Well, you knew it was going to come. Huckabee started the whisper campaign in 2007, and it worked. Now that Perry's slipping, and Herman Cain is rising as the top non-Romney candidate, Perry had to do something. He didn't smash the place up. He just hung the red flag in the china shop, left the front door open, then untied the bull. Plausible deniability.
Some quotes I found on it:
Andrew Sullivan: "If you wonder why Romney cannot quite seal the deal, Pastor Jeffress has part of the answer. If you turn a political party into a church, as the GOP essentially now is, sectarianism will eventually emerge. In all its ugly, bigoted, negative manifestations. Perry is showing he can play a card from the bottom of the deck when he's up against it. Which is not a good sign for next year."
And hey, Mitt Romney: "Our values ennoble the citizen, and strengthen the nation. We should remember that decency and civility are values too. One of the speakers who will follow me today, has crossed that line. Poisonous language does not advance our cause. It has never softened a single heart nor changed a single mind. The blessings of faith carry the responsibility of civil and respectful debate. The task before us is to focus on the conservative beliefs and the values that unite us – let no agenda, narrow our vision or drive us apart."
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