Rick Perry — Best Hope for Solid Conservative in 2012

I have good news and bad news for conservatives. But the good news and the bad news are both the same thing: We have six very impressive, lifelong conservative candidates running for the presidency.

They are the smartest candidates, the most principled candidates, the most patriotic candidates, the most persuasive candidates, and the candidates with the best ideas.

The problem lies in the fact that conservatives do not have a single favorite candidate. They have six favorite candidates! And as long as they remain split between each of their six “favorite” candidates, they will eventually help nominate Mitt Romney — the very candidate they least trust on the issues.

There is only one scenario where this can be stopped: Evangelical and tea party conservatives must immediately unite behind Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Rick Perry is the most conservative candidate who is also electable. Perry is our last and best hope to send a solid conservative to the White House.

Let me help you out there chief.

THEY AREN'T CITIZENS. THEY AREN'T LEGAL RESIDENTS.

The reduced tuition is for meant for legal Texas residents.

Not only do we grant citizenship to their anchor babies but now the message for parents is go ahead and bring your previously born children here and we'll treat them just like citizens and give them cut-rate tuition like every legal Texan. If I, not being a Texas resident wanted to go to a Texas college I'd have to pay full price, if a guy who resides 1 mile across the border in Oklahoma wanted to go to a Texas college he'd have to pay full price. But an illegal alien get's a cut rate? You don't have a problem with that?

Illegal immigrant children shouldn't get free grade school let alone in-state tuition rates.

It's not these students fault that their parents chose to smuggle them over the border but that crime cannot be rewarded. We may as well build a giant neon "vacancy" sign right on the border.

Your Governor may not give a damn but many of us do. And you may think it's "no biggie" but I disagree. I'm no single issue voter but it a major issue of critical import.

Texas under Perry was the first state to pass this crap, back in 2001. In my option it's almost as bad as Romneycare and it provides a window into Rick Perry's mind on illegal immigration, he's not serious about stopping it.

>> A good 90% of posters here have never once gone to their own district, much less county or state, GOP meetings. They talk big, but don't contribute a whit toward keeping their state and local GOP conservative. Hence, they learn little about what makes a candidate viable in a knock-down drag-out election against Democrats and their lying media supporters. <<

I go to all three. I'm an region where Democrats completely outnumber us at the local, county, and state levels of government. Right now, the GOP currently controls my local township (despite the Dems outnumbering us by a 60%-40% margin), but the Dems have total control of county government and virtually total control of state government.

I attend my local township GOP meeting monthly, and I was a delegate to both the county and state party conventions (state party convention was a waste of time and I learned these things are rigged in advance and how local delegates "vote" on resolutions doesn't matter because the big-wigs in the Illinois GOP have pre-determined the outcome)

Anyhoo...

I've seen dozens of elections in my time. Perry is exactly the opposite kind of candidate that would be "viable in a knock-down drag-out election against Democrats and their lying media supporters". This guy lucked into getting his current job by default because he was Lt. Governor and he's fortunate enough to run in a one-party state where the Democrat "oppoisition" is a joke and never runs a tough opponent against him. Perry is totally unprepared for what Republicans in states with real Democrat machines and a non-stop lberal outslaught have to face on a daily basis.

If guys like him were the "most electable" nationally, then Bob Dole would have won in a landslide in '96 and John Kerry would have crushed Bush in '04. An drab establishment politician eeking through election-after-election in a state his party ALWAYS wins doesn't make them "electable" in the other 49 states.

Anyhoo...

I've seen dozens of elections in my time. Perry is exactly the opposite kind of candidate that would be "viable in a knock-down drag-out election against Democrats and their lying media supporters". This guy lucked into getting his current job by default because he was Lt. Governor and he's fortunate enough to run in a one-party state where the Democrat "opposition" is a joke and never runs a tough opponent against him. Perry is totally unprepared for what Republicans in states with real Democrat machines and a non-stop liberal onslaught have to face on a daily basis.

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