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Rick Perry spoke in San Antonio today.

One of the local stations interviewed people on the street to query their opinions of a Rick Perry Presidency. Out of those, they interviewed, one was white, and pro-Perry. Basically, she said we need a “new President.” The rest of those interviewed were hispanics. Of those hispanics (which is the majority in SA), all supported Perry with the exception of one, who simply stated that he hoped that Commander Perry, if elected would remember that everyone, even Illegals are human beings.

Perry has carried the hispanic vote here, and he would in a national run, too.

Governor Almost Wasn't--After years on ranch, Perry saw climate was right for politics ......................"For six years, starting around his 27th birthday, Mr. Perry lived an isolated life in a speck of a place called Paint Creek, a farming community 55 miles north of Abilene where time was measured in growing seasons. He calls them some of the happiest days of his life, "a really simple time." And he might have done it forever.

"I would load up my horse ... and my dog and go to the Clear Fork in the Brazos River and stay for two weeks," he said. "I just went down there, pitched a tent. In my long hair."

Were these his lost years?

Maybe, but his wife, Anita - who dated him for 16 years before she consented to move back to Haskell County and marry him in 1982 - said she wouldn't dismiss them so quickly as happy-go-lucky days.

"I wouldn't call them the lost years. I'd really call them the discovery years," she said.

She remembered it as a time when Mr. Perry "centered" himself - a time when he was kind and patient with her but anxious about his own life. And she worried for him, too."...