In further proof Governor Gardisil Rick Perry is running for president, the Karl Rove protege is attacking that other Rove protege from Texas. It's a battle of which neocon is more conservative, which I would go out on a limb and address the problem right away, neither Perry or George W. Bush is what I would consider conservative.
Perry is pushing the idea that George W. Bush was a "big government" republican. That's not hard to prove when you see the growth of government and the tyranny that resulted during the Bush years. Bush oversaw the addition of the Department of Homeland Security which of course led to the TSA thugs at the airports. There are plenty more examples, but I would rather make the point that Perry isn't nearly as small government as he wants us to believe.
Perry of course is the self-professed Tea Party governor of Texas who believed it was the government's job to force young women to take the controversial cancer vaccine Gardisil. As well, spending increased to a point under Perry that he had to take $9 billion out of Texas's rainy day stash in order to make the numbers look better. Those two things tell me Perry isn't the small government champion he wants to claim he is as he attacks Bush. This isn't saying Bush was a saint.
Obviously, even with a rise in popularity thanks to a book deal and the failed policies of Barack Obama, George W. Bush is probably a name most candidates will try to separate themselves from in 2012. They question is can many of them do it successfully considering their own big government records?
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