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“My reaction is, that’s just very insensitive,” Cain said on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. “[There is not] a more vile negative word than the N-word and for him to leave it there as long as he did, before I hear that they finally painted it over is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country.”

The Washington Post reported Sunday that Perry hosted friends and other lawmakers at a Texas hunting camp that was at one point known by a name containing an offensive racial epithet. The slur, “N——-head,” was painted on a rock on the property.

The 60-second ad, called “Trust,” starts out with a narrator saying: “The establishment called him extreme and unelectable.” The narrator is not talking about Paul, but Reagan. The same black-and-white photo of Paul and Reagan that appeared in mailers in Iowa before the straw poll appears on screen. The ad points out the fact that Perry helped lead Democrat Al Gore’s campaign for president in 1988. In contrast, Paul endorsed Reagan (himself a former liberal Democrat) for president in the 1976 election against incumbent Gerald Ford – one of only four congressman to do so. “After Reagan, Sen. Al Gore ran for president, pledging to raise taxes and increase spending, pushing his his liberal values,” the narrator says. “And Al Gore found a cheerleader in Texas: Rick Perry.” The kicker at the end: “Now America must decide who to trust, Al Gore’s Texas cheerleader? Or the one who stood with Reagan?