Rick Perry espouses extremist positions at odds with mainstream American thinking. Is he stupid? Or lying?
Rick Perry Comes Alive
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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My Wednesday WordPress bug continues to afflict. For some reason, whenever I stack cartoons ahead of time in my blog, timed to their day of release, the next week’s Wednesday replaces the current week’s Wednesday. Hopefully it’s back to Rick Perry now.
He’s a politician so both answers are correct. It’s very likely he’s so stupid he doesn’t know he’s lying.
We’ve lived with this hypocritical poll-chaser here in Texas for what seems like a life-time. In the last general election he won the governorship only because his two opponents split the non-Perry vote…their cumulative percentages were larger than Prick Perry’s. First he’s a democrat, no wait he’s a republican; then he goes off on tour last presidential season with Guiliani; now he’s the tea baggers’ dream boy. He’s all over the place, all the time. What a joke. Palin-Perry or vice versa. What a dream ticket. Both IQs added together would fall far short of room temperature.
“Rick Perry espouses extremist positions at odds with mainstream American thinking”
Far be it from me to defend the monster Perry, but this sounds unintentionally ironic coming from someone who advocates state takeover of Apple Inc. and full Cubanization of the American economy. At least, his belief in creationism or whatever affects and harms exactly nobody.
Perry’s machine (which he inherited from Dubya) help put some fine folks in place to influence school textbook selection and, believe me, creationism sure came up in those discussions so it isn’t exactly nobody that gets hurt when pwerful politicians express a belief, whether it’s theirs or their backers.
«Hopefully it’s back to Rick Perry now.» «Hopefully» ?!! You might want to be more careful with those adverbs, Ted….
Henri