He's flirted with secession. He's said Obama's administration was "hell-bent" on socialism. He's made Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck honorary Texans. But until now, Rick Perry has stayed away from the sort of rabid and patently insane remarks about Nazi Germany that many of his fellow Republicans on the fringe right tend to embrace.
Scratch Nazi Germany and September 11 fear-mongering off the list. From the Texas Tribune:
“Do we think about looking back to the 1930s in Europe, the South Pacific in late 1941 or even the United States in early September of 2001? There were early warning signs in all of those time frames that were ignored. Too many lives were needlessly lost,” he said in a speech he delivered as part of the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Lone Star Issues series. “We ignore the current warning signs along our international border at our own peril.”
