Rick Perry Begs, but Doesn't Understand the Consequences of His Political Rhetoric

by: Todd Hill

Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 07:30 AM CDT

The deteriorating situation along the Texas-Mexico border has caused Rick Perry to emerge from his primary cocoon of extreme, Tea Party anti-government rhetoric to beg for help.  The problem is that Perry doesn't understand the consequences of his political rhetoric.

It may have been politically popular to spend a year tearing down the Federal government and framing his primary opponent as representative of everything that is wrong with Washington D.C., but now the very people he needs to help him lobby in Washington for border assistance, both Republican and Democrat, are likely to be the very one's who gently remind him that his political rhetoric didn't help his cause. For an entire year Rick Perry ignored the cartel action along the border and instead concentrated on moving so far to the Right in his primary campaign that he makes Rush Limbaugh blush.

Career politicians like Rick Perry have never learned that political rhetoric has far-reaching consequences. He just simply fires off at the mouth when he believes it makes him look like the swaggering cowboy that a cheerleader could never be:

• Rick Perry hates the Federal government until he needs $14 billion in Federal stimulus dollars to balance the Texas budget.
• Rick Perry hates the Federal government until he needs their transportation dollars to meld pieces of his defunct Trans-Texas Corridor project together.
• Rick Perry hates the Federal government until his primary campaign is over and he just now discovers that he has a cartel problem along the border between Mexico and Texas.