His bio actually shows a man whose career has been faltering after a peak in the mid-60's. The position he held in the Carter administration was well below what he held in the Johnson administration, and when his bio says "He has worked as an editor or reporter for several daily newspapers, including the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, the Buffalo Evening News and the Clearwater Sun" it's co-mingling positions to give the impression that he might have been an editor on all of those. Or maybe he was just a stringer. All in all, it's a pretty distinguished bio that doesn't fluff all that well no matter how much hot air you blow on it.

Ronald Reagan was a Liberal Democrat, fan of FDR, and President of a Labor Union, BEFORE he became the BMOC of the US Republican-Conservative Movement.

To suggest that Perry isn't part of the right wing fringe BECAUSE he MAY once have been a Democrat is to say the Ronald Reagan was a Liberal Democrat as President.

But the saddest thing is that Perry is right there with Glenn Beck, Orvitz the Birther, and all those Teabaggers yelling President Obama is simultaneously a Nazi-Marxist-Socialist-Non-citizen.

Worse, he's added to the already circulating assassination theme "coup d'etat."

Let's turn the United States of America into a banana republic. Let's have a right wing thugocracy that disappears thousands, like the Nixon installed Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.

You can help. Just keep promoting the idea it is okay to call the duly elected President of the United States a Nazi---and okay for the US to throw out its Constitution in a military coup.

Just as some men, such as Frank Schaeffer, make a u-turn away from the dark side, there are men, such as John L. Perry, who turn toward it.

The comparison between these two directions ends there, as Schaeffer's choice was toward enlightenment, whereas Perry's choice led him to embrace that certain darkness where a man, urging a coup of Barack Obama's presidency, begins an op-ed column by paraphrasing Samuel Johnson, “Nothing focuses the mind like a hanging,” and ends his column with his own words, advising Americans to "Start thinking. It comes at a time when Americans’ minds are focused on what gallows the future may hold for them and theirs."

Those were the words penned by John L. Perry 8 days before Obama's inauguration. And, if there were any doubt as to what, exactly, Perry meant by this, he neatly clarified this in a subsequent column, on January 19 -- the day before Obama's inauguration -- wherein Perry constructed a vision of how our democratically elected, constitutional government might best be overthrown. Building on Jeb Bush's suggestion that Republicans form a "shadow government" (a term drawn from the British Parliamentary system), which John L. Perry extrapolated to this: "When a ruling party fails to stay ahead of the hounds, the shadow government, at least in theory, is equipped to step into power."

Some mens minds are compelled to turn toward darkness, some toward light. This is the warp and weft of our history, our national character. Whether John L. Perry's choice to work in the shadows is based in old ignorance and old hatred, or in new money, is yet unknown. But one thing is for certain: there is no resume so spiffy that it can polish the stain off a foul soul.

Newsmax took down the article, but they can take satisfaction in that it served its purpose. People are now openly talking about removing the President from power by force.

Nice work on their part in carrying out the larger GOP strategy:

1. Use apocalyptic rhetoric that exacerbates fear, bigotry and extremism among the uneducated and intolerant.

2. Counter any liberal criticism of your inflammatory calls for action by saying they can't take a joke or you misspoke.

3. Keep turning up the heat and act surprised when somebody finally heeds your calls for extreme action.

4. Be sure to maintain you were only speaking figuratively and you are being unfairly blamed when violence occurs.

5. Keep your celebrations behind closed doors.

Been seeing a lot of the same types of stories popping up, that somehow this guy is not a "real conservative" because of his past work with the Democratic party. It's a pretty transparent effort to deflect any responsibility from the far right for the increasingly inflammatory rhetoric that the 'coup' column is only a part of. It's a common tool that seems rather desperate in this case as Perry has been a conservative columnist at newsmax since 1999. Using the same logic that Sturgis and other bloggers are using to distance Perry from the far right, one could say that Ariana Huffington is actually a conservative. Methinks they would rather be associated with Perry...

Barack Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope," contains a catchy title. It has a taste of bravery mixed with confidence. You'll find nothing Pollyanna about this. I may well not support every part he says, but he's our president, and for me, he creates trust. Which can do more for any country than any amount of backroom deals. Hope gives us energy, and energy sustains us through trying times. Boy, we've had them. I'm from West Texas, and I did not vote for Bush. When McCain ran against Obama, I used to be a citizen of Arizona, but I gave audacious hope a chance. The fight for progress and laying the foundations of prosperity will not be over. I have seen the quips of those who don't think Obama is capable of it. But step back a moment. Would anyone have all of us fail just to tarnish the star of an incumbent for whom they did not vote? Trying to keep our priorities straight, let's work together with our president and build our future.