Hightower: There’s a ‘very ugly side’ to Rick Perry

[Playinghardball]

Source: MSNBC - RawReplay
By Stephen C. Webster

Although the presence of Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the Republican presidential primary may be looked upon warmly in the press these days, don’t expect that to last. Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Tuesday, populist author and Texas Observer contributor Jim Hightower cautioned that there’s a “very ugly side” to Perry that won’t be relatively unknown for long.

“They say the higher the monkey climbs, the more you see its ugly side,” Hightower said. “Well, Perry’s got a very ugly side. He’s going to get the kind of media scrutiny that he’s not had.”

“Republicans get a two’fer with him. One, they get one of the furthest-out of the far-out tea party right-wingers, sort of a Michele Bachmann with better hair. And also though, they get the real Perry, which is the exuberant, corporate Republican who never met a corporate lobbyist he wouldn’t hug as long as that lobbyist had a campaign check and a wish list.

“He really is kind of a George Bush plutocrat without the intelligence or the ethics. That’s the real Perry, is really going to be the corporate Perry. That’s the kind of governorship he has run.”

This video is from MSNBC, broadcast Tuesday, August 16, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/hightower-theres-a-very-ugly-side-to-rick-perry/

[truebrit71]

1. "George Bush...without the intelligence or the ethics"...jeebus...

...either that means that Rick Perry is the stupidest, most corrupt mfer on the planet, or the writer was high as a kite when he wrote that sentence...The words 'george bush', 'intelligence', and 'ethics' do not belong in the same sentence unless the phrase "completely without" is inserted first...

[w8liftinglady]

2. Hightower will NOT let Rick go easily...he is fantastic

[liberal N proud]

3. Maybe he will get the media scrutiny that bu$h should have.

If the media would have scrutinized bu$h this nation would have taken a much better course.

[MilesColtrane]

4. Hightower is correct about the "real" Perry.

The whacked-out religious stuff is just for the votes. Perry's a big bidness greedhead to the core.