Good old boy: Ricky

by YankeeJim | September 13, 2011 at 02:31 am

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American already tried the best of the gold old boys and that was George W. George W toed the line and did what he was told by his handlers. Ricky just might be uncontrollable, like a bronco you can’t bust.

Is he frightening? Nah, aw shucks, he’s just a gold old boy.

“A man who embodies some or all of the qualities considered characteristic of many white men of the southern US, including an unpretentious, convivial manner, conservative or intolerant attitudes, and a strong sense of fellowship with and loyalty to other members of his peer group”

“Will voters be frightened by Rick Perry?

An emerging theme in GOP debates: Texas governor's foes seek to paint him as a threat both to young and old

By Tom CurryNational affairs writer

msnbc.com

A Republican debate that was expected to be a showdown between the two heavyweights, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, turned into something resembling a football pile-on with five of the GOP contenders swarming over the Texas governor.

What’s emerging from the GOP presidential debates is a portrait of Perry — painted by his opponents — as one scary guy, a threat both to young and old.

If you believe the image being created by the frontrunner's rivals, Perry's a threat both to the frail elderly, by scaring them over the future of Social Security benefits, and to innocent young girls, at least in Texas, by allegedly “forcing” them to have vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer.

As Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., put it during Monday's Republican debate “to have innocent little 12-year old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat-out wrong.”

Former Sen. Rick Santorum added that Perry’s vaccination program was “big government run amok.”

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Perry admitted to CNN host and debate moderator Wolf Blitzer that he had made a mistake as governor by issuing an executive order requiring teenage girls to receive the injection designed to prevent cervical cancer .

Perry said he ought to have worked with his state legislature on the program.

Perry explained — as he did in last week’s NBC News/POLITICO debate — that Texas parents had been given the right to opt out of having their daughters vaccinated against the human papillomavirus. And he explained he had been trying to save lives: “Cervical cancer is a horrible way to die.”

Bachmann upped the ante by charging that he had issued the order because a former Perry aide worked for Gardasil’s manufacturer, Merck & Co., which had contributed money to Perry’s gubernatorial campaign.”"