Sunday, September 21, 2014

Sunday morning musings.... is Rick Perry our 21st Century Andrew Jackson?

Rick Perry
To say that Gob'nor Rick Perry, R, TX, is a dark horse in the 2016 presidential horse race is stating the obvious!  Texas presidents (both parties) don't have a sterling record in the first place -- and the MSM is not about to let us forget Perry's brain freeze at the debate in 2012. (although every one of us has had them at times -- and in less strained circumstances then when his did....)

But I've come across a couple of random thoughts the last few days, that give me second thoughts about the chances of our Gob'nor with the good hair and 'smart' glasses.  There are a lot of things to admire about the man.....  besides the fact that he carries a handgun when he jogs and shoots coyotes that attack his dog... instead of calling for his security guards and establishing a Texas Committee on Preserving Coyotes Rights. 

But first, let me quote Senate Republican James Inhofe (for whom I have the greatest respect) when he told reporters: “I look back wistfully at the Cold War. There were two superpowers, they knew what we had, we knew what they had, mutually assured destruction meant something. It doesn’t mean anything anymore. Now we have these people who are not rational, not logical, they’re nuts.”

Everybody wants to look at today's wars and battles in the prism of the last half of the 20th Century. It's no longer 'us against them', it's the civilized free nations against them, and them, and them!  Although Mad Vlad is obviously entranced with recreating the Soviet Union of his youth, nobody is watching because they all have their eyes on the crazies, the turbaned insaniacs of the world. Those who wrap themselves and their babies in vests of TNT and go boom in the night,


Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson became President with an amazing 70% of the electoral vote and 60% of the popular vote --- unheard of back in his day -- and especially for a non-Virginian or non-Massachusettesite.  Although I am not an admirer of his desire for an absolute democracy (the worst kind of gob'mint -- ask Ancient Greece) I am certainly an admirer of his foreign policy position:

“The US is different from the rest of the world and therefore the US should not try to remake the world in its own image by claiming that everyone is basically the same. The US must ensure its honor abroad by abiding by its commitments and standing with its allies. The US must take action to defend its interests. The US must fight to win or not fight at all. The US should only respect those foes that fight by the same rules as the US does.”

In my mind, in this 21st Century, we don't need a General Patton, or even a General Schwarzkopf with a thousand tanks overrunning the enemy...  we need a President and Generals with surgeon's hands.. taking a scalpel instead of a hand grenade to the enemy.

In other words, a President who would shoot a coyote with a handgun and keep on jogging without calling in the artillery......  and a General McChrystal (fired relieved by the current occupant of the Oval Office) with his carefully crafted small, fast and deadly unit techniques....

I do not believe that Rick Perry wants to be a reborn copy of Ronald Reagan (which makes him unique among current candidates) I believe he wants to create an economically strong and militarily swift, respected United States of America.  He's not 'looking for love in all the wrong places', he's looking for old fashioned honest respect for our words and deeds. 

On the other hand, there is this sad but true question: "Can any President that succeeds Obamanation and his $21 Trillion dollar debt ever hope to put this country and it's 92 million residents living on the government dole..... back on the road to recovery?"

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