Someone might need to take my temperature.
I’m about to say something complimentary about former Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
It is that Gov. Perry unleashed a barrage of criticism at none other than Donald Trump, the current frontrunner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. The depth, breadth and intensity of Perry’s criticism of Trump was stunning. That’s the only way to describe it.
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/07/22/rick-perry-donald-trump-dc/
He spoke today at a Washington hotel, invoking the memory of the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., who in the 1950s launched a witch hunt for communists. Sen. Joseph Welch was then forced to ask McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency?” Perry today asked the same question of Trump.
He called Trump a “sower of discord,” and a “carnival barker.”
There was much more, as noted in the link attached to this post.
Perry seemed to save his harshest tone for Trump’s belittling of Sen. John McCain’s valiant service as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. He noted Trump’s multiple deferments during the war and said he couldn’t begin to withstand the torture and utter hell that McCain endured for more than five years as a captive in Hanoi. “Donald Trump was born into privilege. He received deferments to avoid service in Vietnam,” Perry said. “He breathes the free air thousands of heroes died protecting. And he couldn’t have endured for five minutes what John McCain endured for five and a half years.”
Trump also had noted he hadn’t ever sought God’s forgiveness, to which Perry replied: “A man too arrogant, too self-absorbed to seek God’s forgiveness is precisely the type of leader John Adams prayed would never occupy the White House.”
Gov. Perry’s attack on Trump was on point at virtually every level.
The good news, though, is that Trump stands zero chance of being nominated by his party, let alone elected president.
The bad news, however, is that Trump won’t heed a single word of what Gov. Perry said about him. He is without shame.