Tom Tancredo: Rick Perry not a true conservative

Politico ^ | 08/11/2011 | Tom Tancredo

[Hawk720]

On Saturday Texas Gov. Rick Perry is expected to announce whether or not he will run for president. Many now believe he will.

Perry is eager to separate himself from his predecessor in the Texas governor’s mansion, George W. Bush — who is unpopular with both tea party Republicans and the American electorate as a whole. But one area where Perry’s positions are virtually identical to Bush is immigration.

When I ran for president in 2008, I tried to pressure the Republican candidates to take a hard line against illegal immigration. For this, Perry called me a racist.

When he first took office as governor in 2001, Perry went to Mexico and bragged about his law that granted “the children of undocumented workers” special in-state tuition at Texas colleges, the first state in the nation to do so.

“The message is simple,” Perry concluded, “educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.” Education is the future, and (echoing Cesar Chavez’s slogan) yes we can.]

Just a few weeks ago, Perry defended his decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. He said “to punish these young Texans for their parents’ actions is not what America has always been about.”

Perry opposed Arizona’s tough anti-illegal immigration law SB 1070. “I have concerns,” he explained, “with portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe it would not be the right direction for Texas.”

He spoke out last year against using E-Verify to prevent illegal immigrants from getting jobs as state employees, who get their paychecks from the taxpayers. He insisted it “would not make a hill of beans’ difference.”

Numbers USA, a group that supports immigration control, gives Perry a “D-“ for his positions supporting amnesty, open borders, and opposing border security.

[rustbucket]

And we need to reduce immigration, legal immigration, to have time to assimilate them. Otherwise we are burning this country to win the next 3 or 4 elections.

I agree and would like to do just that. I favor building the fence and deporting illegal immigrants since they have broken our immigration laws. I voted against Hutchison here in Texas primarily because she effectively blocked construction of the fence.

The reality is that in some states it may already be too late. If the 2012 election is close (God forbid), Hispanics could be the determining factor. As I basically said above, Obama's negatives are so high that maybe the Hispanic vote will not be so critical in 2012.

Ordinarily I'd be happy to send you some of our excess Democrats, but you have enough of your own and besides one of my sons lives in your state. Cheers and keep up the fight.

[Tempest]

The Perry fanatics much like Rick Perry will SAY ANYTHING to get their desired results.