The Left tries this on on every single conservative candidate, Reagan was an amiable old dunce, Bush I was a rich fool, Dole was a geriatric dummy, Quayle was a stupid young frat-boy (so was Bush II), Palin and Bachmann are both back-woods rednecks and bible-thumpers. Now Perry is in the media, the same is being tried on him.
The urban leftists will of course eat this narrative up, and they are the MSM after all - but I’m surprised they think the rest of us are so gullible, seeing that it is used every single time.
...(Obama) had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicagoother than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he had voted ‘present’ (instead of ‘yea’ or ‘nay’) 130 times, sometimes dodging difficult issues.”
They don't hesitate to lie and have no shame about it.
I wonder who will play Perry on Saturday Night Live alongside Tina Fey?
The Left tries this on on every single conservative candidate, Reagan was an amiable old dunce, Bush I was a rich fool, Dole was a geriatric dummy, Quayle was a stupid young frat-boy (so was Bush II), Palin and Bachmann are both back-woods rednecks and bible-thumpers. Now Perry is in the media, the same is being tried on him.
I think it goes even further back - to Eisenhower, who was always portrayed as intellectually inferior to Adlai Stevenson. Interesting that they couldn’t peg Nixon as stupid - only as evil.