Perry's Crack About Bernake Will Upset Establishment (read: Wall Street) Republicans

[Yavin4]

If the governor does not walk back his statement in the next 24 hours, then he will be taught a lesson by the establishment Republicans. The media coverage will turn very negative on him by the end of the weekend unless he walks back that statement.

Make no mistake. Wall Streeters love what Bernake is doing. Keeping money basically free gives them tons of cash for which to gamble invest.

Also, attacking the Fed is the stuff of Ron Paul, and that too freaks out the establishment.

In sum, Perry has made his first gaffe, and to quote the movie Network: " will atone".

[livetohike]

1. It may be too late for him. First impressions are lasting

impressions. Not the way to "burst" onto the national scene. Yes, he is receiving lots of attention, but his comment(s) were extreme and immature.

[banned from Kos]

12. I am an investor and Perry is complete fucking idiot.

He is a threat to the USA's finances.

Obama 2012!

[Mz Pip]

2. One can hope

but more than likely, Perry will receive a private sit down with some of his corporate contributers and gently be told to cool that kind of rhetoric. He will comply.

[Yavin4]

3. Man, Republican Handlers Have Another Project on their Hands

First Palin. Now Perry.

[Mz Pip]

4. No rest

for the wicked!

[calimary]

5. God I hope SOMEONE puts him in his place.

[Gman]

6. Nah, let him go. Let him run his mouth

maybe he'll even get the nomination. He'd be a bigger flop than Bachman, coming back to Texas with his tail between his legs.

[calimary]

11. I think it might be wise not to underestimate this guy.

I think we better be ready for him. He's potentially bad news - just considering the psychology of the increasingly reckless, willfully ignorant, gullible, and pathetic American voter.

1) He's handsome - photographs well, even Molly Ivins called him "Governor Goodhair." Superficial and ridiculous? YES! But, distressingly, it matters more than ever with THIS society, this pop culture, this national psyche or zeitgeist or whatever you want to call it. Superficial as hell, but increasingly important. People like pretty. Most of us are visually oriented so it's pretty looks, pretty surface, pretty image, pretty front, pretty face, pretty figure, pretty styling, PRETTY. He wins. Especially with those who tend not to (or outright refuse to) see pretty in ethnic faces, figures, and concepts. And at this moment in America, there's a VERY distressingly large and vocal number of people in that category.

2) The cowboy thing - there remains enough of a John Wayne swagger out there, especially with older voters (especially male) who were young and viable during the John Wayne era. He taps into it - complete with all the decorative crap - the swagger, the twang, the cowboy hat and boots, the stagecraft with him standing with one booted leg on a haystack, the "folksy" Texas talk (or is that tawk?). NEVER MIND that it invokes, in many of us, nightmare deja vu's of the dubya years. There aren't enough of us to ensure that his campaign is stillborn - especially when you consider how the American electorate has the memory of a gnat! Most of 'em have already forgotten how bad bush was - with the bush years receding in time and helping that cloudy memory, especially with the media keying in on perry being the darling of the moment. There are precious few ONGOING, DETAILED, Easy-for-the-Moran-Contingent-to Process reminders of how bad it was. All they know and see is what's immediately in front of their noses.

3) Below-the-surface - okay, say you're kinda okay with him - either as a protest (send 'em a MESSAGE!) candidate you might actually consider voting for, OR you're kinda okay with him because you judge him as an adversary Obama can beat. DO NOT forget who he's assembling around him: all those whack-job religionists at that big prayer rally a week or so ago. DO NOT forget who's joining his inner circle - and who, for example, is now advising him on foreign policy and national defense: donald rumsfeld and dougie "PNAC" feith!!!!! O. M. FREAKIN' G. DO NOT forget the "states-rights" nutcases and anti-choice advocates and anti-science/anti-intellectual and secession and closet racists and closet sexist, anti-civil rights types who will swarm his campaign offices and, guaranteed, do their utmost to win positions of power, influence, and substance in his new administration.

DO NOT underestimate this guy. I think everybody who cares about the outcome of the next Presidential election - who will then be appointing Supreme Court justices, appointing advisers and agency heads, setting the agenda, using the bully pulpit, and getting the prime time exposure and headlines and attention (all the more fawning to any CONservative or GOP person than a liberal or progressive or Democrat ever gets anymore), and cluttering the entire executive branch with sycophants and teabagger apostles. I mean, bush embedded so many of them - on levels high AND low (like several layers down in the Justice Department) that we'll be plagued by them for decades! And evidently as tiny as his brain and intellect both are, that's how large his instincts for playing politics are. Bigger and shrewder and meaner and more street-smart than the bushies ever were.

And nobody'll notice till it's too late, because he's nice-looking and photographs so well, and is just so fucking folksy and down-home and aw-shucks which gives him an "authenticity" with people who are hard-wired NOT to see it in Obama.

I would not take my eye off this guy OR his expanding organization/campaign for a nanosecond!!!!!

[banned from Kos]

14. Good analysis. I agree fully. The muddle headed middle will

see Perry as confident and a take charge guy.

Which he is. But for all the wrong reasons.

[Control-Z]

8. Gawd, I don't.

Let him hang himself.

[calimary]

15. Hopefully he does anyway. But beware the people he assembles around himself.

If they're media master-manipulators (as unfortunately so many of the big GOP people are, anymore), they'll be trying to anticipate and blunt any dumbshit stuff he comes up with. And as he gains ground and attention and becomes the talk of the town in the Beltway media and establishment, there will be more of them flocking to him by the hour. They will be out in force, GUARANTEED, trying to spin and control the message and manipulate and manage the media, put words in their mouths and talking points and guidelines and statement "refinements" in their inboxes, and reposition or reframe or minimize any damage he might do to himself. These guys play mean, ruthless, and for keeps, AND they've got an entire 24/7 cable network to push their propaganda out farther and farther and faster and faster and with more and more urgency.

I'm not at all ready to just assume he's gonna put his foot in his mouth. Look how many times dubya did it and nothing stuck to him because his people were ON IT, cleaning up after him in many cases before anybody else of significance in the media got wind of it. OR they created distractions, or pile-ons where there's so much that the gnat-brained media only focus on the newest, the biggest, the flashiest, and what people are talking about THIS INSTANT - and not even three minutes ago. And remember, there are people in the newsrooms at CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS, and yes, MSNBC too, who are always watching the competition since every big newsroom has beaucoup monitors available that are tuned to all the competition. And many of them wind up saying - "well, Fox is all over it! We better get something on it, too!"

These people are SLICK. WE have to be ready to blunt whatever it is and push back with truth and fact, at every turn. Because most of the media won't be ON IT, especially if they've "fallen in love with him," which means they'll see, hear, and speak no evil - even when there's so much evil it stunk to high heaven. I mean, look at what came before Obama: WAR CRIMES forcryingoutloud!!!!!!!! That never laid a finger on georgie-poo. MAN did they EVER have his back.

We should NEVER just leave it to chance that he'll blow himself up. We must NEVER assume that he'll self-implode or that his mistakes and faults will reach a critical mass of being intolerable, or that he will thoughtfully cancel out his own candidacy for us so we can just sit back and enjoy watching it happen. That's like the dumb-ass Dem Congresspeople who actually go on camera to say "Look. The American People will KNOW! They GET IT! They're gonna see that the GOP are blah-blah-blah, and doing blah-blah-blah, and the American People will see that for what it is and won't go along with it!

Well, BULLSHIT!!!! I'm as sorry as hell that I've come to feel this way, but I do. The American People anymore are fucking STOOOOOPID, so dumbed down, so accustomed by now to being told repeatedly that people like limbaugh and the Pox people and glenn beck etc will do the thinking for them. The American People have to be told. Again and again. They have to be spoonfed and simplified and met at their level of dumb-down and our side has never been very good at it because they give the American electorate far more credit than I think that electorate deserves. That electorate is riddled with teabaggers, palin-types who don't like to read, perry-types who sneer at the well-educated as pointy-headed elites, bachmann-types who don't even know their history, AND multitudes who only get their news from the radio - as in the hate-radio they have on all the time.

It's never ill-advised to assume the worst of them, expect the worst from them, and try to be ready for it.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. He will follow it with plenty of future gaffs.

I don't know if this is the knockout, but I suspect he will be little different from Palin or Bachmann quite soon.

[Yavin4]

9. As I Predicted....

The WH has now jumped on the remark, and the ignorant HillBilly is not backing down:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x748170

This shows that he can't be "handled". Before the end of the night, he will either back track that statement or his campaign will get crushed by the media.

[Yavin4]

10. Shit is hitting the Fan Faster Than I Thought

Uncle Karl Rove on Perry's crack.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x748232

[Major Hogwash]

13. Just a word of caution, you should be careful when talking about Perry's crack.

Because it may be a little controversial to talk about here on DU.