Bush, Perry Tension Renewed as Governor's Star Rises
Whatever their differences, Rick Perry has at least one thing in common with Barack Obama: He apparently doesn't think much of George W. Bush, at least politically.
Going back at least two years, Perry has criticized his predecessor in the Texas Governor’s Mansion, whom he served alongside as lieutenant governor, for not being conservative enough. In a living room speech given to Iowa Republicans while he was stumping for then-presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani, Perry complained, “’95, ’97, ’99, George Bush was spendin’ money. George has never, ever been a fiscal conservative … and I think people thought that he ...
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Ed Rankin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Karl Rove and crew never liked Perry. There was always a big rift between the two camps.
Luis Vela Guevara via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry v. Bush, can you feel the love?
Joe Estep via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry is not on my list for POTUS, but I never liked that family of transplants Bush either.
Peggy Noonan/Greg Koch -2012
Mark Paulson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry is doing an excellent job bringing Texas back to the stone age.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Better than rattlesnakes,enough with the TX coyotes.Let's invite The Prez to the Texas Rattlesnake Roundup this next Spring--takes one to know ones.
Erika Holzinger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And bush was a cheerleader in college if y'all did't know.
George T. Contreras via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Makes sense about Bush being a cheerleader, Perry was an Aggie.
Erika Holzinger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
George most texans dont know he was a cheeleader and his wife got away with manslaughter.Im not an aggie fan though.
Charles Bloom via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Rick Perry wouldn't know leadership if it shot him in the ass. He's as phony as they come and most of the Texans voting Nov. 2 fell for it. What does THAT say for the state?
Erika Holzinger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Charles Rick perry is just full of it i wish bill white would of won but democrats in texas will never win.
Jonathan Gal via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Funny thing is ... by promoting State Rights, Rick Perry is actually strengthening the case for gay marriages in Massachusetts, where the State Right's argument is being used by Liberal Judges to uphold homosexual marriage laws that are being challenged by Federal Conservatives, using the Federal Defense of Marriage Act!
So, in an ironic, Constitutional twist of fate, arch conservative Rick Perry is strengthening homosexual marriage laws in Massachusetts by promoting State Rights!
Mark Kowalski via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Bush vs. Perry. I'm rooting for injuries.
Erika Holzinger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'll be laughing jonathan if gay marriage were to happen in texas .
Viola Perry
Rick Perry is a self-serving politician. He should have spoken up while Bush was in office but instead he shows his character by bashing him now when we already knew it when he was in office! Shows no character. Does anyone remember the incident where wife Anita caught him in bed with his male secretary. That story disappeared from the news the same day. Now he is slated for Vice President, just can't tell you when. Perry bashed Obama for spending too much but he created the 20billion dollar hole in Texas and yet, people voted for him.