Most know this about me already but I will tell you I have not yet seen any candidate that is conservative enough for me on border issues. I know it is not likely there will be one...ever...but I am not one that will cut my own throat or my country’s throat by staying home or voting for some obscure candidate that cannot possibly win. I hold my nose and vote against the worst and have for many years. I just wish I could find someone to vote FOR instead of always voting against some liberal idiot. Since we are fairly early in the process I do want to know just how each candidate stands on the border issues. I realize there are many other important issues to consider but I live on the border so it is an important issue to me.
I know you didn’t post to me, but may I say that you will notice for yourself that pro-Perry threads can’t get three replies down before pro-Palin supporters spam you with their stuff bent on well, whatever, and the Paul sports make mischief with the misinformation just as badly as the Palin supporters.
On the Trans-Texas Corridor, if you have ever driven from Austin to Dallas, the traffic is barbaric and life threatening, so, please, a little context would help. It turned out the corridor idea took up far too much land and it died. That game is simply over. The barbaric traffic, therefore, is still barbaric and, yes, the futher lift its construction would have given the Texas economy for years is gone with the corridor. Property rights are big in Texas.
The border issue in Texas is not what it is in Arizona. Yet. Perry has boots on the ground but wants more, with an addition of air support and high tech surveillence. NO FENCE. Ranchers use the Rio Grande for livestock. Texas was Mexico and the first settlers were Texicans, not Texans. Generations of Mexicans live here. Some of them signed up for citizenship and some didn’t, in a nation that for decades didn’t care. That we didn’t care is hardly their fault. After all, who had the big stick? The USA or the “illegals” who settled here. Sending them whole sale in trains back to a country they don’t know leaving their family here is never going to happen in a civilized nation. Do you recall the trains of Germany, the Exodus, the Trail of Tears? Mass deportation will never happen here. A dose of context and reality must be introduced at some point. Perry gets that. Actually, most Americans get that. He is bang on with the immigration solutions. He has lived it.
Yeah not fun but so many times that's all you get...