Kevin Williamson: Five Points in Perry's Favor

This is one of the best articles on reasons for Governor Perry to run that I have seen -- five reasons and who can argue with any of them?  Paulbots and Democrats?

Kevin D. Williamson
June 21, 2011 12:00 P.M. 

Five Points in Perry’s Favor 

Reasons to hope he throws his hat in the ring 

Five reasons you might like to see Rick Perry get into the GOP primary race? Easy. How about 1. Mitt Romney; 2. Tim Pawlenty; 3. Michele Bachmann; 4. Herman Cain; 5. Ron Paul? Here’s five more: Boeing, eBay, DynaPump, SunPower, Fluor. 

And here’s five longer ones: 

1. Jobs: Texas’s economic record really is about 80 percent of Perry’s appeal — Texas is just killing it on the jobs front compared with the rest of the country. In May, the whole country saw a net gain of 232,000 jobs, some 62,000 of them at McDonald’s, the country’s most notable job creator that month. At the same time, eBay was expanding in Austin, bringing a $122 million payroll to town and average salaries of $122,500. 

There’s nothing wrong with working at McDonald’s (or Burger King), but the businesses that have moved to or expanded in Texas during the last decade are hardly suggestive of the unfairly maligned McJob: Boeing, DynaPump, SunPower, Fluor. Newspapers may be falling apart, but Los Angeles–based Investors’ Business Daily is setting up operations in the Dallas suburbs.

Critics point out that Texas and New York have about the same unemployment rate, which is true, but consider this: Texas’s population has grown by 21 percent in the last decade, while New York has lost hundreds of thousands of residents — about 850,000. In that context, Texas’s performance is even more remarkable than it initially looks. 

2. Perry really is serious about this Tenth Amendment stuff: He is a social conservative, no doubt, but he’s a federalist first. He’s not crazy about gay marriage or medical marijuana, but his view is that if California wants to go that route, that’s California’s business. Don’t like it? “Don’t move to California,” he says. Kicking hard decisions down to the states isn’t the answer to everything — look at Michigan or Illinois — but more federalism and more competition between the states would be on balance a very fine thing for the country. 

3. He’s a conservative before he’s a Republican, and he was a conservative before he was a Republican. Perry, who first held office as a conservative Democrat, chaired Al Gore’s Texas presidential team in 1988, back when Gore was running against federal funding for abortion and criticizing Jesse Jackson for being soft on Arafat (remember that Al Gore?). Perry crossed the aisle to the GOP the next year. He can be blistering on the subject of ideologically wayward Republicans, up to and including his predecessor in the governorship. 

4. The great majority of American politicians see the Middle East through the prism of the Arab–Israeli conflict. Perry saw it from the cockpit of a C-130 and left the Air Force with the rank of captain. And, almost as important, he doesn’t make a big deal out of his military service. He’s been pretty tight-lipped on his foreign-policy views, but there is good reason to hope that his commitment to limited government and balanced budgets might put a damper on the Republican party’s more adventuresome foreign-policy tendencies. 

5. He has never lost an election. 

-- Kevin D. Williamson is a deputy managing editor of National Review and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism. 

Source:  National Review

We are betting Paulbots will continues to have their knives out for Rick Perry as they are supporting Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann who makes sure she attends Paul's weekly meetings.  Paulbots make sure they hit all the sites with their version of the truth which in many instancese doesn't stand up to fact checking.  Rumor has Ron Paul dropping out of the race down the road and giving his support to his disciple Bachmann who by most accounts is very libertarian leaning.  

Bachman wanting to help balance the budget on the backs of our military disabled veterans goes against everything I believe in and share with most Republicans but that is exactly what Bachmann submitted in January.  Why have we not heard more about her stance on disabled veterans as she is pushed by some sites?  That disqualifies anyone in my book who goes after disabled veterans who earned that money with their sacrifice.  Check out the Pink Flamingo for the facts.  

One of the attacks I find amusing is saying Perry was a Democrat member of the legislature from West Texas which shows an obvious lack of knowledge of Texas politics in West Texas where to get elected for years you had to be a conservative Democrat.  When the Democrat party started going left, Rick Perry soon found a home in the Republican Party where he ran for Agriculture Commissioner in 1990 and won which was one of the few bright spots of the evening.  

He has always been a conservative but you wouldn't know it from some of the posts we have seen.  My favorite is a poster who is saying that Kay Bailey Hutchinson was the conservative in the Texas primary for Governor and Perry was the moderate which is just an outright as it is reversed and anyone who knows Texas politics knows the truth.  When a poster outright lies, you know that he is most likely from the Paul camp or a Democrat as we have witnessed it a lot over the years even up close and personal dealing with Paulbots down to my own precinct.  

We also saw the Paulbots in action in the Texas primary for Governor in 2010 when they ran a Truther and a Paulbot who pretended she was just a Tea Party person who opposed Governor Perry.  In fact she had been a huge supporter of Ron Paul for President which didn't come out until some people started uncovering the facts including Glenn Beck getting her waffling on the Truther movement until she was finally outed.

If the Libertarian movement is so huge that some people want us to believe, why don't these people run as Libertarians in the elections instead of Republicans?  Do you think it is because they cannot get elected as Libertarians?  Ron Paul found that out and came back to the Republican Party but his ideas have remained libertarian.

If you read the five points in Perry's favor and still think he is a RINO as the Paulbots are calling him, then you are not going to like this site during the election as we are 100% behind Rick Perry who we have seen in action living in Texas and being here in Oklahoma.  There is no one better to unite the Republican Party than Rick Perry -- we proudly join the "Run Rick Run" group.