With Texas governor Rick Perry's recent announcement that he's sending National Guard troops to the border, campaign season has begun. Is it just a coincidence that he was in Iowa when this news started to break?
Yes, there is an immigration problem and an impotent Congress has been unable to get any meaningful immigration legislation passed. Governor Perry has apparently decided to begin his campaign on the backs of the poor people crossing the desert. All you have to do is watch his announcement to see Perry play acting at being president. Presto! Foreign policy cred.
It sounds strong and effective to order National Guard troops to the border, but these troops are not authorized to detain people crossing the border illegally—and local sheriffs have called instead for more police enforcement, not military muscle. Enjoy the new-and-improved bespectacled Rick Perry, and be sure to check out the story behind the cartoon.
Rick Perry:
While they're fightin' over border crossings in the Holy Land, we gotta' fight for our borders here in God's country.
Operation Strong Candidate has begun!
I want you . . . for Governor Perry's Army.
I'm deployin' the troops to defend agains those alien terror kids and the murderers they bring with 'em!
They're out to get you, so I'm gonna' get them.
Ever since I put on these here en-smartening glasses, I been thinkin' . . .
I am too Commander-in-Chief material!
And I aim to prove it by callin' up a surge . . . just like a real president!
We'll bring a little muscle (and a few militias) to those migrants.
Never mind what them sheriffs say . . . I'm Sheriff-in-Chief 'round these parts.
This surge will work for Texas, and can work for California-- and the other three states borderin' Mexico, whatever they might be.
I'm fresh offa' successful campaign recon op in Iowa.
Operation Corndog Freedom will begin at the State Fair in August-- just you wait!
But why wait to be Commander-in-Chief to do Commander-in-Chief-like things?
I got the podium, seal and military brass makin' a real presidential pitcher'!
It's high time we close our border (whoops, wrong map)-- and open my campaign!
I want you, for Governor Perry's Army.
Join my march to victory, in Operation Strong Candidate!