Presidential contender Rick Perry is now backing away from his statement made at last week’s GOP Florida debate that those opposed to providing taxpayer funded in-state college tuition breaks to children of illegal aliens “did not have a heart.” It was a defining moment that caused Perry’s polling numbers to plummet. The average cost to Texas taxpayers per college recipient is approximately $100,000.
“I was probably a bit over passionate by using that word and it was inappropriate,” he now says. Perry must have been too preoccupied to note the results of the Rasmussen poll taken last month which showed 81% of Americans oppose such a move in their state.
Watch as Perry’s spokesman embarrassingly spars with the senior advisor of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney‘s campaign. Apparently Perry hasn’t clued him in to his change of heart.
Perry has held fast to his opinion that building a fence along the Mexican border is irresponsible and provides no solution to the invasion. The Texas governor declared it would be expensive, ineffective and violate the property rights of those who owned land on the border. And although he stated in Florida that he supported Arizona’s popular SB 1070, at the time of its passage Perry was actually derisive of the measure.
Governor Perry, did you mean that people were heartless?
“No”
Then you lied?
“No”
Then you meant it?
“No, I promise to drill for oil on Mars”
Rick Perry has awakened to the fact that pandering to illegals will not put him in the Oval Office. He’s competing for the same votes Obama is going after. As we say in Texas, (where I was born and raised) “he’s too slick by half.”
If Perry thinks building a fence provides no solution to stemming the invasion, he ought to visit Israel, where their fence is providing much needed security.
Clementine has nailed Perry by stating that Perry and Obama are competing for the same voter base.
This man lost me with his arrogant smirk and posturing throughout the last debate. Rick Perry is more attuned to insulting the other Republican candidates than offering his own solutions to the myriad problems faced by Americans and the overriding need to get rid of Obama before he destroys us entirely. His dismissively smug attitude was a total turnoff to me.
I’ll be happy to see Perry disappear from the list of candidates.
I’ll be sad to see the RINO Chris Christie jump into the race.
This guy is anti-gun, believes in man-made global warming and is soft on illegal immigration.
What’s more, he kept on previous governor Jon Corzine’s ultra-liberal cabinet and attorney general.
From Hot Air: “Perry: It’s the federal government’s fault I had to implement in-state tuition”
Every day he sounds more and more like the Excuse-in-Chief.
TEXAS TOAST !
Like our senior ?senator? Mr. McCain…the man was a dim-0-crat BEFORE he flip-flopped to the republican party.
…’nuff sed…
Too little, too late for Slick Perry LOL
You all have broken the code—Perry is a liberal who changed his party name (D to R) so he could get elected. Let’s look at his record, and let his re-write of history go down in flames.
He’s pro-open borders and pro-amnesty. He opposed 1070, and said he would veto any similar bill in Texas. He won’t support the border wall complex—says it would hurt the land owners on the border (BUT SEE BELOW). He has begun the amnesty march in Texas against the wishes of the people of TX.
He’s NOT for the people (except illegals), not small government, not states’ rights. He is willing to steal private property from Texas landowners to build the North American Union Super Highway, but not a border fence. He is a big, all-powerful government globalist.
He is a socialized healthcare liberal. He imposed mandatory state-paid vaccinations on all little girls in Texas by EXECUTIVE ORDER (sound familiar?). That would have cost the tax payers of TX billions, all profit for Perry’s supporters, and would have caused untold harm to little girls. Don’t forget, mandatory HPV vaccinations is a Planned Parenthood scheme to get little girls into the sexual arena.
He welcomes Sharia law in TX. He accepted millions in grants from the Obama Dept. of Education so he could impose MANDATORY (no opt out) muslim classes in the public schools of TX. This, like mandatory vaccinations, was shot down when the parents of TX rose up in rebellion. He is still a HUGE favorite of the muslims of TX.
There is more in the Perry archives, but for the sake of brevity I’ll just urge all to look at what he’s done, not at what he says now.
God bless America.