Flashback

Past Headlines About

Rick Perry

September 2011

UPDATED: January 19, 2012

The 2012 Presidential Campaign is well underway. As it is with most campaigns, many voters know very little about the candidates except what they hear from the candidates and/or their ardent supporters and propaganda machines. However, a candidate's history is usually very revealing, and will help a voter in deciding if the candidate truly stands for what the voter believes in.

• Former Reagan Official: 'Rick Perry's An Idiot'


• Rick Perry's stupidity causes diplomatic incident


• South Carolina Woman Welcomes Rick Perry: ‘Good To See Someone As Homophobic And Racist As You’


• Perry: ‘I Would Send Troops Back Into Iraq’


• Perry Selects Sheriff Joe Arpaio As AZ Campaign Chair


• Among GOP Candidates, Not a Single Friend of Social Security


• Even with a natural gas fire coming out of a kitchen faucet, Rick Perry says "There Is No Proof That Fracking Causes Groundwater Pollution, Americans Have Been ‘Hoodwinked’"


• Ricky Perry retires. But it's all about padding his income, not relieving Texans from his misrule


• Rick Perry’s ‘Early Retirement’ Allows Him To Boost His Income By 60 Percent


• Perry Ad Warns About Politicians 'Bankrupting Social Security,' The Program He Called An Unconstitutional Ponzi Scheme


• Nothing New From Newt: His 1998 Tax Plan Also Gave Most Of Its Benefits To The Wealthy


• After Gutting Women's Health Care, Perry Accuses Obama Of 'Sacrificing The Health Of Millions Of Texas Women'


• Rick Perry: I'm not a babbling idiot, I'm just 'fatigued'
- So we can expect him to be a babbling idiot for four years if he's elected President?

• Iowans Confront Perry At Campaign Event: 'Why Do You Hate Gay People,' 'Go Back To Texas'


• Perry Wants Constitutional Amendment for Prayer in Schools


• Rick Perry Explains Why Texans Don't Need Health Insurance - Since everyone has access to health care, it's not neccessary for all to have health insurance coverage.


• Perry Admits His Tax Plan Slams Low-Income People And Lets The Wealthy Pay Nothing


• Perry Says He 'Absolutely' Opposes Extending The Payroll Tax Cut And Unemployment Benefits


• Gingrich, Romney, And Perry Agree: Republican Presidents Don't Actually Have To Follow The Law


• Rick Perry Fails Govt 101: Claims Executive Orders Can Repeal Laws Passed By Congress


• Perry to Federal Workers: 'Share My Vision' or Get Punished


• As His Poll Numbers Tank, Perry Adopts Populist Rhetoric: Calls For Jailing Bankers


• Oops: Rick Perry Calls New Hampshire Primary 'Caucuses' On Fox and Friends


• "Access" is completely different than "affordability" - Rick Perry's Memo To The 50 Million Uninsured: 'Everyone In America Has Access To Health Care'


• Rick Perry Takes Time Off Campaign To Celebrate Expansion Of Federally-Funded Health Center


• A shinning example of lawmaker's attitude of "For Thee, But Not For Me" - Perry's congressional supporters wary of proposal to cut lawmaker pay


• Perry Quietly Signed Health Mandate That Didn't Help Patients, Drove Up Costs, And Rewarded Donors


• Texas Accepted $57 Million From The Affordable Care Act It Opposes, Sees As Unconstitutional


• Actually, Rick Perry Loves Picking Winners and Losers


• Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas - The Texas governor has one driving passion: selling off government to the highest bidder


• Rick Perry steals joke from President Obama that he once condemned


• Rick Perry relays fake 'Occupy' quote to his audience


• Perry's Tax Plan Would Cost More Than $500 Billion A Year While Increasing Taxes On Most Of The Middle-Class


• Perry: Ending The Iraq War Is 'Irresponsible,' 'Putting Our Kids' Lives In Jeopardy'


• Rick Perry's campaign: tax cuts will pay for themselves


• ANALYSIS: Warren Buffett Would Pay As Little As 0.2 Percent Tax Rate Under Rick Perry's Tax Plan


• Perry campaign laundering money through big donors' children?


• Man Who Helped Bush Steal 2000 Election and Wreck FEMA Now Advises Perry


• Rick Perry's preferential option for the rich


• ANALYSIS: Three Things You Need To Know About Rick Perry's Tax Plan


• Perry On Whether His Tax Plan Gives Millions In Tax Breaks To The Rich: 'I Don't Care About That'


• Perry Ditches Idea That Social Security Is Unconstitutional, Adopts Privatization Plan The Public Already Rejected


• Perry Bailed Out His Own Failed Agriculture Jobs Fund


• Perry Adviser Steve Forbes Crafted Flat Tax Plan That Would Have Given Himself A $1.9 Billion Tax Cut


• Perry And Paul Sought Energy Subsidies They Claim 'We Don't Need'


• Perry Repeatedly Cut Child Abuse Prevention Funding As Texas Battled Rising Levels Of Abuse


• Who's Fueling Rick Perry's Presidential Campaign?


• Rick Perry Declares 'I Hate Cancer' While Gutting Cancer Screening Funding For Nearly 180,000 Women


• John King On Anita Perry's Claim That Her Son Lost His Job Because Of Obama 'Not Even Close'


• Corporations That Received Money From Perry's Jobs Fund Gave Him $7 Million In Donations


• Top 10 Giveaways To Big Oil In Rick Perry's 'Jobs' Plans


• Flood-Gate: Perry Officials Try to Hide Sea Level Rise from Texans with "Clear-Cut Unadulterated Censorship"


• Perry-Appointed Agency Censors Global Warming


• WATCH: Perry Endorser Calls Judaism, Catholicism Path to Hell


• Will Perry Return Koch Campaign Cash? - The presidential hopeful ripped companies doing business with Iran. But he took major campaign cash from one such corporation: Koch Industries.


• Rick Perry Is the Country's Top Polluter - of Toxic Mercury and Mercury-Raising Carbon Dioxide