How serious was Perry's treason "threat" to Bernanke over printing money before 2012?

[moderate libertarian]

How serious was Perry's treason "threat" to Bernanke over printing money before 2012?

"Threat" characterization came from Obama camp, this is what Texas gov Rick Perry said:

Barack Obama is 'greatest threat to US', says Rick Perry

Rick Perry has denounced President Barack Obama as "the greatest threat to our country" and called for him to be replaced by a new commander-in-chief "who is passionate about America".

"If this guy prints more money between now and the election," Mr Perry said during his first full day campaigning. "I don't know what y'all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...is-greatest-threat-to-US-says-Rick-Perry.html


Sarah Palin agrees with Perry on this it appears.


SARAH PALIN DEFENDS RICK PERRY CALLING BEN BERNANKE TREASONOUS

http://radio.foxnews.com/2011/08/19/sarah-palin-defends-rick-perry-calling-ben-bernanke-treasonous/

Do you think Perry went too far?

Would this so called Perry "threat" to fed have any affect on fed's decision to print/not print more money before 2012 election?

 

[Buchananite]

Sure Perry is saying it to get votes, but Bernanke is a traitor.

 

[moderate libertarian]

Saw another interesting take on this.

Rick Perry: Polyester Ron Paul, amateur Dick Cheney

By Brent Budowsky - 08/18/11 09:53 AM ET

Ron Paul and Rick Perry are destined for one of the great clashes in Republican debating history that may lead to the mother of all Ron Paul money bombs. After Perry embarrassed himself by suggesting the Federal Reserve chairman is guilty of treason and then coming dangerously close to inciting violence against the Fed, Perry now pretends to be a monetary-policy expert by quoting things Ron Paul said decades ago.

If Perry wants to be the polyester Ron Paul, he should hire staff to fix his cue cards and teleprompter so he can at least be less than a decade behind Paul. Meanwhile, while Rick Perry does a polyester imitation of Ron Paul on monetary policy, he does an amateur imitation of Dick Cheney on foreign policy, sounding like a born-again neocon, appearing to look for new wars to fight.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-bl...-perry-polyester-ron-paul-amateur-dick-cheney

 

[thehungarian]

The way his words look on paper is so much different than listening to audio of the speech. When he started talking about the Fed he was stuttering and stopping and sounded like he had no clue what he was talking about.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Barrack the dictator tells others what they can and cannot say . Perry is also just a staged coup on the civil liberties movement.

 

[danny987]

He was just trying to take votes from Paul

 

[specsaregood]

It is all scripted, including Obama's reply. Let me know when Perry calls the republican controlled US congress treasonous for authorizing Bernanke to print the money. Then we'll talk about "serious".

 

[LibertyEagle]

It is all scripted, including Obama's reply. Let me know when Perry calls the republican controlled US congress treasonous for authorizing Bernanke to print the money. Then we'll talk about "serious".

Exactly. This is all just a play.

 

[SkarnkaiLW]

Treason is strictly defined in the Constitution (and not so much for the GOP ), but he is almost certainly running a counterfitting operation. Unsure if the Death penalty provision of the old 1792 coinage act is still in force, but the Fed is definitely unconstitutional. Lucky for Bernanke, Ron Paul is against the Death Penalty.

 

[Revolution9]

Perry is bereft intellectually and was stumble-bumming about trying to say what he heard RP say. Since his thought processes are similar to one hundred bb's bouncing around a boxcar what came tumbling out was basically the only thing he could parse out of the jumble of confusion that is the possessed, double minded intellect that uses Rick Perry as its mask.

Rev9

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

It was about as serious as Bugs Bunny. It took him 5 freakin' minutes to say that sentence.

 

[Sola_Fide]

It is all scripted, including Obama's reply. Let me know when Perry calls the republican controlled US congress treasonous for authorizing Bernanke to print the money. Then we'll talk about "serious".

Bingo.

 

[Napoleon's Shadow]

It would be worth THOUSANDS of dollars if anyone got on camera asking this guy the following questions:


"Governor, what exactly will you do to Mr. Bernanke if elected President?"

"Governor, if Mr. Bernanke DOES come to Texas, as Governor, what will you do?"

"Governor, can you please cite exactly which laws that Chairman Bernanke has broken?"