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CNN -- January 19, 2011      Charleston, SC -- Rick Perry is telling supporters that he will drop his bid Thursday for the Republican presidential nomination, two sources familiar with his plans told CNN. -- The Texas governor will make the announcement before the CNN debate in South Carolina, the sources said. [RINO Rick went on to endorse dangerous and creepy progressive Newt Gingrich]

D.A. King -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- November 22, 2011        The term "Obamacare" is used by critics to describe the health care overhaul that President Barack Obama signed into law last year. -- And some conservatives derisively use the phrase "Romneycare" to slight Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the changes he approved to Massachusetts' health care system when he was governor there...

U.S. News & World Report -- November 10, 2011        In the early debates, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took steady aim at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, attacking his record on issues like immigration and job creation. Turns out, that was wasted energy. On Tuesday, the GOP candidates mostly held their fire, and Perry self-destructed on his own. -- In the midst of touting talking points about slashing government...

Des Moines Register -- November 10, 2011         Rick Perry's embarrassing flub at last night's presidential debate in Michigan likely signals the end of the campaign, one of his key Iowa supporters said this morning. -- "Oh my God it was just horrible. Just horrible," said Hamilton County GOP Chairman Mark Greenfield, who has endorsed Perry. "I felt very bad for him. It happens. But it shouldn't happen when you run for president. It was very embarrassing for everyone."

Houston Chronicle -- October 27, 2011         Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney received the endorsement over Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday of Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration laws. --Smith, R-San Antonio, called Romney "a leader who focuses on the interests of American workers and taxpayers more than on expanding the power of the federal government."

San Antonio Express-News -- October 24, 2011        Austin -- Gov. Rick Perry is walking through a minefield when he slaps Mitt Romney for hiring a lawn company that employed illegal [aliens]. -- Perry threw the story in Romney's face with the charge that such jobs lure illegal immigrants, a tidy way for Perry to divert critics who make that charge about a law he signed allowing in-state tuition to such [aliens'] children...

ABC News -- October 21, 2011       Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who endorsed Rick Perry last month, voiced his opposition to the Perry-backed Texas legislation that provides in-state tuition rates to illegal [aliens]. -- "I don't," Jindal said when asked on FOX News whether he agreed with the governor's support for the plan. "He and I aren't going to agree a hundred percent on everything..."

KBTX-TV -- Bryan / College Station, Texas -- October 10, 2011       A controversial petition has been circling around Texas A&M condemning an act signed by Governor Rick Perry. -- Governor Rick Perry signed off on the Dream Act more than 10 years ago, but now some of his fellow Aggies are signing on to a petition against the idea. -- "We should not be rewarding the criminality coming over here by funding their tuition," said Steven Schroeder...

KTAR -- Phoenix -- October 10, 2011       It's a given that President Obama will not have the support of Arizona's Republican Sheriffs during next years Presidential race. And the same can be said for Texas Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry. -- "I was very surprised, very disappointed." -- The words of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu regarding Perry's announcement during a recent debate...

Kathie Obradovich -- Des Moines Register -- October 8, 2011      Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in Iowa tonight, emphasized his Texas record on immigration. Perry has taken a pounding from his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination. -- He didn't mention the Texas Dream Act, which has been the focus of much of the criticism. That's the law he signed to allow in-state college tuition to children of illegal [aliens]...

CBS News -- October 6, 2011      Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Thursday that he would definitely consider an invitation to run as the eventual nominee's vice president, except if the nominee turns out to be Texas Gov. Rick Perry. -- Cain, who rocketed to the top tier of the GOP field in several recent polls, was asked by reportersRepublican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Thursday...

Howard Foster -- Frum Forum -- October 4, 2011    Illegal [aliens] cost the State of Texas (including its local governments) $8.8 billion per year. This is a staggering sum of money brought about by a steady flow of illegals obtaining public education, criminal justice, and medical care. It amounts to nearly 10% of the State's total annual expenditures of approximately $90 billion. And 60,000 children of illegal [aliens] are born in Texas each year...

Ronald W. Mortensen -- Center for Immigration Studies -- October 4, 2011        Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he supports in-state college tuition for the children of illegal aliens because that is what people who "have a heart" do. However, in reality he is pulling a cynical, heartless trick on these kids and their parents in an effort to garner the support of Hispanic voters while at the same time doing great harm to American men, women and children...

El Paso Times -- October 2, 2011      What a difference a decade and a national election can make. -- Ten years ago, a bipartisan bill granting in-state tuition to qualifying [illegal aliens] at Texas colleges and universities sailed through the state Legislature with little opposition or national media attention. Now, Gov. Rick Perry's opponents in the Republican primary race for president are hoping to sink his appeal...

American Patrol Report Feature -- October 2, 2011     Perry: Dumb and Dumber -- Now the idiot wants to invade Mexico Manchester, NH -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Saturday that he would consider sending U.S. troops into Mexico to combat drug-related violence and stop it from spilling into the southern United States. -- "It may require our military in Mexico," Perry said in answer to a question about the growing threat of drug violence along the southern border. Perry offered no details, and a spokesman, Robert Black, said...

NPR -- October 2, 2011   Audio Report     Rick Perry spent the last two days in New Hampshire, his first visit since the Republican debate in which he defended a Texas law that allows illegal [aliens] to pay in-state tuition at state colleges. As Jon Greenberg reports, Perry faced headwinds among Republican primary voters... [Perry even approves of allowing illegals to steal American jobs in Texas.]

Fort Worth Star-Telegram -- October 2, 2011      As Gov. Rick Perry travels the nation defending Texas' decade-old law allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, some conservatives back home are mobilizing a repeal effort. -- Confronted by a New Hampshire voter at a town hall meeting Saturday who declared the tuition policy doesn't make sense, Perry stood steadfastly by the law...

MinnPost.com -- September 30, 2011          Michele Bachmann has released a second web video targeted at Rick Perry, this time on immigration. -- In the video, Bachmann said conservatives shouldn't settle for a president who supported moderate illegal immigration policies like those Perry has pushed as Texas governor. -- Without addressing Perry by name, Bachmann said...

Christian Science Monitor -- September 30, 2011       The Texas governor was heckled Thursday by protestors over his stance on immigration at a campaign stop in Charlotte, North Carolina. To be fair, it wasn't like Rick Perry encountered throngs of angry masses - it was more like a handful of white folks holding up signs saying "Rick Perry: Endorsed by Mexico." Still, the protest wound up on the local news, which is not the kind of story the Perry campaign wants to see...

Deseret News -- Salt Lake City -- September 29, 2011       Gov. Rick Perry endorsed and signed the Texas DREAM Act, a law that was both compassionate and good social policy. -- The law allows young people, brought to this country as children by their illegal [alien] parents, who have successfully completed high school in Texas and stayed out of trouble to be eligible for in-state tuition and scholarships at Texas colleges...

Real Clear Politics -- September 28, 2011       An apologetic Texas Gov. Rick Perry says his use of the word 'heartless' was inappropriate to describe individuals who refused to provide discounted college tuition to illegal [aliens]. In an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Perry says he is against building a border fence -- except in metropolitan areas -- to stop illegal immigration...

Ben Smith -- Politico -- September 28, 2011      Chris Christie's presence in, or at least near, the Republican presidential primary has added to the striking disconnect between elements of the party's base and its leadership. While "amnesty" --- that is, offering citizenship to people already here --- is a dirty word in Republican politics, that path to citizenship is also something that both Christie and Rick Perry support in some form...

Politico -- September 28, 2011      Rick Perry's about to get hit on a new front for his record on immigration policy --- this time from tea party groups back home in Texas. -- The Texas Tea Party Caucus Advisory Board, a citizen group that advises the caucus's 27 state legislators, will attack Perry for being insufficiently tough on so-called sanctuary cities at a press conference next week...

Houston Chronicle -- September 28, 2011       When Loren Campos received his engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin in May, it was the culmination of hard work that began at Houston's Booker T. Washington High School's engineering magnet program, where he took honors and advanced placement courses to prepare for college. -- The son of an illegal immigrant, Campos was able to afford UT only because Gov. Rick Perry...

Jeremy B. White -- International Business Times -- September 27, 2011     Immigration has emerged as the question mark on Texas Governor Rick Perry's otherwise sterling conservative resume, with Perry's Republican presidential rivals lambasting his signing a bill that granted some undocumented Texas students in-state tuition at state universities. -- Other Republican presidential candidates have seized on the issue. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) released a radio advertisement intoning that...

Rich Lowry -- National Review -- September 27, 2011       Rick Perry stumbled through much of the last Republican debate, but not when speaking about immigration. He issued a clarion condemnation of critics of his state's policy of giving the children of illegal [aliens] in-state tuition to college. Such naysayers, Perry declared, lack "a heart." -- The Texas governor prides himself on his distinctness from George W. Bush, yet on this issue he sounds just like him...

Mark Krikorian -- USA Today -- September 27, 2011      Gov. Rick Perry's foray into compassionate conservatism — his assertion that critics of in-state tuition subsidies don't "have a heart"-- has shed light on the fact that too much of the immigration debate is based on weepy sentimentality. We need to move beyond Oprah-fied storytelling about your grandma from Minsk and instead focus on reality, with all its trade-offs and competing values...

R. Cort Kirkwood -- The New American -- September 26, 2011       The Texas Miracle of Texas Gov. Rick Perry is little more than a Texas-sized myth. -- That's the upshot of reports across the political spectrum, Right to Left, that have evaluated Perry's claims. -- Chief among the tall tales is that Texas has become a jobs machine. That's true, but Texans aren't getting the jobs. Immigrants are. More than 80 percent of the new jobs in Texas went to foreigners...

Daily Caller -- September 26, 2011       Texas Gov. Rick Perry's lackluster performance in his three Republican primary debate appearances has many conservatives scratching their heads, and wondering whether he really is the dream candidate many thought he was two months ago. -- Analyzing the results of Saturday's Florida Straw Poll on “Fox News Sunday,” Fox News senior political contributor Brit Hume said...

Houston Chronicle -- September 26, 2011       Texas Gov. Rick Perry reiterated his longstanding accusation that the federal government has failed to secure the U.S. border with Mexico, while trying to defend himself against accusations he hasn’t been hawkish enough on border security. -- In an op-ed on a Tea Party associated website, Perry wrote that the federal government...

Jon Feere -- Center for Immigration Studies -- September 26, 2011  During the last two GOP presidential debates, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has defended his support for in-state tuition breaks for illegal aliens by calling it a state issue. Certainly, many issues are best handled by states. But when a state embraces illegal immigration, the impact is not limited to the state itself. By opposing a border fence, opposing E-Verify, embracing sanctuary cities and tuition breaks...

Raw Story -- September 26, 2011       A panel of conservative pundits on Fox News savaged Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry Sunday after the candidate had a rough week. -- The Texas governor followed a poor debate performance with a loss to Herman Cain in the Florida straw poll Saturday, a defeat made even worse by the fact that he had actively campaigned there...

Raw Story -- September 26, 2011       A panel of conservative pundits on Fox News savaged Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry Sunday after the candidate had a rough week. -- The Texas governor followed a poor debate performance with a loss to Herman Cain in the Florida straw poll Saturday, a defeat made even worse by the fact that he had actively campaigned there...

American Patrol Report Feature -- September 25, 2011     Erasing Our Borders -- Obama Starts with Canada    [...] ... First, Perry drew a round of scathing reviews for his unfocused debate performance in Orlando Thursday night. Then he suffered a thumping defeat in the Florida GOP's straw poll – to long-shot candidate Herman Cain, no less – that amounted to a vote of no confidence from dissatisfied activists. --The back-to-back stumbles added up to the worst week of Perry's still-young White House bid...

Business Insider -- September 25, 2011            Texas Governor Rick Perry's once-surging campaign is on thin ice after flailing in three debates and suffering defeats in two key-state straw polls. -- Once limited to the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal or The Weekly Standard, concerns over Perry's electability are now very much in the mainstream. -- In a major upset for the Perry campaign, former Godfather's Pizza executive Herman Cain won...

Amanda Terkel -- Huffington Post -- September 25, 2011           After a weak debate performance and a loss in the Florida straw poll, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is having his fitness as the GOP presidential frontrunner seriously questioned. -- These doubts were on display during the roundtable on "Fox News Sunday." -- "Perry really did throw up all over himself in the debate, at a time when he needed to raise his game. He did worse, it seems to me, than in previous debates...

Houston Chronicle -- September 25, 2011             Orlando -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry was dealt a stinging disappointment Saturday when restaurant magnate Herman Cain leapfrogged him in a straw poll among some 2,600 Florida Republican activists, with Cain winning a stunning 37.1 percent of the vote to Perry's 15.4 percent. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in third, with 14 percent of the vote, in an outcome that delegates said was intended to...

Kevin Michael Patten -- Century City News -- West L.A. -- September 25, 2011     He has the talk. No doubt: "And I'm just not real sure you're a bunch of right-wing extremists," the Governor of the Lone Star State had told a crowd in 2009, "but if you are, I'm with 'ya!" The crowd roared, and Perry was quickly embedded inside the American psyche. Many who were paying attention saw this as his first step towards the 2012 Election...

Christian Science Monitor -- September 24, 2011           His performance in Thursday night's debate among Republican presidential hopefuls was universally panned. -- On Fox News Saturday, Mike Huckabee said Perry looked "dumbfounded" and "not prepared for the presidential stage." -- William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, gave the Texas governor a thumbs-down as well...

Washington Post -- September 24, 2011           Orlando -- Former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain won the Presidency 5 straw poll here Saturday, delivering a blow to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's frontrunner status and a victory for a candidate who has struggled to transform his grassroots popularity into strong showings in national polls. "Tonight's winner is Herman Cain," Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced....

Fox News -- September 24, 2011         Exeter, NH -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry's stance on immigration is causing an uproar among conservative voters, jeopardizing his front-runner position in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. -- Perry's support of education benefits for illegal immigrants has led one national immigration group to say he is finished. And a key Iowa conservative said evangelical supporters are abandoning Perry...