Max Borders: A Texas-sized let down

Max Borders, executive editor at the Free To Choose Network, has penned an opinion piece for The Daily Caller in which he expresses his disappointment in the governor so many in the GOP establishment and the corrupt media are hyping to run for president:

Would you let your mother, daughter, friends and neighbors continue to suffer unwarranted indignities at the hands of government agents if you had the power to stop them?

That’s exactly what Texas Governor Rick Perry just did.

Perry stood by and let Texas’s TSA anti-groping bill die in the state legislature. According to observers, instead of promoting the bill, Perry dithered. He never pressed the lieutenant governor to call the bill during the regular legislative session. Only after Perry was shamed by a legislator did he agree to put the bill on the agenda during the Texas Legislature’s recently concluded special session.

At one point, after enthusiasm for the anti-groping bill had grown, the presumptive presidential candidate saw an opportunity. Perry appeared on The Glenn Beck Show, where he seemed to claim credit for the measure... saying he was prepared to defend Texans from abuse by the federal government. But behind the scenes, Perry had been stonewalling the bill.

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Borders' exit question: "Now, if Perry is prepared to let political expedience come before the rights of Americans, is he fit to be president?"

- JP