Oh my goodness, Rick Perry is seriously going to tout the birther meme. I thought he was just flirting with the idea, but it looks like he might launch a full frontal assault – with Donald Trump‘s help.
He honestly believes that keeping the birther issue alive will help catapult him back to the top of the polls. It actually will, with the farthest right fringe in America, but not with the people who count the most…independent voters.
The Huffington Post
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the birther issue was worth “keeping alive” in a CNBC interview Tuesday morning. “It’s a good issue to keep alive. It’s fun to poke at him,” said Perry, according to host John Harwood. Harwood interviewed Perry about his flat tax proposal that he is unveiling Tuesday, which sets an across-the-board twenty percent rate on individuals and corporations with some deductions.
Perry also spoke evasively about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate in an interview with Parademagazine published over the weekend. When asked if he believed the president was born in the United States, he said, “I have no reason to think otherwise.” Asked why he didn’t give a definitive answer, Perry replied, “Well, I don’t have a definitive answer, because he’s never seen my birth certificate.”
Perry said in the CNBC interview, “I’m really not worried about the president’s birth certificate. It’s fun to poke at him a little bit and say, how ’bout let’s see your grades and your birth certificate.” Perry’s own transcript from Texas A&M University, obtained by The Huffington Post, shows that he seldom earned anything above a C and includes a D in Shakespeare and a C in gym.
Despite the president releasing his long-form birth certificate online showing he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, some still doubt that Obama was born in the United States, and therefore eligible serve as commander-in-chief.
When asked by Parade if he’d seen the president’s birth certificate, Perry said: “I don’t know. Have I?”
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He’s a desperate man with a large bank account. Is main focus is differentiating himself from Mitt Romney, but his tactic is at the expense of independent moderates. Then again, he may have already lost that segment.
After flirting with the birther issue, Perry is toast. yeah, it might play well in Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida, but he will never make it to the general election.
For a guy who mostly Cs & Ds at Texas A&M, doesn’t exactly make him the brightest bulb on Broadway.
LOL So true Don!
Honestly, I said about the last thing that I have to say about birthers a while ago.
If you are a birther, then you are an idiot.
That’s about it.