Rick Perry

[NickyJ]

Does anyone really regard his ostentatious public "religious" displays positively?

*Raises hand* Is it wrong for politicians to have a religion?

Still, so the state should kill someone because they aren't 'normal'?

I think you are vastly underestimating the psychos who think killing is quite a fun hobby. Such people are a menace to society. Prime example: Anthony Sowell.

 

[Ajidica]

I think you are vastly underestimating the psychos who think killing is quite a fun hobby. Such people are a menace to society. Prime example: Anthony Sowell.

If they are locked up, they aren't killing anyone. (Plus with any luck they will get broomraped and shanked like Jeffrey Dahmer. More satisfying they being knocked out with drugs and then injected with other drugs to stop his heart.)

Given how intensely you seem to be advocating the killing of others for being 'not normal', you are raising some questions.

 

[useless]

If they are locked up, they aren't killing anyone. (Plus with any luck they will get broomraped and shanked like Jeffrey Dahmer. More satisfying they being knocked out with drugs and then injected with other drugs to stop his heart.)

Given how intensely you seem to be advocating the killing of others for being 'not normal', you are raising some questions.

Wait what?

Killing people because they aren't Normal...?

 

[otago]

Eyebrow raising, some conservatives on here would vote for a bloke who had a man put to death when there was a very large question about his guilt or not.
Is there any wrong doing that would you stop him voting for him ?

 

[Ajidica]

Is there any wrong doing that would you stop him voting for him ?

Asking Allah and Vishnu for help with rain.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Wait what?

Killing people because they aren't Normal...?

Not normal, AKA serial killers. This conversation isn't literal, it was started by hyperbolic comments.

Eyebrow raising, some conservatives on here would vote for a bloke who had a man put to death when there was a very large question about his guilt or not.
Is there any wrong doing that would you stop him voting for him ?

I'd vote for Paul in the primary if I could. I'd vote for Perry over Obama but I'm not necessarily a fan.

 

[Godwynn]

Rick Perry is against the 16th amendment and was for the Texas law that made same-sex sodomy illegal.

yikes

 

[Cutlass]

"[Texas Governor Rick Perry] is a charismatic figure. I think about him on stage with the other candidates and he'll stand out. He's not a wallflower. But the most interesting question for me is whether the country is ready for somebody who looks and sounds like George W. Bush on steroids."
— Dr. Richard Land, former president of the Southen Baptist Convention

 

[CaptainF]

*Raises hand* Is it wrong for politicians to have a religion?

Is it right for politicians to use their religion to gain votes and spread propaganda for their own benefit?

 

[NickyJ]

Is it right for politicians to use their religion to gain votes and spread propaganda for their own benefit?

No. That's why I'm glad that Rick Perry isn't.

 

[emzie]

Death is chaper.

Unless you waste 10+ years on it.

The problem is the justice system is imperfect, especially at the trial level. It requires an appeals process to get anywhere near the level of comfort most people want when it comes to sanctioning the death of others. The corrective part of the system is slow, with an average time of 8 years spent on death row for exonerated inmates.

 

[Azale]

*Raises hand* Is it wrong for politicians to have a religion?

It's wrong for politicians to associate closely with someone like Alice Patterson (about halfway through the article).

 

[Julius Gandi]

In the case of laws, truth is a meaningless concept.

Truth, in the case of humans, is a meaningless concept. Our very perceptions cannot accurately process the information we can receive, not to account for what is beyond our perception.


On topic, I don't feel that Perry can pull any victory outside of the bible belt. His brand of politics will offend more conservatives than it will endear.

 

[Ayatollah So]

I predict that Bachmann and Perry will win 2012 for the Republicans. By splitting the hardline vote and taking each other out of the race, leaving Romney victorious.

Just kidding. I don't think Romney will win the nomination even so. And if he does, there's no guarantee that he'll beat Obama. A true believer like Bachmann or Cain gets respect from a lot of voters that may disagree with the ideology on many points. A flip-flopper who's been caught at it will be doubted by many voters that he (currently) expresses agreement with. People often sense when a speaker is telling them what the speaker thinks they want to hear.

Now Obama is a curious case. He doesn't say what voters want to hear, he says (and does) what other power-brokers and the commentariat want to hear (and see). I don't know how voters will react to that.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

George W. Bush on steroids

That's a scary idea, having a President be Bush on steroids. The Bush era was terrible. Deficit spending, multiple wars, the TSA treating Americans like criminal suspects because they bought a plane ticket, massive entitlement programs, government spying on citizens.

I hope we never see another administration like that again.

 

[Archbob]

I think he is a delusional moron fully intent on praying on the delusional fears by his delusional followers.

Doesn't this make him just slightly better than Bachmann?

 

[RedRalph]

"[Texas Governor Rick Perry] is a charismatic figure. I think about him on stage with the other candidates and he'll stand out. He's not a wallflower. But the most interesting question for me is whether the country is ready for somebody who looks and sounds like George W. Bush on steroids."
— Dr. Richard Land, former president of the Southen Baptist Convention

Imagine it was literally George Bush on steroids

 

[CaptainF]

No. That's why I'm glad that Rick Perry isn't.

Link

I think you might, maybe, be wrong here.

 

[GamezRule]

Romney > Perry

Nuff said.

 

[Godwynn]