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Originally Posted by joshgirls
the so called top tier repubs are bush clones. theres no need to debate what they would do, we've seen that movie.
on the other hand, Ron Paul will legalize pot, the tommy gun, & online poker.  |
Perry was Al Gore's campaign manager.
Bush ran against Gore. So politically, Bush and Perry are near opposites.
Personality wise, Bush would tell you exactly what he thought, no matter how dumb that thought sounded. "Fuck the polls, I'm the decider" was Bush's motto.
Perry will tell you exactly what you want to hear, rarely revealing his actual thoughts.
He's quite good at delivering exactly the message that the polls say will be popular.
So personality wise, Bush and Perry are nearly opposites.
I don't particularly like either of them, but for opposite reasons. To say Perry is a Bush clone is to know neither the man nor his politics. They could hardly be more different.
I think you could reasonably call Perry a Clinton clone who put on a Republican sticker when the polls went that way. Perry, Gore, and Clinton hang out in the same circles and Perry's personality is much more like Clinton.
I wonder if a Perry presidency would go a lot like Clinton, quite well at first due to his political skill at getting things done, but later paralyzed by scandal.