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Near frenzy of conservatives bellowing against fellow conservatives

The irksome hitch in Rick Perry’s ‘git-a-long’



So the mainstream media doesn’t like what my late Auntie Edie would call the “little hitch in Rick Perry’s ‘git-a-long’ ”. It really grates on those feverish AP scribes who like to portray Perry’s git-a-long as an outright “swagger”. “Perry exudes confidence, swagger on Campaign Trail”. (AP, Aug. 18, 2011). And just to think the peanut gallery thought exuding confidence out on the campaign trail was what presidential candidates were supposed to do!
Then there’s the call out to strippers, escorts, just a “young hottie”, potential blackmailers and the like by the Committee Against Sexual Hypocrisy in an ad hominem Internet ad asking, “Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?” In their dreams, as time will likely prove. They’re covering Rick Perry in the cowboy icon and recent history has already proven that only Mamas dare to love cowboys.

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It’s open season on Republican, Conservative and Tea Party presidential candidates, and we expect the jackals in the mainstream media to be gathering to take pot shots between sips of latte at whomever turns up to take on their hero Barack Obama. Dissing Perry for pointing his left index finger skyward, raising his voice and declaring: “We don’t need anybody apologizing anywhere in this world about America, while “the crowd didn’t notice that Perry got Petty Officer Jon T. Tumilson’s name wrong”, “Welcome to the Rick Perry roadshow,” proclaims the Associated Press, to all of Obama’s 57 states. According to AP “he (Perry) knows his audience and plays to it.” Isn’t that what all politicians on both sides of the spectrum do all the time? Obama, of course, who struts off the stage every week or so for holidays and plays his audiences like Nero’s proverbial fiddle, doesn’t. At least as far as the slavering mainstream media is concerned. But in light of the mainstream media savaging of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, et al, smear jobs no longer shock readers and television viewers since they have become the norm. It’s the sometimes near frenzy of conservatives bellowing against fellow conservatives that bothers me. This column is not an endorsement of Rick Perry for President, not that he needs one from the country next door. It is a written worry how it seems that every conservative horse is being shot at before ever leaving the starting gate at a time when all energy should be aimed at the “enemy in the White House”, who seems not only picking the wings off the American dream but even revels in it. It is roughly 14 months before the November 2012 presidential election. Lots of time to examine all candidates under the microscope. Fox News’ talking heads will examine every nook and cranny of the candidates’ personal lives--boring many viewers in the process. Karl Rove, David Frum and the know-it-all-conservative-society will undoubtedly force the great unwashed along the path of the straight and narrow. Fourteen months is long enough for almost anything to happen, including the welcome entry of a Ronnie Reagan-like dark horse who would put America first. And the next 14 months may be the longest of our lives. Obama, who is hurling the wrecking ball at a vulnerable America, will put his re-election before anything America might need, including manufacturing pre-election chaos. It’s going to be a long, demoralizing and bumpy ride right up to Nov. 6, 2012. Meanwhile, there can be little doubt that to many a swagger is far less bothersome than a strut.


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Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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