With the 06 elections just around the corner, facing a Republican primary agaisnt a tough no non-sense competitor, one has to question whether current Texas Gov. Rick Perry really want's to remain governor or is he really just that stupid.
After taking hits from newspaper editorial boards and moderate Christians statewide for the "stunt" of signing a parental notification bill and a call for a statewide election amending the constitution to ban gay marriage in the school of an evangelical church:
Governor goodhair,
or as his opponent CKS called him
"A do nothing drug store cowboy"
has managed to do it again.
In an interview by Houston reporter Ted Oberg over the special session for school financing recently called
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/062105_local_govperry.html
Rick Perry ended the interview with a charming
"Adios, Mofo."
This was of course after he was under the impression that the cameras and his mike had been turned off.
After realizing he had made this comment on tape, he quickly apologized and explained that their was no malice in it.
Tuesday morning, Governor Perry called me personally. He apologized and said his comment wasn't directed at us.
He agreed it was just one of those times a politician is caught by an open mike saying something embarrassing. He tells us he was just trying to get a reaction from the camera crew and it wasn't said with any malice or intent.
The story is a little different as found on H.K.'s Quorom Report
http://www.quorumreport.com/buzz/buzz.cfm
Perry said the remark was aimed not at Oberg, but at his own press officer, Robert Black. In KTRK's lead story - Perry caught in embarrassing faux pas with open microphone - Oberg said Perry signed off the interview with, "Adois, Mofo."
"I called Ted this morning and I apologized to him," Perry said. "I explained to him that it wasn't.... Some inappropriate banter that was directed towards Robert Black, and no offense towards him and I shared that with him or anyone else for that matter. It was Robert and I making some banter and it was inappropriate."
Now first of all, I don't remember the last time a relative stranger called me or anyone around me a MoFo, with no mal-intent.
Second, assuming you buy Perry's statement to the press that this was simply inappropriate banter with one of his own staffers this is hardly the kind of language you would think one courting the Christian right would be caught using in public.
What was this guy thinking? (The term 10 feet tall and bullet proof comes to mind, and it fits with the do nothing drug store cowboy description by Strayhorn)or maybe just Flaming Hypocrit (no pun intended).
One week he's signing bills in an evangelical church gymnasium, the next he's calling at best his own staffer a Mofo, now, I don't know what the rest of the country is like, but around here, that's extremely bad manners at best.
Most who would consider themselves very religious (the very base that Perry is counting on to win the upcoming primary) would'nt even be able to say those words without blushing. Hell, I think I'd have a hard time saying that in public.
How much longer can Perry continue to make these kinds of agregious misstakes in public and still expect to win the primaries? How many more times will Perry lend amunition to Strayhorn between now and then, I can't wait to see.
Oh yea, I was sick in bed all day yesterday, I couldn't find anything on this posted, but if it has been, let me know and I'll take this down. No sense taking up space if it's allready been put out there.