Watch Rick Perry's Campaign End Before Your Eyes

[foolishwisdom]

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[Her3tiK]

I've got an uncle who thinks this guy is the best thing ever...

Perry is such a fucking moron it isn't even funny anymore.

[davedan]

Wont touch his approval rating at all.

[Art Vandelay]

Please, Bush was a much bigger idiot than this guy and he made it through two terms.

[nightangel1282]

Nov 10, 2011 0:03:01 GMT -5 Art Vandelay said:

Please, Bush was a much bigger idiot than this guy and he made it through two terms.

LOL My first thought when reading the OP was "He's about as smart as Bush, so he might actually win..." Which is really scary...

[Thejebusfire]

Rick want's to eliminate education so everyone can be as dumb as him.

[ironbite]

Someone seriously answer this. Why in the blue hells does he want to get rid of the Department of Education?

Ironbite-I mean...what does it do that offends him?

[servo]

...still wouldn't be surprised if he gets elected.

[Haseen]

Nov 10, 2011 4:08:23 GMT -5 ironbite said:

Someone seriously answer this. Why in the blue hells does he want to get rid of the Department of Education?

Ironbite-I mean...what does it do that offends him?

Having actual standards makes it harder to indoctrinate kids into creationism and dominionism. Also, well-educated kids are more likely to realize how full of shit the GOP really is.

[queenofhearts]

After watching this, my opinion of him went up. I'm surprised he could count to three.

The sad thing is I don't know if I'm joking.

[cestlefun17]

Someone seriously answer this. Why in the blue hells does he want to get rid of the Department of Education?

Ironbite-I mean...what does it do that offends him?

I cannot watch the video because I'm at work, so I can't comment specifically on what he said. However, I do not find it an unreasonable position to say that the federal government should play no role in education, which, as the Constitution does not grant Congress this power, is a domain of the states.

It's not so much anti-education but pro-federalism and pro-states rights, although knowing the Republicans it's probably also anti-education.

[Vypernight]

Go Cain!*



* Disclaimer, I think he's the only Republican that could actually make next year's election entertaining.

[ltfred]

Nov 10, 2011 5:02:24 GMT -5 cestlefun17 said:

It's not so much anti-education but pro-federalism and pro-states rights, although knowing the Republicans it's probably also anti-education.

States do not have rights; people have rights. If those rights are best protected by a centralised federal government, rather than 50 state governments, they should be centralised.

[sylvana]

Nov 10, 2011 0:03:01 GMT -5 Art Vandelay said:

Please, Bush was a much bigger idiot than this guy and he made it through two terms.

That says way more about the voting public than either Bush or Rick Perry, and not in a good way.

Given how often we seem to see fundies railing against the evil liberal indoctrination at schools it makes sens that the current bunch of extremely crazy fundie republican candidates want to get rid of schools. It is quite frightening really, and even more frightening when you think about how many people support the idea of eliminating schools (or at last blindly following the republicans.)

[N. De Plume]

Nov 10, 2011 5:02:24 GMT -5 cestlefun17 said:

I cannot watch the video because I'm at work, so I can't comment specifically on what he said. However, I do not find it an unreasonable position to say that the federal government should play no role in education, which, as the Constitution does not grant Congress this power, is a domain of the states.

Whereas Congress explicitly has the power to regulate Commerce, so by extension an executive Commerce department would actually be kind of useful. Yet that would also be on Perry’s chopping block.