Whoa Laura – Not so Fast
by Mike on Apr.25, 2009, under Political
I was listening to my podcasts the other day and I came across the April 14 Laura Ingraham podcast extolling the virtues of Texas Governor Rick Perry. While I wholeheartedly agree with Perry’s support for Texas’ 10th Amendment rights and I do admit he looks pretty good compared to virtually anybody in Washington, I don’t think Rick Perry is the answer to the conservative leadership vacuum.
You were not here Laura, so you did not see Gov. Perry flip-flop on border security before/after his last election. In his election ads, Gov. Perry stood on the border and talked of the importance of border security and all the great things he was doing to ensure border security. Within weeks after being elected, he stated that a border fence was a joke. Perry was also a prime mover behind the Trans Texas Corridor, the one of the biggest land grabs in our lifetimes. This plan called for taking a very wide swath of land, several thousand miles long, and developing highways, railways, utility right of way as well as private development.
No, I don’t think that a border governor who does not see the utility of a border fence and who thinks that taking a citizen’s private property for someone else’s private usage is acceptable is the guy we need to champion the conservative cause.
