PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Perry Gives Defiant Statement on Indictment. The Dems are launching spoiling attacks at all the GOP prospects for 2016. That’s because they see it as war. The GOP, as Kurt Schlichter points out, needs to see things the same way if it hopes to win.

Some people seem to get it — see below — but if the GOP were serious it would be going after Dem prospects — Joaquin Castro, Andrew Cuomo, Elizabeth Warren, etc. — the same way.

@Swohtz @BoboFromTexas @instapundit @sheilaaj @PatVPeters pulling @tomdelay on him #StandWithRickPerry pic.twitter.com/PiQAo9nShl

— RonMurphy II (@THETXEMBASSY) August 16, 2014

This 2016 campaign advertisement is brought to you courtesy of Texas Democrats: "Democrats Defend Drunk Drivers, Rick Perry Defunds Them."

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 16, 2014