Of Donald Trump, Rick Perry said this week, "Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump's candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be diagnosed, excised and discarded."
He also said, "I will not go quiet when this cancer on conservatism threatens to metastasize into a movement of mean-spirited politics that will send the Republican Party to the same place it sent the Whig Party in 1854: the graveyard."
Concerning the first quote, if republicans excise the wing of their party that Donald Trump appeals to they are going to end up (as Perry notes in the second quote) in the graveyard. That's the base of their party, for Christ's sake--they'd be a shell of a political party without them.
As to the second quote, Perry acts as if "mean-spirited politics" from republicans is something that began with Donald Trump. Where the hell has Perry been the last thirty-five years? Try these incendiary republicans: Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Dick Armey, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Steve King, Ted Cruz, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Schlesinger--and that's just off the top of my head.
One supposes that "mean-spirited politics" only matters when it makes republicans a national laughingstock.
Peace,
emaycee
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