is so fun/sarc

Posted by: YRM (Go Bolts!) at May 17, 2011 09:55 PM (UzBwz)

new york teams should never have to lose another game. Just ask us. Since 9/11 we deserve to just have all the trophies automatically given to us. That is what the soccer coaches would have wanted.

Posted by: kurious - New Yorker, so suck it bitches! at May 17, 2011 09:59 PM (KVI8B)

lol, she seems to be trying to be liked but I think people still have probs w/ her little meltdown

btw ONT is up

There we go.

What I remember about it too was the reporter tried to make himself come off better in the exchange by deleting his statements and questions, he kept telling Perry he was up against a deadline, and at the end said "Try as I may, I'm just not gonna wait that long", which Perry was smart enough to repeat at the end.  They changed it to read "Try as I may I'm just not gonna win this one".

Lame.

Posted by: Andy at May 17, 2011 08:30 PM (5mh5E)

Oh, you voted for kinky. You and all the other paulbots. How did that work out?

He's really conservative right around election time... the rest of the time...Adios, MoFo!

I personally don't like him because he is such a baldfaced panderer, but as a politician he's done fine for Texas in general. TX has a weak governor, though. He's kind got the bully pulpit, but not as much real power as in other states.

@564

DITTO... Anyone but Barry S!

show me with herfano and TXMarko ...  he is squishy... kinda like Romney with cowboy boots on and not quite as liberal,..... cut from the Bush family cloth... both in the good and the bad that that implies.. 

Posted by: Yip (in Texas) at May 17, 2011 07:15 PM (SyLEU)

Actually, he and the Bushes hate each other.  A lot.  The whole family - which of course includes Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.  http://tinyurl.com/3hxgoxe

Posted by: durn dreams at May 18, 2011 12:09 AM (gCKNL)"

As some as saying, it bit the dust against Rick's wishes.  The real hero in that case was the Texas Constitution making sure our governor is just too damn weak to make too big of a mess.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2011 07:26 PM (nj1bB)"

Slow down there partner. First, this is TEXAS. It IS another country. The folks that live here know that. We do what we want. The rest of you pussy whiny smaller funny lookin/soundin 'states' can go jump in the lake. We'll be just fine without any of you.

Second, the Gardisil thing was always and ever about big Rick TELLING all us dads that the state was going to stab our little girls whether we allowed it or not. Key insight to TEXAS dads-<STRONG>Don't ever think you're going to tell me what to do</STRONG>. Certain legislators and pols were advised that they could participate in watching us take our country back starting in Austin, if they didn't get on board and stop this shenanigan.

Third, turns out the cure was and is worse than the disease. Stop repeating talking points and read for yourself.

As to Rick for Pres? Hey, so far he's lookin' a darn sight better than anybody else. Here, he's the common reminder of teen cancer, trans TEXAS corridor, and toll roads. On the plus side can you name another Governor that shows up and is welcomed at TEA parties?

I'll stick with Sarah.

Rick Perry is to Republicans what John Edwards was to democrats. He's all style points and good hair. Not much else there.

I live in TX, have never voted for a democrat at above the county level, and I still hate his ass. He's weaker than well water.