Bush Aides (Rove) Slam Perry’s Bernanke Comments: ‘Inappropriate And Unpresidential,’ Too ‘Cowboy’

[jefferson_dem]

Former Bush Aides Slam Perry’s Bernanke Comments: ‘Inappropriate And Unpresidential,’ Too ‘Cowboy’



Former aides to President George W. Bush are suggesting Texas Gov. Rick Perry is not presidential material in the wake of his comments yesterday that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may be guilty of “treason” and would be treated “pretty ugly down in Texas.”

Former Bush Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto spoke out against Perry’s comments just moments after ThinkProgress first reported them, writing on Twitter that the they were “inappropriate and unpresidential.”

This morning, Nicolle Wallace, who served as White House Communications Director in Bush’s second term, said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe that “someone who wants to be the next president probably shouldn’t use these words” and agreed that Republicans should “lay off of some of this some personal stuff and keep it ideological.” “Not only is it going to maybe turn off some people in the middle, but these aren’t fights that are going to serve Perry well politically,” she added.

Key Bush aide Karl Rove appeared on Fox News later in the morning, where he called Perry’s comments “very unfortunate” and not “presidential“:

It’s his first time on the national stage, and it was a very unfortunate comment. You don’t accuse the chairman of the federal reserve of being a traitor to his country and being guilty of treason and suggesting that we treat him pretty ugly in Texas — that’s not, again, a presidential statement. <...> Governor Perry is going to have to fight the impression that he’s a cowboy from Texas, this simply added to it.

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/16/297092/bush-aides-slam-perry-treasonous/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Perry is Bush, without his towering intellect.

I didn't think there could be a worse presidential hopeful than W. I was wrong.

[Turbineguy]

2. His base probably gobbled it up.

In order to get the nomination he has to out-crazy Bachmann.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. They're pulling for Romney.

;)

[tanyev]

4. There's only room for one cowboy in Karl's heart.

Rove often tells the story of their first meeting. It occurred the day before Thanksgiving, 1973, when Rove, then a young Republican National Committee (RNC) employee, was directed to deliver car keys to then-RNC Chairman George H. W. Bush’s eldest son upon his arrival from Harvard. In a 2003 interview in The New Yorker, Rove reminisced:

I can literally remember what he was wearing: an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, bluejeans, complete with the—in Texas you see it a lot—one of the back pockets will have a circle worn in the pocket from where you carry your tin of snuff, your tin of tobacco. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have.

http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v13n1/alt.html

[sammytko]

8. ok - that's creepy n/t

[underpants]

5. The karma is swirling around the irony the hypocrisy

Rove must be made because Perry is stealing W's act.

[golfguru]

6. There is only one thing I agree with Ron Paul & Rick Perry...so far

and that is the FED is largely responsible for devaluation of dollar and ineptness in helping economic recovery.
FED operates in total secrecy and has no congressional oversight. This must stop. The president promised us an open government and the FED is diametrically opposite of that. We have no information on which banks the FED bailed out, who owes them money, etc etc.

[denem]

7. The Devaluation of the Dollar = protection from imports

that DU'ers have been demanding for years, with the added bonus of spurring exports.

Adjustment back to more local industry was never going to be fun.