Perry gets a bad wrap over the in-state tuition, I get it, its a bad law. My biggest problem with it is that it is actually useless. Unless they can get citizenship their degree will be worthless anyway. Perry is against amnesty so it was pointless to begin with and calling people heartless was beyond stupid. But it actually wasn't his doing. He had only been governor for a few months and the reason why the legislative branch passed it was because they had inside knowledge that the newly elected President in 2001 was going to pass amnesty, they just wanted to get a jump on it and try to turn them into tax payers instead of legal welfare recipients. Had it not been for 9/11 Bush would have passed it. Perry's big problem now is that most of his donors are in Texas where Bush is still very much loved and admired. If he goes out and tells the truth about the in-state tuition bill his support will dry up and every Conservative in the country will accuse him of parroting Obama by blaming Bush.
Perry is fighting the border war regardless of what anyone else says, he has the record. He and Jan Brewer are the only two people in this country that are, hell no one from the Federal Government has given a damn about our border since Patton was here trying to kill Pancho Villa. Perry has ordered Greg Abbott to do everything in his power including joining in the lawsuits the Obama filed against Arizona because we had the money to fight the Government while Arizona did not.
But if you just don't like Perry, I can understand that. But check out Rick Santorum. I met him a couple of weeks ago at a non-political event at the Mansfield-Arlington Pregnancy Center. I truthfully intended to chew him out over his attack on my state but he held his own and showed me he got it too.
Most people love Bush in TX. My gosh how dumb can Americans be.