He once owned stock in a Video company that offered X-Rated titles

From Eric Dondero:

The leftwing websites and blogs are all abuzz this morning with another supposed "Gotcha" on presidential candidate Rick Perry.

In the heyday of video stores, Movie Gallery was considered the one risque chain outlet in contrast to the more conservative Blockbuster and Hollywood Movies. They had a back room that included adult titles. Seems in the 1990s while he was Ag Commissioner, according to the far leftwing Democrat partisan site Burnt Orange out of Texas, Perry owned about $5,000 to $10,000 in stock in the company for a short while.

As another far leftwing site Salon explains:

Ironically, it was the social conservative crusaders at the American Family Association -- the very group that helped organize Perry's stadium prayer rally this month -- who spent years on an anti-porn campaign targeting Movie Gallery. AFA was active targeting Movie Gallery both before and after Perry owned the stock; at one protest event outside Movie Gallery's Alabama headquarters in 2000, AFA members held signs reading "Serve God or Serve Money," "Pornography hurts families," and "Porn dishonors mothers."

But the leftwing sites may be inadvertenly helping Perry. Many libertarians as of late have been skeptical of his candidacy and of his libertarian leanings. Some have even accused him of being "too religious right."

Being on the other side of such issues from the AFA ironically builds credibility with the socially tolerant porn-protecting libertarian set.

Photo of a younger Rick Perry circa 1990s.