Rep. Ron Paul Zings Gov. Rick Perry Over Bernanke Comment: ‘He Makes Me Look Like A Moderate!’

by Frances Martel | 8:44 pm, August 17th, 2011

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Texas Congressman Ron Paul can’t remember Texas Governor Rick Perry‘s name. In what is shaping up to be the most contentious intrastate Republican presidential clash since Tim Pawlenty and Rep. Michele Bachmann duked it out at last week’s debate, GOP frontrunner Rep. Paul mocked his governor in front of a crowd in New Hampshire today, noting that, despite his years of railing against the Federal Reserve, he had “never once suggested Bernanke committed treason,” like a certain “Southern governor.”

Rep. Paul, of course, was referencing the the comment Perry made this week against Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in which he said Texans would “treat him pretty ugly” for his monetary policy and called it borderline “treasonous.” Many perceived this as Perry making an attempt to court Rep. Paul’s supporters, as the latter had been the leading voice for auditing Bernanke and the Federal Reserve for years. In Concord campaigning this evening, Rep. Paul made clear that whatever Perry was trying to say, it had nothing to do with him. Reports CNN:

He also took the opportunity to poke fun at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who came under fire this week when he suggested Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke could be committing treason if he printed more money before the 2012 elections.

“Now we have a Southern governor, I can’t remember his name,” Paul said to raucous applause. “He makes me look like a moderate. I have never once suggested Bernanke committed treason.”

Rep. Paul also reported went through a number of topics, telling the audience that he was happy some in the media had recognized that he had been widely ignored and suggesting the mainstream television media isn’t “as relevant as they think they are.”

Perry already proved today that he isn’t one to keep quiet when attacked, even lightly as the President did yesterday, so Rep. Paul should be expecting a swift retort to his reportedly mirthful insolence today. Whenever it is scheduled for, the next Republican presidential debate is already shaping up to be quite the show.

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Anonymous

Careful, Ron. Rick Perry might pull out some of your racist newsletters.

You’re both loons.
OutoftheShadow

Let him pull out the newsletters. Old news. Paul didn’t write them.
Ryan

I was at this event, and this is incomplete reporting. While Dr. Paul did point out that he had never described Bernanke as “treasonous”, he confirmed that he still considered Bernanke a counterfeiter!
Anonymous

Ron Paul wants to end the Fed. There’s no way that Perry would seem more Right than Paul on that issue.
B W

Ever heard of “Dreams From My Father”?

“White folks’ greed runs a world in need.”

Moron.
Anonymous

Or bitter clingers.

As the saying goes, “You can’t fix stupid”.
Nature Freak

Exactly!
When this story broke out 3 years ago I looked into it. It was obvious Ron Paul had no knowledge of what was in those newsletters at the time.
http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

Ron Paul on the offensive?

I like that. What can Perry say back?

All Perry should do is THANK congressman Paul for bringing the

issue of the Fed to the table and move on.
NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

nader paul kucinich gravel mckinney baldwin ventura sheehan

we’re living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840B27zYfOk
Anonymous

Here Dr. Paul is talking about real change and the main stream media is ready and willing to spoon feed the American people yet another heap of mediocracy with the likes of Perry, Romney or those other empty suits…
dono

I like Ron – dont agree with him on half his positions but I would Love to see him as Pres. I do happen to agree with him on the other half of his positions and I would love to see him in the office. You know a little crazy old man in charge is probably just what we need.

BTW the only reason he seems crazy is that he tells the truth and that IS crazy in politics.
http://twitter.com/BaldyBlonde Baldy and The Blonde

I know Ron Paul, Mr Rick Gardisil Gore Nafta Amnesty Perry, and you sir are no Ron Paul.

Perry is to Paul as a federal reserve note is to gold.
Anonymous

And who said that in the book? Don’t look at Sean Hannity, he can’t help you. Answer the question.
Anonymous

A man who allows others to write racist newsletters in his name, represents the contents to be his own thoughts, collects money from the enterprise, and then (claims) to have no clue what was going on.

He’s certainly as qualified to be President as George W. Bush.
Anonymous

The Zionist war machine is doing all it can to stop Ron Paul. He is fighting hard or the parasites not to use our money and our soldiers to fight another war based on lieson behalf of another country. In addition, the Wall Street crooks are fighting Ron Paul because they depend on the Fed to guarantee zero cost funding for them to maximize profits and fund the lobbying operations of the zionists so that they can control our foreign policy and the wars we should be fighting for them
http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Tiffany/100001320367593 Victor Tiffany

That comment will haunt Perry for at least one reason: it demonstrated profound ignorance about the Constitution. Printing money is not treason. Of course, Perry doesn’t want Bernanke to do his job because that would undermine the whole Republican strategy of sinking the national economy in order to get Obama out of the White House.

That’s not treason either, but it is despicable to have politics put before that national interest.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Todd-Scheller/100000832449863 Todd Scheller

Victor,
You do realize that Democrats are at the helm of the economy and have been since 12:00PM EST January 20, 2009.