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Perry: Donald Trump's candidacy is cancer on conservatism
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry—Photo by Joseph Earnest
by Joseph Earnest July 22, 2015
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—In perhaps his strongest words against Donald Trump, former Texas Governor Rick Perry warned Conservatives against Trump and what he promises the Conservative movement.
"My fellow Republicans, beware of false prophets. Do not let itching ears be tickled by messengers who appeal to anger, division and resentment. Resentment is the poison we swallow that we hope harms another. My fellow Republicans, don’t take the poison," Perry said at the Freedom PAC forum in Washington D.C. today.
Perry warned Republicans about the people who sow discord in the Republican party.
"In times of trouble, there are two types of leaders: repairers of the breach and sowers of discord. The sower of discord foments agitation, thrives on division, scapegoats certain elements of society, and offers empty platitudes and promises. He is without substance when one scratches below the surface.
"He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued.
"Let no one be mistaken – Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded. It cannot be pacified or ignored, for it will destroy a set of principles that has lifted more people out of poverty than any force in the history of the civilized world – the cause of conservatism," Perry said.
Perry said it was wrong for Trump to demonize Mexicans for political sport, and that Trump scapegoats Hispanics to appeal to our worst instincts, when we need a president who appeals to our best.
"In the 1840’s the “Know Nothings” emerged as a political movement, scapegoating Irish and German immigrants for the problems of the nation. They were obsessively anti-Catholic, so much so that when the Pope sent marble for the building of the Washington Monument, they smashed it to pieces and helped delay its construction for 35 years.
"These people built nothing, created nothing. They existed to cast blame and tear down certain institutions. To give outlet to anger.
"I, for one, will not be silent when a candidate for the high office of president runs under the Republican banner by targeting millions of Hispanics, and our veterans, with mean-spirited vitriol.
"I will not go quiet when this cancer on conservatism threatens to metastasize into a movement of mean-spirited politics that will send the Republican Party to the same place it sent the Whig Party in 1854: the graveyard.
"Donald Trump was born into privilege. He received deferments to avoid service in Vietnam. He breathes the free air thousands of heroes died protecting. And he couldn’t have endured for five minutes what John McCain endured for five and a half years...
"But most telling to me is not Mr. Trump’s bombast, his refusal to show any remorse for his comments about Senator McCain, but his admission that there is not a single time in his life that he sought the forgiveness of God..."
Trump certainly hasn't been hit this hard by a fellow Republican in the race. Perry doesn't show any signs of letting Trump off the hook in regard to the inflammatory comments the Don has become famous for. Add Comments>>
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