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Governor Perry is the only candidate running who WILL secure the border.
If you don’t secure the border first, you are not only wasting your time, you are making the problem exponentially worse. To Perry campaign team: Call rewrite.
Thanks for all the posts, CW. The patron saint of hopeless causes has been invoked and seems to be listening.
And he remembers all that, right?
I don’t think Perry really wants the job... I think Anita does.
If only he could debate. Yes, it’s important.
Anybody out there believe Ricccardo on this??
Me neither.
I liked his first debate answer...that a fence was absurd, and that he would “put the aviation assets on the ground”. Now he claims he supports a fence (yeah right), and at least he realizes that aviation assets are more effective in the air. Progress! Too bad he would melt like the Wicked Witch in any debate with Obama. But it was fun while it lasted, PerryBots! He was certainly entertaining. Now back to the Three Stooges on AMC.
He’s doing the right thing here.
Too late Jose. We know you are pandering only. You made your priorities clear in the first debates.
You oppose fence and e-verify and want to sponsor college for illegals. Then you call us racist and heartless not agreeing with you.
Border can be secured, but only with fence, and removing incentives like tuition discounts and easy ability to work.
I take Perry at his word on this, though I believe that 12 months is a long time. It seems like with the aviation assets he talks about, that a major change could be effected in a month or less.
But ok, he’s talking about the time to build a fence, 12 months is reasonable.
And I do take him at his word on this. The anti-Perry fanatics completely misrepresent Perry on this issue, in my opinion. How many of them have ever been governor of a border state? Answer: zero.
The problem is, however, Perry will not be president.
Perry can’t win the Republican nomination.
Perry can’t win the general election (even if by some miracle he became the nominee).
He can’t debate; he can’t win. Period.
After he loses Iowa, NH and SC, I’m going to start posting in FR that it’s time for Perry to drop out.
I already believe it’s time for Santorum and Huntsman to drop out.
If Greta said one more time “you know” during her convoluted question I was gonna scream.
Perry’s correct that the border needs to be shut down before anything else can happen, but that doesn’t preclude one from having a followup plan. His unwillingness to state what that is makes me suspicious.
LLS
Lol, just a regurgitation of the position concocted by Juan McCain after his real position on immigration and the border had sunk his Republican presidential primary hopes.
The last thing we need at this point is another pandering, border state politician in the White House.
PERRY: Texas has joined as an amicus with them in that brief. So I support states' rights. You know, the sad part about it is that we're having to come with immigration policy because of the failure of the federal government to secure our border. That's the real issue here.
And to have a conversation about any of these issues until that border is secure is nothing more than an intellectual discussion. I'm not going to engage in those. I'm going to stay focused on the most important things the president of the United States is going to do, dealing with that border, is to secure it.
I know how to do it. I've been dealing with this for 10 years. And you put the strategic fencing in place and the boots on the ground and the aviation assets in the air, and to the numbers that -- you can shut that border down and secure it.
Is that supposed to be a 'Yes'? Why not just say, 'Yes?' Weasel answer. When asked about what to do with the folks already here his response was that you seal the border first. Again, weasel answer.
So why does Rick Perry want to do away with the National Weather Service? Has he said?
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I don’t see how Perry can overcome his “heartless” thumb in the eye of conservatives and his lousy record of protecting the border (which, I realize the lion’s share of this failure is the federal government’s).
PERRY: You do the border first. If you do not first secure the border, you’re wasting your time. And that is my commitment to the American people. Within 12 months, that border will be shut down, the illegal activities will be stopped, and that border will be secure.....
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I do hope Perry can turn things around because I believe he is the only one who will get this done as fast as possible.
The people who want a full fence...that wouldn’t happen in their candidates first term, it would take until well into a second term to happen, if it did happen at all.
Rick Perry: On the Rebound and Ready to Put America Back to Work (and secure the Mexican border)
If he doesn’t forget!
I kinda liked his performance on the Letterman Top Ten list.
Maybe he and Huckabee can form a comedy duo and go on the road.
This is the worst interview I have ever read on Rick Perry, and you posted it.
Have you ever seen an anti-illegal-immigrant bumper sticker? Of course not, because people are afraid, they know their cars, or family would be vandalized. People know how violent the illegal aliens are.
I have seen the “piss on American stickers” on cars, because Americans are weak and there is no danger. But I will never see an anti-Mexican-bumper sticker.
This interview solidifies my objection to Rick Perry.