Today, in The Hill Pundit, Brent Budowsky posts an interesting question regarding Governor Perry. Did he really get $30,000 from the vaccine manufacturer when he claimed only $5,000 in the debate? If so, is that enough for him to bow out of the race?
At this time, I do not have enough information, but would like to know what others think. Is this a deal killer or not?
Let me know what your opinion is.
Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann should call on Rick Perry to drop out
- 09/14/11 10:16 AM ET
Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann should consider calling on Rick Perry to drop out of the campaign because in the last debate, he falsely claimed that he had raised only $5,000 from the company involved with his ill-fated vaccination program. Paul and Bachmann have championed the conservative use of taxpayer dollars. No issue more powerfully makes their point than Rick Perry raising huge campaign money from a firm that would make a fortune from his program, and then bearing false witness about it during a nationally televised debate.
Paul and Bachmann should pounce on the fact that in Perry-gate, Rick Perry asked during the debate whether he can be bought for only $5,000 when it appears Perry had received almost $30,000 from the company for his gubernatorial campaigns. Trust me, no politician forgets who donated $30,000.
It now appears that the company and its subsidiaries had donated almost $400,000 to the Republican Governors Association since 2006, when Perry first became active in the association, according to The Washington Post. It is inconceivable that Perry was not involved in soliciting some of that money, a subject journalists are investigating as you read these words.
This is the golden moment for Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann.
Was Perry telling an outright lie when he said he had only received $5,000, which should be disqualifying for the presidency, or was he the victim of a staggering memory lapse, which should also be disqualifying to be president in a dangerous world?
Rick Perry is the mother of all pay-for-play politicians. I expect Paul and Bachmann to call his bluff about this, with devastating effect. Conservatives do not want, and Americans will not accept, a presidential candidate who either lies on national television under pressure or forgets things that a politician so consumed with raising special-interest money should have remembered.
Paul and Bachmann should pounce on the fact that in Perry-gate, Rick Perry asked during the debate whether he can be bought for only $5,000 when it appears Perry had received almost $30,000 from the company for his gubernatorial campaigns. Trust me, no politician forgets who donated $30,000.
It now appears that the company and its subsidiaries had donated almost $400,000 to the Republican Governors Association since 2006, when Perry first became active in the association, according to The Washington Post. It is inconceivable that Perry was not involved in soliciting some of that money, a subject journalists are investigating as you read these words.
This is the golden moment for Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann.
Was Perry telling an outright lie when he said he had only received $5,000, which should be disqualifying for the presidency, or was he the victim of a staggering memory lapse, which should also be disqualifying to be president in a dangerous world?
Rick Perry is the mother of all pay-for-play politicians. I expect Paul and Bachmann to call his bluff about this, with devastating effect. Conservatives do not want, and Americans will not accept, a presidential candidate who either lies on national television under pressure or forgets things that a politician so consumed with raising special-interest money should have remembered.
Agree with this completely. Perry is the most unethical politician we have seen in a long time.
ReplyDeleteRon Paul clobbers Perry in California Republican straw poll…
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Thought you might me interested.
--David
David, great results for Paul, however, when you look at electibility, his chances are very poor if he were the candidate.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, that is true. There just seem to be too many people who believe this stuff about the U.S. being on the verge of siege from Islamists, or Chinese, or somebody.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is, the Wall Street financial disasters over the last 30 years have caused FAR more economic, physical, and psychological damage to this country than any foreign enemy could have hoped for. Everybody just ignores that -- even worse, the Fed continues to shower them with even more money. Trillions.
The next wave is coming, and each one is more crippling than the preceding one (compare the impact of the S&L scandal to that of the 2008 collapse). The investment bankers get better and better at what they do. Ron Paul understands this. Nobody else in either party seems to care, or else simply doesn't want to kill their own financial support. Ron Paul will never get a dime from them.
--David
We agree here. The Fed is out of control. It has no idea what to do and is just floundering with the hope that continuing to push money into the economy will fix it. It is like flushing money down the rathole!
ReplyDeleteIf we had done the same thing as we did with the savings and loan mess, we would have recovered by now. The banks would have been relieved of their bad loans and could have gone back to doing business. However, what we have now is banks up to their ears in bad loans and no plan to get rid of them. Foreclosures are up and home ownership (with non performing loans deducted) is lower than in many years.
Our representatives and senators have done more to damage our country than foreign enemies. They have encumbered the nation under trillions of debt which is more damaging than a neutron bomb or all the planes, subs or military hardware (which you love.)