I understand people wanting to see their governor become president, but I cannot understand why those calling themselves conservative would want a pro-ILLEGAL alien liberal like Perry as president. And I guess I never will.
Hero worship.
People so badly want someone, anyone, to believe in that they pick the first guy that makes a noise they like.
I understand it to a degree. I want to believe in someone too. But I’ll be damned if I am going to ignore the rest of their issues.
Take Palin. I’m a Palinista. Fought many of the PDS wars. But when she came out for McCain a while back, I slammed her. I’ve done it a few times now. I refuse to drink Kool Aid. she is human and not perfect. When she was iffy on the path to citizenship thing, I opposed her actual position at the time rather than bandwaggoned the memes being pushed.
And if she ever said “YAY Amnesty” I would fight her every bit as much as I do Perry or the Romnoids.
I want to ‘believe’ in people too. But not in a fantasy. I don’t know when conservatism became another branch of situational ethics for a lot of people but it was not the way to go.