Surely you jest...I listened to Bill White being interviewed on WOAI yesterday and he couldn't string two coherant thoughts together on any subject.
I know...don't call you Shirley... ; )
Shirley is by far not the worst I’ve been called... /g
I had to move from Texas in the early 1990s so I’m admittedly out of touch with the current crop of politicians. My memory of White’s adroitness stems from the time of Hurricane Rita and how he shut down the media trying to get him to slam the armed Texans who were patrolling the streets for looters. He affirmed that the citizens were doing the right thing and actually helping law enforcement. His instincts were very good on that.
My take on how this is a misstep by Perry is that Repubs should know that they can’t out-pander the Dems. White’s position on this issue is expected, but in attempting to similarly pander to the “Hispanics” and liberals Perry will not only fail to win their votes in the upcoming election, he will alienate the rest of the Texas voters who support it.
If he later tries to tack back in the other direction he’ll be open to charges of flip flopping, etc. In other words, he’s unnecessarily boxed himself in on this when he could have simply made a reasonable statement that we needed to observe and evaluate how the Arizona law performed before making a premature judgment.