Expect a lot of this sort of thing in the next few weeks and months, and for The Donald to try and make "populist" hay out of it:
Donald Trump's talk about Mexico "makes for some pretty good TV," Rick Perry said Wednesday, but the reality is that he, as the former governor of Texas, really knows what needs done to secure the border.
"I do know a little bit about border security, having been the governor of Texas for the last fourteen years,"....
"<***AHEM***>"
....Perry, who is competing against Trump and nearly [two] dozen others for the GOP nomination, told Fox News' America's Newsroom.
Trump has called for building a wall between the United States and Mexico, and getting Mexico to pay for it. While strategic fencing can be a detriment to people crossing the border, there are other things that are needed, said Perry.
"There are three things that you do to secure the border," he said. "Obviously personnel and personnel in the right places," he said, noting that fencing is also important.
"The third thing is aviation assets," he said. "I will suggest that what Mr. Trump was talking about makes for some pretty good TV, maybe, but the reality is if you want to secure the border, we know how to do it," pointing out that the National Guard surge, which he ordered last summer, resulted in "a 74% decrease in illegal immigration."
But Perry said he'll let Trump run on what he wants to, but as for himself, "I will run on actual experience of this.
"Americans are not looking for rhetoric. They are looking for someone who has been in the field of battle, who has performed and has results. Whether it is job creation or dealing with the border, we have real results that back up our actions."
Indeed. This is why I'm a little mystified by Rush Limbaugh's suggestion that Trump's shallow, rightwing "populist" blustering will "resonate" with Republican voters. Is that an allusion to the flirtation of so many conservatives with the myth of the "citizen-politician"? No candidate can ever have "credibility" unless they've never been in politics or held elective office? Novicity is purity? That's retarded. It's a formula for being perpetually disappointed and "betrayed," because the reality of politics is that nobody ever gets everything they want (except Barack Obama, but he's the horrible example/exception to the rule). Some degree of compromise is inevitable, so there's no possibility of any pol not having some "imperfections".
Besides, it isn't like most of the GOP field isn't saying pretty much the same things already. And is El Rushbo really meaning to imply that Republicans are just as empty-headedly vulnerable to demagoguery now as first Democrats and then low-information voters were to Barack Obama's "messianic" defecations in 2008? I mean, I know that a lot of Tea Partiers are woefully ignorant about how politics works and damned proud of it, but even I have never gone this far.
I hope that what the man who now "identifies with being skinny" means is that Trump will "light a fire" underneath actual GOP candidates. Which seems to me to be more than a little redundant and will provide little of anything beneficial to offset all the circus sideshow distractions that the "witless ape" flings on the table.
Exit question: Instead of riding down an escalator, why didn't Trump put on a gorilla costume, grab his "plastic surgery disaster of a wife" and climb to the top of the Empire State Building, complete with hiring biplanes to shoot at him as he beat his chest? I know it wouldn't have been Tony Stark at the Stark Expo opening ceremonies....
....but it would have been better than a frickin' escalator.
UPDATE: Wow, this didn't take even twenty-four hours:
During the 2007 Democratic presidential primary, Donald Trump spoke favorably of Hillary Clinton....
“I know her very well,” Trump said. “She’s very talented. And she has a husband that I also like very much....
Trump added later in the interview that he thinks Hillary Clinton is “very, very capable.”
Trump was also asked about [Mrs.] Clinton’s 2007 health care proposal, at the center of which was an “individual mandate” similar to the one Barack Obama would later include in his plan.
“I think it was very good. I think she came out with an idea. It’s a very, very complex set of things going on right now in terms of healthcare. But she came out with an idea, it sounds like a pretty good idea, and a lot of people like it and embraced it. And she learned a lot from her previous encounter,” Trump said.
He's also given the Clinton Foundation upwards of a quarter of a million dollars.
Welcome to the wild, wooley, and wonderful world of politics, Mr. Trump....
UPDATE II: Maybe in Trump's case, he calls this "field turfing":
Donald Trump’s big presidential announcement Tuesday was made a little bigger with help from paid actors — at $50 a pop.
New York-based Extra Mile Casting sent an email last Friday to its client list of background actors, seeking extras to beef up attendance at Trump’s event.
“We are looking to cast people for the event to wear t-shirts and carry signs and help cheer him in support of his announcement,” reads the June 12th email, obtained by the Hollywood Reporter. “We understand this is not a traditional ‘background job,’ but we believe acting comes in all forms and this is inclusive of that school of thought.”
Of course, Democrat pols do this all the time, but they brainwash their astroturfers so that they don't have to pay them.
But still....only fifty bucks? I know about "starving actors," but who'd have thought Trump would be so cheap? Maybe that's why he thinks he's a Republican.
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