Rick Perry... sounds great -- ha ha ha!

[Ben]

Ben...I think of you as more left leaning than right...not insanely so, but I think I'm correct in my assumptions. You're probably a combination of libertarian/progressive if I may use those categories. But you don't strike me nearly as hateful or condescending as the other house progressives on here. They think if you don't agree entirely with their dogma, you fall into one of three separate categories...racist, terrorist, or rage filled. You were one of the few who doesn't agree with a thing Palin ever said, but didn't see the need to savage her or her family. I respect you for that, and consequently read what you have to say with interest. I may not agree with it, but I read it ! As far as the others on here....I repay them with exactly what it is they deserve, and that they dish out in huge portions...scorn and contempt.

As Obama said to McCain at the Health Care Sumit..."John there was an election .........and we won"

HA Progressives...there was an mid term election, and we won. Deal with it.

onmyknees, I like the term Libertarian-Progressive -- ha ha ha! It's a pretty apt description.
I think Palin is probably a nice person. (I mean, I've never met her -- ha ha ha! )
I deeply respect her position on abortion. But I respectfully disagree with her.
And I like this YouTube clip of Sarah Palin. Because she is absolutely right:

[Ben]

[trish]

Didn't Rick Perry recently propose that Texas secede from the nation? So now he wants to be the president and he calling other people teasonous??!

[Stavros]

The government plays a big role in the economy. A more apt description is: State Capitalism.

No Ben, No. State capitalism is where government replaces private enterprise; a mixed economy is where private enterprise flourishes while government or the state finances those parts of the economy that the private sector will not -or is not allowed to touch. For example, in the UK when the state owned the railways, coal mining, broadcasting, steel and so on, the economy was mixed -hence the term 'privatisation' to explain 'returning formerly state-owned enterprises to the 'free market'. North Korea is State Capitalist today, to give one example.

When citing Adam Smith, as you so often do, try to remember that he was a revolutionary thinker in his own times; his description of the early years of industrial capitalism is of course unrivalled, but remember that in his day free markets did not exist as a national phenomenon in the UK. The Crown continued through the govt to rake in receipts from taxes on agricultural produce; only a certain number of 'market towns' had been given a licence to trade freely -one example would be Stratford-upon-Avon, given its status as market town by Henry the Eighth, which is why by the time Will Shakespeare was born there it was a prosperous middle class town with excellent schools. Free trade was at one time a radical concept, as indeed was the United States of America around the same time...

Your enthusiasm knows no limits, but sometimes you veer all over the place. I can't always keep up.

[Stavros]

Mr Perry also thinks that the Commander-in-Chief should have at one time in his life have worn 'the uniform'...makes a change from having a President who studied Law I suppose....whatever next? A President who used to drive a truck for a living? (The House of Commons seems these days to be bursting at the seams with lawyers, one wonders why normal people dont get elected these days).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ick-Perry.html

[Faldur]

"We're dismayed at the injustice that nearly half of all Americans don't even pay any income tax."

-Texas Gov. Rick Perry, presidential announcement speech, Aug. 13, 2011.


My kind of guy!

[trish]

See, he's for raising taxes too. Perry belongs to the crowd th[at] calls it a "tax hike" when a tax cut bill is allowed to expire. He calls it a "tax hike" when loop holes are excised from the tax law or when various tax advantages the wealthy enjoy are threatened. So to be consistent we have say that Governor Perry is calling for a Tax Hike.

[Erika1487]

As most of you know in the Republican primary's most canidates lean waaayyy futher right to garner votes and when the general election comes around they move closer to the center. "It's called playing up your base"

[Dino Velvet]

As most of you know in the Republican primary's most canidates lean waaayyy futher right to garner votes and when the general election comes around they move closer to the center. "It's called playing up your base"

I hope they don't run so far to the right that this conservative but more moderate Independent still remembers and stays home on Election Day. Tell us about jobs and leave The Bible at home. Ron Paul won't win but I hope many of his ideas bleed into the actual candidate. I want Obama gone too but people like Bachmann are not an upgrade.

[Erika1487]

I hope they don't run so far to the right that this conservative but more moderate Independent still remembers and stays home on Election Day. Tell us about jobs and leave The Bible at home. Ron Paul won't win but I hope many of his ideas bleed into the actual candidate. I want Obama gone too but people like Bachmann are not an upgrade.

Bachmann & Perry may very well spilt the far right vote and let Romney gain some traction, but Romney has many folks at the GOP nervous because he is more McCain than Bush. I think when the smoke clears in the primaries Bachmann, or Perry will win. Just my