The question, of course, is whether he's simply sloppy about fact-checking (or, rather, that his staff is sloppy about it), or whether he figures that getting some snappy sound bites are what he needs to drum up support, and that only policy wonks and Yankee liberals will cry foul about whether those sound bites are reality-challenged.
Neither speaks well for his ability to serve as governor, let along president.
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In August, Rick Perry complained about a new regulation that would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses if they drive their tractors across the road. It’s a common urban…
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Given that after letting so many TX firms offshore their business, laying off highly paid and highly experienced staff by the boatload, and then bragging that he had developed a great job market, is disingenuous at best: the jobs he “created” during his governorship were ALL low paying entry level service/hospitality jobs.
One of these things is not like the other.