Perry’s new TV ad slams ‘political correctness’ in Washington (w/Video)

Perry’s new TV ad slams ‘political correctness‘ in Washington (w/Video)

The Hill ^ | 12-13-2011 | Alicia M. Cohn

Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 1:41:29 PM by smoothsailing

December 13, 2011

Perry’s new TV ad slams ‘political correctness’ in Washington

By Alicia M. Cohn

Rick Perry hits political correctness in a new TV ad set to begin airing in Iowa and national cable on Tuesday.

“Washington is the capital of political correctness, where double-speak reigns and the truth is frowned upon,” Perry says to the camera in the new ad. The Texas governor continues to position himself as a “Washington outsider” looking to change things in the D.C. establishment.

“You and I know it’s true, but not politically correct,” he says, hitting foreign aid — he has said he wants to take the budget back to zero and re-evaluate each country from there — and “congressmen becoming lobbyists.” The last line could be taken as a gibe at Newt Gingrich, who has taken heavy criticism from fellow GOP candidates Mitt Romney and Ron Paul recently over his consultant work for Freddie Mac, though Perry does not name names.

Perry is starting a two-week bus tour Wednesday to visit 42 Iowa towns. He has refocused his Iowa campaign with an emphasis on retail politics, reportedly his area of campaign strength, and this ad is the latest in a series of ad buys in Iowa.

Perry continues to trail the front-runners in the state, just weeks before the Jan. 3 caucuses. He earned 8 percent of the vote in a University of Iowa poll of likely Republican caucus-goers on Monday, while an American Research Group poll, also released on Monday, had him at 13 percent.

Watch the ad below:

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