Posted on 08/24/2011 12:35:33 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Voter ID is a joke that's about as prevalent in Texas as the hordes of Mexican illegals doing cash and carry labor here.
“Little Bobby” Menendez of New Jersey is deeply sadden and when asked about this, “Granny” Lautenberg said “I don't like brussel sprouts”...
I too was thinking that as well. 'stringent'!? Actually funny.
Discriminatory my azz. It’s discriminatory to legal voters to allow the illegal voting fraud to go on.
This is a first step. More needs to be done.
Don’t stop with just this.
Make it harder for those fake IDs and fake voters that
seem to come from nursing homes, cemeteries, and ACORN.
Ping!
Perry is an effective politician, one who has moved the needle to the right here in Texas and will do the same in D.C.
Rick Perry started as a Democrat in West Texas (essentially THE only party). He served in the Texas legislature - was known as one of the "pit bulls," conservative members who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases.
Perry changed parties in 1989, joining Phil Gramm and other conservative Texas Democrats, who now had a true ideological party with a burgeoning Texas GOP.
When Perry campaigned for Lt. Gov. [1998], he and his campaign staff were in it to win and his hard-nosed style was against the "friendly" advice and request of GWB [in re-election bid for Texas Gov] and Rove to run easy against Sharp, a popular democrat (and Aggie friend of Perry's from their A&M years together). Rove wanted to broaden Bush's base for his upcoming White House run. Perry told them where to stick their advice, because he knew the voters would vote for Bush for Gov. and then cross back over and vote for Sharp (D) for Lt. Gov, if he just walked through the motions like the Bush-Rove team asked him to do.
Perry won the seat for Lt. Gov. -- the first Republican elected to that office since Reconstruction. Now 13 years later and into his 3rd term as Texas governor, the GOP holds a super majority. So Perry has earned his conservative spurs -- fighting both parties!
[The Bushes and Rove supported Kay Bailey Hutchison's primary challenge against Gov. Perry the 2010 election too]
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