If his new blitz is anything like the blitz we saw last night, he might want to re-evaluate.
I was not impressed. I don’t think most Republicans want a blitz style campaign that will hurt the party. If he does do a Liberal style blitz campaign acting like he is entitled to win at all costs we are doomed.
I was willing to give him a chance, I now dislike him intensely, and consider him a divisive candidate because of his lie about the lobbying for the HPV virus and his illogical subsidies of illegal aliens.
In regard to being an idealist at all costs I’d consider him a mirror image of Obama.
his illogical subsidies of illegal aliens
I'm against in-state tuition. I've pushed against it here in Calif.
That said, since he's unable, let me lay out the rationale for Perry.
Supreme Court decisions require benefits be given to illegals, including education K-12. The Feds have been willfully derelict on the issue for 20 years and stuck the states with the fall-out.
What does a state do with these new grads? As a defensive policy, Texas decided if they've been 3 year state residents, were Texas grads, and working on legalization so they can legally work, they'll be treated as other Texans on tuition.
Texas policy only requires one year residency for Americans to be eligible for in-state rates.
The governor supports a policy passed with 4 no votes in the legislature in 2001, and zero no votes when updated in 2005. No veto was going to stop this.
In-state tuition, offensive as it is in the abstract, needs to be seen in context of the bills he's signed on tighter employer sanctions, tougher penalties for document fraud, developing the Ranger Recon patrols on the border, pushing for Predator drones (Texas's border got its second one this year), asking the feds for National Guard and more Border Patrol on the border, calling out Bush's Republicans and Obama's Democrats on the federal level on their failure to fix this mess. He's never supported the Federal DREAM Act amnesty, never supported worker visa-linked amnesty.
He supports securing the border with personnel, assets and some fencing but not wasting billions on the fence everywhere just to build a fence. The Rio Grande is 1,100 miles of border. Another Freeper pointed out yesterday, Israel doesn't wall out the Jordan River; they patrol it.
Securing the border should not be simplified down to a checklist item of "the full fence." The issue is too important, our financial situation too perilous.
Despite a wealth of experience on this issue and defensible viewpoint, Perry's been too inarticulate to express himself in these debates.
If he can't explain himself, he's done in this race. He'd lose to Obama because Obama, like Romney, can talk people to death.
His site also has a dearth of information which I find troubling.