Rick Perry was either very heavily caffeinated
over the weekend when he spoke to a crowd of supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire
or indulging in illicit amphetamines. I would never suggest the latter (due to
super sensitive defamation laws), so you can judge for yourself:
“Gold is good,” Perry began. “If you
got any buried in the back yard… because if they print any more money down
there in Washington, gold is gonna be good.”
Okay...
"I come from a state where they have
this place called the Alamo and they declared ‘Victory or Death,” Perry continued. “You
know, we’re kind of into those slogans, man. ’Live Free Or Die,’ and ‘Victory
or Death.’ Bring it!”
Later, excitedly producing a small
notecard on which he insists you can do your taxes after Perry enacts his 20/20
percent flat tax plan; Perry demonstrated for the audience how the process of
writing and sending in a tax return would work. Gesticulating as one would
while doing one’s taxes, Perry said “pretty easy math, subtract it, send it in.
Awesome. Why not!”
Why not, indeed, Gov. Perry.
Perry’s parody-defying speech is
remarkably powerful for a NCAA football coach, but is perhaps a bit
unpresidential. Perry recently lost the support of an influential New
Hampshire legislator due to his recent resurrection of “birthirism.”
Eight-term state Rep. Norman Major said that he realized that “[Perry] isn’t
going to beat Obama,” and shifted his support to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt
Romney.
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