Perry and Trump trade shots over border security

Donald Trump has achieved the impossible. Lindsey Graham, who, like Perry, continues to lag in the also-ran category, said this of Trump on the “Today” show: “We live in the most complicated unsafe times in the world, and he’s a wrecking ball when it comes to policy”. It’s because he is pandering to to racism and hateful minorities in the party. Indeed, no matter how inflammatory Donald Trump’s rhetoric might get between now and the first week in August, it’s a safe bet that the outspoken tycoon will be on hand to rattle the cages of his fellow candidates for some time to come.

“What Mr. Trump is offering is not conservatism, it is Trump-ism – a toxic mix of demagoguery and nonsense”, the former Texas governor said in a statement. When asked if Trump was qualified to be president, Perry declined to answer, only saying that he himself is “the most qualified”.

Former Gov. Rick Perry, who has seized the mantle as the most vocal Republican critic of Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy, upped the ante Saturday by calling for the bombastic billionaire to immediately exit the 2016 race.

Republican pollster Frank Luntz, while moderating the Family Leader Summit of religious conservatives Saturday afternoon, pressed Trump on his McCain comment. McCain endured torture as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War and was later decorated with a number of distinctions, including the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.

Perry is trying to make it into the first Republican debate, which will be held among the top ten polling GOP candidates.

This was followed by: Governor Perry failed on the border.

Perry’s reaction was the swiftest and sharpest of any presidential candidate Saturday. Perry is simply doing what Fox News demands – which is give lots of money to Fox News.

Whether this will work for him remains to be seen.

The former governor has already taken on Trump over his remarks last month generalizing people in the country illegally as criminals. It’s as if the Republican primaries have become a form of crude hazing and rank blackmail rather than a democratic process.