I opposed Gov. Rick Perry in the last election, because I had issues with some of his prior decisions, like Gardasil. However, he primarily lost because he couldn’t handle the debates.
Now I’ve grown to respect Gov. Perry. He’s not perfect, but he’s at least an 80% ally (meaning: conservative friend). He would have made a much better president than Romney or Obama. Of that I’m certain.
I also respect the way he bowed out when it became apparent he couldn’t win. Had the other conservative candidates consolidated behind the most electable conservative, Romney would have lost.
In regards to the special session, good job Gov. Perry. It’s actually a boon to conservatives that this abortion safety law wasn’t passed, because a 20-week restriction and medical safety standards are extremely reasonable requirements for all but the hard left. Let them argue the need to butcher viable children in unsafe clinics. We’ll win big in the court of public opinion on this one.
Between 2006 and 2010 we heard opinions expressed that Governor Perry was bad, then he was good when 2010 came around.
Perry knows how to use rhetoric to win in Texas and when the people realize that its all rhetoric with no backbone they will be looking for something else, maybe a third party.
Does Perry have an opinion on the amnesty bill in Washington right now or does he have to keep pushing the abortion bill as a diversion from that discussion????
20 weeks is five months, of nine total gestation. How can that be negotiable at all.
No life should be taken. Perry is negotiating with evil. Of course evil wants more evil. At least Perry is on the right side of the discussion and is forcing the legislature out into the open.
Obama made abortion pills legal for 15 year old children.
We live in a nation where the vocal populace broadly chooses death for children, horrific. 50+ million aborted lives in 40 years, genocide by any standard: compare to 3 to 4 million live births per year.