This drives me crazy. The media trumps up a crazy flimsy story against Rick Perry that states that there is a sign on hunting grounds Perry used which contains a racial epithet.
And instead of other Republicans denouncing this desperate story, some jump on the media bandwagon and start kicking the previously kicked. First, it was Herman Cain who jumped ugly on Perry and then, of course, Mitt Romney kicked him when he was down.
Mitt Romney said that the racial epithet that served as the name of Rick Perry’s Texas hunting lodge was “offensive” in a interview Monday with Sean Hannity.
“I’ve followed it from afar,” Romney said. “I think it’s offensive. I think most people think it’s offensive.”
Romney joins Herman Cain – who said that the slur was “insensitive” – in denouncing the name of the camp. But Cain backtracked from his criticism Monday after a harsh reaction from the conservative blogosphere, insisting that he was not “playing the race card.”
Both think they’re being cute by referring to the rock as “offensive” and “insensitive” but both also know it’s an indirect way of keeping the story going and “racism” and “Perry” in the same sentence.
It’s despicable.
It was left to a African American Democrat from Texas to defend Perry.
Wallace Jefferson, the first black chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, said the hunting ranch name controversy is “much ado about nothing” and argued the implication that Rick Perry is insensitive to matters of race is flatly wrong. Jefferson, who was appointed to the post by Perry, and whose great-great-great-grandfather was a slave owned by a Waco district judge, said the reality is quite the opposite: Perry “appreciates the role diversity plays in our state and nation.”
Other Democrats also defended Perry while Cain and Rommney teamed up with the vultures.
Perry’s father painted over the rock with the offensive slur but the vulture media is ignoring the recent photos that surfaced on Big Government of Obama campaigning wtih the New Black Panther Party in 2007.
It was always bad enough when Republicans just stood by and watched other Republicans get savaged but now they’re joining in.
October 4, 2011 at 3:29 am
If they didn't agree that the term was offensive, then they'd be smeared as racists– something Cain already has to guard against, since he's already been declared not "really" black.
It's a gotcha.
October 4, 2011 at 4:21 am
Yeah, I'm done with Romney. Cain had the sense to walk back from his remarks. Romney's passive aggressive stuff here is just a way to let the smear linger. He's truly despicable.
October 4, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Yes, but the camp name IS offensive and insensitive. It's perfectly okay to say the truth about the camp sign; it was disgusting. No one ought defend the sign, and Perry's record can show his actions re race.
Cain, for his part did not try to make any political hay with this story. He was asked about it (on Fox News Sunday) and responded.
October 4, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Still waiting for someone to blink and point out Perry was a Dem at the time….
October 4, 2011 at 2:54 pm
but the camp name IS offensive and insensitive
No one is denying that the original name isn't offensive. What's being alleged is that the Perry family acted too late, or didn't do enough to erase it, none of which is true.
October 4, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Correction: no one is denying that that the name is offensive. Dang double negatives.
October 4, 2011 at 10:56 pm
There is nothing to apologise for and republicans spend ALL of their time trying to get their enemies to like them and trying to prove they are not racist ,or antisemitic, or misogynistic, or homophobic, or – hell, man – you name it.
They are a tired tribe of twinkle-toed twerps.
Obama will wipe the floor with them