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To: Bigtigermike
Despicable! It was bad enough when Perry unleashed his La Raza punchline - "just because their last names sound different" crap - TWICE - in the last debate. This was just disgraceful. Looks like Perry will NEVER get it on immigration.

PerryBots...tell me how I'm wrong.

6 posted on 09/22/2011 8:11:10 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

You are not wrong. He does not have conservative instincts, it is all stagecraft.


31 posted on 09/22/2011 8:20:36 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: montag813; All

“It was bad enough when Perry unleashed his La Raza punchline - “just because their last names sound different” crap - TWICE - in the last debate.”

For those, who missed it:

Full Transcript of CNN-Tea Party Republican Debate, 20:00- 22:00
Aired September 12, 2011

BLITZER: Governor Perry, I’m going to move on to Governor Huntsman in a second, but you did sign legislation giving some illegal immigrants in Texas the opportunity to have in-state tuition at universities in Texas, explain what that...

PERRY: In the state of Texas, if you’ve been in the state of Texas for three years, if you’re working towards your college degree, and if you are working and pursuing citizenship in the state of Texas, you pay in-state tuition there.

And the bottom line is it doesn’t make any difference what the sound of your last name is. That is the American way. No matter how you got into that state, from the standpoint of your parents brought you there or what have you. And that’s what we’ve done in the state of Texas. And I’m proud that we are having those individuals be contributing members of our society rather than telling them, you go be on the government dole.

BLITZER: You heard some boos there. But go ahead, Congresswoman Bachmann, is that basically the DREAM Act that President Obama wants as well?

BACHMANN: Yes, it’s very similar. And I think that the American way is not to give taxpayer subsidized benefits to people who have broken our laws or who are here in the United States illegally. That is not the American way. Because the immigration system in the United States worked very, very well up until the mid-1960s when liberal members of Congress changed the immigration laws.

What works is to have people come into the United States with a little bit of money in their pocket legally with sponsors so that if anything happens to them, they don’t fall back on the taxpayers to take care of them. And then they also have to agree to learn the speak the English language, learn American history and our constitution. That’s the American way.”

excerpt http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/12/se.06.html


83 posted on 09/22/2011 8:45:24 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: montag813
Despicable! It was bad enough when Perry unleashed his La Raza punchline - "just because their last names sound different" crap - TWICE - in the last debate. This was just disgraceful. Looks like Perry will NEVER get it on immigration.

He's either been bought off, or is a mental case. No conservative in their right mind would support this guy.

He should have stuck with Gore.

168 posted on 09/22/2011 9:25:42 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: montag813

Because as he said through no fault of their own. Since Fed Law says illegal MUST be educated at taxpayer expense. Just HOW do you plan on stopping them from going to school.

It is really getting disheartening to see the level of absolute ignorance in the Conservatives today.

Never in my life have I seen people so completely unable to logically think an issue through.

Just how do you plan on keeping them out of school. Or is it the fact that the LAW actually says that the student must have applied for citizenship and have lived in the State of Texas for 3 years. Oops, those pesky details. Sorry to confuse everyone.

Hope you all enjoy President Obama for 4 more years.


372 posted on 09/23/2011 12:00:30 AM PDT by Marty62 (Marty60)
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