[SoConPubbie]

And yet, just like GWB, all of his actions point to an Open-Borders globalist.

Need proof?

He was a big supporter of GWB's and John McCain's push to provide Amnesty to illegals.

Here are the facts:

He came out against AZ1070.

Perry to stick by law giving tuition breaks to illegal immigrants

Texas gov Rick Perry: no full fence, yes to anchor babies, guest workers

More Video: Rick Perry: Border Fence is "Nonsense"

Gov. Rick Perry's Remarks to the Border Summit

Pants on Fire Award: Gov. Rick Perry says his border security efforts led to 60-percent drop in crime along Texas-Mexico border

Texas gov says U.S. needs migrants, not border wall

Gov. Perry softens his tone regarding the flood of illegal immigrants crossing the border, after re-election.

Border Governors Urge Congress To Pass Immigration Reform Bill

Vicente Fox Thanks Governor Perry (for Funding Illegal alien education)

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Hey, I beat the “Guardasil” for brains dude!

[Nextrush]

Perry’s real position on immigration does not seem to be a tough one.

This year the legislature in Texas killed proposals that could have reached his desk and forced him to put his signature on some sort of action against illegals.

[Renderofveils]

Southern definition of a Yankee: referring to people originating in the northeastern United States, or still more narrowly New England, where application of the term is largely restricted to descendants of the English settlers of the region.

Southern definition of a damn Yankee: A Yankee that stays.

Bush is the latter.

[T-Bird45]

I am not given to clicking thru to NYT articles so I’m going out on a limb here to predict the article says little or nothing about Perry’s decidedly un-conservative actions such as the Trans-Texas Corridor, inaction on runaway illegal immigration, and Gardasil. Perry is not a true conservative choice in this election cycle. Perry is only a conservative if you have an east-of-the-Hudson perspective.

[PLD]

Look where this story comes from The New York Times..Remember these slugs will do anything and try to destroy anyone to keep their Muslim Communist on Air Force One..

[Sacajaweau]

Don't kill off all the Repub possibilities.

It's early.

The Dems love you for it.

[Paperdoll]

What a RINO! Rather than going to battle against the Commie, BHO,this guy prefers to lock horns with GWB? Bush is yesterday’s mashed potatoes! You want more of the same as we’ve been getting the past 2 1/2 years, vote for Rick Perry!

[SharpRightTurn]

“Mr. Perry has broken politically with Mr. Bush, questioning his credentials as a fiscal conservative, accusing him of going on “a big government binge”

To give credit where credit is due, I have to admit that Perry distancing himself from Bush is a good thing.

I still don’t trust Perry on immigration and nanny staterism, but do credit him for realizing Bush was a disaster for conservatives.

[pogo101]

Perry isn’t as conservative as I’d like, esp. on the issues noted (amnesty, big-government-ing like Gardasil), but he seems several notches more so than Bush 43. I’m not ready to put him in the rejects bin just yet. He’d be hard for Obama to beat due to the jobs record.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”But it antagonized Mr. Bush’s old team, many of whom endorsed Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in her unsuccessful primary challenge to Mr. Perry last year. Some are indicating that they will oppose Mr. Perry should he join the presidential race with an anti-Bush message. One close associate of the former president, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid a personal confrontation with the governor, warned Mr. Perry against establishing his own conservative bona fides by criticizing Mr. Bush, saying, “If you’re really trying to be the nominee and want to go the distance, you just don’t want the former president of the United States and his people working against you.” Another, speaking anonymously as well, said, “He’s going to need all the help he can get from all the Republicans he can muster, so he ought to be prudent about that.”

Yep, I wont support anyone that doesnt explain where Republicans went wrong under Bush and it better be specific and credible, not the canned stuff that typically gets thrown around by Republicans.

Bush pushed NCLB and medicare drugs to get re-elected in 2004 (yippee we beat Kerry) and then went crazy after the election each year getting worse as his approval rating got worse and worse, the candidates should start there.

[isthisnickcool]

Rick Perry, RINO. The douche running against a turd sandwich in every one of his re-elections.

It is well known by insiders that knew Bush and Cheney that Bush gave Rick Perry a nickname. The nickname is "The Dumbass".

[PLD]

http://texasgopvote.com/2010-elections/texas-elections/governor-rick-perry-border-security-and-backdoor-amnesty-001842

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/02/rick-perry-texas-mexico-border-is-a-war-zone-as-dangerous-as-iraq/

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45352.html

http://yourdaddy.net/2011/06/11/rick-perry-the-obama-administration-is-interested-in-punishing-texas/

Here you go..There are lots of good things about Perry...After all he is my Governor and I voted for him each and every time he ran..We like him here if we didn’t he would be gone..He is good for Texas and could be great for the country but if you don’t want him then if he does run for president don’t vote for him..He can be our governor and continue to help this state stay #1..

[truthfreedom]

Karl in a Corner
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_scott_ho_080408_karl_in_a_corner.htm
Second, Rove’s opponents would regularly find that they had suddenly become the target
of a criminal investigation, and details concerning the investigation would be
aggressively fanned to the press. Rove mastered this technique in a contest
for the Texas Agriculture Commissioner’s post that he managed for now-Governor Rick Perry.

It Started in Texas: Karl Rove’s Political Prosecutions
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000569
1. Rove was hired to run the campaign of Rick Perry, the current governor,
for the powerful Texas office of Commissioner of Agriculture, then held by
Democrat Jim Hightower. Shortly thereafter, it was clear that a major
FBI investigation had been launched into the workings of the Texas Agriculture
Department (TDA), focusing on Hightower and his senior lieutenants, who had been
pursuing a populist, anti-corporate agriculture and pro-small-farmer agenda.

Jim Hightower talks about his new book, “Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country and it’s Time to Take it Back”
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/08/21_hightower.html
HIGHTOWER: Rick Perry, back then (currently Texas Governor), was his client, so to speak,
and Perry had been recruited. He was sort of a nothing Texas legislator who had been brought
in — again as an affable fellow without any brain muscle. Perry was essentially sent to
wander around out in West Texas during the campaign so he would be out of the way,
while Rove worked this FBI agent and raised money from the chemical industry
and other corporate interests that opposed me. Rove had George Bush go on
television against me. Then Rove ran a series of television ads that
established a new low in negative advertising.

For example, they showed a long-haired guy setting a flag on fire,
and throwing it on the ground. And then my picture came up out of the fire, and said
“Hightower supports flag burning,” which, of course, I don t. But it doesn t matter,
you know. I had to go around answering: “Why do you support flag burning?”
Rove had another ad of me campaigning with Jesse Jackson, who I supported in 1988
in the Presidential campaign. And Rove ran this ad that essentially was a smear
on Jackson and then tying me to him. The ad so angered the Black Caucus in the State Legislature
that they convened their own press conferences in Houston and Dallas to assail it. But again it was too late.
All this was happening in the last three weeks of the election. So, I mean, that s just who the guy is.

[Windflier]

"...members of the Koch family, which helped finance the Tea Party movement..."

Oh really. Funny, my local Tea Party group never saw a dime from the Koch family. Or any other deep pockets organization.

We're just a bunch of neighbors who were sick to death of the perilous slide of our country, and mad enough to get together and make a noise about it.

That group has grown to be huge, but it's still funded just like it always has been - with donations out of the members' pockets, which we leave in a big jar inside the church door.

[TexasRepublic]

I’m no Perry fan, but I’d prefer him over Romney or Obama.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Here we go again Cincinatus’ Wife. lol

You touched off another one.

Have you noticed all the new Perry haters that are responding?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Why does the NY Slimes like Perry so much at this point? That has me very nervous.

Also, they note his aids say he will decide in weeks. What, you mean it is too late for Palin to enter but Perry still has weeks to decide. How come everyone isn’t bashing Perry for taking weeks more to decide and holding everybody up with his “indecision”.

I’m just pointing out the difference the MSM acts toward the various candidates, with their most vitriol reserved for the most Conservatives candidates.

I don’t see any hate of the MSM toward Perry. Do you?

[af_vet_rr]

Ping me when Perry speaks out against his billionaire donors who helped torpedo the sanctuary cities bill a few weeks ago. That’ll be a ping that never happens.