"It takes balls to execute an innocent man"- Rick Perry,a telling glimpse into the Right's worldview

[stockholmer]

http://www.salon.com/news/rick_perry/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/03/perry_willingham_survey

Here's a telling glimpse into the worldview of the Republican base, at least in Texas.

Regular readers will remember the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, a convicted arsonist who was executed on Gov. Rick Perry's watch several years ago despite a last-minute request for a stay and strong doubts about the case by scientific experts. (Full background here.) http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/25/cameron_todd_willingham_rick_perry

It turns out that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who unsuccessfully challenged Perry in the 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary, explored Perry's potential vulnerability on the issue, Politico reports. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A1B30E84-4008-465D-AE24-2BED58E229E7 But when the Hutchison campaign asked a focus group about Willingham, it received this startling response:

Multiple former Hutchison advisers recalled asking a focus group about the charge that Perry may have presided over the execution of an innocent man – Cameron Todd Willingham – and got this response from a primary voter: "It takes balls to execute an innocent man."


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[Kerrytravelers]

1. I'm sad to know that this doesn't surprise me. It's shocking, but not surprising.

[CTyankee]

4. dear god....

[spanone]

2. it takes balls to commit murder and a complete lack of humanity

[baldguy]

3. All it takes is a small amount of craven cowardice in facing the truth.

How many innocent men has Rick Perry - and his predecessor - executed?

[MadMaddie]

5. So they murdered an innocent man

[fascisthunter]

6. THAT is a Sociopath!

... no, it takes a defect to even say such a thing. It shows how twisted you are... that's no courage, that's a defect in the ability to discern between wrong and right, you stupid sick fuck.

[Danger Mouse]

7. What a disgusting human being.

[kenny blankenship]

8. David Lee Henry Ricky Bobby, you are innocent of all charges. Do you have anything to say -

before we hang you here, in just sentence of capital punishment, by your God-damned, vile & innocent neck?

[marew]

9. I'm feeling ill... n/t

[blogslut]

10. Perry has allowed more executions in Texas than any other governor...

...at any time ever.

[hifiguy]

11. Much of the right wing worships death

especially the religulously insane ones. Christianity is a death cult, so it's not surprising.

http://digitaldregs.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/is-christianity-a-cult-of-death/

http://www.irreligion.org/2010/06/27/hitchens-christianity-is-a-sick-death-cult/

[Bill McBlueState]

12. usually, the person whose name follows a quote is the one who said it

But not in your subject line. It was a primary voter, not Rick Perry, who said that.