Rick Perry: Gold star parents should shut up or expect to be vilified
by digby
... at least the one's who attack Trump. TPM wrote up this interview with Rick Perry in which he proves once again that he's not the sharpest tool in the shed:
...In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Perry charged Khan with striking "the first blow" by speaking at the convention.
"In a campaign, if you're going to go out and think that you can take a shot at somebody and not have incoming coming back at you, shame on you," Perry said.
He cited Khan's remarks as a justification for the fiery response from Trump and his supporters, saying that Khan "politically used his time on that stage to go after Donald Trump" and therefore should not get a "free ride" in response.
"Because he had a son that was lost in this war against terror," Perry asked, "that gives him a free ride to say whatever he would like against a candidate that he is not for? That is not proper. That is not correct.
I guess Perry didn't bother to watch the RNC because there was a lady there who personally blamed Hillary Clinton for the death of her son and said "Hillary for Prison, she deserves to be in stripes!" --- for something that eight different investigations have shown she did not do.
And the Democrats and Clinton didn't "hit back." They did nothing in return except extend their condolences for her loss. You can bet that if she had been on the other side the likes of Trump and Perry would have ripped her to shreds.
