“Mr. Perry felt the truth needed to be told and this was the best vehicle to do so,” Holm said. “Mr. Perry believes Tom DeLay has done an excellent job protecting jobs, NASA, and our borders. He spent it as the result of the several unjustified attacks on Tom DeLay.”
Well, ‘tis better to be thought a fool than to spend a couple hundred thousand on a pointless attack ad and remove all doubt, eh?
Interesting, isn’t it? Bob Perry spends thousands decrying Soros for the millions he spends on Liberal causes, and yet the horse Perry is backing is facing the very real possibility of going to prison. So what’s the moral of the story here? Apparently that being a corrupt despot is one thing, but it ain’t half as bad as being a rich, politically active Liberal.
Houston homebuilder Bob Perry is the sole funding source for a $200,000 TV advertising campaign that supports Rep. Tom DeLay and criticizes Democratic financier George Soros.
Perry, a longtime Republican donor, gave the entire amount that the conservative Committee for Free Enterprise used on the 30-second spot, according to spokesman Anthony Holm. The committee, rather than Perry, is identified in the ad as the sponsor….
Of course, few if any reasonable people would take this sort of crap seriously if they knew it was sponsored by a Right-wing zealot with close ties to DeLay. Then again, I doubt many reasonable folks would view this as anything more than Right-wing zealotry anyway. Hey, it’s a free country. If you want to drop $200,000 of your own money on a television campaign designed to slander someone you happen to disagree with you, who am I to stop you from writing the check? Perry really didn’t need to spend that much money to convince us that he’s a fool, though.
Perry, a close friend of President Bush’s top political aide, Karl Rove, has given millions to Texas GOP candidates, including DeLay.
Perry and his wife, Doylene, each contributed $5,000 late last year to DeLay’s legal defense fund.
Perry’s company is building the Oaks at Rio Bend, a residential campus for foster children founded by DeLay and his wife, Christine.
So now it just looks as if Perry is a self-interested business man with his head halfway up Tom DeLay’s @$$. Then again, this is the way Republicans do business, isn’t it? Perry probably just looks at his $200,000 as an investment; no doubts he’ll see it returned many times over during the next few years.
Personally, I hope Perry will waste even larger sums of his money. With any luck, he’ll spend himself stupid. And stupid is as stupid does, right?
