OK, so maybe it's not the exact same jacket, but it's pretty darn close -- close enough to be hilarious, for sure.
...not the clothing choice you'd expect from someone waxing poetic about how "gays can serve openly in the military, while our kids can't celebrate Christmas openly." Maybe he needs a new campaign slogan: RICK PERRY, THE GAY COWBOY FROM TEXAS. No?
The ad is so vile that even some members of Perry's staff were disgusted with the idea. Via HuffPo:
[N]ot everyone was comfortable with the script. When the ad was being crafted several weeks ago, Perry's top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, called it "nuts," according to an email sent from Fabrizio to the ad's main creator, longtime GOP operative Nelson Warfield. In a separate email to The Huffington Post, Warfield confirmed that the ad was made over Fabrizio's objections.