Posted on 08/27/2011 12:10:12 PM PDT by el_texicano
He never ONCE rejected their strategy. He supported it!
It was not good law for Texas or even really needed except in the Sanctuary Cities which he tried to get it passed. The great majority of Texas Sheriffs are republicans who already enforce the laws on the books. Do you even have a clue what kind of burden this puts on our counties who have to hold these people for MONTHS waiting on the feds to act? Texas is NOT ARIZONA! A LOT of their Sheriffs are DEMOCRATS that don’t want to enforce federal laws. Texas is FOUR TIMES BIGGER than Arizona, with a border 1200 miles long as opposed to Arizona’s 300 miles. It is insane to try to build a fence across 1200 miles of open wilderness where illegals can crawl right over it in two minutes! Not to mention fighting off lawsuits by the many property owners that don’t want the fence built! Governor Perry has put more armed manpower and money on that border than the feds we pay to protect it. He’s also putting 100 returning vets down ther as game wardens who can go on any property without a warrant, including federal park lands, armed to the gils. He knows the only thing that is going to stop the influx of illegals is armed personnel.
Now if you want to buy the democratic propaganda that Perry is weak on illegal immigration, again I can’t stop you. And I can’t stop the democrats laughing at your arse while you do it.
I see that several people have let you know that they too thought that the Governor Perry said, “audios MoFo.” (Disclaimer: I don’t like public cussing, but have been known to use a not-so-choice word when the energy is needed.)
However, “Adios MoFo,” is a(n) euphemism and just cute. I even ordered some bumperstickers - couldn’t resist them.
No trivia. These “issues” have been thrown at him for years. And for years he keeps getting elected. Sounds like some people either don’t care, or have taken the time to look and see what actually happened. A small minority of deranged Palinistas on FR are not going to change the outcome of the primaries. Perry will win the primary, and he will be our next president. Palin...2020.
Small government federalists do not override parental authority and morality in sexual matters to invite Big Brother funding.
The only bubble is Perry.
When all is said and done, it's just astroturf.
Cheers!
No, he only just recently broke his promise not to run for president, and I have no intention of forgiving him for that. Nor should you rely on the willingness of Texans to overlook such defects as a measure of what the rest of the country will do, especially once Palin announces and the rest of us get a real choice. Peace.
Don’t know too many people outside of the fringe that are going to get in a twist over that. He was drafted as far as I’m concerned.
The truth will come out in the coming months about his record, as he will have every chance to explain. I fully understand that the Feds are a much bigger problem than Rick Perry or any other Republican, save maybe Juan McCain. Bob
Well, good luck with THAT!
Drafted? Very nice spin job. I'm impressed. And you might even get a few folks to believe that. Too bad for them. They'll waste their vote on a man who will tell them whatever they want to hear to get their vote and then do whatever he wants after he gets in.
But your rationalization is exemplary of the bigger problem you raise. It has been, for too long, a fringe idea to expect our political leaders to keep their promises. Character doesn't matter like it used to. You're right about that. The Bible says a good man keeps his word even when it hurts him to do so. I guess not too many people believe that anymore. My dad was that kind of man, and I was always very proud of him for that. To me, anything less than that just isn’t a real man, no matter what state he comes from.
But I'm betting the farm that you are wrong about people caring about this. The driving force that energized the Tea-soaked 2010 victory for conservatives is that we thought we were getting a new batch of citizen politicians who would actually keep their promises to represent our interests faithfully in congress, despite severe temptation to cave to the system. We have been disappointed with some of them, and others have been faithful. Which of these do you think the Tea Party will reward in 2012? People who can break their promises when it suits them, or people who keep their word even when it costs them? I'm betting on the promise-keepers. You can do as you please. Come the primaries we will find out which of us has placed the better bet.
Who’s your candidate, Springfield?
The first stage of grief -- Denial.
Well, that's one in his favor. Too bad he didn't do his homework on Gardasil and just took the word of Merck's lobby that it was safe, worked and had been properly tested before he signed that EO. That one by itself is Titanic.
Was building any fences in that written plan?
Interesting Freudian slip.
Palin.
“Perry appears to be the only candidate out there fully comnmitted to the idea that anthropogenic climate change is BS or am I missing something?”
Palin doesn’t buy that humans are causing global warming, calls it “snake oil science:”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/09/politics/main6189211.shtml
Well, that's one for her. Will steveshoveler give her gigantic props for it? ;-)
Au contraire, the first stage of enlightenment=know what the facts really are.
Wow! 458 posts as of my typing this one!
.....all much ado about nothing as Palin IS going to run and the vast majority of us will be voting for Palin...period!
Perry is an Aggie and both my kids are grads of A & M. And, he is a Texan and only lives a couple miles from me. But, el_texicano is substantially correct and I will only vote for Perry if Palin does not run! ABR!!!! (anybody but Romney!!!)...........
notwithstanding any of the foregoing, let’s not beat up on ole Perry too much, he may be the only horse we can throw our saddle on if Palin does not run...............
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