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BobL: I lived a long time in CA also. And I’ve said that Perry has done fine here economically (by doing nothing), but he still hasn’t DONE JACK as a conservative.

Catching up on the debate thread, Bobbie, I must say your posts really stand out! Bless your heart!

What a wonderful recipe of instructions on how the Texas Governor should have, and could have done everything just so!

It is a wonder indeed how the Lone Star State managed at all whilst you were living that "long time" in California.

Indeed, one expects California ought to be completely restored to Reagan's Red State status under your direction out there, and Texas should be dragging bottom what with such a Marxist-Leninist as Rick Perry being governor here for a "long time"!

One thing I missed in the thread, though. Who exactly was the uberconservative alternative to Perry we were supposed to install (other than your fine self, of course)?

If you're upset as I am with the TSA and don't want to fly, then I'd recommend I-10, 20 or 40 West for you to get you back where everyone talks Perry down the way you do.

“Bobbie”

So we start ad-hominem. Sickening, just like my governor.

“What a wonderful recipe of instructions on how the Texas Governor should have, and could have done everything just so!”

Believe it or not, conservatives do have a set of values, at least the ones that aren’t on someone’s payrolll. Among these values are not coddling to illegals, not doping up little girls so they can have wild and crazy sex in their early teen years, and not stealing HUGE amounts of land in some fantasy-scheme called the Trans-Texas Corridor.

“It is a wonder indeed how the Lone Star State managed at all whilst you were living that “long time in California.”

Ohhh, a detective. And just where did I claim to be living in California and Texas at the same time? I was in California from the mid-80s to the mid-90s and got my butt out as quickly as I could when it started sinking. I got to see a Republican governor do nothing regarding Illegals - back when the state was a Republican majority. Now California is lost for good.

“Indeed, one expects California ought to be completely restored to Reagan’s Red State status under your direction out there, and Texas should be dragging bottom what with such a Marxist-Leninist as Rick Perry being governor here for a “long time”!”

Texas is about 20-30 years behind California due to demographics and the political leanings of Whites in Texas (i.e., large majority conservative, unlike California). But demographics are demographics and for every illegal Perry has protected, new, now-legal, voters spawn...just as it happened in California. You will regret this posting within a decade as we follow in California’s footsteps and shift blue (we’re only 55-45 red, at best, now) - thanks to a governor who CODDLED illegals, rather than dealt with the problem. We could have slowed this shift down, and maybe even brought enough Hispanics around to our side, but no - his coddling means that we get outswamped first, just like California. I hate to see my state go that way (again), but when you elect these types of Republicans, that’s what happens.

“One thing I missed in the thread, though. Who exactly was the uberconservative alternative to Perry we were supposed to install (other than your fine self, of course)?”

Valid point - we never had one thanks to the suck-ups in the Republican Party. The fact that the legislature rubber-stamped the Trans-Texas Corridor tells you all you need to know about the spine of Republicans in this state. We will have a conservative finally step-up, in 2014, I’m convinced, now that Texans finally understand just how unconservative he really is. I doubt Perry even runs again.

“If you’re upset as I am with the TSA and don’t want to fly, then I’d recommend I-10, 20 or 40 West for you to get you back where everyone talks Perry down the way you do. “

I just need to go to work here in Texas to find plenty of conservatives that are SICK of Perry. It’s not hard to do, once step out of his campaign office.