LF: Rick Perry will decide on a White House run in 30 days, telling South Carolinians that 'it's not that difficult' to secure the US-Mexico border and the White House battle is really about the Supreme Court

Title: Rick Perry will decide on a White House run in 30 days, telling South Carolinians that 'it's not that difficult' to secure the US-Mexico border and the White House battle is really about the Supreme Court
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... ttle-really-Supreme-Court.html
Published: May 9, 2015
Author: David Martosko, U.S. Political Editor
Post Date: 2015-05-09 10:19:53 by cranky
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Former Texas Governor Rick Perry isn't ready to launch his second presidential campaign, but a final decision will come within a month, he told a standing-room-only crowd crammed into Dickey’s Barbecue Pit near Greenville, S.C.

'I am a prospective candidate,' he said. 'I'm not going to announce that I'm running tonight. I'm going to make an announcement in the next 30 days.'

In a freewheeling interview with a local radio host, Perry explained that the nation's recent fascination with social issues like gay marriage and religious freedom will ultimately be resolved in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Liberals in Washington, Perry said, are 'starting to use the judiciary to get things done that they cannot get done through the legislative process. This starts making our Supreme Court even more important.'

The next president, he warned a lip-smacking, lemonade-drinking crowd of 150, 'could choose as many as three, maybe even four members of the Supreme Court.'

'This could be about individuals who have an impact on you, your children and even your grandchildren.'

Legal intervention in the same-sex marriage debate is intensely unpopular in South Carolina, a conservative stronghold in America's deep south.

Perry limited his anti-Washington firepower to taking shots at President Barack Obama, and a fwe bank-shots against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

The president, he said, has failed because he lacked executive experience until he had to learn it 'on the job.'

In a plug for his own 14 years in the Texas governor's mansion, he painted a picture of a fire-tested leader who could move into the White House without any management training.

'Nobody gave me a manual when the space shuttle disintegrated over east Texas, and said, "Here you go governor, here's how you deal with this." Nobody gave me a manual when literally tens of thousands or people were fleeing Hurricane Katrina from over in Louisiana, into my home state.'

'Nobody gave me a manual when tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors and other individuals were showing up on our border last year,' he continued. 'And nobody gave me a how-to book when ebola showed up in the United States.'

Voters hunger for 'competence' in the White House, Perry charged, 'and to understand that there's somebody in the White House who actually knows how to deal with these challenges.'

He underscored America's high-stakes battle over immigration as the sharpest contrast between the Obama administration and a hypothetical Perry presidency.

He hinted that Huckabee's Ozarks and his own Lone Star State need different things from government, a point of view that requires the dismantling of much of what makes Washington, D.C. tick.

'I'm straight-up forceful about my position on these issues,' he said, citing healthcare, education and transportation infrastructure.

'There is not a one-size-fits-all solution. We need to leave these to the states.'

'There are a host of these issues,' Perry said. 'You can not make one-size fits-all decisions and regulations for folks in Rhode Island, and think for the folks in New Mexico it's going to work. You just can't.'

'The federal government is supposed to do a few things and do those few things really well. ... Stand up a strong military ... That's a constitutional requirement. We're supposed to have a federal government that secures our border!'

'How 'bout if we have a government in Washington that just did those two things?'

Perry was a top-tier candidate in 2012 until his 'Oops!' moment in a debate, when he couldn't remember one of his own policy positions.

He now also faces a criminal indictment in Texas over tenuous claims that he abused his power.

So far six Republicans and two Democrats have entered the race, with another half-dozen or more hopefuls expected to join them in the coming months.

THE 2016 FIELD: WHO'S IN AND WHO'S THINKING IT OVER

More than two dozen people from America's two major political parties are considered potential presidential candidates in the 2016 election.

Eight – including two women, an African-American and two Latinos – have formally entered the race. A long list of others are biding their time and assessing their chances.

REPUBLICANS IN THE RACE

Ben Carson Retired Physician

Age: 63

Religion: Seventh-day Adventist

Base: Evangelicals

Résumé: Famous pediatric neurosurgeon, youngest person to head a major Johns Hopkins Hospital division. Created a charity that awards scholarships to children of good character.

Education: B.A. Yale University. M.D. University of Michigan Medical School.

Family: Married to Candy Carson (1975), with three adult sons. The Carsons live in Maryland with Ben's elderly mother Sonya, who was a seminal influence on his life and development.

Claim to fame: Carson hit America's political radar during a 2013 National Prayer Breakfast speech where he railed against political correctness and condemned Obamacare – with President Obama sitting just a few feet away.

Achilles heel: Carson is inflexibly conservative, opposing gay marriage and once saying gay attachments formed in prison provided evidence that sexual orientation is a choice.

Carly Fiorina Former CEO

Age: 60

Religion: Episcopalian

Base: Conservatives

Résumé: Former CEO of Hewett-Packard, former group president of Lucent Technologies, onetime US Senate candidate in California

Education: B.A. Stanford University. UCLA School of Law (did not finish). M.B.A. University of Maryland. M.Sci. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Family: Married to Frank Fiorina (1985), with two adult step-daughters. Divorced from Todd Bartlem (1977-1984).

Claim to fame: Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company, something that could provide key ammunition against the Democratic Partys' drive to make Hillary Clinton the first female president.

Achilles heel: Fiorina's unceremonious firing by HP's board has led to questions about her management and leadership styles. And her only political experience has been a failed Senate bid in 2010 against Barbara Boxer.

Mike Huckabee Former Arkansas governor

Age: 59

Religion: Southern Baptist

Base: Evangelicals

Résumé: Former governor and lieutenant governor of Arkansas, former Fox News Channel host, ordained minister, author

Education: B.A. Ouachita Baptist University. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (did not finish).

Family: Married to Janet Huckabee (1974), with three adult children. Mrs. Huckabee is a survivor of spinal cancer.

Claim to fame: 'Huck' is a political veteran and has run for president before, winning the Iowa Caucuses in 2008 and finishing second for the GOP nomination behind John McCain. He's known as an affable Christian and built a huge following on his weekend television program.

Achilles heel: Huckabee may have a problem with female voters. He complained in 2014 about Obamacare's contraception coverage, saying Democrats want women to 'believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar.' And in 2015 he earned scorn for hawking herbal supplements in infomercials as a diabetes cure.

Ted Cruz Texas senator

Age: 44

Religion: Southern Baptist

Base: Tea partiers

Résumé:US senator, Texas solicitor general, US Supreme Court clerk, associate deputy attorney general under George W. Bush

Education: B.A. Princeton University. J.D. Harvard Law School.

Family: Married to Heidi Nelson Cruz (2001), with two young daughters. His father is a preacher and he has two half-sisters. One of them, Miriam Cruz, died in 2010 from a fatal combination of prescription drugs while awaiting trial for retail theft and receiving stolen property.

Claim to fame: Cruz spoke on the Senate floor for 21 hours in September 2013 to protest a Obamacare funding in a federal budget bill.

Achilles heel: Cruz's father Rafael, a Texas preacher, is a tea party firebrand who has said gay marriage is a government conspiracy and called President Barack Obama a Marxist who should 'go back to Kenya.'

Rand Paul Kentucky senator

Age: 52

Religion: Presbyterian

Base: Libertarians

Résumé: US senator, board-certified ophthalmologist, congressional campaign manager for his father Ron Paul

Education: Baylor University (did not finish). M.D. Duke University School of Medicine.

Family: Married to Kelley Ashby (1990), with three sons. His father is a former Texas congressman who ran for president three times but never got close to grabbing the brass ring.

Claim to fame: Paul embraces positions that are at odds with most in the GOP, including anti-interventionist foreign policy, criminal drug sentencing reform for African-Americans and limits on government electronic surveillance.

Achilles heel: Paul's politics are aligned with those of his father, whom mainstream GOPers saw as kooky. Both Pauls have advocated for a brand of libertarianism that forces government to stop domestic surveillance programs and limits foreign interventions.

Marco Rubio Florida senator

Age: 43

Religion: Roman Catholic

Base: Conservatives

Résumé: US senator, speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, city commissioner of West Miami

Education: B.A. University of Florida. J.D. University of Miami School of Law.

Family: Married to Jeanette Dousdebes (1998), with two sons and two daughters. Jeanette is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader who posed for the squad’s first swimsuit calendar.

Claim to fame: Rubio's personal story as the son of Cuban emigres is a powerful narrative, and helped him win his Senate seat in 2010 against a well-funded governor whom he initially trailed by 20 points.

Achilles heel: Rubio was part of a bipartisan 'gang of eight' senators who crafted an Obama-approved immigration reform bill in 2013 which never became law – a move that angered conservative Republicans. And he was criticized in 2011 for publicly telling a version of his parents' flight from Cuba that turned out to appear embellished.

DEMOCRATS IN THE RACE

Hillary Clinton Former sec. of state

Age: 67

Religion: United Methodist

Base: Liberals

Résumé: Secretary of state, US senator, US first lady, Arkansas first lady, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville law faculty

Education: B.A. Wellesley College. J.D. Yale Law School.

Family: Clinton's husband Bill was the 42nd President of the United States. Their daughter Chelsea is marreid to investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, whose mother was a one-term Pennsylvania congresswoman in the 1990s.

Claim to fame: Clinton was the first US first lady with a postgraduate degree and presaged Obamacare with a failed attempt at health care reform in the 1990s.

Achilles heel: A long series of financial and ethical scandals has dogged Clinton, including recent allegations that her husband and their family foundation benefited financially from decisions she made as secretary of state. And her performance surrounding the 2012 terror attack on a State Department facility in Benghazi, Libya, has been catnip for conservative Republicans.

Bernie Sanders* Vermont senator

Age: 73

Religion: Judaism

Base: Far-left progressives

Résumé: US senator, US congressman, mayor of Burlington, Vermont

Education: B.A. University of Chicago.

Family: Sanders is married to Jane O’Meara Sanders (1988), a former president of Burlington College. They have one child and three more from Mrs. Sanders' previous marriage. His brother Larry is a Green Party politician in the UK and formerly served on the Oxfordshire County Council.

Claim to fame: Sanders is an unusually blunt, and unapologetic pol, happily promoting progressivism without hedging. He is also the longest-serving 'independent' member of Congress – neither Democrat nor Republican.

Achilles heel: Sanders describes himself as a 'democratic socialist.' At a time of huge GOP electoral gains, his far-left ideas don't poll well. He favors open borders, single-payer universal health insurance, and greater government control over media ownership.

* Sanders will run as a Democrat but has no party affiliation in the Senate.

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There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't

Perry -- he's the guy who called out conservatives as "insensitive" or some nonsense like that for opposing financing FREE education and stuff for illegals.

On yea, Perry – He’s the guy who helped build the environment in Texas to result in unprecedented growth for the Texas economy for an economic growth that shattered industry and state records and serves as a model for an economic environment that allows the private sector to grow and create jobs….”or some nonsense like that.”

There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't

IF you call encouraging and flooding the labor market with illegals "growing jobs and the economy," that IS "unprecedented growth."

This phony called voters "heartless" for not wanting to subsidize illegals. But YOU do eh, Gatlin? What else don't you mind about this RINO-Statist tool? Of course he also stated, "Hillary Clinton was 'Great Secretary of State'".

Perry was a strong Dream Act facilitator of illegals and amnesty, connected with La Raza, doesn't see much wrong with the Koran, subverted textbooks in Texas, issued an EO that forced girls 12 years old to be vaccinated Gardasil, proud card "carrying member of the AFL-CIO"...I could go on and on...Perry = Bush.

Yup. He also pushed hard for the illegal invasion and amnesty just like the Arbusto family.

Do we need a "link" proving you're feigning ignorance again? Or can you possibly be this disconnected from reality?

Maybe you or Perry can do the economic math of the effects of importing millions of illegal invaders and giving them AMNESTY and FREE STUFF.

You mean, "Where or when did Perry call voters 'heartless' for REJECTING his own proposal TO give illegals FREE tuition"? Look it up, Poppy.

I know senility's kicked in a bit, but you see what you want to see. (see upthread for context of posts, Mr. GOTCHA!) Lol

Everyone needs to know. Tell us:
Where did Perry provide "free tuition" for illegals?

Rick Perry DID NOT provide FREE TUITION for illegals.
You Lied.
You know that you lied.
Now everyone knows that you lied.

But He PROPOSED IT during his ill-fated clownish 2008 campaign and was roundly slammed.

YOU lie. By omission. By ignoring obvious context. And by engaging in subterfuge.

tater, I want to recommend that you stop looking like a complete babblin' fool. Most posters already worry 'bout you and your dayes spent with yukon and now you defend the indefensible.

THE 2016 FIELD: WHO'S IN AND WHO'S THINKING IT OVER

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