Perry straddling fence between GOP base, Hispanic voters [retread troll zotted]

DMN ^ | 10.17.11 | Sommer Ingram

[casablanca]

Gov. Rick Perry is finding himself on unfamiliar battleground in the Republican nominating contest — attacked hard from the right — as the immigration and education policies he has supported to cultivate Hispanic voters put him directly at odds with the GOP’s conservative base.

Perry opposes several immigration measures that Republicans like, including a U.S.-Mexico border fence and an Arizona-style legislation to require that police ask those they stop about immigration status. But the thing that continues to dog him on the campaign trail is the 2001 law he signed that allows illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition to attend college.

Perry has refused to back away from the legislation, going as far as to suggest opponents of the law are heartless in a recent GOP debate. He expressed regret about that, and lately has tried to cast his decision in economic terms, saying he sought to make young illegal immigrants a positive for the Texas economy, rather than a drain on taxpayers.

[casablanca]

Arriba arriba, andele

[April Lexington]

Well, Rick... stratlin’s a great way to rip your pants...

[FlingWingFlyer]

GOP voters are a strange lot. The have values and standards unlike ‘RAT voters who will vote for a serial killer, a serial rapist or child molester as long as they have a “D” after their name.

[TChad]

The fence.

[Clairity]

The MSM is trying to paint Perry to the conservatives as too weak on illegal immigration, while they are painting him to the rest of the electorate as anti-immigrant because he is for securing the border. Quite a feat, but it seems like both sides are falling for the MSM con.

[casablanca]

I’m not falling for any con. I’ve hated the Mexican Windsock since he first stepped into office.

[FlingWingFlyer]

[SoConPubbie]

The MSM is trying to paint Perry to the conservatives as too weak on illegal immigration, while they are painting him to the rest of the electorate as anti-immigrant because he is for securing the border. Quite a feat, but it seems like both sides are falling for the MSM con.

Yeah, where's the objective proof that Rick "Open-Borders" Perry is "Securing the Border"?

Meanwhile,

Open-Borders Rick has the following positions:

1. Against E-Verify to effectively decrease the ability of Illegals to get jobs in the US
2. Against an actual Border Fence/Wall - Another effective means of making it much more difficult to enter the US Illegally.
3. Against AZ1070 - Better known as Interior Enforcement - Another effective tool in the arsenal against Illegal Immigration that makes it much more difficult for Illegals to work/live in the US
4. For Comprehensive Immigration Reform - Better known as Amnesty.

Maybe it's the fact he needs campaign cash, and he has lots of it as his supporters are constantly reminding everyone, and those big corporate campaign donors require a steady source of cheap, tax-payer subsidized labor (A.K.A. Illegal Aliens) for their business models to be successful.

[Meet the New Boss]

With all of his pandering to illegals and contempt for US citizens, Perry still only manages to get 38% of the Hispanic vote.

Perry is translating “apres moi, le deluge” into Spanish.

He and his financial backers can be top dogs in the short-term, but his efforts to make Texas a friendly magnet for illegals and his desire to legalize the illegals only means that he is ensuring permanent socialist control in the future.

It’s the same selfish attitude of the Ruling Class in piling up $15 trillion in debt with little thought of how coming generations will pay that off.

[Clairity]

You must have missed the recent several threads demonstrating Perry’s strong border security record.

Rick Perry takes military-style tack to protect Texas border from Mexican cartels

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793732/posts

Texas Border Security. A Strategic Military Assessement, commissioned by Gov. Rick Perry, Sept 2011

http://www.texasagriculture.gov/vgn/tda/files/1848/46982_Final%20Report-Texas%20Border%20Security.pdf

GOP presidential candidates, lawmakers address narco-terrorism

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793685/posts

Perry’s record of securing the border

http://governor.state.tx.us/initiatives/border/

Border drug war: Is it really out of control? (Perry’s effort to secure the border)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793457/posts

[Clairity]

And one more:

The Truth and Lies About Perry’s Immigration Views

http://technorati.com/politics/article/the-truth-and-lies-about-perrys/

Get back to me after you actually read the articles at the links I posted.

[SoConPubbie]

You must have missed the recent several threads demonstrating Perry’s strong border security record.

You must have missed the fact that "boots-on-the-ground" minus the other effective tools available to Perry(Which he is against) has never been effective at solving the Illegal Immigration issue anywhere on the southern border of the US for any length of measurable time.

However, the fence out of San Diego heading toward the border with AZ has been shown to effectively cut Immigration around 90%.

Words don't matter, results do.

The truth is, that Rick "Open-Borders" Perry does not want to solve this problem, he has an Open-Borders mentality much like GWB and McCain, and a large portion of his campaign cash comes from a group of donors that absolutely don't want this issue resolved.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What is your official title at Perry for El Presidente?

[ejonesie22]

Head chupamedia...

[Tammy8]

If anyone is trying to pull off a con- it is Perry. Perry plays both sides, pandering to open border supporters trying to distance himself from “radicals” like me that want the laws enforced and no special treatment of illegals. At the same time he claims to be tough on border issues. A real tough fence he was straddling, then instead of explaining his actions he chose to insult those of us that are serious about border issues. That is when he fell off the fence and the MSM had nothing to do with it. He did it to himself.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Bye, Bye, extra crispy and mouthy TROLL!

[org.whodat]

No, we all know perry is an algore man and loves that open borders stuff. Do you think, if one got to looking at all the illegals algore got made legal without required FBI back ground checks, that you could, maybe, turn democrat perrys finger prints up in the scam.

[wolfcreek]

I think that was pissant.

[TADSLOS]

Bingo. Rick’s adept at running on both sides of the fence depending on who the audience is and his supporters have to blame the media to cover for him. Rick’ not shy about spending huge amounts of Texas taxpayer money to weave his story either.

[BelleAl]

The only thing you get when you straddle a fence is a sore crotch.