Rick Perry Is STILL An Asshole

Hi everyone at SSP,

I know that we’ve all firmly established that Rick Perry is one of the GOP’s most notoriously despised individuals ever. But today’s announcement that he’s signing a resolution passed by his state’s legislature to affirm state sovereignty really got to me.

I’d like to share a post I wrote regarding this issue from my personal blog (which can also be viewed by clicking on the link from below any of my comments), and I’d appreciate some insight, since up in Canada my blog doesn’t get much feedback.

Oh yeah, if anyone feels like contacting Brandon Creighton and telling him how much of a douchebag he is, that would be great too.

16 thoughts on “Rick Perry Is STILL An Asshole”

  1. The legislature passed this? We did what now?

    I don’t care, Hutchison would be better. I want a new governor.

  2. A few months ago I would have written Perry off.  But he is doing exactly what he needs to do to beat Hutchison in a GOP primary.  He is out-crazying her.  He’s got Palin on his side, and a bunch of conservatives that are pissed at Congressional Republicans for not being nutty enough.  I actually think Perry can beat her now.

    Which means it is paramount that we get a solid Democratic candidate ready, because Texas doesn’t deserve to suffer another round of Perry.

  4. I believe the federal government has become oppressive. It’s become oppressive in its size, its intrusion in the lives of its citizens, and its interference with the affaris of our state.

    Texans need to ask themselves a question. Do they side with those in Washington who are pursuing this unprecendented expansion of power, or do they believe in individual rights and responsibilities laid down in our foundational documents.

    Where’re you gonna’ stand? With an ever-growing Washington bureaucracy, or are you going to stand with the people of this state who understand the importance of state’s rights.

    Texans need to stand up. They need to be heard, because the state of affairs that we find ourselves in cannot continue indefinitely…

    …We think it’s time to draw the line in the sand and tell Washington that no longer are we going to accept their oppressive hand in the state of Texas. That’s what this press conference, that’s what these Texans are standing up for. There is a point in time where you stand up and say enough is enough, and I think Americans, and Texans especially have reached that point.

    So in that last line he basically says that Americans and Texans are not one in the same.  I’m sure a lot of people in his state object to that.

  5. I have heard a lot of people compare modern Texas with California in the 1980s, when it was still fairly Republican, and that Texas will eventually become Democratic once again.

    It will be different than before though, because we have lost the old-time Democratic strongholds in East and West Texas for many years to come, but the exploding populations in DFW and the Houston area are starting to swing into the D column and those areas, along with the rapidly growing Hispanic areas in South Texas, will start to change things quite a bit. I know it’s a long road ahead, but I think that Texas will eventually be a Democratic state again. The next Blue Texas will look nothing like the Blue Texas of 30 or 40 years ago, but it will still be Democratic.

    Interesting how those kinds of shifts occur, shows how politics is just a cyclical process, and that everything will change eventually…

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