Posted on 10/10/2011 6:10:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Rick Perry is not Mitt Romney.
Perry believes the policy is right for Texas and that it is a Texas decision. But you want him to walk a fine, politically expedient line like all the other candidates so you'll what? Feel better? Vote for him? Be able to call him a flip-flopper like Romney? What?
He is now running for President. He needs to show that his thinking has moved to that level. I guess you are so busy waving your Perry pom-poms that you cannot grasp the fact such a concept. All of your stupid spinning does nothing to change the fact that Perry shot himself in the foot and that millions of people noticed it.
I was willing to consider him, and still am, although it's a lot harder sell now. You would be better off acknowledging the issue instead of trying to spin it away. If Perry wants to hold onto his views about what is right for Texas versus what we need nationally on this issue, then he needs to stay in Texas.
Excellent ad... Again. Thanks for posting
Wishful thinking. Perry dug himself a deep hole with the heartless comment, and although he seems to have stopped digging, I don't see him climbing out of that hole.
You put it well.
Romney and Perry
are two sides of a ROVE-generated coin.
NO MORE RINOs.
EVER.
NO MORE RINOs.
That said, Rick Perry has a short opportunity
to make himself conservative while he “targets”
the opposition (which should be Romney/Obama).
You guys are amazing... One comment and you’re throwing him under the bus.. And we’ll get Romney
You get what you deserve... Just like Bachmann, Cain will drop soon enough. The only one that can stop him is Perry... And you’re willing to destroy him over one issue. Pathetic
To me, Cain pulling out the race card was far far worse than Perry’s statement
Very true point
I’m not crazy about it. I very much like the ad about Perry putting America back to work.
You badly need some perspective here. Do you really think this election is going to be about finding a candidate who will be mean to illegals? With the array of challenges we face, you think that will, or should, play a significant part in the voters’ choice?
You should also pause to consider that Governor Perry may have been right and you may be wrong on the tuition issue. Federal law requires Texas to care for the children of illegals from the time they are five until they turn 18 (and sometimes a bit beyond). The state has to be concerned with their nutrition, health care and education.
The law requires, in sum, that the children of illegals be treated as Texans until they graduate from high school. And you expect that Texas, having brought these people into their community under federal compulsion and nurtured them, in many cases, for more than a decade, should just cast them out as soon as they have a high school diploma.
Maybe it’s just plain accurate to suggest that this expectation is heartless. If you adopted a five-year-old child would you feel that all your obligations to that child ended when that child reached 18? Common decency doesn’t permit us to shift others in and out of communities as easily as that, which is all the Governor was saying. You may not want to hear it, but it’s true and it’s way past time for conservatives to get over their ridiculous tantrum on the subject.
Rome is burning and we haven’t got time for playing the instate tuition fiddle. A little perspective, please.
Where is your claim of him pulling out from?
NYTimes? DU? yourself?
They ALL have self-inflicted damage.
First of all, that one comment was very revealing about Perry's thought process. First, that he was politically dumb enough to let his mouth run wild at a debate. Second, that he viewed critics of the program in that manner. And third, that he had not prepared himself to debate the subject on a national level.
You get what you deserve... Just like Bachmann, Cain will drop soon enough. The only one that can stop him is Perry... And you’re willing to destroy him over one issue. Pathetic
Perry has done a pretty crappy job taking on Romney. Being the anti-Romney was Perry's role for the taking and he fell flat instead. Yet his supporters seem to think he can assume that role when he has failed utterly at such to this point? We still have a long primary season and may the best candidate win. Your saying Perry is such does not make him such.
To me, Cain pulling out the race card was far far worse than Perry’s statement
I don't think Cain was speaking to gain political advantage, but from his experiences in the segregated South, just as Clarence Thomas made the case against cross-burning on SCOTUS from his perspective when none of the other jurists shared it.
Should Cain have waited for more info before passing judgement? Yes. But I don't see his comment as being cyncially motivated. YOur opinion may differ.
Depends upon the caliber. .22? Or both barrels from a shotgun?
Perry hit his foot dead-on with some heavy-duty artillery. Y'all can attack me for saying such. But the polls back up my assertion, and I doubt the drastic drop-off in Perry's polling numbers is from people reading Perry critics' posts on FR, but is instead from reading or hearing Perry's own words and drawing their own conclusions. You would be better off trying to get Perry to realize the damage he has caused to himself, and then coming up with ways to correct such, instead of ripping into those pointing out what is causing his drop in the polls.
Hey, go ahead and double down on stupid. See where that gets you and Perry.
Heartless is used to describe those who think welfare moms should have to go to work. Heartless is used to describe those who think extending 99 weeks of unemployment is taking it even beyond where it should be.
The advocates of big government have a big heart. With other people's money.
Perry is almost certainly going to be the nominee and the heartless comment won’t even be a speed bump in his way. If he isn’t the nominee, Romney will be and immigration policy will be worse, not better; Your obsession with he tuition rates illegals pay in Texas is not only peculiar but self-destructive.
Instate tuition has nothing to do with unemployment compensation or any of the other trappings of big government. The effort to give Texas tuition rates grand ideological significance is an embarrassing failure. Just give it a rest. You’re raving about trivia and it’s past time to stop.
Tripling down on stupid, I see. At least Perry learned the first rule of holes - stop digging. You are still merrily letting the dirt fly.
Still raving I see. I’m not the one digging a hole, you are. You’ll have to eat every word and you’ll have to do it soon. Enjoy, while you can.
Yeah Yeah. Your “star” is headed back to earth. He looked hysterical on TV. yesterday. Not a good sign.
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