I agree with Dr Sowell. Exerpt. “Governor Perry saw the issue as whether these children should now be allowed to continue their education, and become self-supporting taxpayers, or whether Texas would be better off with a higher risk of those young people becoming dependents or worse. I still see Governor Perry’s decision as an error, but the kind of error that a decent and humane individual would be tempted to make.
I have far more questions about those who would blow this error up into something that it is not. Error-free leaders don’t exist — and we don’t want to end up settling for a warm body.
Ultimately, this is not about Governor Perry. It is about a process that can destroy any potential leader, even when the country needs a new leader with a character that the “gotcha” attackers demonstrate they do not have.”
He had that argument on the tip of his tongue ~ ready to run off like a recording. That indicates it's a memorized answer ~ not a thought out answer.
I'd prefer a President who can think, not just give me canned speeches. It would help if he had some staff around to help.
This raises a question. Supposedly a good number of Newt's staffers came from the Perry campaign. Then they left Newt and went back to Perry. SInce that time Newt's campaign has gotten ON TRACK and Perry's campaign has not only run off the rails it went over the cliff into the ditch and is still down there upside down, spinning wheels ~ making no headway.
So, how about it ~ can we get it together and get those Perbot staffers out of the picture. You can imagine what would happen if they were helping out our real candidate in an election against Zero. You'd have the Republican up there chirping "Me too, me too, me too".
Yep. And then I read where the Fox folks, prior to the debate, were working so hard on the "gotchas"...even to the point of figuring out which camera should be on which candidate's face, to show the worst/best expressions...
This just sucks...
"Hours before last week’s presidential debate in Orlando, Ailes’s anchors sat in a cavernous back room, hunched over laptops, and plotted how to trap the candidates. Chris Wallace said he would aim squarely at Rick Perry’s weakness: “How do you feel about being criticized by some of your rivals as being too soft on illegal immigration? Then I go to Rick Santorum: is Perry too soft?” “That’s going to get some fireworks going,” said managing editor Bill Sammon, grinning.
When showtime arrived, producer Marty Ryan choreographed the action from a crowded trailer outside the convention hall: he called for a two-shot when Wallace invited Mitt Romney to criticize Perry’s immigration stance, so the audience could watch both men’s agitated expressions. But Ryan barked, “Let’s just be on Perry,” as the Texas governor demanded to know whether Santorum had ever been to the Mexican border, capturing the moment."