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The Big Mea Culpa

by David Kurtz
09.28.11 | 11:59 am

Rick Perry: It was “inappropriate” of me to say immigration foes don’t “have a heart.”

As Benjy Sarlin reports, that heartless line in the last debate is causing Perry all kinds of trouble among conservatives who are otherwise favorably disposed toward him.

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