Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Republican Frontrunner

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Osama Bin Laden was open to sending Al Qaeda troops to the US.

seatackled on October 2, 2011 at 9:33 AM

I wonder who will be the Republican front runner next week?

Mike in Olympia on October 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM

I'm no fan of Perry, but it's hardly responsible journalism to post that WaPo hatchet-job without posting his response (which was quite reasonable). He didn't own the property, he didn't name it, in fact, his family painted-over the name, and it's been renamed for years and years now.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on October 2, 2011 at 9:48 AM

Americans keen on sending troops to Mexico might be surprised to find out that the other side isn't just a few dozen waiters bearing frozen margaritas and kids selling Chiclets on the side of the road. It's a major industrial country with 110 million people. My Mexican friends are already up in arms over this idiot and his uninformed views. This kind of bullshit could bring a little scattered violence on Americans in Mexico -- something they have heretofore been unexposed to. Mexico being a safer country than the US and all. Especially Texas.

Fnarf on October 2, 2011 at 10:10 AM

No joke @3. I'm pretty certain that General Seyni Kountché, the Niger head in 1983 owned the land. He is responsible.

Geraldo Riviera on October 2, 2011 at 10:11 AM

God, I hope no one ever finds out what my grandpa used to call Brazil nuts. I could never show my face on Slog again.

rob! on October 2, 2011 at 10:21 AM

Waging war in Mexico....Rick Perry makes W look like a Rhodes scholar.

lauramae on October 2, 2011 at 10:22 AM

@ 4, I'm pretty sure I've read about Americans murdered in the drug violence.

Matt from Denver on October 2, 2011 at 10:22 AM

@3

Now now. Don't confuse Strangeer writers with silly things like truth! It would fry their tiny little- well, for lack of a better word- minds.

Seattleblues on October 2, 2011 at 10:26 AM

@ 9, have you suddenly found respect for the truth? Or is restricted to cases where it gives your worldview a little bit of support?

Matt from Denver on October 2, 2011 at 10:28 AM

@6 - Oh please. Everyone's grandparents called them that. Fortunately, Brazil nuts come up in conversation pretty infrequently when I'm talking to my grandmother.

MacCrocodile on October 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM

Perry surely has delivered what few (non-Cuban) Latino GOP primary votes exist to his opposition with this latest nutrage - and his quote will surely feature prominently in Spanish-language Democratic campaign materials should he be the nominee.

He clearly has no idea how sensitive the issue of US military intervention (invasion) is in Mexico and Central America.

on October 2, 2011 at 10:36 AM

I forgot /sarc, @11, thinking that the whole "never show my face" thing would serve.

Seriously, the only possible usefulness of generational guilt is if it somehow adds to a mountain of evidence against making a wrong choice today.

rob! on October 2, 2011 at 10:58 AM

This operation will be called "Too Fast, Too Furious".

Spindles on October 2, 2011 at 11:06 AM

It's at the point where a write-in candidate could win.

I mean, if a bunch of people wrote in the name of a friendly Republican he could take the primary.

I mean, if such a thing could happen.

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on October 2, 2011 at 11:07 AM

@9: Yeah, like you know anything about the truth. I'm still waiting for you to make a lick of sense on the hate crime issue. Right over here.

venomlash on October 2, 2011 at 11:19 AM

Sweet Jesus. 15 years ago, I would have thought this was lifted from the Onion.

Stiny on October 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM

The good news is they moved the jockey with a lantern into the tool shed.

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on October 2, 2011 at 11:59 AM

Is he still the front-runner? They called him a "game-changer" until he actually entered the race and opened his mouth.

Toe Tag on October 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM

@11.. 'everybody' ? really ? ..my grandparents never called them that.

reverend dr dj riz on October 2, 2011 at 1:21 PM

Insensitive? Ya think?

And for fity_two_eighty, a bunch of people have come forward now to say that they were there and remember the name being prominently featured on that rock for many years after they first began accompanying the Perrys there, and after their purchase of the land. One specifically recounts thinking somehitng like "this is going to cause some trouble for Rick down the road." it does not seem to the the case they the Perrys were either unaware of the name or unable to make the change.

Daddy Love on October 2, 2011 at 2:03 PM

Going into Mexico might be a clusterfuck, but probably no more than the Middle East. We need to keep that military industrial complex greased somehow, and at least soldiers could go home for the weekends from "Operation Chihuahua Cleanup".

Banna on October 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM

Taking the war on drugs to it's next (il)logical conclusion.
Can you just imagine a guerrilla war on our southern border? Are we really so stupid as to assume Mexico will just roll over? Al Qeada must love Perry.

Vince on October 2, 2011 at 3:29 PM

Thank God we can fight five wars simultaneously and still afford to pay the bills.

...

Um, guys, you did pay the bills, right?

Will in Seattle on October 3, 2011 at 10:46 AM

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