Why bushes hate rick perry

Perry made one final call to prayer, "for our nation, our leaders, and our president, that God will pour out His wisdom for them. The bottom line: Perry came exactly as advertised. His overt religiosity is unlikely to hurt him -- indeed, could help him -- in the Republican primary.

He'll present a vivid contrast to the current frontrunner, Mitt Romney. But beyond that, it's anyone's guess. I thought the day's shrewdest political insight came from Dr.

Richard Land, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and a sixth-generation Texan, who I bumped into in the hallway after Perry spoke. I think about him on stage with the other candidates and he'll stand out.

He's not a wallflower. Thigpen had served as district attorney in rural West Texas on and off since , but was fired in for apparently being chronically unavailable when counsel was needed.

This passing-over of Thigpen is "the still-beating heart of the rift" between Perry and Bush, says Will Weissert for the Associated Press.

Bush and Karl Rove, with an eye toward the upcoming presidential election, are courting Sharp's voters to pad Bush's re-election margin and show broad popularity in the state. Rove threatens to withhold the endorsement of George H. Bush from Perry unless he ditches the ad; Perry complies, and barely squeaks out a win. This is "when things got a little prickly" between the two sides.

December Perry takes over as governor when Bush resigns to become president. Perry does "nothing to improve relations by hastening the Bush family's exit from their living quarters," says Mark Barabak in the Los Angeles Times.

A generation later, George W. Bush brought cowboy wear back to D. Can it survive him? Texas Gov. Rick Perry's political future may hinge on the answer. On a visceral level, are typical voters going to respond favorably to his Texas cowboy image? Or is it now sullied by its association with profligate spending, poor rhetorical skills, and a cocksure entry into an imprudent war?

And if Perry runs, how is he going to talk about the last Lone Star State president? Kevin D. Williamson, resident fiscal hawk at National Review , hinted at possible answers in a recent profile.

One longtime observer of Lone Star politics described the Bushes' disdain of Perry as "visceral," and it is not too terribly hard to see why. Whether the two men personally like each other is totally unknown politicians don't like other humans anyway; that is why they go into politics , but Perry is "signaling" that he is very different from Bush because Bush was a terrible president who left office hated by everyone and Rick Perry would maybe like to be the next president or he is at least surrounded by people who think he could be the next president.

Perry is distancing himself from Bush mostly by hating immigrants and healthcare for poor people and by basically announcing that he is against the small number of things Bush did to convince people that the Republican Party had grown a heart.

The conflict is really about class just like most other conflicts , because Bush is a Connecticut Yankee from a rich and powerful family and Rick Perry was just some guy until Karl Rove made him a Republican and Bush made him Lt. Perry and began imitating him, I think. As the Times noted:.