Rick Perry comes out fighting
By Dana Milbank,
WashPost
Published: September 7
SIMI VALLEY, Calif.
“Maybe it’s time to have some provocative language in this country,” Rick Perry proposed midway through Wednesday night’s debate.
And Perry, the Texas governor, did more than propose. Debating for the first time with his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, he was on a one-man campaign to spread provocative language.
The querulous candidate, in his debut, fought with everybody and every thing.
Social Security, he declared anew, is “a monstrous lie” and a “Ponzi scheme.”
Making economic decisions because of climate-change science is “nonsense,” he announced, likening scientists who believe in global warming to flat-earthers. “Galileo got outvoted for a spell,” he said.
(More here.)
WashPost
Published: September 7
SIMI VALLEY, Calif.
“Maybe it’s time to have some provocative language in this country,” Rick Perry proposed midway through Wednesday night’s debate.
And Perry, the Texas governor, did more than propose. Debating for the first time with his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, he was on a one-man campaign to spread provocative language.
The querulous candidate, in his debut, fought with everybody and every thing.
Social Security, he declared anew, is “a monstrous lie” and a “Ponzi scheme.”
Making economic decisions because of climate-change science is “nonsense,” he announced, likening scientists who believe in global warming to flat-earthers. “Galileo got outvoted for a spell,” he said.
(More here.)
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