Secessionist Rick Perry thinks Bernanke doing his job is treasonous

Secessionist candidate Rick Perry apparently thinks that Fed Chair Ben Bernanke doing his job to help stimulate the US economy borders on treason and if he were to come to Texas after printing more money, he'd probably fall victim to some state-sanctioned violence.

Speaking just now in Iowa, Perry said, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion.”Here's the video:

Things that aren't "almost treasonous": the chairman of the Federal Reserve printing money.

Things that are "almost treasonous": threatening secession from the Union.


Perry's comments about the President not loving America, the troops deserving a patriotic veteran Commander in Chief, and Bernanke committing treason they all get at his biggest weakness: his secession comments. Perry is deploying a classic Rovian tactic - go after your opponent where you are weakest.

Cross posted from AMERICAblog Elections: The Right's Field

PS from JOHN: Perry isn't backing down from his threat against Bernanke. It sounds to me like a ploy by Team Perry to spin Perry as a crotch-grabbing manly man who just can't help but threaten violence against other men because, you know, that's just what straight guys do.