We know a little bit more about him now, don't we? He'd be happy to see Ben Bernanke lynched. He'd re-invade Iraq. And he'd also celebrate the counter-productive, obscene and profane pissing on enemy corpses by a handful of Marines in Afghanistan. That's the kind of thuggish mindset we have come to expect from a man who appears to be a walking parody of a troglodyte.
But where he truly captures the spirit of the current GOP is in saying that by disciplining these Marines – as urged by the Pentagon and any sane person who actually respects the Armed Services' professionalism and ethics – the White House and State Department have revealed a "disdain" for the military. Seriously. Of course, the opposite is true. Finding anything to approve of in the errant Marine's disgrace is to disdain the quality of the US military.
But Perry, like Romney, will say anything to smear the commander in chief as a traitor.
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