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Subscribe to RSSTexas Republican Gov. Rick Perry stepped back onto the national stage on Thursday to accuse President Barack Obama of "hysteria" over the sequester -- and to make a not-so-subtle swipe at Mitt Romney, who beat him in the 2012 primary.
"The popular media narrative is that this country has shifted away from conservative ideas, as evidence by the last two presidential elections. That’s what they think, that’s what they say," Perry told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday afternoon. "That might be true if Republicans had actually nominated conservative candidates in 2008 and 2012."
Perry was referring in part to Romney, who struggled for years to win over the conservative activists that populate gatherings like CPAC. Romney is slated to speak again to the gathering on Friday.
Perry's speech at the confab -- for years a draw for conservative politicians with national aspirations -- was the first of several scheduled for 2012 GOP hopefuls who lost to Romney.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is scheduled to speak, as is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Texas Governor Rick Perry delivers remarks at CPAC Thursday, while stressing his views on how America can become a more prosperous nation.
In his speech, Perry criticized Obama for playing politics with the sequester.
"What we are getting is a lot of hysteria," he said. "We're getting a lot of hysteria right now from a president more concerned about the next election than saving programs like Medicare."
Perry singled out the government's decision to release more than 2,000 illegal immigrants because of budget concerns related to the sequester.
"This president's posture, it'd be laughable if he hadn't taken it one step too far, dangerously releasing criminals onto our streets to make a political point," Perry said of Obama. "When you have a federally-sponsored jailbreak -- and don't get confused, that's exactly what that is -- when you've had a federally-sponsored jailbreak, you've crossed the line from politics of spin to politics as a craven form of cynicism."
Perry criticized the Medicaid expansion that's included as part of Obama's health care plan -- an expansion that several Republican governors have accepted in other states, including Florida and Michigan.
"The Medicaid expansion amounts to one large, incremental step towards single-payer socialized medicine. That’s where we headed and I for one will not accept that as long as I’m governor of the state of Texas," he said.
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Perry?? Who is perry...Oooops, I've forgot..
Let bygones be bygones.
P.S. (pig $hit): Perry was rejected by his own party, like a dog rejected by its own owner.
Sad.
Oh, boy, now I remember him, it took awhile.
Day 1 and the Teapee-ers are already fighting amongst themselves?
Oops, indeed.
Or, as you might say, Miss Piggy- Oink.
So begins the Circular Firing Squad.
Pigotry:
Sometimes I like to comment on my own post continuously too... 15 minutes later? Of course! Are you trying to get people to start an argument with you? I think your own stupidity will suffice.
Did he hug his little bottle of maple syrup to his chest while talking this time?
LOL . . . it looks like all the losers are just swinging their fists around to see if they can actually score a strike . . . at anything . . . . kind of like throwing . . . stuff . . . against a wall to see what sticks.
:-)
Meanwhile, NO CRIMINALS have been released . . . the undocumented prisoners being released are being carefully checked . . .
And regardless of who started the sequester (actually, it was Gingrich, for the ReThuglicans, during the Clinton admin) the ReThuglicans could have stopped it had they wanted to . . . . But they didn't want to . . . it's the same old Blame Game - refuse to govern, then blame Pres Obama for "failing to lead" (i.e., herding cats in a Clown Car).
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FORWARD! :-)
Bob-2711464
Pigotry is funny ... you? Not.
Keep parading all these crack pot, idiot losers in front of the American people. Palin, Rand Paul, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, Little Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum and Jeb Bush. I shouldn't do this but here's a suggestion for the wizards at CPAC. With the crowd of half-brained political goof balls that you have to offer the American people I would keep these cretins as well hidden as possible. With a menagerie like that you have to sneak up on the American electorate, don't let them see what you really have to offer or you'll end up like a strip club owner in Saudi Arabia. Out of Business. On second thought...just keep doing what you're doing, you'll be just peachy.
He's just as FUC KING STUPID now as he WAS before
(WHY is this DUMBF UCK A GOVERNOR? - Breeding BULLS have more brains)
Why is Perry a governor?
Why, to make Palin look good- y' big silly!
Hey now! That's not what the voices in his head tell him ;)
Hopefully this time he wrote down what he wanted to say because this brain dead mope isn't too bright.
This meeting must be like coffee break at the lunatic asylum. Best call it AFFK...a forum for kooks.
Apparently Rick failed to realize that an election has taken place and President Obama has been elected to a second term.
What is it about this collection of talentless loudmouths, scoundrels, rogues, rascals and pretenders all gathered under the banner of "CPAC" that reminds me of the 1962 New York Mets?
Oh yeah, the Mets were 40-120 that season. Yep, that's it. A showing so poor that it has tarnished the name and reputation of that team for 50 years, even in their winning years.
One of the lessons the GOP should draw from the '62 Mets is that when players strike-out every time they come to bat, and commit errors every time they take the field, the best way to cut your losses is to bench those losers.
Apparently the GOP intends to buck this wisdom, however, and just keep fielding the same team. An odd and bewildering choice were this baseball. Even more so in the context of Political Science?
I hope Quick-wit Perry runs again. He may not be too bright, but he's good for a chuckle.
Did someone forget to remind Mr. Perry that the President can only serve TWO terms???
I'm guessing that he panicked when asked to speak before his elders and grabbed a stump speech from a year and a half ago...thinking no one would notice.
Folks, this is one donkey that makes Texans looks bad...they dont come any dumber than this...
He's governor, because that's where he can do the least amount of damage in Texas. The Lt. Governor is actually a more powerful position. Governor is more like a cheerleader for the state
Is it me... or does his accent make him sound exactly like George Bush?
Or is it his rhetoric?
Surprising that the moron remembered both of them.
I get the whole say what the audience wants to hear thing. After all, not too many people at CPAC are really going to grill him on too much. My problem is that this guy really thinks this way. Common sense flat out doesn't exist. Yea, Rick, the GOP lost because those who were too "conservative" for the conservative party to even nominate didn't have a chance to appeal to the much less conservative general electorate. That's definitely it. Yep. That's why. And of course independent and centrist voters would have really just loved a more rigid approach on social and women's issues, because that really seems to be working for the GOP.
Why is anybody listening to that tail-wagging idiot? He has to on the short list of those who can actually make George W. look smart, by comparison, of course.
Doc, how can you forget George W.???? He is dumber. And once Rick Perry rides off in the sunset there will be Ted Cruz to fill the next "dumb ass politician from Texas" post.
What is with the republican voters in Texas? Perry and now Ted
McCarthyCruz? The way this punk azz biotch talked to Ms.Fienstien, if my mom was still alive she'd hunt him down and wash his mouth out with soap. What a lying, disrespectful little punk boy.Aren't we the only country still without socialized health care? People in other countries can't understand why and neither can I.
Rick Perry is still struggling to bring most Texans into the 20th century, even though we are well in to the 21st. Yes, he is a little slow......but that can be attributed to to his stellar Texas education.
"Bless his little heart, he makes a fence
post appear brilliant."
Why wasn't Perry arrested? Headline states, "Perry Hits Obama . . ."
"Did someone forget to remind Mr. Perry that the President can only serve TWO terms???"
Haven't you heard the latest conspiracy theory form the right wing clowns --- President Obama is going to run for a 3rd term. Now just how he's going to do that ---- well -- they are a little short on details.
"all gathered under the banner of "CPAC" that reminds me of the 1962 New York Mets?"
That's been my point. With people like Romney, Palin, Bachmann, Perry, Allen West, Rick Santorum --- this is the biggest collection lf losers since the 50th reunion of the 1962 Mets.
The only loser is the you,that I hope will pay a big price for your blind allegiance to your supreme leader.
Run Perry, run! Show us how a true conservative like you can win the presidency. We need another easy target to take apart at debates. You can claim God told you to run. Maybe you'll convince yourself like you did with the Christian conference at the stadium where you expected overflow crowds of 50,000+ and barely 30,000 showed up. (Although I have to commend you for getting so much dumb assembled in one spot)
Put a fork up it:
***HYPOCRITE LIBERAL ALERT***
Don't worry, I reported it.
...so they should have nominated you, Governor Perry? Well, as you so eloquently put it, "Oops!!!"
Perry? We care? Meanwhile a delegation from Texas wants sex education (taught by the evil Planned Parenthood) out of schools. Daddy will home school you on that at bedtime.
Perry?
Was he the Canadian, I mean, comedian who forgot his line??
@Pig,
No, no, no.
Perry was a Commodore who famously said:
"We have met the enemy, and he is... Uh... Oops."
BCWC: Hands down the best comment of the day.....anywhere! HA!
Gov Oops should be drug tested himself...He's one taker who won't go away thanks to the low-information electorate!
Now he proposes drug testing for those who receive unemployment benefits......Maybe he'll be unemployed soon!
Alaska ... I will not be at the cyber bar tomorrow, you get my share of cocktails.
bcwc (#2.1)
I think mommy can do that.
Why Thank you, Mr. BCWC! I shall toast you in good health! Happy St. Paddy's Day! I will be mixing up some cocktails to celebrate the Irish in us all!
"Daddy will home school you on that at bedtime."
Uh....would that be 'uncle' daddy??
Ha!
Paul Ryan wasn't considered "a conservative", in spite of the fact that he's the Leader of the House Teabaggers and when running with Mitt Robme didnt' even win his own home state!
Hmmm, how about 2000? Good ol' Dubya ran on a conservative ticket - smaller government, less spending and economic prosperity that was bound to follow. And he had solid Republican majorities in both houses of Congress to help!
Unfortunately, fail on all counts!
No, Mr. Perry, I think what they reject is the Republican party line that says one thing then does exactly the opposite!
I think Rick Perry is the poster child of what happens to your brain when you "pray away the gay".
Perry-the guy who brags about all the executions in Texas.
My prayers have been answered! Texas Ricky is back! My life has been so.....dull and humorless without him. As I recall he never "quit" his campaign, but only suspended it. He can reactivate it and pick right up where he left off, providing fun and merriment to the masses. I just hope he can find enough halfwits uh I mean contributers to keep him rolling right up through the Republican primaries!!!!
I know. The defense department needs to make cuts. Let's just close all the military bases in Texas. No big deal, right?
U R a loser. Even the GOP doesn't want you. Just go away.
Allrighty then! Time to file this in the "who gives a rat's a$$" dept. People in Texas don't even respect you, Perry.
Exactly!.....TeaPeople backed Cruzie who beat out Gov Oops backed candidate Dewhurst, for the Senate!
Perry as he said, is "inconsequential"......hopefully even more so. Heck, He hasn't even said if he will run again....Coward!
No, actually I wish he would be the Teabaggers candidate in 2016....and, then Hillary would steal Texas away from him.
We can only hope, dusty ####!
Tony STFU you obama slave ...........
silver
Brilliant comment ..... well thought out ..... concise ....... absolutely worthwhile. Well, at least it was your best effort.
HI HO silver - AWAY... (brainless T(bagger)WIT)
Slave???? Now that's an interesting thought. I did not know that slaves were allowed to express thoughts anywhere at anytime. Gee silver, you just showed how intelligent you aren't. Good luck trying to graduate high school.
Don't be so rough on Silver Tony. Why just this year he's learnin' his Gazinta's, just like Jethro Bodine! 1 gazinta 2, 2 gazinta 4,etc. He's most likely inbred, like Cruz sure looks to be, it's a Texas thing apparently.
Rick "ni66erhead" Perry.
Another one of those ex racist, Democrats who became Republicans after LBJ and the democrats backed civil rights legislation.
If you are saying what I think you are saying, that is not welcome here! Many of us go far in our comments with colorful language, but "ni66erhead" is completely unacceptable. You should take a long and hard look in the mirror before you call anyone a racist or an "ex racist"(whatever the @!$%# that's supposed to mean).
Alaska, ...Sam I think is talking about Perrys' hunting lease that, opposition research discovered back in 2011/2012, that had that name "ni66erhead".....
Perry went into complete disavow....No, No, I had that sign removed......blah, glah, blah, lie, lie!
FYI, "ni66erhead" is a reference to the actual name of a hunting camp that Rick Perry frequented.
OMG! I totally forgot about that! Thanks!
Sorry to Sam for the "spanking"! I've just seen alot of really messed up talk on this website, especially the very back pages where it seems anything flies! My apologies again!
Alaska, I'm sure Sam will say all is well. You're great....
....and I certainly appreciated your response/post at 5.1.........
Thanks, chilled, right back atcha!
Spanking? Where and when?
At the Castle club in Pattaya (that's in Thailand) - any night of the week - be sure to wear a BLACK SHIRT for entry
Now, BCWC, why did I have that special feeling that it would be you who would "perk up" at a spanking?! Naughty boys are the best.
some of us are just very cunning linguists
Rick Perry, the man who should have been shot in the butt by Dick Cheney. It would have taken half his brain out. He takes a swipe at Romney, laughable. He couldn't hit a fly with a flyswatter as big as texas. My mother, when she was alive, considered him even worse than Rick Perry and that says a lot.
nah - biggus dickus would have needed to hit him RIGHT SQUARE IN THE A$$HOLE TO ACCOMPLISH THAT FEAT!
Perry has a sqaure "a$$hole"? Is that a teabagger thing?.................LOL
@mike430
HA'HA''HA LOL
Put a fork up it:
***HYPOCRITE LIBERAL ALERT***
Don't worry, I reported it.
CPAC: Talk show for the Party of the irrelevant.
And that double Rick Perry was not a screw-up.
Perry is in the GOP/TP/Bible-thumper/holier-then-thou clown-laden train: "The Hypocritical" but there is no one in engine to blow the horn! So there is no one to stop it from going off the edge of the earth !
That's TWUE - when they said BRAINS, perry thought they said TWAINS and got into the clown car
Ahhhh but I see all you lib/liv/dem/progressives are paying attention to it like it was the only show in town. Albeit for your supposed intellectual commentary on all the participants, don't you have something better to do? Naaahhh. You don't.
You would so much rather come here to spread your superior views and give the "pats on the back" that you all sooooo feel you deserve because you ARE intellectually and socially superior.
but hey, talk to the hand, guess you don't have anything better to do than read the stuff, correct? nah, you don't
Now, now Talk, comedy soothes the savage beast we are. Your side will assuredly have its turn. We are just making hashish brownies while the oven is still hot ... ya get the giggles ... see better days and catch elephants with their pants down.
Well, we were going to talk about it at the FOX site,it being such a "fair and balanced" place for those wishing to have an open exchange of ideas...but somehow we can't.
In other words Talk...go piss up a rope.
sure go ahead talk to the hand - it's the most intelligent part of that body... (twit, tweet, twat)
Well, it is the only circus in town right now.
I heard that Comedy Central is thinking of buying the broadcasting rights. Just sayin..
Well, you said it, not me.
paying attention? Nah - when it's open season on RETHUGs, most of us just can't RESIST.
it's like the proverbial S L O O W W motion CLOWN TRAIN WRECK - just can't tear away from the laughable carnage...
PARTICULARLY when the clowns can be so entertaining in their collective IDIOCY
Dearest Talk to the Hand,
You are commenting on an article about one specific speaker at said conference who everyone else within this board appears to believe, again, said something pretty stupid while speaking publicly. As it happens, this isn't an article about all of the other speakers, nor are "most of us progressives" treating CPAC as if it were the "only game in town." Rather, we are collectively making fun of Rick Perry at the moment.
And if this regrettably makes you feel both inferior and intellectually deficient, perhaps you would feel better talking to Rick Perry as he will undoubtedly improve your self-confidence by comparison. Because, well, he says dumb sh*t.
Sincerely,
All us progressives / libs / etc.
Put a fork in it
That is so true and so deserving of the GOP. Kick the clowns while their down, right out of town. And not a moment to soon.
It's funny yet sad that people like Perry are still relevant at any level of reasonable discussion except comedy.
kick 'em when they're UP
kick 'em when they're DOWN
kick 'em when they're UP
KICK 'EM ALL AROUND...
The logic of the conservatives is almost as astounding as their math skills. More people voted for the moderately liberal over the moderately conservative in the last election. Turnout rates among the groups that supported the moderately conservative candidate were higher than turnout rates among those who groups who supported the moderately liberal. So we are supposed to believe that there are people who voted for the more liberal candidate because the Republican candidate wasn't conservative enough to get their liberal and moderate votes.
and why are you libs all over this article about conservatives?
Uh, this is OUR forum.
Quit calling yourselves conservatives......I like Tea Baggers much better. And we all know what a tea bagger is.
What's it to you? This is an open forum and all are welcome to express their opinions. The libs don't berate all the right wingers when they invade an article about a fellow lib. Oh, and let's not forget that you right wingers have nowhere else to go since Fox "News" closed down their comments section due to the disgusting cock roaches (who are now over here) who leave some of the most vile comments, so in essence it's you, Westguy, that is a "guest" here, because after all this is a left leaning website.
We can't help it. It's like watching a slow motion train wreck. You just can't look away.
That's sort of where I was going to go Den O'synn.
I liken it more to watching Honey Boo Boo,Moonshiners or the Amish Mafia show...nothing beats really stupid,sometimes inbred,White folk for pure entertainment value.
OK,maybe Alan West. Good to see the outreach program in the GOP going strong.
Anyone want to guess the over/under line on how many times Alan West had someone drop a pair of car keys into his hand and say "It's the black BMW,don't scratch it" on his way into the building?
It is amusing how they fit so many of them into that tiny little car. Can't help but watch and chuckle.
Yeah, what's with that? Is it because some of the ignorance displayed was SO bad that even FauxNews couldn't stand it? LOLOL!!!!
they know full and well that they would get lambasted by progressive minds. They can't take honest objection to their skewed outlook on society, so they just do the fascist thing and close it off. Out of sight, out of mind. In the meantime, their disciples keep getting more and more misinformed.
So if I'm understanding Westguy's logic regarding "libs" reading an article about "conservatives," he thinks that a person shouldn't be reading something if it isn't about what they believe.
I suppose expanding one's knowledge, looking into opposing viewpoints and generally trying to get a fuller understanding of what you're talking about seems less appealing to you?
"and why are you libs all over this article about conservatives?"
Because it's such great comedy watching people like Perry, Palin, Romney, Santorum, West etc make total fools out of themselves. This is better than SNL." The Republican party is dying, the CPAC clowns are causing it and most on the right are too stupid to see it.
Yes Dusty we do all know who the Tea Baggers are..........they are the guys with their balls in your mouth!
rick perry? you mean he can say more than, "duh"?
sure - his vocabulary includes "OOPS"
At least Perry was honest about his ignorance. The rest of the clown show hide behind passive-aggressive obstructionism.
particularly Brakeman with her law degree from Rectal Roberts University and Rodeo Clown School
She comes by her IDIOCY NATURALLY...
Put a fork up it:
***HYPOCRITE LIBERAL ALERT***
Don't worry, I reported it.
Mr. Perry states we are heading to a single payer insurance system I would say FANTASTIC. When we spend 18% of GDP vs 12% for the next closest industrialized nation it sure seems the direction to go. Insurance companies are "for profit" organizations which is wonderful except for when one's health is concerned. An insurance company can only make money by charging as much as possible for premiums and deny as many claims as possible. No wonder our health costs are still out of control. Obamacare is a start, but we MUST move to a single payer system. Just think, no companies would ever have to worry about insurance costs for its employees and people would be covered.
Don't worry, we'll get there. The insurance companies got all excited over windfall profits from collecting premiums due to the individual mandate, and had the Republicans they own pass Obamacare. There's a reason they did a reversal after they passed it and saw what was in it. LOL. There is no way for the insurance companies to collect those mandated premiums. LOL. Between that and having to cover pre-existing conditions in 2014, the insurance companies are doomed. Then we get Medicare for all. People will be able to go without insurance until they have an illness or injury, then, just swing by the insurance company on their way to the hospital, pay a premium and get coverage.
Its ridiculous that I pay for medical coverage on my car insurance, my employer pays for medical coverage on their wokman's comp coverage, and then we all have to pay for medical insurance. Everyone in the country pays for medical coverage AT LEAST 3 differant ways. A single payor system is the best way to cure that, but it will cut severly into the profits of the financial and insurance industry. All of the republicants are brainwashed by Faux News to believe the rhetoric of the financial and insurancy industry because the lobby groups for those industries have republicants teabagging them. The stupid ones like Mr. Perry are usually the first ones to be brainwashed, fewer brain cells, quicker to wash.
Well, Perry does have a point.
No, that's just his head.
Yawn?!?!?!? Who???
Gov. Good Hair Perry? yawn.... Like America needs to hear some more garbage from one of the village idiots of the GOP...
GOP = grouchy, obstructionistic prevaricators
Y'all can't USE "big words" like that... the RETHUGS WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE INSULTING THEM...
Same old garbage, different day
After watching Perry during the Primary, I was baffled as to how stupid he is and is able to get elected in Texas. No wait...I'm not.
It is, after all TEXASS (yes, the extra S belongs there)
Goodness gracious,
It's so much fun to watch the Tea Party Republicans nosh on the Diet Coke Republicans.
Perry seems to live in his own mind. Not a clue about real world issues or problems. He's rich, his mansion rent is paid (thanks to us taxpayers), is embarrassing in public, "must" be educated, but he's not letting that get in his way. I'll be glad when he's just a distant memory.. like a hangover dream.. "did that really happen?"
Stupid says...stupid does...Perry need to crawl under a rock again and just go away. But then again..he's good only for few laughs...at himself
Perry, isn't he the governor who defunded the volunteer fire department then a wild fire burned down 2000 homes in Texas. Typical GOP dumbass.
maybe, but I thought he was the idiot who prayed for rain...
@ Angry Alaskan: I see you're a fan of Dubya, the Michelangelo of the GOP. :)
BTW: Nice to see a fellow Alaskan Libtard here!
Wow Gov. Perry sobered up and on the attack but after a drink or two with favorite drug he will be back to the old Perry we have come to love. Attacking Obama is normal as the Republicans see he worked alone for 5 years to bring jobs back and the Stock Market grow. Mitt is still trying to figure out why cheating doesn't work.