Rick Perry Can be Bought?

http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011/09/maybe-rick-perry-cant-be-bought-for-5000-but-merck-gave-much-more/


“If you are saying I can be bought for $5,000, I am offended,” Perry said...

I know it was meant as a joke, but if a Democrat said that, Republicans would have a twist on it that would have the right-wing pundits in a tissy with the victimhood card.  He said it in such a smug way, that it was like he was saying among the candidates, that "lobbyests" (lobbiests?) have given him much more than that...It just did not sound presidential...which is what republicans always demand of democrats...