Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R): Rick Perry is insufficiently cruel to immigrants

[housewolf]

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is like something the Tea Party grew in a vat. He flirted with ending Medicaid in Texas. Believes his state should be able to opt out of Social Security. He embraces outlandish claims that everything from federal public school programs to clean air laws are unconstitutional. And he even once claimed that Texas might secede from the union unless the federal government does exactly what he wants it to do.

Yet for all his eagerness to spearhead America’s march back to the 19th Century, there is one blemish on Perry’s conservative credentials — he lacks a long record of irrational hatred for immigrants. Übernativist and former Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) isn’t happy:

When I ran for president in 2008, I tried to pressure the Republican candidates to take a hard line against illegal immigration. For this, Perry called me a racist.

When he first took office as governor in 2001, Perry went to Mexico and bragged about his law that granted “the children of undocumented workers” special in-state tuition at Texas colleges, the first state in the nation to do so.


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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/11/293504/tancredo-vs-perry/

[southernyankeebelle]

1. He will not win in the general election, period. He is way to extreme.