Why does Rick Perry think the 1987 letter Ron Paul wrote resigning from the GOP to protest Reagan’s spendthrift ways is going to hurt him? Said Paul, at the time:

Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party have given us skyrocketing deficits, and astoundingly a doubled national debt. How is it that the party of balanced budgets, with control of the White House and Senate, accumulated red ink greater than all previous administrations put together?

…There is no credibility left for the Republican Party as a force to reduce the size of government. That is the message of the Reagan years.

As John Stossel blogs:

It does seem odd that Paul would run an ad touting his support for Reagan, if he thinks Reagan was a bad president. But Paul has been consistent in fighting for limited government. Reagan — less so.

I’m surprised Perry thinks this letter will be a BAD thing for Paul’s campaign. If conservative voters actually read the letter, I doubt they’d be disgusted by the contents. It reads a lot like something the Tea Party would say today.

True. Only those given over to mindless Reagan worship will see this as a horrifying gaffe by Ron Paul. By the way, check out this picture of Perry getting up in Paul’s face during a commercial break last night. I wish we had seen that on the air. Bluff Perry comes off as a bully, laying his hand on Paul like that. I understand that Ron Paul irritates conventional Republicans with his idiosyncratic truth-telling, and with his flat-out idiosyncracy, but that’s too much.

Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/07/perry-vs-paul/#ixzz1XMJ41njf