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| Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a campaign stop at the Chickasaw Event Center in New Hampton, Iowa, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) |
MANCHESTER,
Iowa (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry is calling the Wall Street bailout "the
single biggest act of theft in American history."
Campaigning
in Iowa on Monday, Perry sought to cast himself as an outsider who would cut
Washington's influence. He painted Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, his rivals
for the GOP presidential nomination, as status quo politicians who should worry
Republicans voters.
Perry says
the country needs a president who understands Main Street and is not beholden
to Wall Street.
With just
two weeks before Iowans begin assessing the GOP field, Perry says the values he
learned in rural Texas have shaped his views. He says "no one was going to
bail out a dry-land cotton farmer" and no one should have bailed out Wall
Street during the 2008 financial crisis.
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