Rick Perry’s speech today lacked only a certain word* for pure ‘Democrats done messed up’ awesomeness.

Via Patterico comes a marvelous moment from Texas governor Rick Perry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSQIILTmRrI

Here’s a free-form translation: They say I used my authority as Governor to line-item-veto a part of the budget to get rid of a horrible, horrible district attorney. Danged straight I did this.  I said I was going to do this, and then I went and did this, and I’m going to sleep like a baby tonight because I did this to a drunk driver who blew a .239 on her BAC and then threatened the cops who arrested her booze-raddled carcass.  I get that this might be all right behavior by Austin voters’ standards, but it’s not for the rest of us, and by ‘us’ I mean America.  And I’d do it again, with a smile.  Because I want to be President, and Travis County Democrats just made it the tiniest bit easier for me to get the job.

Remarkably, I’m not really doing too much free-form translating there.  This was six minutes of political fun: a line in the sand, just the right amount of genuine anger, and absolutely no weaseling at all.  I don’t know if anybody’s told the Democratic party this, but that plays well in Peoria.  Also Des Moines, Boulder, Richmond, Miami, Reno, Concord, Lansing, Cincinatti, and even Madison…

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*Those of you who remember 2012 – and Rick Perry’s doing much better now in terms of responding to hostile questions, huh? – will know the word that I am referring to.

4 thoughts on “Rick Perry’s speech today lacked only a certain word* for pure ‘Democrats done messed up’ awesomeness.”

  2. I wonder if he could get the DA and her crony indicted on abuse of power charges? That would be FUNNY.

    1. She’s already being sued on abuse of power charges (I think–a subordinate is claiming he was fired in retaliation for not backing her up on something.)

      I haven’t seen this addressed except obliquely, but I find it hard to believe that a woman in her 50s or so, caught driving erratically/down the wrong side of the road, with an almost .240 BAC and an open bottle of vodka on the seat was doing that for the first time. No, I think she’s been driving drunk for a long time, but this is the first time she got caught (or the first time she got caught and couldn’t talk her way out of it with her friend Greg, who I’m absolutely sure isn’t Greg Abbott.)

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