Rick playing the immigration issue well...

Bill White missed a chance to out flank Rick on the right on immigration, and Rick is capitalizing (link). Excerpt follows...

A famous Texas political aphorism declares that "there is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos." But now, in Texas, who should be striding down the middle of the wide highway of state politics but the most successful Lone Star pol today: Gov. Rick Perry. The Republican, who not too long ago conjured up visions of a militarized border, appeared before a crowd of 1,800 members of the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization, and declared that the Arizona immigration law — the darling of voluble members of the right — was not a good "fit" for Texas. He drew thunderous applause.

The way I understand it, Rick has come out as saying Arizona's law is not right for Texas, but he has also come out and said he would support something sort of kind of similar... and he also supports Arizona's right to pass the law in the first place...

In a show of solidarity with his fellow Republican governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, Rick has even gone so far as to say he will not attend a border governors summit if it is moved out of Arizona where it was originally scheduled...

I think Bill White's line about vowing to veto Arizona if it is passed in Texas... plus his sanctuary city stuff... won't play well in Texas this year... and yet he is going to have a hard time riling up Hispanic people against Rick as Republican hard liner on immigration Pete Wilson's political adversaries did in California years ago.