"How small a person am I?"
Rick Perry is ready for another run at the White House:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry raised eyebrows during his appearance at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco Wednesday night, when he compared homosexuality to alcoholism.
When taking questions at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins hotel on Nob Hill, Perry was asked whether he thought homosexuality was a disorder.
“I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic,” Perry said. “But I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.
Which should boost his standing among the GOP base. Of course, the Texas Republican Party just last weekend endorsed in its platform
"reparative therapy" for gays, which is what's called psychological projection, given that it is Texas Republicans themselves who actually need professional help— for bigotry.
As for Perry, there were reportedly gasps from the Commonwealth Club audience, but that must be because some didn't know Perry's own history of homophobic bigotry. In fact, Igor Volsky noted back in 2011 that the 2008 book published under Perry's name had compared homosexuality to alcoholism. One shouldn't expect Perry to be able to formulate a new idea, no matter how small and ugly, in just six years.
Perry is what he is. Which is why maybe this time he has a chance to win the GOP presidential nomination. And no chance at all of ever becoming president.