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I don’t either (understand the anti-Perry folks).

It’s really rather strange. I do understand that most have them have given their hearts to Cain, which is fine, but why are they so anti-Perry.

On the one hand, Cain folks claim Perry doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in the hot place. On the other hand, they never miss an opportunity to trash him and hop on every Perry thread to do so.

They have about 4 or 5 standard things they pull out.

The most prevalent is blaming Perry for the influx of illegals into Texas. (They don’t seem to blame Brewer for Arizona’s illegals). They don’t believe he’s tough enough on illegals.

That’s a pretty weak argument. He’s fought hard to get border control, even delivered a personal letter to Obama asking for federal help.

I think their favorite issue is the fact that Texas lets children of illegals pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges. This has been explained a million times. It was a unanimous vote by the legislature and is a practical solution (he shouldn’t have used the ‘heart’ line). The colleges benefit from the tuition and society may benefit from having higher level workers who don’t need benefits.

They love to paint pictures of little girls being held down while Perry forcibly injects them with Gardisal. They claim that he mandated this because he got money from Merck. He got an extremely small donation from Merck and he advanced this proposal because he believed in it and because it was the only way it would be paid for. There was an opt out but he now says it should have been an opt in.

They drag up his past as a democrat, ignoring the fact that Texas politics was all democrat back then. At least he learned.

They never have anything new against Perry but just post the same old canards over and over again.

What is their problem? I don’t get it. They seem incapable of advancing their candidate on his own merits.

I understand preferring another candidate than Perry but why this vitriol? Why this obsessive hatred? Perry is a good man and we may need a good man if Cain falters, as he well may do.

Who will it be then? Neither Santorum nor Bachmann seem to be serious contenders at this point, so it’s looking like Cain, Perry or Romney.

I wish they hated Romney or Obama with the same passion they expend on hating Perry.