The Audacity of Crazy

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http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/08/14/the-audacity-of-crazy/

12:49 PM, Aug 14, 2011 | by Connor Anderson

<snip>But for all this will appeal to the weak-minded and religious base of the Republican party, Rick Perry has an actual track record that will send chills through the great middle of the American electorate. It takes nothing but the most cursory review of Governor Perry’s record of governor to find a litany of lunacy, hypocrisy and outright evil.

My personal favorite is his supervision and approval of the execution of at least one innocent man. Perry pushed forward the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham who was initially convicted of arson in the murder of his three children even after the Texas Forensic Science Commission concluded that arson did not cause the fire. When the commission convened to hear more evidence in the matter, Perry quickly fired and replaced three of its members, scuppering the investigation until Willingham had met his maker at the hands of the State of Texas.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Texas governor’s contempt for justice and the institutions of the United States. He has most notably been quoted multiple times calling for the secession of Texas from the United States. All this time, while decrying the tyranny of the Union, and railing against the first stimulus package, Perry has continued to rake in stimulus money and used it to top off the state’s budget. As he continued to blather meaningless rhetoric about is fiscal conservatism, as he cutt health care and child health programs in a state with both the hghest percentage of citizens without health insurance and with childhood poverty rates reaching third world levels of 27 percent, the state faces a $27 billion deficit.

None of these things as well as the very long list of other fringe behaviors are going to make Rick Perry an attractive candidate to the large and growing independent wing of the U.S. electorate who, more than anything else want an end to absolutist posturing and gridlock and a return to normality. Instead, they will be treated to many more months of the Parade of Freaks that is the GOP presidential pool as they vie with each other to establish which is the true standard bearer of the party’s new theme, the Audacity of Crazy.

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1. the repuke presidential contest has turned into a twisted version of

dancing with the stars.

lots of stumbling, lots of bad forced smiles, lots of manufactured sincerity and mostly lots and lots and lots of misplaced massive egos.