It looks like you just replied to muliple comments from multiple freepers in the same comment.
I didnt say it was OK that candidate Perry is defending the Dream Act even if that is what Texas voters wanted(which appears to be true) , but I did say that I dont give Romney ANY credit for vetoing Dream Act and supporting amnesty when he had no political risk for being firm on immigration as a governor. Your map shows my point with Texas versus MA. Perry was giving his voters what they wanted and now he is defending it and it raises lots of doubts. But I dont trust Amnesty-TARP-stimulus Romney a second.
For me, Romney’s answer on schools and No Child Left behind was an eye-opener.
Romney is a big government guy who puts no value on states rights. Perry values states rights above all. For many that is not enough.
It’s too bad that Perry isn’t able to articulate that and make his argument, that he made is decisions on what was best for Texas, not what was best from the stand point of the federal government.
For instance on the border fence, Perry should just say that a fence is wrong for Texas because Texas cannot afford to be cut off from the Rio Grande, a valuable source of water, by a fence. Perry assumes that people know that. He asked Santorum if he had ever been to the Texas border, but he didn’t ask him if he say the Rio Grande when he looked at the Texas border.