“No, to attack anyone for using a lawncare co. that uses illegals is asinine. It’s obvious that everyone does it. It’s not a defense nor a attack. It’s been standard practice for so long that it’s a given. It just shows that Perry can’t attack anyone on illegals because it’s his quicksand.
The base fact is that Perry could’ve made life tough on illegals since the 2010 elections, as that is what the electorate wants. He’s made a different choice and now has to live with the inability to attack anyone on a subject the country is very concerned about. He’s done. And good riddance.”
Perry may have a weakness on illegals, but if he was done, the Romney campaign wouldn’t be out with that desperate web ad to try to change the conversation. Funny how the Romney folks seem to be directly most of their energy toward a candidate that I keep hearing around here is “done.”
And you continue to ignore the fact that ROMNEY BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE. It wasn’t as if Perry just attacked him out of the blue. I for one was happy to see Mitt fumble around, then get forced to utter this phrase that confirms everything we in the Tea Party understand to be true about him “We went to the company, and we said, ‘Look, you can’t have any illegals working on our property,I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake, I can’t have illegals.”
Furthermore, Mitt lied about not having ever hired an illegal, and he was caught in 2008 STILL EMPLOYING THE SAME ILLEGALS a year after he promised to get rid of them. It’s not so much the fact that he hired a landscape co. that employed illegals, it’s the fact that he failed to take corrective action when the situation was pointed out to him. This goes to the issue of CREDIBILITY. Mitt has none-and especially not on the issue of illegal immigration. This is what Perry was pointing out. You know, throwing stones and glass houses and all that. I haven’t decided yet between Perry and Cain, but that counter-attack showed me that Perry understands what some other GOP candidates don’t seem to-that Romney is nearly as much as enemy to true conservatism as Obama, and he must be stopped. Heck, I don’t even care if Perry’s campaign has to go down with him, as long as he takes down Romney, Cain or Gingrich will fill the frontrunner role nicely.
BTW-Santorum and Gingrich also deserve a lot of credit for finally taking on Mitt on healthcare. No thanks to Romney stalking horse Michele Bachmann though, who had to stick her nose in and change the subject to rescue her boy Mitt from further damage.
All in all, it was a good debate for conservatism. I hope to see many more like this one.
I agree. I don’t want romney, unless it’s another 4 yrs of dumass. But Perry has come across as a twit. He seems like a face on a organization, the way he debates. Lost a lot of faith in him.