Perry amply demonstrated where his loyalties lie......his comments in two debates make it clear that if we, as United States citizens, do not agree with his pandering to foreign governments, we are heartless racists.
Perry has spent most of his political career pandering to ILLEGAL aliens...... handing out govt freebies, enticing hordes of them over the border, looking away as the savage Zetas cartels setup drug operations in Dallas, sucking up to Mexico, etc, etc, etc.
Now, keep in mind, a rank political opportunist like Perry does not lift his little finger unless he gets a payoff.
Heck, I'd guess there's "hundreds of millions" of reasons why Perry would thumb his nose at his own country and its citizens.
Disagree, but he should have said "brainless" if they couldn't understand the reasoning - if one listens to it, along with his assertion that the borders need to be controlled before States can take any really effective actions (unless they want to be sued by the folks that refuse to enforce the law).
If you listen to his reasoning to explain the position, which only had for "nays" out of 181, you might hear a realist making the best of a lousy situation - my estimation of him went up.
It is so easy to have all kinds of heart when you are using other peoples money to have that heart to buy political votes with. My translation of Perry's momentous remark goes something like this: "Yeah, I'm a coward because I don't have to spend one red cent of my own money on these illegal aliens chilren but I sure know how to spend all of yours and your childrens future monies".
"They [the children of illegals] are being educated, right up to and through high school.Where did it come to pass that if you're here illegally, you have a right to a college education, let alone the right to have it subsidized, when all Americans do NOT have their college educations subsidized?
I mean, this is perverse, to be honest with you.
And it is also the position of the Bush family. And I think, if I'm wrong, I stand corrected, it's the position of some of our "inside-the-beltway" publications.
But it is not the position of the American people, who have to pay this bill, endlessly."