Rick Perry challenges Andrew Cuomo to a debate

Imagine me emailing Cain Velasquez and asking him to come up and fight me. I know I would lose, and I know he is not going to do it, so the entire point would be me asking him to bolster my image with my adoring fans, which there may actually be a one.

Same thing here.

Challenging people to contests knowing they are not going to take you up on it is, in my opinion, pretty petty and 2nd grade-ish, so I am not surprised Rick Perry did that.

Add tot hat the Rick-ster's history in debates, and I think we have a made for TV moment right there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ck-perry-challenges-andrew-cuomo-to-a-debate/

Rick Perry just can’t stop.

The longest-serving governor in Texas history has been touring the nation and appearing in ads trying to lure businesses to the Lone Star State. Now, in a new ad, he sets his sights on New York, but this time he’s also inviting the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo (D), to a debate.

“A debate between the governors of two of the largest states in the country on policy issues such as taxes, government spending, education, regulations and legal reform would be beneficial to our states and our country as a whole,” Perry said in statement Tuesday. He offered a similar invitation during a morning radio interview on Albany’s Talk 1300 AM. Perry is in New York through Thursday meeting with business leaders and touting Texas’s job creation policies.

Perry famously stumbled badly in a debate among Republican presidential candidates in 2011 when he failed to remember the final of the three federak agencies he said he would cut if elected. “If anybody’s looking for the slickest politician or the smoothest debater, I readily admit I’m not that person,” Perry said on “Fox & Friends” after that debate.

In the new ad airing in New York — by Americans for Economic Freedom, a free-market group championing conservative policies — Perry chastises the Empire State for its high taxes and then says: “If you’re tired of New York, there is an option: Texas.”

For more than a year, Perry has made appearances in person and in ads targeting business leaders in other states and parts of the world. He was in California in February and Connecticut and New York in June. Many of the ads and some of the travel have been paid for by TexasOne, a public-private partnership run through the Texas Economic Development Corporation in Austin.

Other places that have been targeted in the campaign, sometimes with Perry surrogates, include Illinois and Missouri, as well as Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. In 2012, the group paid for recruitment trips to Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Montreal, Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Italy. It is funded by a host of businesses and organizations local to Texas and national and international, including Exxon Mobil, Shell, Capital One, Verizon, and AT&T.

New York was the nation’s second-largest state economy from 1997 to 2003, followed by Texas, according to federal economic data. But the two swapped spots in 2004, and Texas has remained the second-largest state economy behind California, with New York in the third spot. On a price-adjusted, per capita basis, however, New York’s economy has routinely ranked several spots above that of Texas. In 2012, New York’s per capita real GDP ranked eighth in the nation, while Texas’s ranked 15th.

 

Taxcutter says:
To a lesser extent current Indiana Governor Mike Pence does this (mostly in Illinois) and Mitch Daniels did it some as well. I wish they were more energetic about it.

Cuomo is more than welcome to debate Mike Pence on taxes, regulation, tort reform, and education any time he thinks he can win. Pence would eat him up. As for Perry forgetting details, our worthless President is notorious for memory lapses. Viz: "57 states."


I'd also take Perry over Cuomo.

 

NY cannot compare to Texas in any realm of reality. Texas is by far a better place to live, own a business, work etc.