Hmmmm...I just wonder how many of the FReeper naysayers blasting Gov. Perry on this thread are hoping (and working) for another Romney run for POTUS?
None, I hope. Heaven forbid.
Not me, no way for Romney!
He was for amnesty too. Just going at it much more behind closed doors than Bam Bam the swinging hip golfer.
Nope; I don't want another Romney run — I didn't vote for him in `12, and I won't in `16.
My issue w/ Perry is that it is fully within his lawful power to act decisively, and force the issue nationally, here and now. The Texas Constitution says the the following in Art 4, Sec 7:
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF MILITARY FORCES; CALLING FORTH MILITIA.Note the underlined. It is fully within his lawful authority to call upon the militia to repel invasions. Period.
He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into actual service of the United States. He shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
This protection is non-optional; the refusal of the Federal government to comply therewith would lead to some very interesting consequences both politically and legally. (Especially in that it would open up many federal officers to charges of treason, plain and simple.)
“...I just wonder how many of the FReeper naysayers blasting Gov. Perry on this thread are hoping (and working) for another Romney run for POTUS? “
I’ll go with none for 100 Alex.
Well, I'm not going to blast him. He's doing what he can with what he has, considering that the dung beetle currently scuttling around the White House has completely abandoned his Constitutional obligations.