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Rick Perry Pulls Out All (Sleazy) Stops
Now he’s morphing into a birther. And, puh-leaze, spare me the comments saying that is not what his quote is all about. (The bar of soap in my hotel room in West Long Branch, NJ just read that link, turned to me and said, “Anyone can see he’s trying to position himself now as a birther.”)
4 Responses to “Rick Perry Pulls Out All (Sleazy) Stops”
Reading the first four words of this post “Rick Perry Pulls Out” I was thinking that he had chosen the only reasonable option available to him.
Teach me to expect reasonable from Gov. Perry.
Actually I don’t think he sounds like a birther. It sounds like he’s trying to appease the birthers and ignore the issue as much as possible
That does not sound like a birther.
I agree with you, EEllis. And I will tell you why.
Is there any evidence that a candidate needing to convince voters of his suitability to govern (anywhere outside, perhaps, some backwater town) would benefit from taking a “birther” stance?
I say not.
Did it benefit Trump? The Donald didn’t care; for him it was just about publicity, not about being a serious candidate. Perry apparently actually would like the job and probably is convinced he could do it. So, it is inconceivable to me that Perry actually would think it could benefit him to drink the birther Kool-Aid.
Perry just isn’t very smart, that’s all, and his mouth betrays him. And while we probably didn’t need this shred of insight to conclude THAT, it does fit into a pattern.
The nice thing about Perry’s drop in the polls is that conservatives have stopped defending him.