Nothing gets past the Dish reader:
You can badmouth Rick Perry all you want, but he was wearing what looks like a Carhartt jacket with a corduroy collar and Heath Ledger was wearing a different jacket with a shearling collar. That I, a straight guy, has to point this out to you boggles my mind.
I am a very incompetent gay. The sodomy I have down. The rest? Still flailing. Another writes:
I'm not a fan of Perry, but I really gotta comment on the fun people are having with that jacket he's wearing in that new ad. Carhartt jackets are essentially THE working class's uniform, at least in the West. Virtually anyone working outdoors in this part of the country is wearing that same jacket (or a hooded/overalls version).
Doesn't matter whether they're a cowboy, a farmer, a welder, an oilfield worker, an electrician, the guy who delivered my newspaper in sub zero weather last night … or a politician trying to show that group of people that they're "one of them". Hell, there's a picture out there of Sarah Palin stepping into a voting booth wearing one.
I remember during the 2008 Montana primary, Obama and Hillary held rallies just a few hours apart. When summing up the differences between the two rallies, one of the local writers described the crowd at Clinton's rally as being made up of the "Carhartt and jeans crowd"- blue collar and union folks, people working outdoors and in agriculture.
People who look at that jacket being worn by Perry and only see "the Brokeback Mountain jacket" are showing a pretty large disconnect from this country's working class. Literally millions of Americans woke up this morning and put on that exact same jacket to go to work. Not recognizing that jacket from anywhere other than Brokeback Mountain says quite a lot.
Regarding Perry's other "oops" moment, his campaign finally got with it and disabled the "dislike" button on YouTube for their newest ad.
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