Rick Perry Stirs Up The Secessionists

It's good to have a Texan's perspective on this, KT.
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What was the Texan reaction to the New Deal? Was it similar?
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Do people there just hate anything that isn't their idea to begin with?

Perry puts the *ss in *sshattery. In other news, students on campus are staging a "walk out" on Friday to protest the gun ban lifting proposal.

Also, where was Perry when the federal government was imposing No Child Left Behind? didn't hear a peep out of him then.

Wait, I thought Texas was part of the Real America. Now they want to pack up their marbles and go home?

On the other hand, they are staying true to their "America, love it or leave it" slogan.

Cool! Maybe South Carolina will secede too, and we can recreate East and West Pakistan!

Steve Benen on Perry's reality.
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Governor Rick Perry, five days ago: Governor Perry Calls FEMA To Assist With Wildfires
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Governor Rick Perry, last month: Governor Perry Calls For 1,000 Troops To Be Sent To Border
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Governor Rick Perry, five months ago: Governor Perry Requests 18 Month Extension Of Federal Aid For Ike Debris Removal
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Yes, ol' Rick just can't stand that "oppressive" federal bureaucracy that keeps "interfering" with Texas, except when he needs its help.

Stuart, not all the people here, just the crazy ones. He's talking to the crazy base that he thinks he needs to win the GOP primary.

Cliff, my favorite ever bumper sticker pairing, for sheer cognitive dissonance, is a Confederate Flag sticker paired with "America, love it or leave it."
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Cracks me up every time.

Ah Rick Perry, or as I like to call him, Captain 39 Percent (re-elected with 39% of the vote in 2006...AND HE WANTS TO RUN AGAIN!)
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I CANNOT WAIT for him to get rocked in the primary against Hutchison. Some early numbers indicate a +20 point margin of victory for her. Most of us in Texas, even the Republicans, do not like him. There's absolutely no chance he will be re-elected again.
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As for the walk-out here at UT, it's actually tommorrow, the anniversary of the V-Tech massacre. Classy.

Hey, Rick:
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Here's your (ten-gallon) hat; what's your hurry?

Time for Perry to "move on down the road" that was, incidentally, paved with federal dollars. Whoops! (local joke)

wvng-I thought that Perry guy down here is the same guy who was always asking the federal government for assistance on a whole host of things. But we should just forget that.

fourlegs, I remember that!!! When he was stopped by police and said that, I specifically remember that ad. ahhhh haha

One good thing. We don't have to worry about Perry running for president of these United States since he will be president of TEXAS. Yee haw.

Karen: I hope your brother is doing OK.
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All: I will be retiring my name "Mad As Hell" as it now has right wing connotations. Oh well.

fourlegsgood:
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Thanks, that was a stupid question of mine.

gysgt213, did you not see where I said there's no way he'll get re-elected? Therefore, he couldn't even be "President of Texas" anyway. Yee haw!

apollyon,
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Wasn't the reason why he won the last time was because all the idiots who piled into the race spliting the votes?

Stuart, granted, the crazies outnumber us sane folk by a pretty significant margin.

gysgt213, yes. Kinky should have dropped out. Bell would have won.

Fourleggsgood, I am hoping that the crazies start to shrink.
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Is Kinky going to run again?

I'm in Texas and quite a few people here will point to the fact that Texas is the only state that can fly their flag at the same level as the Stars and Stripes as a reason we can become an independant nation again. Turns out, not so much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Texas
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Good luck arguing though.
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As for Kinky, he thinks Texas, of all states, needs to be "Dewussified."

It is only because American journalists have routinely permitted Republican politicians to engage in thinly-veiled or openly wackjob rhetoric that wingnuttery has completely consumed the GOP.
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KT jokes about grabbing her passport. Why? The presumption is that Perry is joking. And yet if KT really thought it was a joke, she would presumably say so explicitly.
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For the past 15-20 years, Americans -- led by the media -- have been asked to engage in a form of Orwellian, rightwing doublethink. "Limbaugh represents average Americans; to dismiss him is elitist. Limbaugh is a comedian; don't blow his statements out of proportion."
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With a few exceptions (e.g. the Schiavo fiasco), the GOP has had free reign to pander to its most unhinged, racist, xenophobic, bigoted, and ignorant fringes without being challenged by the press.

The South should be allowed to secede providing they agree to call their new nation Ignorantmotherfuckerland.