Texas Gov. Rick 'Brainiac' Perry has weighed in on the Gaza slaughter. When he's not posing in front of a machine-gun with Sean 'Chickenhawk' Hannity, Perry is turning his formidable {cough} intellect to international affairs. As CNN's Candy Crowley discovered:
Last week, Perry called on the United States to provide “vigorous support” for Israel so CNN’s Candy Crowley began her weekly Sunday show by inviting him to share his thoughts on the ongoing fighting in Gaza.
“When you look at 1,700-plus civilian deaths in Gaza — the large majority of which are civilians we are told — what is your thought about that, what is your reaction to that?” Crowley wondered.
“War is a horrible thing,” Perry responded without emotion. “There are individuals who lose their lives in war.”
“But when we have a fairly good understanding that Hamas is actually using their citizens as shields, at that particular point in time, it loses a lot of the the power, if you will, from my perspective,” the Texas Republican continued.
It comes as no surprise that the vapid Gov. Goodhair is OK with 1700 (and rising fast) Palestinian deaths; after all, this is a guy who's happy to see poorer Texans die because Gov. Fake Glasses (R-Douche) is refusing Medicaid expansion in a state that desperately needs it.
This is a man who shows by word and deed that he's on-board with machine-gunning desperate Latin American children.
As Laura Clawson put it in a recent diary:
So why wouldn't Perry militarize the border? It'll get him points with the Republican base and apparently he's now a serious, glasses-wearing political thinker as far as the traditional media is concerned. All he needs now is to figure out how to show up wearing a flight suit and bearing a "mission accomplished" banner to a center where migrant children are being detained.
And he may not be able to count up to 3, but he sure as hell knows how to count Sheldon Adelson's billions.
Perry is being talked about as a serious contender for the 2016 race. Let's hope the GOP continue their lemming-like rush to extinction and choose Perry to run. The Democrats could put up Mr. Magoo and handily beat this dimwitted asshole.