VIVA LA RAZA! Puke.
LOL so now we’re racist if we don’t support St Rick. LOL
Nothing wrong with naming a Hispanic judge. But an inexperienced young Democrat whose role model was David Souter?
Two points. First, with all the Hispanics in Texas, it must be possible to find a good conservative somewhere. Second, as this writer suggests, race should not be the primary consideration. Especially when the politician doing the appointing probably doesn’t really give a damn about it except as a way to make himself more electable.
The same thing is involved as with supporting instate tuition rates for illegal aliens. Namely, Perry wanted to get the Hispanic vote. His first concern was getting himself elected.
Oh bull. It is the gutless coward, losing a political debate, that starts screaming “racists” in a vain attempt to silence their critics.
Headline FAIL.
Very few on our side are actually concerned with race. We just don’t think about it a lot.
Many on our side however, do hold principle to be very important.
There is a right way, and a wrong way to do things. Those who bandy around the “race” card are almost without exception, people who have a self-centered interest in things continuing to be done the wrong way.
In just about everything.
Illegal Aliens are a “race”?
Who knew?
Perry is just another right-wing Leftist (aka RINO) like Bush and the Pubbie Party.
It is not racial to want to control one’s borders. If we invite another hundred million illegals in and register them to vote, America is finished.
Other than Huntsman, Johnson and Ron Paul would be a better choice than Rick Perry. As much as I detest Mitt Romney, I’d probably even vote for him over Perry. Hopefully I won’t have to.
What a disgusting slur.
Conservatives have a problem voting for someone who calls them heartless and racists and favors illegals and says he has high respect for Obama??
who knew??
Anti-Perry conservatives are racists in the eyes of the Establishment, because Slick Rick was their insurance policy. In case RINO Romney fizzled, they needed another globalist phony to draw off votes which might otherwise have gone to a true conservative like Bachmann or Cain. Thanks a lot, Romneybots, for sabotaging the only real conservatives with your second-rate closet Demonrat “compassionate” hack from Texas.
The more info provided the more Gov. Perry looks like “Bush Lite”.It does seem playing up to the Hispanics is more important than sticking to his principles. One wonders if he could hold his own in a debate with the “messiah”.
Perry is a case study in how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
amazing
Steven Wayne Smith:
Primary Election of 1998 (Losing to Hankinson)In 1998, Smith ran for the Republican nomination for Place 4 on the Texas Supreme Court. Smith’s opponent was incumbent Deborah Hankinson, who had been appointed to the Court in 1997 by then-Governor George W. Bush.
In the Republican primary, Smith lost to Hankinson by a tally of 59.41 percent to 40.58 percent.
[edit] Election of 2002 (Winning Election)Smith was elected to the court in 2002 by first defeating Xavier Rodriguez, an appointee of Governor Rick Perry, in the Republican primary. Smith polled 306,730 votes (53.49 percent) to Rodriguez’s 266,648 ballots (46.50 percent). Rodriguez spent $558,000, called himself a “moderate”, and lost; Smith spent $9,500, called himself a “conservative”, and won in an upset.
Smith defeated Democrat Margaret Mirabal in the November general election. He polled 2,331,140 votes (54.09 percent), to Mirabal’s 1,978,081 ballots (45.90 percent).
The 2002 election was for the unexpired portion of a normal six-year term. The term began with the re-election of Greg Abbott to the seat in 1998. Under the Texas Constitution, after he resigned in 2001 to run for Texas Attorney General. an election had to be scheduled for fall 2002 for the remaining two years of Abbott’s original term. Thus, Smith had to run for re-election in 2004.
[edit] Primary Election of 2004 (Losing to Green)In 2004, Smith again tapped David Rogers to manage his campaign for a full six-year term on the Supreme Court. Rogers noted that in the 2002 primary election, while grass-roots Republicans supported Smith, many political insiders did not. Smith’s 2004 supporters included the Texas Eagle Forum, former Governor William P. Clements, Jr., (for whom Smith worked in Clements’ second term), former Congressman and Railroad Commissioner Kent Hance (who opposed Clements in the 1986 Republican gubernatorial primary), conservative/libertarian Congressman Ron Paul, and California activist Ward Connerly, president of the Civil Rights Institute.
Perry and U.S. Senator John Cornyn opposed Smith’s candidacy and he eventually lost the primary to Green. Green was unopposed in the 2004 general election.
A controversial email that Smith sent out responding to Green’s attack that Smith was short on credentials may have backfired and cost Smith some support. While touting his own academic achievements at the University of Texas School of Law, Smith disparaged Green’s academic achievements, namely that Green had graduated from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, a smaller and less well known law school. Senator John Cornyn is a St. Mary’s alumnus. Dean Bill Piatt of St. Mary’s blasted Smith, saying that it was inappropriate for a sitting Supreme Court justice to belittle one of the law schools in the State of Texas. Piatt widely distributed a letter that he had written to Smith to many alumni of St. Mary’s and others in the legal community. Smith wrote a conciliatory response letter to Piatt, but did not publicize that letter.
[edit] Primary Election of 2006 (Losing to Willett)On January 3, 2006, Smith announced that he would enter the March 7 Republican primary for Place 2 on the Texas Supreme Court. He opposed Justice Don R. Willett of Austin, a Baylor and Duke University Law School graduate who was appointed to the bench in fall 2005 by Governor Perry to replace newly confirmed Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Priscilla Owen.
Both Willett and Smith took conservative legal positions with respect to the high court, which hears civil and juvenile appeals cases. Bush announced on January 19, 2006, that he was supporting Willett.
In 2004, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison supported Smith’s reelection, but she endorsed Willett in the 2006 race. Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, himself a former Texas Supreme Court justice, also endorsed Willett. The San Antonio Express-News endorsed Willett, but the Fort Worth Star-Telegram backed Smith.
Smith lost to Willett by 4,979 votes. He sought a recount. Willett’s victory came largely from his strong showings in populous Harris, Tarrant, Dallas, Bexar, Gregg, and Travis counties. Smith ran well in Brazos, Tom Green, Victoria, and Potter counties as well as in numerous less-populated counties.
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BTW do you have the link to the Smith/Phalen Abortion controversy?
How do you explain am outstandingly educated attorney working in private practice and an ATTORNEY FOR Businesses fighting Discimination suits a LIBERAL.
And supporting a so so law that spent his career working as a Legislative toady.
Thing that make people go HUMMMMM.
What’s new about this? Anybody who doesn’t support the left is a “racist”. I hear this in the media every day. they wore the spots off the race card years ago.
Quite a conclusion to the article.
The Daily Caller has an ad for Ron Paul on the same page with this article. That says it all.
BS. American citizens who want to protect their borders and do not like illegal immigration are not racists. They are patriots.
Anyone is welcome here as long as they knock on the front door and commit to being an American that is proud to be an American citizen. Learn the language, learn American history and pay taxes, like all American citizens have to do.
Yes, we do not like illegal invaders. No other country likes illegal invaders, including Mexico.
Should the children of illegal aliens be given preferential treatment over legal American citizens, by being allowed to pay lower tuition?
Yes or no???
(Perry does.)
BONUS QUESTION:
Do you think people who oppose this are “heartless?”
Yes or no?
(Perry does.)
(If you answered “yes” to those questions, look in the mirror. You are part of the reason America is going down the toilet.)