Ping!
We have a goodly number of Freepers who think we should kiss the ground and annoint Rick Perry the nominee just because he is not Mitt Romney.
Mitt wasn't even close to locking up the nomination before Perry jumped in.
And I'll say it now: Perry's key negative of open borders is far more damaging to the Republic than Romney's key negative of socialized medicine at the state level.
At worst, socialized medicine at the state level will bankrupt this country one state at a time. Open borders with tens of millions of new socialist loving new faux citizens will wreck the country in one election cycle.