Can’t argue with your assessment. Perry is boxed in by the tuition problem. The majority of R primary voters are opposed to this, but the Texas legislature overwhelmingly voted for it so it was not prudent at the time to veto it as he had to run for governor and needed Hispanic votes. Just as Romney felt he had to support State sponsored health insurance as the governor of the most liberal of liberal states.
Santorum is forceful and knowledgable on many fronts and Newt would be formidable if not for his moral and personal failings.
Romney is the most “presidential” in style and appearance and will likely be the one standing at the end. Romney/Santorum .... I could live with that!
Santorum came across to me as the one farthest from reality. If he thinks we can keep spending Billions every month in Iraq with borrowed money from China with interest to be paid for ever (since budget surpluses can not be seen even with the mightiest of telescopes) then Rick, please disappear back to PA. Protecting oil supplies to China from middle-east where they get majority of their oil by BORROWING money from them is as stupid as it gets. Until our economy is balanced and prospering again, stop the foolish intervention in middle-east wars. These are WARS to NO WHERE.
Perry didn’t have to veto the in-state tuition. All he had to do was not sign it and it would have become law anyway.
He wanted in-state tuition. And unlike his appointement of a Hispanic Supreme Court judge, this decision was well before his re-election.
Simply put, Perry favors illegal immigration !!!
The “tuition” explaination missed the best reasons it passed, Perry should have done better on it, but how do you do it justice in 60 seconds?
In State tuition was granted by the Legislature in a veto proof majority. Perry had no choice.
In State tuition is only granted to students who have attended Texas High School for minimum 3 years and have personally applied for citizenship. During their 3 years in HS, them and their illegal parents, like every other Texas citizen, paid State Sales tax and Local Shool tax, whereas out of state students have not paid a dime toward Texas schools.
Its unlikely any Mexican HS student came here on their own just to go the Texas HS for 3 years and then get a relatively small tuition break (the $10000 Mutt blabbed, exgerating of course, was for University of Texas, which is expensive and which damn few regular Texas students can get into because of grades). Mostly we are talking about smaller colleges and Jr. colleges, not UT or A&M.
I do not like Romney. Can’t quite put my finger on what bothers me about him, not talking about his past actions but more his persona. Something about him just plain bothers me.