Rick Perry: 10 on the bejesus-scaring-out-of scale
Tweet“I will work every day to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your lives as I can.”
It’s interesting to search on YouTube right about now for recently uploaded clips of Rick Perry. In the past day, a massive number of anti-Perry clips have been added. It reflects a frantic effort to define him negatively at the starting post, but is largely pointless, since the clips will only be watched by those who have already made up their minds (or never really needed to make up their minds).
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The reaction on the liberal side to Perry’s entry to the race is amusing to me, I must admit. Those who hated George W. Bush are treated to the image of someone—a man who might be the next president—who appears to be “Bush on steroids.” Both are Texan, and have a certain swagger, but unlike Dubya, Perry is not in the least defensive about his conservatism; he does not feel obliged to put compassionate in front of it.
George W. Bush, while a man of Christian faith, was generally quite subtle and low-key about invoking it in public and in speeches, really doing very little that wasn’t in the grand tradition of U.S. presidents. In return he was accused by some of wanting to install a theocracy. Rick Perry will be giving those same people nightmares filled with cold sweat.
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“This is gonna be a fun ride,” he is quoted as saying to a reporter before hopping on stage for his maiden speech as a candidate for the presidency. So far, it sure is looking that way.
