Rick Perry Denies Accuracy of Story on Family Lodge and Racial Slur

Maybe Perry’s dad should have removed the name rather than trying to whitewash it.

Who knew the Republican party could be so entertaining? Really all Perry would have to do is get Chris Christie to share the ticket with him and he’d be teflon. But since Christie wouldn’t consider 2nd place it would be Christie/Perry. Sounds more like a debutante than a political ticket.

i’m a liberal texan, but this story and argument is just ridiculous.

What else is new with Republicans. They have shown their hand in everything they do. Bunch of racist, liars, cheaters, and have only one interest…to serve their masters, the rich and powerful interest in this country. NO, this doesn’t included the working men and women of America, that real America.

This was back in 1983. I am not a conservative yet, I find this story really stupid to give press to. I won’t vote for Perry or for any conservative but this story is pathetic. Everything has to have a racial slur involved int he 2012 election? C’mon. You guys are fishing for controversy. All you will get here is a little nibble. No one gave a crap about the name of the hunting area until now? Can we get stories that are important for our century and maybe some interviews with some candidates who actually have a plan for our country?

“…Bunch of racist, liars, cheaters…” Unsubstantiated name calling. This is all the Left- Wingers have left in a desperate attempt to try to save the 2012 election. It’s a strategy of misdirection, to divert attention from real issues like the economy.

Will somdbody please put Al Sharpton in a space ship and send him to a far away place in another galaxy! I am sick of this buffoon!

Cain will speak up, he must. But what about Bachmann, Romney, Huntsman, Gingrich, Paul and Santorum? Their silence is defeaning!

Well, this is where his history of lying counts. I dont believe him. He’s like Bush in this. Perry claimed a women who had cervical cancer lobbied him to sign a bill to get girls vaccinated. That was a bold face lie. That women he NEVER MET until AFTER he signed the bill AND his close friend and campaign advisor was on the board at Merk, owned stock at Merk, and made out quite handsomely when every girl in Texas now had to have the vaccines that Merk sold. So……Perry lies. blatantly, stupidly, on things that are easily checkable. It’s George Bush again. No credibility. He says the rock was painted immediately. eh. And you said a women met with you and lobbied you for the HPV vaccine and you lied without blinking and eye. Sorry pal, I just dont believe you in anything you say now.

And Texas A&M is supposed to turn out smart graduates????———-his major was…….(snicker snicker) ANIMAL SCIENCE and for that, he had solid D’s.

Rumor Palin will be Perry’s running mate.

Has anyone wondered why they would think it was a good thing to lease such a tainted place. The name alone should have been enough to say I don’t want any part of this place. Unless of course it wasn’t offensive to them. Yes lets paint over the the rock, someone else may be offended. He obviously isn’t fit for the office.

Near the lease, not on it. It wasn’t his rock. Not much you can be expected to do about something that doesn’t belong to you.
I am much more concerned about his plan to send troops to Mexico to fight their drug wars for them. Violence in Mexico is not our problem. The duty of our government is to establish a border and secure it to keep Mexico’s problems in Mexico.
It will be another war we can’t win.
1 – If you stand up for someone, they will sit down 90% of the time. You will be fighting alone and taking the blame for everything. Mexico will leave us holding the bag.
2 – You can’t win a fight if you’re afraid you might hurt someone’s feelings. Our(?) government will send in soldiers to die without letting them do their jobs. Again.
4 – It’s none of our business and not our job to police the planet. Our(?) government is responsible for protecting us, not everyone else at our expense. We need our soldiers on the border, not south of it.

AS USUAL, the dems blow trivial things COMPLETELY OUT OF PROPORTION to confuse people from the real issues. NOTHING NEW HERE. (and I agree about the comment referencing Tom Sawyer. My husband owns a copy….does that make him a racist?) Complete stupidity and an entire waste of our time.

Posted by: marsha marsha | October 2, 2011, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

How about Barack’s lying,flip flops and false promises?? Do you think this issue is more important than Economy, Unemployment, Debt, Deficit, Wars, Immigration. Will resolving this issue put food on someone’s table or provide job to an unemployed?

Who knew the Republican party could be so entertaining? Really all Perry would have to do is get
Chris Christie to share the ticket with him and he’d be teflon. But since Christie wouldn’t consider
2nd place it would be Christie/Perry. Sounds more like a debutante than a political ticket.
POSTED BY: CASSANDRA | OCTOBER 2, 2011, 4:36 PM 4:36 PM****************************
It wouldn’t work, the platform couldn’t hold them both at the same time…literally! LOL!!!

…he didn’t PAINT it there, it was there already and they just didn’t paint over it in a time frame that people like? It’d be one thing if he had written the words, but he didn’t…so this is a ridiculous story.

But it MUST be serious – Al Sharpton is involved! (Roll eyes…..)

Perry needs to drop out of the race. I once thought he might be good but then took a hard look at Perry, Romney and Christie and they are all way to liberal. Herman Cain is the man GOP member for me, all the rest are phony conservatives who will continue the Obama junk and harm the country.

The opposition research on Perry is only beginning. Perry has a big target on his back since this race for the nomination is commonly acknowledged as a race between Romney and candidate X. Perry obviously is not so intelligent. He became the frontrunner for candidate X and simply failed to realize that the other contenders were going to go after him. He looks like a paralyzed deer looking into the headlights of a oncoming car. Overall, I view the field as rather weak since Romney is only candidate with significant experience outside of government and within government. Ron Paul is a career politician like Perry who should have been term limited decades ago. Cain has no government experience as either a governor or as a legislator. Huntsman made a fatal tactical mistake similar to Rudy Guiliani by thinking he could pick and choose what state races to run in. So I view him as unqualified for 2012. And others like Bachmann are just unqualified candidates.

All I know is I’ll never forget the look on my wife’s face when I told her about this story. Her jaw just dropped and she couldn’t believe what I had said. The look on her face made me laugh so hard I cried. It’s incredible to me that a rock could have had that on it all the way up until into the eighties. It must have been the only place in the whole country where that would have been tolerated at all.

I see Cain & Sharpton are both showing their racist side. All the time I hear complaints of racism by those who call themselves Afro-Americans, which right there, sets them apart from being American. Realistically though those who complain the loudest about it are the worst at it. This right here puts both of them in that category!

Al Sharpton needs to pull out of the HUMAN race.

This is Texas people, how else are white people going to feel good about themselves if they are not putting minorites down? Answer me that.

Besides the obvious lameness of the story, I think Americans are just worn out by the long term careless and often irresponsible and increasingly far fetched use of the race card. And the fact that if you either work with young people, or if you shop at a mall, you hear the N word frequently being used by Black teenagers, (often combined with the f word), as they talk to one another.

So, it is the Black community itself that will not let this nasty term disappear from our language. And the media, as they have just another of their interminable Wasilla Library moments in their obsessive desire to damage any political opponent of their beloved leftist political philosophy.

When did ABC ever do this level of background reporting of O? Shouldn’t Perry be praised for removing someone else’s racist slur? Wasn’t the Republican Party formed by hard working Americans for the sole purpose of repealing Democratic legislation that allowed slavery to expand? Wheren’t all of the Southern Govenors who let lose the dogs and water cannons on Black Americans who wanted an education Democrats? Wasn’t it Democrats who filibustered the Civil Rights legislation of the 60′s and Republicans that got it through?

FOUR YEARS ago I got on a train in Alexandria, Virginia going to Roanoke. Finally saw a seat but it had something belonging to the other occupant. I politely asked if the other seat was occupied and the woman looked at me and said, “No, you can sit there. You’re White.” I continue to think about that incident and why I sat without saying anything. I am 71 and grew up in segregated Virginia. Saw the separate waiting rooms and water fountains etc I know the code words White politicians use because they are racists or because they are appealing to racist votes. I knew who Perry was when I saw him threatening Secession. Some of the posts criticize Blacks who are offended by something that happened “30 years ago”, although we still glorify the Civil War. As much as I regret saying it -Racism is alive and well- especially on the internet.

Perry was a racist democrat. LOL

Once again, idiots on the Right are trying to deflect attention away from this story and somehow spin something negative onto Obama. How pathetically typical of them. They refuse to believe that their Party has been the southern racists party of choice since Nixon embraced his ‘Southern Strategy’ in the late 60′s. This is not a secret, folks…………

OK you so called PC people. How is it that you can visit a restaurant that used to not serve blacks? Do you go to public parks that were once “white only”.

I want to know how it is any different to visit any establishment that once practiced discrimination vs. one that one had a racial slur?

I’m not a fan of Rick Perry, whom I detest for other reasons, but this is being blown out of proportion. Many, many people have histories which involve racism, but long ago gave up the practice. It appears that the people who claim the rock in question was not painted until a later date have a great deal of difficulty remembering their own names. Until they remember, this is just another bs story.

Oh please, this is absurd!

Wow, it’s amazing how many folks here have a “Get Over It” attitude concerning racism, discrimination, etc. towards African Americans. Had that been an anti-Semetic remark, everyone one think that that was horrible. Why is it that as Americans, we wish that African Americans would just forget 300 years of genocide in the form of chattel slavery, and decades of oppression, namely Jim Crow, the consequences of both of which are still alive and well in America (look up “Willie Lynch” if you need a reminder), while we are all urged to never forget the Holocaust? The truth is, that we should remember both tragedies and not disrespect any group of people, especially in reference to hurtful remarks and events that our ancestors played a part in. As a side note, it’s a little hypocritical to call out other folks who use the N-word, when some African-Americans embrace it. We shouldn’t take on the vocabulary of those who once used it to oppress us and “keep us in our place”

is this seriouly a story. this is what happens when universities around the country start to lower their entrance standards. we get a bunch of journalists who think a spraypainted rock from 1984 is a relevant news story. i hate rick perry, i hate republicans, i hate racism. but this is NOT a story. if rick perry had spraypainted the rock himself, then yes, it is a story. i have met rick perry. he may be dumb as a brick, but he is a very very nice man.

I am a 68 yr old white man in Lancaster Texas. I am highly respected by all my brothers and sisters, many call me “O.G” or “School”. Almost all the people that I know sometimes use the “N” word and the younger they are, the more frenquently it is used. I don’t used the word, but when I told some young friends not to use it around white folks, Brandon said, “Hell Steve, You ain’t white!! All this rap music uses it as well as other profanities. So, how do you spin this to make it O.K. when most of the black communities nationwide use this word.