Lead With Your Chin, Rick Perry

I guess Rick Perry wants to get called ‘dumb‘ again or have Donald Trump mention that Perry has already spent two million bucks fighting a criminal indictment:

“[Trump] offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued. Let no one be mistaken – Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.”

Personally, I can’t think of too many people more ill-suited to lecture anyone about toxic demagoguery, mean-spiritedness, and nonsense than Rick Perry. But, hey, I’m sure the press will congratulate the former Texas governor for trying to take Trump down a peg or two.

I’d suggest this effort would be more effective if delivered by someone whose hunting camp isn’t called Niggerhead and who isn’t currently spending a fortune to beat a first-degree felony charge that could easily land him in prison. Also, is Perry actually saner than Trump?

It’s kind of impossible to say.

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.