Thank you so much. Let’s see, Michelle Malkin, OPINION writer. I live in Texas and am very familiar with his position on illegals. I have met him twice over the years and find him to be sincere and very conservative. We’re not hurting here, so who am I going to believe, you or my own eyes? He is not soft on illegals, like Jan Brewer he asks and asks for federal help and what he gets is woefully inadequate. We don’t like the fact that they are here, but we’re stuck with them and the Federal government forces us to pay to educate them through high school. We can gladly can send them to you and see if you can do better.
The TTC never happened. Still waiting for names and dates regarding “globalist RINO masters” and specifics of what they told him to do and what he did. I find it interesting you fault him for earning money at an age when most of us hit our peak earning years. What exactly is wrong with earning money? I’m not carrying his water, but it is getting old seeing people fling vague accusations at Perry, Cain, Bachmann, Palin, etc. just because that isn’t their favorite candidate.
The Texas Enterprise Fund’s ventures stink to high heaven. If you can find no evidence of crony capitalism being enabled through this device, so be it. Several companies are involved, as well as his supporters. His support for block grants to states is an enabler of such shenannigans of political graft and payback.
The fact the TTC failed is in SPITE of his efforts. Who else was backing this thing? If you refuse to call the TTC and his mushy immigration policies globalism, that’s fine. I guess all that’s left is playing politics or stupidity.
Exactly how do you explain his increase in net worth over his term as governor? It was not from his salary in office! I certainly have no problem with people getting rich as long as it is through private and personal effort, not through insider information and crony capitalism with public funds. I guess you approve of Harry Reid’s land deals as well.
Then, there is the Merck/Guardasil fiasco, which again was initiated wholly through his efforts, and stopped by other people.
He knows how it’s done. Everything about him reminds me of how Albert Gore Sr. operated. His favorite way of taking a bribe was at the cattle auction of his Prize Herefords, which fetched multiples of normal prices, yet were no better stock than his neighbors. No hard evidence but the smell.
Then, there’s the whining. “You’re just picking on me because of my faith”, and even getting his wife in on the act.
Cain isn’t perfect either. The fact a national sales tax is politically unpopular doesn’t negate the need for having one. Whores, smugglers and mafiosi should get some skin in the game by some means. Folk whining about how big total sales taxes would be with their State’s taxes should take that up at their own State level. Yes, he served on the Federal Reserve for a while, and has mis-spoke about a few things (doesn’t speak politician), but he has been targeted with more “GOTCHA” questions than the rest of the field put together, and has yet to whine about a single thing. He also made his money while NOT SERVING IN POLITICAL OFFICE!
I’m sorry that most of my reasons for not supporting Perry are negative reasons and suspicions. Negatives and suspicions are also why I don’t support Romney, Gingrich, Bachman, Huntsman, Santorum, and Paul. (Well, with some of them, there are repeated moral failures, bad policy records, flip flops, and ignorance of history, all negatives.)
Vote for Perry. Hell, I don’t care. I hope after the primaries you’ll vote for Cain for President.