I have no idea why he said that about Hillary Clinton. It’s repugnant and I won’t defend it.
Yet you WILL defend the man who said it.
Imagine if you will, the RNC wants to hammer Hillary on her horrendous record as SoS, but the DNC and the Hillary campaign run ads showing that quote from her opponent!
Those who oppose Perry based on his horrendous record have been told by those who are willing to overlook it that we are petty in our opposition and that he is a great man. We have also been told that his horrendous performance in the debates were due to his taking medication. Is he on medication still, or is he just not capable of avoiding putting his foot in his mouth? And if it is the latter, is that who we want facing Hillary in the debates?
In your day to day life, if you incounter people who say things so bad that you find them repugnant, do you embrace them or do you look at them negatively.
Because in my mind, when anyone says something so opposed to my belief structure that I find it repugnant or any other word describing great revulsion, I do not mark that person in the ‘good’ box. That person defined themselves to me. And I will never look at them the same way again. Because that is human nature. You MAY eventually get by it. But none of us ever eliminate that impression ‘repugnant’ leaves on us.
When a political type makes me apply such a label, I think it is suicidal to support them because they defined themselves to me as someone to oppose so that I do not subject myself or others to more ‘repugnant’.