Posted on 11/07/2011 6:12:25 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
Perry picks up a key endorsement.
The Texas legislature passed the bill almost unanimously.
Perry couldn’t Veto it.
LOL
I think this is a calculated political move. Clinton is not stupid.
Cain is gaining and will be tough for Obambi to beat. Perry has Bush comparisons galore to be made, and Clinton is trying to give Barry an easier opponent by helping Perry in the primaries.
He certainly could have vetoed it, might not done any good, but at least he would have shown some backbone on an issue.
Bill Clinton’s endorsement isn’t something any “real conservative”, which you perrywinkles keep saying about this opportunist, should desire. It truly shows where his policies were aligned.
Bill Clinton Loves Perry.
“Would they like the kid to stand on a corner and sell dope or something?”
Yes...somewhere in Mexico City.
98% of his record is solidly conservative.
We do have some unique border issues, that result in gray zones in his record.
A decade long record, of being a good conservative.
Bill’s endorsement does not help Perry in the primary’s.
If it is politically motivated(and it is) it is to hinder Perry.
The elsewhere devoted will never remember, or accept, the facts. An entire body but for four legislators sent this baby to the Governor for signing. What governor, name one, who goes against those numbers in an otherwise conservative body interested in turning lemons into lemonade and likes betting on a return on investment. Half these naysayers come from states that can not compete with Texas’ fiscal soundness in the very worst of times. Go figure why. They don’t think, and they don’t bet. They are shorter sighted than Texas conservatives.
The Visa issue is also to try to get some control over the Feds lack of action on illegals.
Perry wants to get them categorized and tracked.
He specifically said that they should be denied citizenship.
The Border should be the Feds responsibility.
We have been forced to make less than optimum decisions in order to deal with the Feds failures.
You can defend the Texas Dream Act all you want, but there is no defense for the “don’t have a heart” comment. The fall he’s suffered since then is well-deserved, as that comment was very much like something we’d expect from George W; self-righteous, smug, and expressing contempt for those who hold conservative views on immigration.
One gets the feeling that Perry has also fallen into another trap Bush fell into; thinking that he is more popular with Hispanics than he actually is. GOP dominance in Texas is due to one thing, and that one thing is consistently winning an overwhelming majority (70+%) of the white vote. That they don’t lose as bad with Hispanics in Texas as they do in California is nice, but they are still losing the latino vote, and usually by double-digits.
Looking ahead, it won’t be long before winning the white vote won’t guarantee victory, so in a way the liberalism on immigration often expressed by otherwise conservative Texas Republicans is understandable. But the problem of course is that mass immigration (legal and illegal) has been allowed to continue for decades now. And make no mistake, this is immigration of people who are on balance much more naturally aligned with the Democrats than the Republicans. Despite all the pandering from Bush and others, Texas Hispanics still favor the Democrats, and there is no reason to expect this to change.
Texas is destined to become a battleground state. The only thing that will keep it from going California blue is if the white vote remains (and eventually becomes even more so) solidly Republican.
Deny them citizenship? What, does Perry just want a docile servant class that he never needs fear at the ballot box? Is he a racist to not want these brown people to be given the option to become citizens?
All of that is nonsense of course, but it is what would eventually be leveled at Perry, and I’m not so sure he wouldn’t buckle on this.
But I do respect Perry for this position in that it might possibly suggest that he understands more Hispanic citizens equals more net Democratic voters. I wish all the big guns in the GOP could understand this simple truth.
No one here ever defended the heartless comment.
Fair enough.
What is so hard to understand is how Perry could have made such a comment in the first place. Perry has wanted to make it clear from the beginning that he is not George W part 2, then he goes and makes a thoroughly Bush-like comment on an issue where Bush was at his absolute worst. Even if Perry is a leftwinger at heart on immigration like Bush, why didn’t he know to keep that to himself?
It bugs me too.
I’m sorry, but beg to differ that Perry would not form a federal wall on the southern border by noon on inauguration day. There will be NO Republican president who will be seen transporting families back to Mexico. A starve out of families and their children is a very long shot. The next Republican prez will come down hard on prosecutions and deportation for all illegals as they are discovered by arrests and having a record.
The Dream Act is a return on investment paid for not by you, but by the illegal student who pays his own tuition and waiting for documentation, who account for 1% of Texas student enrollment! Turning these kids from the street corner to the campus is common sense, was supported by Texas overwhelmingly in the legislature. What is the big deal?
A hard line against Hispanics is going to throw this voting block into the Marxist corner and also cook the Republicans forever. Anglos are simply no longer in charge. Get the picture? Texas is Exhibit A for an American economy and Texas Hispanics see the difference between Texas and their cousin Pedro stuck in California in crime and on the Marxist dole.
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