My beef with Perry is his stance on immigration. I will work with every fiber of my being to try to stop him in the primaries. We don't need another McCain or Bush pushing amnesty and rewarding illegals with rights and benefits.
I think he should be asked as many times as people think it is necessary. If people don’t understand what he said, they should ask him to explain. It’s certainly a legitimate issue, just one that seems somewhat less important than, say, saving our country from an overreaching federal government that is bankrupting us. But if we want to throw out a possible candidate because of Al Gore, well, I bet that will make Al Gore very happy.
Or maybe not. I thought this board would be thrilled that Michell Bachmann was moving to the top, but it seems a good number of freepers really don’t want her to be the nominee. I haven’t seen a groundswell for Cain, Pawlenty is gone, Gingrich certainly appears to be unacceptable to conservatives. Ron Paul is threatening to actually gain traction in the vacuum, while Romney is skating along on the top of the pile, while conservatives scream “no more RINOs”.
If Palin decides to join the race, then the arguments over whether Perry should be dumped because we have a true conservative in the race will make a lot more sense. But right now, looking at the polls that are coming out, Perry looks to have a decent shot at deflating Romney.
As to whether Perry is some manchurian-candidate RINO, I’ll just say this — Would Sarah Palin REALLY endorse and speak highly of a manchurian-candidate RINO, even for the position of Governor? Is that how little her supporters think of her opinion?
Sarah Palin supported him, called him a true conservative, when she clearly knew that he had been a democrat, that he had worked on the trans-corridor, that he had given children of illegals in-state tuition, that he had spoken kindly of mexico, that he had tried to mandate Gardacil, and all those other things people are pointing to from his past. I am inclined to follow her lead until I know more; he certainly is saying the right things now, and I’ll be darned if I’m going to believe that Palin would have endorsed a bald-faced liar as some people claim, even for a governor’s position.
Other than John McCain, can anybody point to another lying-weasel-RINO that Sarah has endorsed?
On immigration, I believe his states-rights stand will help, and I see no indication he is “pushing amnesty”, or that he will reward them at a federal level.