In my state of Mississippi, we are about to lose our beloved (not my beloved) governor, Haley Barbour and as with most other states the candidates are lining up to lead the state…..our Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant (R) has announced his candidacy (like there was ever any doubt) and parts of his speech are below…..
Bryant said his campaign will be about “issues and ideas.”
“Let’s create the most job-friendly state in America to grow our economy now and for the future. By keeping taxes low, making sure lawsuit reform stays in place, and providing the right economic environment where businesses can grow and hire more employees, we’ll provide more opportunities for everyone.”
“We have to be innovative to redesign our educational system with a common sense approach to change,” Bryant stated. “By creating a skills-based curriculum in high schools, developing charter schools for failing school districts, and rewarding teachers for excellence, we’ll give our children a better chance for success in the future.”
“We must stop Obamacare and control the growth of health care costs on our state budget,” Bryant continued. “We can make Mississippi a healthier place by working together with health care providers and research institutions to tackle heart disease and diabetes.”
“Most importantly, we must always stand up for our conservative values of faith and family, the right to life, protecting our Second Amendment rights and fighting illegal immigration,” Bryant said.
I heard the speech and re-read it several times…..straight out of a GOP playbook…screw working people and keep the wealthy, wealthy…..same song…different liar……
We in the state have been promised jobs if we keep taxes low….so far we have low paying jobs and lots of bills because there is NO revenue through taxes…..then there is the education thing….which if it were not so sad would be a good joke……this promised has been made decades and the state still has one of the country’s worst education systems….this will not change…..education is of NO concern to the Repubs……health care……another GOP punch line…….they want the industry to work with government to help the people…..that has worked so well that Mississippi is at the bottom of the states on health care….another silly piece of lying……and then there is the family, faith, guns and immigrants…all GOP talking points……on and on….but the reality is that NOTHING will change for the state in the next eight years……we will be industry friendly, low wages, sickly and under-educated….but on the bright side….we will have our guns, hate immigrants and be able to pray on Sundays…all the things that rednecks live for…..I feel so lucky to be in the presence of greatness!
That was about as vague and bland as the GOP can be. But what caught my attention was the “skills based education”. So instead of encouraging our children to go on to bigger and better things after high school, we’ll teach them to lay bricks and weld. The lucky ones will learn to read and count.
As for the rest of that garbage, he left out hating homosexuals. Not only was it straight out of the GOP playbook, it was just tired, that speech is as old as John Mccain. How is it any different than what Gov. Barbour stands for, what makes Bryant think we believe that this time they mean it?? I know they pander to idiots but come on! ITS THE SAME IDEAS AS THE PREVIOUS IDIOT!…and if you have to say it again…THEN IT HAS NOT WORKED!!!
Exactly, as I try to point out…these are the same promises that every Repub makes and so far we have gotten zip out of the liars….but we keep electing one liar after another….go figure….
Yeah, vague indeed – in fact, until the last two paras, I even quite liked it… well, in a vague, electioneering type, noncommital sort of way… 😈
This is the same rhetoric that the voter falls for every four years and so far nothing has changed or gotten better………morons…each and every one…..