PERRY THE HYPOCRITE THINKS WE CARE WHAT HE DOES TOMORROW

By Juan Montoya
So Gov. Rick Perry thinks the sun and planets will stop in their orbits tomorrow so we can find out what his personal political plans are?
If we were him, we wouldn't hold or breath.

He shamed Texas with his run for president when he couldn't even remember which three departments of the federal government he would abolish, called our allies – Turkey's leaders – Islamic terrorists who should be kicked out of NATO and started an international incident with the nation's leaders calling his comments "unfortunate" its media simply calling him an "idiot."
Then he was asked about a Supreme Court case and clearly didn't know but  decided to try to try answer it anyway resulting in a two and half minute bit of rambling. He could have just admitted he didn't remember the case and moved on.

Then he claimed that there's something wrong in America because gays can join the military but schoolchildren aren't allowed to celebrate Christmas. Say what?

Then came the killer. You remember. When asked which three governmental agencies he would end, Perry quickly named the first two and then just stopped. When he couldn't remember the third one, he offered up the one word heard 'round the world; "oops."

Now, in an interview on a national talk show, he assured the host that the restrictions on abortion services proposed in a Senate bill would pass and said that he would not allow "mob" rule to control the process "in that building behind us."

He forgot to mention that his cronies in the Texas Senate forced the speaker to disrupt the filibuster against the legislation claiming that using a back brace was a violation of their rules. Sure.

Perry reminds us of John Salvi, the  murderer who in 1994 shot two abortion clinic receptionist in cold blood and wounding five others.  On March 19, 1996, he was found guilty of murdering receptionists Lee Ann Nichols and Shannon Lowney. He was convicted in a federal court  and died in prison of an apparent suicide  in 1996 while awaiting sentencing.

Salvi, apparently, could not live up to his convictions.

Now we have a governor whose state just reached the dubious milestone of being the only state in the union to have executed its 500th inmate since it reinstated the death penalty in 1982, a Black woman, proclaiming himself to be a "protector of life."

Her attorney Maurie Levin continued to fight for McCarthy until the last moment, but his claims were rejected. He said black jurors were improperly blocked from McCarthy's trial, a claim the convicted woman made in her appeals. Her trial was decided by an all-white jury.
"The shameful errors that plague Ms. McCarthy’s case –  race bias, ineffective counsel and courts unwilling to exercise meaningful oversight of the system – reflect problems that are central to the administration of the death penalty as a whole," Levin said.

Now, what if Salvi's mother had chosen to have an abortion? Could two lives have been saved and the lives of the five innocent victims and their families not been disrupted by this cold-blooded killer?

We are probably doomed  for another run by Perry to the Texas governorship. He has proven that he didn't have the mettle to compete in the national arena. We're at least glad that the Republican electorate aborted his chances for a run at the presidency. 

But who knows, perhaps he can remember the third department after four years trying to remember.