Posted on 09/19/2011 2:33:20 PM PDT by CA Conservative
Link only to RCP - cannot link to USA Today. This poll was conducted after the last debate. Last poll by USA Today/Gallup in early August (before Perry announced) showed Romney 24, Perry 17, Bachmann 13. A Gallup-only pull in mid-August, after Perry announced, showed Perry 29, Romney 17 and Bachmann 10. So it looks like Perry has continued to gain support, but Romney is also picking up support since late August, which has narrowed the gap. The RCP average shows the Perry lead down to 8.6%, which is a drop of about 3 points. So it does appear that the debate hurt him some, but it does not appear that Bachmann or Santorum benefited - it looks like Romney did.
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We now have obamacare which is a large version of Romneycare....he didn't have to contend with that in 2008...now Americans understand the disaster he gave to MA. So his goose is pretty much cooked over that issue. IF Perry will drive this home that Mittens will NOT EVER repeal obamacare give states waivers instead...well...you know the rest.
If Palin gets and splits the conservative vote, watch Giuliani step in as well. He’ll work as Perry’s stalking horse against Romney in a quid pro quo.
Keeping illegals off the welfare rolls is directly related to reducing the level of taxpayer money that is being spent right now by border states to fund infrastructure, health care, education and local law enforcement. This is placing a huge burden on the system that amounts to tens of billions of dollars a year.
That is one option to expand on the policy reasoning. Imo, building a fence along the entire length of the Texas Mexico border and not just in metro areas, would be a big plus. And it would pay for itself in no time with savings on those local issues I mentioned.
I just can’t buy into the not going to college = being on welfare argument. There has to be something better. You see the disconnect there? It is not logical and a false either or choice...either welfare or college. It is untrue and insulting to imply that you are a welfare case if you only have a high school education. It is not as if they are unable to read and write. A better answer will serve him better. From this logic we should pay for everybody to go to college and erase welfare rolls from that point forward. Sending people to college is more likely to get them brainwashed into leftist ideologies, causes, movements and their special rights than to get them a real job these days.
Let’s try harder to make a better argument than that for our side. The premise is flawed.
There will be a question at some point like this: “Why do I have to pay out of state tuition if I come from Oklahoma to Texas, eventhough I am an American, but someone from Mexico, who is in America illegally, is considered a resident?”
To keep them off of Welfare rolls doesn’t address this inequal treatment to our American citizens. A better answer might be that anybody who can prove they lived in Texas for the required amount of time will be eligible for in state tuition rates and is considered a resident of Texas for that purpose.
Lies are intentional misstatements. You are suffering from BDS.
Your paralogisms cannot hide the fact that Perry is subverting the security of our country by luring illegal aliens to America with state goodies and Texas,I suppose,is still part of America.
We have plenty of illegal alien rapists, murderers and thieves in our prisons who snuck into America across Perry's open borders.If you are going to entice them in,at least keep them in YOUR state.
Now we may say “period,end of story.”
Maybe the FDA should be held at fault because it’s still on the market. (for males now also)
Our cat died some years back. I blame it all on Rick Perry! /s
Maybe the FDA should be held at fault because it’s still on the market. (for males now also)
Our cat died some years back. I blame it all on Rick Perry! /s
The FDA is a government agency. They make all kinds of mistakes.
Trust them? Not on your life, or my life.
I had heard that as well, but I am less inclined to believe it.
Giuliani had hoped Perry would consider him as vp, but that trial balloon hit the ground fast. It would open the GOP ticket to constant attacks over social issues in autum 2012 - and play into Obama’s hands.
>>>>>.. Perry is subverting the security of our country by luring illegal aliens to America with state goodies and Texas,I suppose,is still part of America.
Pure hyperbole. You're nuts! LOL
We will let America decide—this is the same debate we have every time some politician tries to rationalize amnesty—it didn’t work with McCain and Graham and it won’t work with Perry.
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We always do. And since most of America is NOT crazy like you, I have high hopes that a conservative like Perry will take down Obama. Even with Perry's sucky immigration policy, he beats the crap out of the liberal alternative, Myth Romney.
Your knee-jerk and infantile way of expressing your hurt feelings is just so common.
As a Perry supporter I have to accept some amount of retardation on your part but that mental handicap has a pity limit if you insist on behaving like a churlish adolescent;)
>>>>>As a Perry supporter ...
Not quite. My objective is always to defend the truth and defend conservatives from malcontented nitwits like you.
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