Just how is Perry different from George W. Bush? I have grown to really dislike the Bush wing of the Republican party. I know they don’t like each other (Perry and Bush), but are they any different on policy? I really hate these elite republicans calling us nativists because we want our immigration laws enforced.
Build machine gun nests and walls in YOUR state.
Read his book “Fed Up” then tell me you think George W Bush could’ve written it.
Or how about the one he wrote before that, defending the values of the Boy Scouts, including their right to exclude gay scouts and scoutmasters.
Could “W” have written that one?
How about his statement about Bernanke?
Don’t make me laugh if you could imagine W ever saying something like that.
After Perry said it, Bush’s people were all over the news slamming him for saying it.
Bush’s nephew George P Bush has endorsed Jon Huntsman. Huntsman is telling the media that Rick Perry is too extreme right.
Don’t ya just love that traitorous-to-the cause idiot, Huntsman?
The other day Jeb Bush had words of high praise for a RINO to end all RINOS, Michael Bloomberg.
You would never hear Rick Perry doing that. He would be personally civil, but he would have no problem stating what is wrong with Bloomberg’s policies and quotes.
It may surprise you, but many people don't see that as a plus.
He signed voter ID, bills cracking down on illegal's employers, toughening penalties for those providing fraudulent documents, banned driver's licenses for illegals and put Texas Rangers on the border using his own discretionary funds. He's criticized the federal government under Bush and Obama over the border.
He's not locked into a particular activist group's checklist on how to do border security. He focused on prudent real world solutions he's seen work in Texas. He may fall short of ideological purity (strategic fencing vs. walling off the world) but he's clearly to the right of Bush, McCain and Obama.
By comparison, Romney is pandering to the checklist folks saying he'll do the full double-fence despite admitting with the same breath, in NH on Aug 27th, the Border Patrol told him it wasn't enough when he visited the Mexican border in San Diego back in 2008. They told him manpower was key. Folks would climb over using makeshift rebar ladders and by the time the border patrol was alert and moving the climbers had already escaped.