It doesn’t sound like he accepted the decision. Which to be very honest, would be fine with me if he now said; “I thought the people and the legislature were wrong and I still think they were wrong, but I also recognize that I didn’t do a good job of explaining why it was the right thing to do before I did it. I mistakenly thought everyone would see it as I did.”
I’d be defending his position just like I defended him saying abortion is a state issue.
What I have a problem with, in this case is his trying to spin what happened. I don’t like that and don’t trust people who do it.
There was a time when I liked Perry. When Bush got nominated I said that the silver lining in Bush being nominated was Perry would replace him as governor and we would have a conservative governor instead of a fake conservative.
Over the years I’ve changed my mind about Perry based on what he’s done as governor. Most of those reasons I’ve posted on various threads.
However, I try to be fair and defend him if I would defend the act if done by someone I support. But I will not defend acts I disagree with.
I do want to thank you for being civil. More and more we are seeing people in almost every camp who are not civil and that is not good. Hopefully, things will not get as bad as they were before Bush’s regime.