[bubbacluck]

My point in presenting this article was that whoever our candidate is, they are going to have flaws. We all do. Does the candidate have fatal flaws or do I just not see eye to eye on certain non-critical issues?

If I remember correctly, Reagan had three big hitters: destroy the Soviet Union, build up the military, and lower taxes. As long as he stood true to those three, he could be forgiven the extraneous stuff.

This country is at a point now where we may have to take some bad with mostly good in our candidate. The times do not dictate being real picky and choosy about a candidate's bonafides.

He should have some demonstrated core values.

[SteveAustin]

I agree that we are picking our candidates apart over all sorts of things that took place in a different time and different context.

Illegal immigration wasn’t a big deal when you were talking about 100,000 coming across the California border 25 years ago, entering into a prosperous California that was begging for labor.

But with the home construction boom from 1995 to 2007 we allowed in millions and millions. Unsupportable numbers. The importance of the issue is far greater today.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Does the candidate have fatal flaws or do I just not see eye to eye on certain non-critical issues?

Is the importation of 10s of millions of leftist voters, and the resulting total leftist control of all 3 branches of government forever, a "non-critical issue?"

I don't care about Perry being an ex-Dem. I do care about what he might do if he were POTUS.