Wow. Even Karl Rove thinks Palin is unstable. Can't argue with him on this one.

To elect Perry would be the biggest mistake the people of the United State could make. This man is as dangerous as a rabid dog.

I assume that criminal charges are following for Fehrnstrom.

Republicans are losing their touch for doing dirty tricks. Getting caught. Sloppy, fella, sloppy.

"Now the author has been unmasked. Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior campaign adviser to US Senator Scott Brown"

Any ideological zealot is dangerous for the country and Rick Perry would be down right scary as president. The is basically against the very constitution he is sworn to defend. Here are his top ten wackiest ideas from his book "Fed Up!"

— 10. Social Security Is Evil: According to Perry Social Security is “by far the best example” of a program “violently tossing aside any respect for our founding principles.” (page 48)

— 9. Private Enterprise Blossomed Under Conscription and Wartime Price Controls: Not only does he argue that the New Deal failed to end the Great Depression, but he asserts “recovery did not come until World War II, when FDR was finally persuaded to unleash private enterprise.” (page 48)

— 8. Medicare Is Too Expensive But Must Never Be Cut: Both establishing Medicare in 1965 and expanding it to include prescription drugs in 2003 are examples of “an irresponsible culture of spending in Washington” (page 63), but establishing “‘councils of experts’ and panels of various sorts” to assess the cost effectiveness of different Medicare-eligible treatments is a “frightening” “scheme” that “undermines freedom” and can be fairly labeled “death panels” (page 81).

— 7. All Bank Regulation Is Unconstitutional: Criticizing the Security and Exchange Commission’s rulemaking process under the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, Perry asserts that “if the Constitution were shown the appropriate respect, Washington regulation writers wouldn’t have to worry about underrepresented views, because they wouldn’t have control over them in the first place” (page 94).

— 6. Consumer Financial Protection Is Unconstitutional: Further reiterates his view that all federal financial regulation is illegitimate, listing the SEC on page 44 as part of a “federal alphabet soup” in which “undemocratic unelected Washington bureaucrats” are “now (dubiously) empowered to dictate their own preferences to the American people.”

— 5. Almost Everything Is Unconstitutional: Regrets the existence of jurisprudence construing the Commerce Clause to permit “federal laws regulating the environment, regulating guns, protecting civil rights, establishing the massive programs and Medicare and Medicaid, creating national minimum wage laws, [and] establishing national labor laws.” Perry makes a partial exception for laws barring racial discrimination which he says fulfill “the intent behind the passage of the Reconstruction Era amendments.” (page 51)

— 4. Federal Education Policy Is Unconstitutional: Cites the willingness of Republicans to vote for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as a “perfect example” of “losing sight of the fact that perfectly laudable policy choices at the local level are not appropriate (much less constitutional) at the federal level.” (page 87)

— 3. Al Gore Is Part Of A Conspiracy To Deny The Existence Of Global Cooling: Jokes that the Social Security Trust Fund “must be somewhere in Al Gore’s lockbox, right next to his notes from inventing the Internet and that global cooling data he doesn’t want anyone to see” (page 60). Argues that moderates oppose curbing greenhouse gas emissions because “they know that we have been experiencing a cooling trend” (page 92).

— 2. Not Only Is Everything Unconstitutional, Activist Judges Are A Problem: Having called the majority of the duly enacted modern welfare state and federal regulatory apparatus unconstitutional, Perry pivots to the complaint that “the [Supreme] court too often chooses to take it upon itself to govern and to develop policy” (page 114).

— 1. The Civil War Was Caused By Slaveowners Trampling On Northern States’ Rights: Rather than simply citing chattel slavery as an exemption to his “states’ rights are good” principle, Perry argues that slaveholder activism in the 1850s was an example of big government federal overreach. “In many ways it was was the northern states whose sovereignty was violated in the run-up to the Civil War,” he argues, citing the Fugitive Slave Act and completely ignoring the human rights of the enslaved African-Americans of the south. He says “we can never know what would have happened in the absence of federal involvement,” ignoring again the fact that federalism would have bought peace at the price of continued slavery.

By Matthew Yglesias on Aug 15, 2011 at 10:00 am

Mittless might as well be standing in quicksand.

His flailing only has him sinking further.

The GOP has no one that independents can get behind. They keep rolling out these unelectable, unintelligent dopes to appease other dopes in their party ( tea baggers )

Funny Perry has only been in this a short time and has jumped in front. People do not even know much about him except for his scripted stump speech and his Cowboy big mouth, I guess this is a sure sign the GOP/TP is fickle and not at all happy with the pool they have to pick from. Once Perry has to actually answer questions on his own, without the ability to shove food in his mouth when asked a direct question, people will see his has very radical views and his intelligence will be just a bit higher than Bachmann, not much just a bit. What Parry has done to Texas, on a national scale would devastate this great country once and for all. Texas has become a poverty state under Perry, I just hope the US could withstand his good old boy politics. If you thought W Bush was a good old boy you better hang on, Perry's "friends" are big oil, freaky far right religion and anyone willing to help his wallet.

Perry may as well forget the Independents, those that I am affiliated with here in Texas would not touch him with a 10' poll.

Yeah. it's raining in Dallas right now!!!

"Texas has become a poverty state under Perry"

Are you kidding me? The rest of the nation is struggling, yet we here in Houston are thriving. Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are also doing very well. Business' are flocking here. My fellow commercial real estate brokers are reporting the same things I am seeing. All of my clients except 1 are expanding big time. Take your BS somewhere else.

I don’t care if someone is a loyal Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian or whatever. What is very apparent today is that there are strong and aggressive efforts, with considerable amounts of money being spent, to sway people’s thinking, to manipulate public opinion, to literally dupe the voters and to steal their support. We have seen the results in recent elections and have paid the costs when the majority has been conned and then had their interests ignored in favor of catering to the few, with more subterfuge then just freely used to rationalize and justify. Politics stinks, there is no doubt about that, but it has also become an exclusive game of control played by the very wealthy for their substantial gain. Any appeal to the people, whether being emotional, fear based, faith aligned, self-interest oriented, biased, prejudiced or whatever is aggressively pursued without conscience, without honesty, without any concern for other than being successful - the controlling factors being the amount of money, influence and power put behind the effort and the public emotion generated. People would be completely naive not to realize they can’t trust what is said or to assume their interests are being responsibly considered, or that they are not just simply being manipulated. The only cure would be to get money out of politics, to have candidates freed from the need for vast amounts of money just to compete, and thus eliminate the control given the money people - that just isn’t going to happen as they will never let it.

They all do it just to survive but the Republicans, with their compatible ideology to the money sources, have currently taken a considerable lead in this nefarious competition. Karl Rove’s aggressive strategies to con the public still persist, such as “say it strongly, say it often, say it loudly and keep saying it and it just won’t matter whether it is the truth”. We see the bazaar and emotional antics of those like Palin, Limbaugh, Beck and others and the stubborn and cocky presentations of Boehner, McConnell, Cantor, Kyl, Ryan, Bachmann and more, all intending to sway people’s emotions and to belligerently serve only the interests of the few. We have seen the greatly financed, organized and strongly backed promotions to con the people, successes which have emboldened the perpetrators, in the manipulation of the Christian block (2000 and continuing), the “Swift-boat” propaganda (2004) and the extremes and emotional appeals of the Tea Party movement (2010 and now) all created, supported and pushed by the same people who intend to greatly benefit. Recent publicity has exposed groups like Norquist’s “anti-tax pledge” who brag they can “make or break” any politician and who actively seek to force, through intimidation and coercion, complete unity (squelching individual consciences) in the Republican Party, all to support “big money’s” interests. These groups, like those with Cheney, Rove and others, collect and provide the substantial money and with that power they then make their aggressive demands, without any limit or inhibition.

The trouble today is that the Republican Party (Tea Party included) has become owned and controlled by “big money” (with their ideology making them more aligned and more susceptible to just being “puppets”) and now, to ever regain the Grand Ole Party, it is necessary to completely reject what they have become. No matter how good an individual candidate may seem, they are simply forced to subordinate to the Party and thereby to the Party’s supporters who “pull their strings”. They have arrogantly, belligerently and stubbornly protected the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy while wanting to cut entitlements for seniors and others; they refuse to cut back excessive concessions to major oil companies who are making humungous profits on exaggerated gas/oil prices paid for by the majority; they block eliminating concessions to corporate jet owners and stubbornly refrain from any honest bipartisan cooperation to solve the problems; and on and on ... and thus they have made their priorities and loyalties crystal clear, which no amount of rhetoric can ever disguise. This country can’t take more of the same, Bush-Cheney style, and that is exactly what they want, ... to cater to the few and to give the costs to the majority.

I would agree that we don't know much about Perry and he needs to be vetted. but it is his race to lose. I suspect it will take a personal scandal to keep him from getting the nomination. I know it's early, but people were waiting for someone like Christie or Perry to get in the race. I don't think there's going to be any serious challenge to his record in Texas.

People think I'm crazy but I thought even Bachmann could beat Romney. The Tea Party simply will not accept Romneycare and there is no way to win the Republican nomination without their support.

The last thing we need is an even dummer duma$$ from TX