Posted on 06/17/2011 5:33:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Looks like he doesn’t put a foot wrong.
Barack Obama swinging by to take a look!
Thanks for the Cliff Notes summary, I appreciate it.
He’s not my candidate and his approach to immigration is noxious to me, but I wouldn’t argue with any of his points as you’ve reported them.
Rick Perry is corrupt. Rick Perry took money from Merck and then tried to mandate that all girls be vaccinated with their product, Gardasil.
I don’t care about his speeches or his supposedly conservative bluster. His actions are what define him. Put simply, he’s corrupt. If you haven’t noticed, corruption has eaten our entire nation. Everything is corrupt from the White House on down to the local community. We tolerate lying and theiving at every level. Cheating is fine, as long as you don’t get caught. Anything you want to do is okay if you have ‘plausible deniability’. Taking payoffs from drug companies is just fine, because that’s ‘the way things work’.
It’s time to stop accepting a corrupt status quo and reject corrupt politicians. It is time to say no to Rick Perry and politicians like him.
His immigration stance is the big killer for me.
I think we've had enough mention of this kind of thing for a while - ;d) Kidding aside - good summary.
Please expand on that for the thread.
Which immigration stance? The one that shows up in his words close to election time or the one that shows up in those pesky actions of his?
If parents didn’t want their daughters vaccinated for cervical cancer they could have opted out.
Do you disapprove of the vaccination of children?
Source: Speech at 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference Feb 11, 2011
Note the absence of actually "securing" the border to prevent illegals from crossing. The Feds put NG troops in Arizona. They did nothing in terms of operational security. And how long would these NG troops have to be there before those 3000 or so agents were made available?
In addition, his idea of illegals being deported is centered on those convicted of crimes. And he's in favor of a program for importing farm workers from Mexico. This surely won't fly well with millions of Americans out of work.
Yes, thanks for Cliffs Notes.
Horse pucky. Don’t change the subject. I disapprove of corruption. Perry took money from Merck and then mandated the use of their product.
The legislature had to override his corrupt power-grab.
Do you approve of corruption?
Do you disapprove of the vaccination of children?
We've got a winner here.
The problem with Cliff’s Notes is that you can read them cover to cover and still fail the test. :)
Last week, before Gov. Rick Perry's announcement that the expansion of Secure Communities would be on the agenda for the Legislature's special session, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced his state will not take part in the program...."
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Reuters: [excerpt] "Perry, in Mexico with a Texan trade mission seeking opportunities in areas like renewable energy, said the federal governments plan to build a wall along much of the border to keep out illegal immigrants was idiocy.
We need those individuals to continue to grow our economy, Perry told a briefing with reporters.
If you show up illegally, without your card or youre here as a criminal element, Im for throwing the book at those folks, but the issue of people who want to legally, thoughtfully and appropriately come to America to work and help us build our economy we should quickly come up with a program and an identification card to do that. [end excerpt] Source
We already have a pathway to citizenship. We also have a visa program for people wanting to come to America on a temporary basis. Why do we have to come up with a program to do that?
Also, if Israel can build a fence, so can we. And if farmers and ranchers want labor, then look to Americans first. In today’s economy, the old saw about doing jobs Americans won’t do doesn’t work.
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