(I didn't mean to bump this down with my post below. - promoted by Karl-Thomas Musselman)
It is often said that politics makes for strange bedfellows and this year's presidential election is no different. The news a number of weeks ago of Governor Goodhair endorsing former New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani for the Republican nomination for President of the United States left many with a "huh?" feeling.
What is clear is that Rick Perry is angling, should Guiliani receive the nomination, to be on the ticket as his Vice President. This would shore up what many consider to be Guiliani's weaknesses, which is that he is socially liberal and perhaps not as religiously astute as traditional hardcore Republican voters. Having multiple mistresses and multiple marriages tends to do that, along with dressing in drag. But even Mr. 39% is having a hard time selling Guiliani to Republican voters in Iowa:
But it was abortion - and Mr. Giuliani's support of abortion rights - that sparked the most passionate debate around the table.
"We're talking about our leader standing up and saying, 'I'm going to be pro-choice and pro-open marriage,' " said John Markham, a natural gas executive from Dubuque. "The social thing is a real, real hurdle."
Mr. Perry described himself as "the most anti-abortion governor in Texas history," but said he was satisfied by Mr. Giuliani's promise to appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court.
"What about a veto of stem cells," said Colleen Pasnik. "Money for Planned Parenthood?"
Others jumped in, talking over one another.
"I can tell you I'm comfortable that on the vast majority of those issues, he is going to be ..." - and here Mr. Perry paused in search of the right word - "... a proper leader."
Silence.
Mr. Perry looked down at the table. "I'm doing a poor job of explaining," he said. |
| No, you are doing about as capable a job as one who sells out can do in this situation, Goodhair. Let us cut to the chase here. Perry is only siding with Guiliani because he thinks he is going to be the nominee and he wants a piece of that action. Should he become the Republican nominee Giuliani will have to take a southern politician as his running mate to shore up the southern vote and his lack of conservative credentials. Perry believes he fits that profile.
The reason Perry won't be selected as anyone's running mate is because he is a governor from Texas with a poor and rather controversial record. We've already got one bad apple in the White House who was governor of Texas. The American people, and certainly the Republican Party, will not allow for yet another governor from Texas to be on the ticket plain and simple.
So while Texans continue and have to fit the bill for Perry's personal security while he raises not only his national profile, but international one as well, real Texans continue and suffer at the hands of a terrible economy, unaffordable health care, poor public education system, skyrocketing secondary education costs, increasing crime, young Texans dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a depleted Texas National Guard.
Well, perhaps Guiliani can convince Rick Perry to dress in drag, it might just make the expense of his personal security worth it. |
