Is this what we want for president?

[SoCalDem]

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2011/08/as-they-say-in-texas-rick-perry-is-all.html


Saturday, August 20, 2011
As they say in Texas, Rick Perry is "All hat and no cattle."



Ever since Perry's prayer-a-palooza earlier this month he has been swaggering from photo-op to photo-op, while doing his best George Bush impersonation, and attracting media attention like flies to....well you know what.

And just like George W. Bush, the Texas bullshit he spews is almost as deep as his lack of knowledge about how to run this country. However he has a few talking points which, on the surface, might convince the paint eaters, especially those that have been sniffing Sarah Palin's non-candidate panties so long they have suffered brain damage, to support his campaign.

The one he is most well known for is his "40 percent of the new jobs created in America, were created in Texas" horse-pucky. Think Progress examines that claim:

Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), since he launched his presidential campaign on Saturday, has paraded around the stat that “since June of 2009, Texas is responsible for more than 40 percent of all of the new jobs created in America.” “Now think about that. We’re home to less than 10 percent of the population in America, but 40 percent of all the new jobs were created in that state,” Perry says. This stat leaves out a lot of the story. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has promoted the number, but “it acknowledges that the number comes out different depending on whether one compares Texas to all states or just to states that are adding jobs.” Between 2008 and 2010, jobs actually grew at a faster pace in Massachusetts than in Texas. In fact, “Texas has done worse than the rest of the country since the peak of national unemployment in October 2009.” The unemployment rate in Texas has been steadily increasing throughout the recession, and went from 7.7 to 8.2 percent while the state was supposedly creating 40 percent of all the new jobs in the U.S

snip for some pretty telling graphs & more of the article

[theophilus]

1. Hell no! n/t

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Some f*****g Bible-banging maniac. Just what we need. Another illiterate nutjob like Bush nt

[Bluebear]

4. +

[gateley]

3. I don't even want him as a fellow American! nt

[Old Codger]

5. well

He would do us all a favor if the would lower that about 18 inches and aim the other way.

[Cleita]

6. As President of the Aryan Brotherhood or KKK, maybe.

Why do I feel he might already be a member of one of those. I certainly do not want him as President and Commander-In-Chief of the USA. If he somehow does become President, I am out of here. My nerves can't take a return to BushCo and this time it would be on steroids.

[madrchsod]

7. 2.2 grade point....wrap your mind around that!

[veganlush]

8. I'm confused about how brandishing

..a gun makes you a bad ass. Nugent acts like that too. I mean, it's like bragging that you have to have an equalizer, that you can't fight with your hands and body, mind and skills. Anybody can brandish a gun. How does hiding behind a weapon make you bad? It's like bragging that you need Viagra to be virile. I mean, if you need it, fine, use it by all means, but brag that you need it to get it up? I don't get gun lovers.

[Avalux]

15. It's because they can't fight witht their brains....

...they get ahead by being bullies,with guns. The gun = power, and they're obsessed with it.

[veganlush]

18. yes..sad but true...

and proud of the inadequacy rather than ashamed..this strikes me as a very strange but apparently effective defense mechanism.

[SwampG8r]

25. and the guns already out

we arent going to wrestle or box or anything..... just go right to gun?
i can see if i was about to beat his ass really bad he might pull the gun but.....already out ?
like he is admitting anyone can take him

[Rex]

9. ...

[young_at_heart]

10. I used to think we couldn't get worse than Bush!

This photo alone makes me positively ill.

[RegieRocker]

11. You can only hope he is the Republican candidate.

[madamesilverspurs]

12. My mama raised me to be a lady.

Mama lives several states away.

The answer to your question is "Fuck No!"

[AsahinaKimi]

20. lol!

good one! :thumbsup:

[JVS]

13. Don't spread that photo. The yahoos do want that for president and will support him more for it.

[kentuck]

14. "I'll be your Huckleberry..."

You bad man.

[tawadi]

16. WTH?

That's a good imitation of the chimp alright.:-(

[FLyellowdog]

17. Not on my watch!!!!!nt

[Joe Fields]

19. whatever...

:eyes:

[Fearless]

21. Nope but I don't want some Republicrat either.

[begin_within]

22. Gee, it didn't take them long after the Tucson shooting to pick up their guns again.

[SoCalDem]

24. Um.. they never put them down. they only pretended to be "sad"

but of course immediately following the performance they started in about how EVERYONE-BOTH SIDES needed to be more "civil"..

[leeroysphitz]

23. You're right. We should all stop our belly aching or the republican bogeyman will get us.