At Beck event, Perry says anti-Obama conservatives are an ‘army’ that can ‘take their country back.’

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/25/perry-tea-army/

Last week, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich upset some Tea Party supporters when used the word “militant” to describe the conservative protest group’s potential place in the Republican Party. Now, another conservative leader has described the Tea Party movement with language that invokes the military. Before declaring that “if you care about America, if you care about taking this country back, you find you a tea party” at a Glenn Beck rally, Perry said that he would be “proud” to join with an “army” of anti-Obama Americans:

Before taking the stage Saturday night, Perry praised Beck as a national leader with a powerful message about Washington and “out of control spending.”

“Americans can take their country back and send a message to this administration, to this Congress and I consider myself proud to be in that army,” Perry said.

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Gov. Empty Hair.

[havocmom]

1. Too bad the wingers can't see how they are being set up as cannon fodder in a new civil war

[spanone]

2. do they have 'da bomb' ?

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Governor Thirty Nine Percent?

Rick Perry was only re-elected last time with a 39 percent plurality of the votes cast. He didn't even reach a 50 percent plus majority.

If Progressives work hard enough, maybe Perry's counsel will look as irrelevant as Louis Wigfall's and Jefferson Davis'.

:dem:

:patriot:

[retired af major]

4. How appropriate

The secessionist joins the seditionist's army. I hope that make them both combatants.

The constitution doesn't need to be restored as Beck bellows, it needs to be respected.

Perry needs to go, he's been an employee of the State of Texas too long.

[ixion]

5. It's not a coincidence

it's an orchestrated even to invoke (goad) the teabaggers into violence.

[Bitwit1234]

6. 69,000 tea bags???

boy if we had those people fighting in Iraq and Afgan we would have cleaned the countries up by now....and they are going to take this country back all 69,000 against 250 or more million...dang...don't republicans love that fantasy land they live in.

[Odin2005]

7. Arrest that seditionous bastard!