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Dear RNC: Here’s How It’s Done
From our governor here in the Lone Star State:
Published in General
GREAT ad. I think this episode may end up helping Perry, and it offers a great opportunity for him to talk about the mobster politics that the other side engages in routinely.
Not holding my breath for the RNC, but you never know. They could get it together. In the meantime, I love watching Perry fight.
He just jumped to the head of the pack for 2016 in my book. We need fighters!
Yeah, that’s pretty great.
I loved the tweet that I saw the other day w/ the liberal facebook meme: “we don’t settle political disputes with indictments … says the guy whose office has sued president Obama 39 times” (or something like that – the response was along the lines of “yeah… difference between a civil suit and a criminal indictment, I think”)
The left’s understanding of the issue is somewhat mind-boggling.
Fighting back. What a concept. Not really expecting the RNC to follow suit, though.
Fixed that for you. ;)
This episode has almost made me forget Perry’s 2012 bumbling.
Almost…
She has no shame or self-awareness to have behaved that way, had it made public, and still refuse to resign. She’s completely unfit for any office.
Now he needs to go after Mike McCrum, the “special” prosecutor. He was accused of, and still has on his plate, a charge of witness tampering.
Can Perry’s lawyers subpoena any DA emails to see if anyone from the DNC or other high ranking Democrats were in contact with Lehmberg on this case?
Good Job Gov!
What RNC should do is go back into McCrum’s client history do some interviewing and investigating. They’ll surely find a pattern of behavior helpful to the cause. I’m betting Perry’s people will. Hardball baby.
I wish he had used the parts of her video where she plays the “do you know who I am?” card and tries to intimidate the officers and the arraigning judge with her position. It’s not just the drunk driving or the hissy fits. She tried to use her public office to get out of the arrest.
Excellent.
He was pretty great. That press conference was amazing.
The amazing thing about that whole scene is that, in my experience, if she had acted like a perfect gentlewoman – apologetic, polite, etc… toward the officers, they may have had enough sympathy and a feeling of brotherhood (she is, after all, responsible for prosecution) and kept things a lot quieter. Chances are those videos would never have gotten out.
Of course, if she is the sort of democratic prosecutor who comes in and goes on a crusade of freeing criminals and undermining police activity (as may be evidenced by her behavior toward the officers), then all of that may have been unavoidable. Funny how things end up coming around full circle. Life has a way of humbling us all like that – republican and democrat alike.
Thanks to Mollie H. for noting it in her twitter feed, too.
Lehmberg is going to regret this indictment. The ad is clear and communicates to the average citizen. It’s obvious she’s bit off way more than she can chew.
I, for one, have almost forgotten Perry’s 2012 errors.
He gets my vote.
Wow….finally a macho Republican. He has jumped to the top of my list.
What makes you think those emails still exist? Seems it is now acceptable to delete emails at will.
A) I don’t know
B) Is that privileged information or open to discovery? I’m not a lawyer. Don’t even play on TV.
Hey governor: lose the glasses. You aren’t Clark Kent.
Sorry I was trying to make a Lois Lerner reference there…………..
Funny, Larry — the resemblance is real!
But I like ’em. Keep the specs. Can’t hurt Perry to look smart?
For a moment I read this as “Lois Lane” — must be the Clark Kent glasses, as Larry notes…
What’s astonishing is that the prosecutors’ legal position is not only frivolous and malicious on its face, it doesn’t even allege that Perry had any sort of corrupt motive for his veto. It just says that it was used for politically coercive reasons … as if that’s not the very purpose of a veto. It’s the lack of any alleged corrupt motive that will make this go nowhere with public opinion, except possibly to help Perry marginally.
I was going to go there…………and MAMA TOAD HEY!!! It seems like it has been a while.
mustangman, thanks! I’ve been lurking here and there, but I have definitely been awol a bit…
Absence make the heart grow toadier…..or is that absinthe? I can never keept that straight.
The prosecutor and the indictment is a fabulous enforced error for the left. It has excellent potential to blow up in their face and make their side look all the worse because of it.