Posted on 08/27/2011 12:10:12 PM PDT by el_texicano
Yes, of course, I used my super powers of Alinskyism to bait all these Sarah Palin supporters into posting leftist drivel in their attempts to trash Rick Perry. Infest threads? Really? This is a Rick Perry thread! Or are we only allowed to trash Rick Perry on Rick Perry threads?
As I said, we need another bug-zapper thread.
Yeah, let's zot all the Perry supporters on this place. That would be a great move!
If you’d read the conversation, you would understand that the good news was that the Legislature did not change that law that year.
Well, the bad news for you, is that they did. You can no longer one time opt out.
Very cagey answer actually. She has said other times that their path to citizenship is to go to the back of the line. Bob
You’re not a troll, obviously, but I don’t put stock in senators and reps trying to get on the side of the person who they think will win. My problem with Perry supporters is that I think that they are ignoring his arrogant big government streak, and his coddling of La Raza and illegal aliens in general. Not to mention his snuggling up with some Islamic characters who should not be trusted. To me, Perry is just another typical pol. Bob
I’m still VERY interested in his reasons for his metamorphosis after supporting Carter, Mondale, Gore and Dukakis, all after age 30. It seems opportunistic. And some of his policies are anathema to small government. Bob
Well, you can rest easy. Before Reagan woke up after age 30 in 1964 and became a republican he was a HUGE supporter of FDR and the New Deal!
Al Gore was as conservative a democrat as there ever was until he realized he could make $billions of the ChiExg for carbon trading.
I have yet to see Perry present an anethema to small government even when he WAS a democrat and supported Tort Reform for which the democrats and the Texas Trial Lawyers crucified him. That will make anybody wake up. Can you name one policy Perry has carried out that supports big government?
Gardasil and the super highway. Plus, his acceptance w/o hesitation of multi-billions in stimulus money to balance Tx. irresponsible spending. If I rate Palin a 98 and Obama a 0, and I do, I’d give Perry a 50 or 60, maybe.
His newborn interest in sanctuary cities and national prayer meetings are laudable, but it’s hard to trust his sincerity at this point. I really have a problem with in-state benefits for illegals as well, not to mention his rejection of the WEAK Az. law for being too STRICT! America NEEDS better, IMO, and several candidates are much better in my evaluation. Cordially, Bob
Does anyone know if Perry supports odious big-government ethanol subsidies? This is another HUGE issue for me. I know that Sarah Palin opposes them, but where do the other candidates stand? Thanks, Bob
Gardasil was a kerfuffle over nothing. My daughter opted out in 2003...due to Rick Perry’s legislation. She doesn’t ever have to opt out again and SHE gets to decide whether her kids get the needle or not. End of that story.
The Trans Texas Corridor is being built today because the US Congress ordered it, not Rick Perry. We had some problems with the expansion and it’s been re-routed. Problem solved, by Rick Perry. And it continues to be built because the US Congress ordered it so.
Texas does not irresponsibly spend. However the federally unfunded mandates quadrupled over the last five years and we had a debt problem with FEDERAL SPENDING. When the democrats handed down the stimulus money, Rick Perry saw an opportunity to solve our problems by suing and getting these strings of the shovel-ready jobs removed from it and WON! Then he took the feds money and he paid off the feds debt from their unfunded mandates and we’ve balanced our budget and we’re not funding those mandates again. It was a brilliant move by Perry.
His interest in the Sanctuary Cities wasn’t newborn. He got the legislation put before the legislature, the legislasture couldn’t agree to pass it. He pulled it back up into the special session and the legislature still quibbled. Even though it had many of the same clauses AZ1070 has.
All the Texas Dream Act does is allow in-state tuition PAID by these children who have mostly lived here all their lives and for whom everything that was bought for them was taxed and supported the state. Texas college and university system is full of foreign students who’ve never put a dime into this state like these kids have, including out of state kids. Not only that, in order to qualify for in-state tuition, they have to get in line like everybody else and apply for citizenshhip if they intend to stay, or join our military.
Rick Perry and our AG filed an amicus brief in support of AZ’s 1070 and any other legislation they want to pass to protect their state. That’s not WEAK!
Obviously you have another candidate in mind, Sarah Palin. It’ll be interesting to see whether you present all the democrapic propaganda they produce against her like it is the truth, as you have with Perry. I suspect you’ll be screeching and squawling like a banshee monkey in the trees.
I can certainly support Sarah Palin’s PROVEN record of success without trashing my own governor’s PROVEN RECORD of success. Can you? I doubt it. Closed minds and loose lips sink ships.
You might check back occasionally:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2770050/posts
See number 46
“Refudiated?”
Hardly. Much like Irene, lots of wind, lots of noise, but not the expected damage.
” Perry is not the conservative that some on FR try to make him out to be. He’s a self-serving career politician who’s more beholden to big business and his globalist masters than he would be to the American people. And the more I read the more I am convinced both he and his supporters like it that way. “
YEP
Perry is merely the question....
N O is the answer : )
You may well have a good point on Perry’s acceptance of stimulus money. On the Az issue, I saw Perry with my own eyes REJECT their strategy. That is weak, IMO. Re the in-state tuition for illegals issue, I simply have a big philosophical difference about this. Americans owe illegals nothing, IMO. There are many good folks among the illegals, but there is no question that the coddling of Hispanics illicitly entering has placed an unbearable burden on our education, medical and penal systems. There is no argument on this one. Bob
You haven't been around enough to remember the bug-zapper thread, have you?
Cheers!
His supposed reason for making it mandatory was to make it eligible for massive Federal programs.
This is not the behaviour of a conservative.
Cheers!
Sorry 'bout that.
Spell it out, please -- I'm not making the connection on how that was agreeing with me.
Cheers!
g_w
Cheers! This does not service big government, it just serviced the parents who wanted it. Sorry to burst your little bubble.
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