Too late! Rick Perry half assed apology for ‘heartless’ comment on Texas Dream Act
Sorry Rick Perry, you’re too late on your “apology.” Claiming one doesn’t have a heart if they don’t support subsidizing illegal immigrant’s college tuition costs is a typical progressive liberal guilt trip. Perry lost my primary vote (though I’d vote for him if he turned out to be the nominee against Obama) and his poll numbers have tanked ever since. Some polls have RINO Romney ahead of Perry now, though the most prominent is Daily Kook’s PPP polling outfit. Today Perry tried to walk back his “heartless” remark, but the damage is already done. And why did it take him a week to come out and walk it back when everyone knew the moment he said it, it was toxic? Well, it wasn’t even really an apology. Perry said he was just being a bit “over-passionate” about the issue, and using the heartless phrase was “inappropriate.”
“I was probably a bit over-passionate by using that word and it was inappropriate,” Perry admitted. “In Texas in 2001 we had 181 members of the legislature – only four voted against this piece of legislation – because it wasn’t about immigration it was about education.”
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