Indicting Perry may have been a Mistake for the Left

Check out this video that Perry has released in response:
[video=youtube;mbXHg7_Zqjc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXHg7_Zqjc[/video]

This isn't like the traffic cones thing, Perry is doubling down on this and I for one think he looks better for it, not worse. You have to wonder what the left is thinking to pick a fight over an issue like this.

 

Do you really believe that the "Left" is some monolithic entity that was controlling the District Attorney and the Grand Jury?

As a proud member of the left, I can tell you no one asks me what the "Left" should be doing in Texas at all.

This is Texas politics in action.

 

Okay that's fair, but the fiberal media is not going to let this go easily. MSNBC will be all over these charges no matter how much it benefits Perry for them to be doing it.

 

Of course- so will Fox News

A governor being indicted is big news- national news.

To paraphrase another politician- as long as Perry isn't found in bed with a live boy or a dead girl, I imagine he will do fine with his electorate.

 

Funny, but two Republican District Attorneys got locked up for drunk driving while Rick Perry was Governor, and he didn't have a problem with them.

He told one of the Sunday shows that we "settle differences at the ballot box".....while trying to hound an elected official out of office (and simultaneously excusing other in his party for doing the exact same thing.

He might skate on the spin on this, but the hypocricy is noted.

Fortunately, Rick Perry has no prayer of being President, so it makes little difference, except as yet another one of Perry's side shows.

 

Earl Long!

 

Is Perry's defense to his criminal charges that there are other criminals in the world?

It seems odd to me that he would excuse his alleged criminality by pointing to other criminals.

 

Yeah, this is more in line with what I was expecting. SFJEFF and people like David Axelrod are smart enough to know a losing cause when they see it, most of the left is not. Perry will be riding this like a bull at a rodeo.

 

If you have an issue with another poster, then take it to them. It has nothing to do with me.

 

What makes you think the Left isn't trying to help Perry and his political aspirations?

Would they not benefit greatly from Perry gaining a prominent if not eminent position in the Republican Party?

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Oh you misunderstand- I think this will play very well to Perry's voters in Texas.

Everyone else will be looking at what is happening by both Perry and the DA as Texas politics as usual.

 

I've heard of "Chicago politics" but I've never heard of "Texas politics." I suspect the left recently conjured up that term.

 

Sweet Lord have mercy on my tired soul. Is this for real?

 

Neither one of them were in a position that he could impact. Local DA's are pretty much beyond the governors purview as they are elected rather than appointed and beholden to city electorates not state electorates. To saynothing of the fact that they weren't in charge of a glorified ethics committee.

 

I just Googled "Texas politics" and got 0 hits that use it as a term. As time passes maybe someone will throw up a fake wikipedia article, maybe even some fake blogs but I'm pretty sure the term is not in regular usage.

 

Every place that has democratic government has politics, and generally speaking different region's have different styles of politics, or inherent truths that stem from long term political realities.

In this case the republican state government, and the democratic country government of Travis County have a long history of sniping at each other every chance they get, and particularly over the public integrity unit which the state government has tried to remove from Travis county's jurisdiction, and put under control of the AG. Since the seat of the state government is in Travis County they have so far been unsuccessful, because crimes committed there do fall under the Travis County DA's jurisdiction.

Thus specifically this situation is quite accurately Texas politics as usual. Does that clear it up?

 

I googled the term and got 147 million hits. Are you sure you know hot to use google?

 

"That use it as a term."

 

http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/

http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/texas-...-legislator-with-lawsuit-over-coonass-remark/
All Texas politics all the time from the San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle

 

You guys are wasting my time, that's not using it as a term in the sense that "Chicago politics" or so-on is used.

 

Its been used quite often before as well and there is more than one newspaper who referred to the indictment issue as just "texas politics". Anyway, it sort of a generic term and could be applied to any country, city or state.

 

You mean its not used to attack Obama?

But yes, I agree with you- "Texas Politics" is not used like the term "Chicago Politics" but certainly Texas Politics do exist- and what is happening between this DA and Perry is Texas Politics.

 

How is it going to benefit Perry? Another term as Texas governor? I live in Idaho, so I could give a crapola.

 

You know he is running for President right?

 

OK. Now you got a chortle out of me! Thanks.