Salon: If Rick Perry is seriously a presidential front-runner there's something wrong with all of us

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The GOP "establishment" prefers this evangelical nitwit with fringe tendencies to that evangelical nitwit with fringe tendencies, sure. This Dominionist purposefully evoking some of the most radical far-right movements and ideas of the last 200 years is so much more electable than this other one!

I mean, Rick Perry may be a neo-Confederate sympathizer with a recurring tendency to bring up secession, but he doesn't look as weird in a photograph as Bachmann does, I guess.

Perry's flirtations with neo-Confederate organizations and symbols -- ably documented by Justin Elliott -- are so extraordinarily reprehensible that it should immediately and permanently disqualify him from being taken seriously for national office. The Confederacy was not a bunch of generally well-meaning dudes who went a little too far, it was a gang of racist traitors who launched a bloody war to defend a monstrously unjust institution. Having neo-Confederate sympathies in America should be equivalent to supporting the reconstituted Fascist party in Italy, or worse. It should not be considered something that 50 percent of the nation should be willing to look past, or even embrace.

And if that embracing happens it'll be in part because of a press that won't explicitly describe a disgusting sentimental attachment to a racist, brutal regime of oppression as anything other than an acceptable ploy to pick up Southern white support.

http://www.salon.com/news/rick_perry/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/09/rick_perry_frontrunner

[rocktivity]

1. Comapred to Michelle Bachmann and Newt Gingrich, you mean?

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[provis99]

2. look how seriously they took the National Twit, Sarah Palin.

If people considered The Twit a viable candidate, anyone could be a viable candidate.

[vaberella]

3. And this is why the Tea Party is ahead---but people are too busy blaming Obama. n/t