Apart from Goldwater in ‘64 and Reagan in ‘80, I have held my nose in order to vote the Republican. Can someone allay my reservations about this man? I think specifically about the Texas corridor, Guardasil, his stance on illegal aliens, and other lesser issues. So many RINOs campaign to the right and once elected, govern from the center or center left. We had in NYS just such a candidate in George Pataki. I continually feel like Linus with Lucy holding the football ... year after year. Is he worth supporting? Or will he pull the football? sd
I live in Texas.
He balanced our previous budget using federal stimulus money.
K-12 “education” is 45% of the state budget (this doesn’t include all the property taxes paid statewide). The Army National Guard, Air National Guard and Texas State Guard combined are about .9% of the current budget. Half the state is deploying to Afghanistan with limited funds for training, while the ISDs are getting bigger, better trained uniformed police forces to arrest kids for bringing the wrong kind of pencil sharpeners to class.
He’s a really really really big government conservative (note your Guardasil and Texas corridor issue).
Many of the folks here on FR who love him are either not from Texas and just don’t know better or are big government Republicans.
I’ve never understood the bro-ha-ha about Guardasil.
It’s a good vaccine, despite what the luddites say.
He was delegated the power to require vaccines by the legislature.
The repeat objection was “my kid is sinless and will never need it.” Yeah, mine, too — I hope.