Rick Perry: Donald Trump Will Destroy The Republican Party

[big_dog]

Source: Politico.com 7/22/15 9:51 PM EDT

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who has already emerged as one of the GOP presidential field’s most vocal critics of Donald Trump, ratcheted up his rhetoric again Wednesday as he slammed the real estate mogul’s presidential bid as a “cancer on conservatism” and warned that, left unchecked, Trump could be the demise of the Republican Party. “He 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,” Perry charged during an address at the Willard Hotel in downtown Washington. “Let no one be mistaken: Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.”

“Donald Trump, the reality television star, is a great generator of ratings. But Donald Trump the candidate is a sower of division, wrongly demonizing Mexican-Americans for political sport,” Perry said. “He has piqued the interest of some Republican voters who have legitimate concerns about a porous border and broken immigration system. But instead of offering those voters leadership or solutions, he has offered fear and sound bites. This cannot stand.”

Perry, who is on the bubble for qualifying for the first Republican debate next month, has found that fiery attacks on Trump are the easiest route to national media attention, and he dominated political Twitter on Wednesday afternoon. He earned loud applause from the audience when he expressed outrage over Trump’s comments concerning McCain. “He couldn’t have endured for five minutes what John McCain endured for five-and-a-half years,” jabbed Perry, noting his own military experience.And he got in a dig at Trump over remarks made in Iowa that some considered unseemly for an event aimed at social conservatives.“Most telling to me,” Perry said of Trump, is “his admission that there is not a single time in his life that he sought the forgiveness of God.”
In language that bordered on apocalyptic, Perry urged Republicans to “beware of false prophets” and warned that the Republican Party could go the way of the now-defunct Whig Party if Trump isn’t reined in, likening his views to those of the nativist Know-Nothing Party from the mid-1800s. “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,” he said.




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[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Too late.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Well, Rick ...

... it's not like he isn't getting a lot of help.

Destroying the Republican Party seems to be a team effort

[Chemisse]

17. So true - lol!

Trump is just one of the many crazies making spectacles of themselves in the GOP. He is just very good at getting people to pay attention to him.

[Skittles]

3. if the likes of Dubya and Perry haven't put the nail in the Greedy Old Pig party coffin

I doubt Trump will do it

[msongs]

4. only because trump espouses true republican family values nt

[Journeyman]

5. Trump may bring out the worst in Republicans but he seems to have gotten the best from Perry. . .

I've never heard Perry speak so well or with such insight. Either Trump's bringing out the best in his rivals, or they're starting to hire better help to combat him.

[nilesobek]

13. Perry is off the painkillers

now that he was on in 2012 and humiliated himself by going blank in the debates. He's now lucid, much like Hermann Goering was at Nurenberg after they dried him out from his morphine habit.

So we can expect some improved speech skills, the using of multiple syllable words, the broken clock syndrome and his rarely making some sense. Its still the same Rick Perry though.

[Journeyman]

39. Thanks for the reasoned response. . .

that would explain a lot.

[golfguru]

43. Perry's speech was written by shorty

El Chapo (shorty) Priebus personally wrote what Perry was reading with his huge owlish glasses.

[trusty elf]

6. Cancervatism

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[Kablooie]

7. The new Republican theory on how to win the presidency is to insult other candidates

Yeah, that's the ticket!
Act like a spoiled five year old and the voters will come slavering for you to become the most powerful man on the planet.

[golfguru]

49. Common...be fair

Trumpster has not initiated attacks on other candidates.
He is mostly counter-punching when some one throws a punch at him.

[merrily]

8. One can only hope that Rick Perry said that during one of his two a day stopped clock moments.

They don't have the Oval, but they have both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and a ton of state and local offices.

[davidpdx]

9. I hope Perry makes the debate cut

I will be interesting

[jakedsname]

10. +1

[davidpdx]

23. Welcome to DU

[jakedsname]

31. Thank you davidpdx

[Sunlei]

36. I hope Perry makes the cut and Mr.Trump asks perry about his Niggerhead hunting camp

And Perrys investments in teen porn industry.

[golfguru]

44. Perry is currently in 10th place

If Kasich gains a fraction of a point, Perry will slide to 11th.

Also Perry can't read from a paper during the debate. That will be terrible graphics. Perry's bad memory is legend.

[davidpdx]

46. But the antics between Perry and Trump would be orgasmic

Kasich wouldn't be any fun to see on stage. He's too serious. I'd rather see the clown car.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

11. Seems to me the words/phrases

" barking carnival act", " toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense" "must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded".

could be equally applied to any of the other candidates as well.

[tanyev]

12. Destroy the Republican party, save the world!

[sendero]

14. One could only..

.....hope.

What's left of the Republican party isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. Funny that when someone comes along and says out loud what the rest of the party has been dog-whistling for decades, he's a pariah. Guess what, some people appreciate someone willing to say it OUT LOUD instead of hiding behind weasel words and dog whistles.

The party deserves Trump absolutely.

[Gary 50]

15. Rick Perry's glasses are working. He almost got something right.

What he described as "Trumpism" is actually an excellent description of Republicanism, " A toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense.

[Javaman]

16. It takes a gaggle of clowns to drive the car rick.nt

[patricia92243]

18. If the GOP dies, somrthing else will take its place just like the Whig Party. The haters and

power brokers will always be with us.

[marble falls]

19. Rick Perry is too modest. He's helping, too.

[Gothmog]

20. I actually agree with Goodhair

Just remember that Goodhair is using this fight to try to get attention and into the GOP debates

[cynzke]

21. OH COME ON RICK....

Don't be so modest. The rest of you can take some of the credit!

[bigworld]

22. These glasses, they are working!

He's actually sounding like the smartest of the whole bunch lately!

[Punx]

24. Rick is just jealous

That Trump is getting all the attention. Trump isn't doing anything that the rest of them don't do, just without the "dog whistles" and "winks and nods". In other words a lot less subtlety. Frankly, for everything he said in that speech, he was either wrong or a hypocrite.

Here's Perry with Hannity keeping us safe from children crossing the border.

http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/yael-t-abouhalkah/article704257.html

[randome]

25. Palin grievously wounded the monster. Trump will be the finishing blow.

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[deathrind]

26. Pretty much describes

The Republican Party.

"a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense"

[nruthie]

30. Exactly!!

[golfguru]

48. That speech seems to have failed Perry

Kasich has now overtaken Perry for the 10th slot.
Perry is in tough shape even with those huge glasses.

[PatrickforO]

27. Wow. I'm surprised Rick knows enough US history to even be able to talk about

the Republican party supplanting the Whigs in the 1850s.

[liberal N proud]

28. Republicans will destroy the republican party

Trump is just exposing the vile inner principles of the republican party.

But in truth, the end of this anti-American group can't come soon enough!

[old guy]

29. Actually Ricky,

Trump is the repub party. He represents the party better than any other candidate. If that is what will destroy it, so be it.

[woodsprite]

32. Would it be appropriate to say "From Rick's lips to God's ears!" :)

[Historic NY]

33. oh this is so entertaining.....

they were all falling over him, when he was a birther.

Ye reap what ye sow...........suck it up GOP'ers.

[Sunlei]

34. Donald Trump IS the Republican party. He has all the news coverage, even republican fox & polls.

Mr. Trump can probably ask for primary votes from all the other parties, to ensure he wins republican primary.

[FSogol]

35. Haw-haw. n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

37. Dr. Frankenstein, the Monster...

Monster, Dr. Frankenstein.

[geretogo]

38. The Republican party was already self destructing , Trump just put it on steroids .

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

40. Rick Perry put on two pair of glasses to say that

to make himself look twice as smart.

[Angry Dragon]

41. I don't see much down side to that

[sofa king]

42. Oh Rick, you're all doing your part....

It takes more than a pair of glasses to figure that out, though, ha ha ha.

[GOLGO 13]

45. TRUMP is Superman and Perry is Clark Kent.

Perry is conflicted & it's easy to see why. He wants the attentions & to be loved & adored. TRUMP is confident & does not care if you love/hate him but he will command your attention & you will listen.

TRUMP will lead them to glorious...something.

[christx30]

47. Um, Rick?

“He 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,”

Maybe you should figure out why the repuican base responds to that, before calling Trump the problem. He's not the problem. He's a symptom.