Perry's Love Affair With Guns

by Charlie Spiering - October 23rd, 2011 - The Washington Examiner

In Iowa, Rick Perry took the opportunity during his pheasant hunting trip with Congressman Steve King to wax poetically about firearms and hunting.

"As long as I've got memory, I've had something to hunt with," Perry said Saturday. "It was a long love affair with a boy and his gun that turned into a man and his gun, and then it turned into a man and his son and his daughter and their guns."

Having a background as a cotton farmer is another attribute that makes Rick Perry a good candidate for the coming campaign against Obama. Too many Democrats and Republicans are big city people who just don't get the pragmatic need in farming for a compromise on free enterprise principles to recognize the consequences of weather.

Rick Perry is not just American. He is country.