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January 19, 2012 | |
Rick Perry's disastrous campaign deserves to be remembered for appealing to the darkest impulses of the right—and for wasting a phenomenal amount of money. The Daily Beast's Paula Begala says good riddance.
Jonathan Gibby / Getty Images Let us not allow Rick Perry to exit stage right—far right—without a final word or two. What can be said about a man who burst onto the national scene by toying with secession, as if 600,000 dead in the Civil War weren't enough? Rick Perry appealed to the darkest angels of our nature. In his final debate appearance, standing in the metaphorical shadow of Ft. Sumter, he said the state of South Carolina "is at war" with the federal government—and he said it with approval. Perry called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and "a monstrous lie." He attacked the constitutionality of Medicare. He openly and dishonestly
called our president a socialist. He said he would re-invade Iraq. He almost certainly executed an innocent man.
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