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Yes buckDharma, I think he's a liar too. Not that I expect many people to listen to even believe me, unless they are Damnocrats.

The "he" in this is the current Reboobican Party darling du jour - Rick Perry.

The Rick Perry Campaign platform, if truth be known.

In this week's candidate fertilizer production forum, the Texas governor was pretty much listed as the most well fed bull. At least that's the way I see it.

Perry said if elected he wants to make the US government as inconsequential as possible in the lives of Americans.

He lies.

When Rick Perry became the governor of Texas in 2000, the total spending by the Texas state government was approximately $49 billion.  Ten years later it was around $90 billion.

This is NOT making government inconsequential. This is increasing government involvement in your life. This is making government an even bigger part of your life.

Texas' per-citizen debt load is also higher than Kalifornia's, per capita. http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/06/first-look-rick-perry.html
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/mar/04/bill-white/white-says-texas-debt-has-doubled-under-perry/ 

Government's idea of a balanced budget.

Balanced budget? I think not.

Perry attempted to pass into Texas law a law that would force parents to have their children vaccinated with the new HPV preventative. When that didn't work, he made an executive order. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/13/rick-perry-hpv-vaccine_n_961159.html

Is this REALLY getting government less involved in your life or is this government dictating how you may live? Ask me? It's also socialized forced medicine the kind of which the national healthcare plan attempts.

Perry has, repeatedly, hiked taxes in the Lone Star State. http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/nov/01/rick-perry/gov-rick-perry-says-he-has-track-record-not-raisin/

Read his track record. He's a politician. You can tell when he's lying because his lips are moving.

In collating reactions to the talking head exhibition earlier this week, I found out one thing that absolutely did not surprise me:

A real change. Which you don't want.

No one, and I mean NO ONE, managed to say Ron Paul talked out of both sides of his mouth and threw his voice in all kinds of directions. Everyone, like him or hate him, had to say Ron Paul's comments were consistent with his voting record, consistent with his long track record of comments and consistent with his voting record.

That means Ron Paul doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being elected. Ron does not say what people want to hear - like the current president and the rest of the crop of Reboobican candidates - he says what he will do. And he means it.