Perry has some strong points in the illegal immigration category too. One of them is to require photo ID at the polls.
I lived on the Texas-Mexico border, in Del Rio, for nine years. I saw crooked elections. Perry’s Photo ID law makes it more certain that actual citizens of Texas and the USA vote and that illegal aliens do not vote. That is, if the law stands up in court (as liberal special interests are lining up to challenge it as a civil rights voting law violation... And I believe Eric Holder has to sign off on it, too.)
None of the other candidates for the GOP nomination have a record as long as Perry’s. In fact, I would venture to say that all of the public sector executive experience of all the other candidates combined plus Palin’s is less than Perry’s. It’s hard to have a 10 year record as a governor and not have some blemishes from compromise, or experimentation to solve real problems.
The bottom line is no one is perfect, but with Perry at least you know where he has been tested, and where he has learned, and where he isn’t perfect.
On the in-state tuition issue, Perry has declared many times that it is a state solution that falls under the 10th Amendment. He will not be ordering states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens as president.