Texas Gov. Perry calls for "State's Rights": "I may be in the center of American History!!!!1"

[Bluebear]

:crazy:

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!"

...Perry said the stimulus money would come with strings attached that would leave Texas paying the bill once the federal money ran out.

He said he believes he could be at the center of a national movement that is coordinated and focused in its opposition to the actions of the federal government.

"It's a very organic thing," he said. "It is a very powerful moment, I think, in American history."...

Rocker Ted Nugent performed a shredder guitar version of the national anthem, but unlike some rallies elsewhere, San Antonio organizers forbade politicians from speaking.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6375677.html

[hobbit709]

1. Center of American stupidity is more like it

[Puzzler]

2. Typical Republicans. When it's a Dem administration...

... it's all about "state's rights" and/or leaving the union.

[Bluebear]

7. "State's rights" is a dog whistle to the racist "disenfranchised" Repubs.

[steelmania75]

3. If Perry wants Texas to secede, then good.

But what would happen to those 34 electoral votes?

[walldude]

4. Shhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

They won't think about that till it's too late... Unless they are planning to take all the conservatives in the country with them.... We should be so lucky.

[steelmania75]

5. I know, but wouldn't that be great?

Democratic states like NY, IL, CA, PA, MI, and MA would probably gain electoral votes after losing ones over the past few decades.

[HubertHeaver]

6. They would go to Mexico