He didn't say that it's idiotic and just plain wrong to give drivers license to illegal aliens. He said it's premature!!!
Do you folks realize what that means? He's going to sign something in the next year or two. Mark my words.
He never has said it was wrong in any of the multiple veto messages, he's always relied on "background checks" or the Real ID Act, or the like. Had he just said no, in clear terms, we could quit wasting govenment resources and taxpayer dollars on this nonsense. But then, it just doesn't have that melodramatic Hollywood effect.
Before the Recall election, he said:
I'm a conservative because ... and when you look at the drivers' license outrage, I am a conservative because I believe in the rules of the law, not political pandering."