Why would ANYONE ever believe ANYTHING Rick Perry ever says?  If people think the presidential candidates flip-flop, can you believe this guy!  What a joke and embarassment!

Perry says he now supports border fences

By JAY ROOT

Star-Telegram staff writer

AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry issued some of his toughest talk yet on immigration and border security Thursday, saying he favors border fences in some areas while flatly advising Mexican workers who want U.S. citizenship to get in line "just like everybody else."[Say what?]

The remarks came during one of the longest and most wide-ranging news conferences Perry has held in months. The governor displayed his trademark swagger as he discussed his endorsement of Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, the perils of a Hillary Clinton White House and his controversial order to destroy office e-mail once a week despite criticism from open-government activists.

Hundreds of e-mails from Perry's office, some of them embarrassing, were saved by a citizen activist and have spilled into the open. In them are internal policy discussions about border security, Perry's focus on promoting Rudy Giuliani for president and candid exchanges among top staff members.

But Perry dismissed the flap over his previously secret e-mail records as a game of "gotcha" and defended his policy of deleting the messages once a week.

"If we're going to spend our time gleaning through those for hours instead of doing the work of the people of the state of Texas, I think we're headed in the wrong direction," Perry said.

Perry called reporters to his office in the Capitol one day after Giuliani, the former New York mayor, dropped out of the presidential race. He said he is endorsing McCain, just as Giuliani had, and hinted that the Arizona senator would soon visit Texas to see the state's border security initiative in action.  [I'd like to see that too -- where is it?]

Like McCain, Perry has increasingly toughened his stance on immigration and border security.  [If he's toughened it like McCain -- Perry's ALL talk too]

A few months ago, Perry, ahead of a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Mexico City, railed against all the "mean rhetoric" sparked by the immigration debate in Washington and declared that border fences "absolutely won't work," according to published reports.  [I rest my case]

"We know how to deal with border security, and you don't do it by building a fence," Perry said during the August trip. "You do it by putting boots on the ground."

But on Thursday, Perry embraced physical barriers, a red-hot and divisive topic along the border, for some areas.

"There is some strategic fencing that we support. We have said all along that there are areas, particularly in metropolitan areas, that you can use strategic fencing to help control the flow of illegal activities," Perry said.

Perry has also expressed support in the past for the now-doomed plan that would have given work permits to Mexican guest workers -- an idea conservative activists called "amnesty." And in 2001, Perry was the first governor in the nation to sign into law a bill that allows certain illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges and universities.

On Thursday, the governor stressed border security over immigration reform, and said that if a comprehensive overhaul occurs he wants temporary workers who apply for U.S. citizenship to wait their turn behind others who have already done so.

"There's a line. Get in just like everybody else," he said.

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Perry is in very hot water - the tied has turned and he is on the wrong side on everything.

I hope he gets his ass handed to him on a plater.

Sounds like this A**hole is planning on running for the Senate this year.

It worked for Chris Cannon

Perry should be public enemy # 1 in Texas IMO.

As I mentioned in another thread, Perry supported  Giuliani during the Texas Straw Poll, Giuliani was associated with a law firm that represented Cintra (Texas Trans-Cooridor) , Giuliani drops out of the presidential race and endorses McCain, Perry endores McCain. 

Tar and feather Perry. 

 

 

Perry is a joke - I think his original plan was to be Rudy's running mate - with Kay Bailey Hutchison stepping into Perrys spot - TOO BAD GUYS!!!

We need to get rid of Perry and Hutchison and get some real concervatives in office.

Let's keep reminding Texans...sheep tend to have short attention spans and will vote for whomever based on name recognition alone....

 

Leo Berman, who his a TX congressman somewhere (not sure of the district), was first in line to join the Coalition of Legislators for Legal Immigration, and has been fighting the illegal thing in TX as strongly as he can.  If anyone is in his district, he might be a good choice for Gov.

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We need to get rid of Perry and Hutchison and get some real concervatives in office.

Yes get them both out. I don't want Kay Bailey Hutchinson as Governor of Texas that's for sure.  

Heard on the News Today that John Cornyn is in trouble in Texas as well. He may very well get his a$$ handed to him as well.

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