Do you think Perry can win without Texas?
Before you huff, “Of course he’s going to win Texas” consider this: At one time California was Republican; then, using the same approach Perry espouses, CA veered sharply Left, all due to the overwhelming illegals corrupting the voting process at all levels.
Texas is headed the same way, it’s just 10 or 15 years behind.
SO, if Perry were sincere in his beliefs, he would announce and SHOW everyone how he too can win a presidential election without Texas.
Because, if Perry’s views win the day, Republicans will HAVE to win without Texas and California both.
Show us Perry, show us how it’s done.
It wasn’t just Hispanics and illegals turning CA left, it was the Hollyweird types and Flower Children. Texas doesn’t have much of the latter.
Had Perry run on a hardline platform he’d have never become governor in the first place.
Perry's approach is less ham-fisted, smarter politics. Just think, if people here are upset over the "heartless" comment, how do Hispanic's react to the equivalent coming the other way? The backdrop will always be Democrats add fuel to the fire, but it's ineffective if Republicans don't self-immolate as happened in CA.
At least you admit if Republicans lose Texas it's over. A law-and-order approach is fine, it's fair, it's right. You cannot, however, allow that policy to be hijacked by radical nativists and even outright bigots because your thoughtful position will be drowned out and subsumed into the other, conflated by the media into one message, one extreme viewpoint even though you are not with those destructive elements, you will be made to defend them thanks to willing Democrats, division hustling activists and a media interested in ridiculous comparisons.
Perry needs to talk with officials of Alabama. They passed a strong immigration bill which has withstood scrutiny of the Alabama state Supreme Court.
Heard on the radio yesterday that illegals are vacating the schools & rentals “in droves”. They also must prove citizenship to get ANY kind of state aid & must prove ability to pay for any medical treatment.
Take away the jobs- freebees & they will leave.
Now, if all the other 49 states would pass the same rules, the country could start getting back on it’s own feet & quit supporting intruders.
Very true. Texas was where California was in 1970, but it will take far less time for it to implode because the trickle of illegal immigrants has become a flood.