I agree with your analysis of Rick Perry. He's a big phony on issues such as immigration but he probably is one of the few who could stand a chance of defeating Obama.
Immigration and abortion are the two most important issues to me. The first one is important because I feel like my way of life and standard of living will be completely destroyed if the immigration problem isn't stopped soon. The irritating thing about that is that even so-called right wing republicans more often than not tend to speak of a 'path to citizenship' for the illegals already here rather than deporting them. There also seems to be very little effort made to stop the 'anchor baby' problem which is where the real problem lies.
Basically you have these people who come up here to make money, they can survive on all kinds of government benefits such as WIC, government housing, food stamps, etc. and they work jobs that often pay them in cash so they don't have to pay taxes on it. Those who do get regular jobs often steal people's identities. They send a lot of this money back home (and out of the US economy) or use it to raise hordes of children, sometimes 5 or more.
When these children are born they are automatically given American citizenship, whether or not the parents have any right to be here in the first place. These children are raised completely and totally loyal to Mexico or some other foreign power, and yet have the legal right to vote when they come of age in the USA. On top of this, these 'anchor babies' are considered by the USA government to be just as American as anyone else and the politicians consider it their duty to serve them just as much as actual Americans because these people have legal citizenship.
When someone like Perry talks about Texans, he means Maria Rodriguez who is loyal to her parent's home country and feels she is helping out the reconquista effort just as much as someone named Mary Smith whose roots in Texas may have been here for over a hundred years. People like him make no distinction between the two. Both are equally considered to be Texan and equally considered to be American. This is extremely horrible. On top of this, the solution to the illegal problem that most of the politicians seem to favor is making the illegals legal. Doing that won't change a third world population into a first world one that acts and believes just like Americans do. It only gives them voting rights to further dispossess the actual Americans.
On the abortion issue I think that he won't be any better than George Bush was. He might be under tremendous pressure to appoint a pro-life Supreme Court justice if a slot opened up though so in that sense I think it's important to have a Republican in the presidency.
On the issue of Israel, which is most important to JTF, I think you can expect about the same level of danger as George Bush. He won't demand Israel return to the '67 borders, but he will pressure Israel to give up some land.
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