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Here is the real quote:

"If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion," Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) said at an event in Iowa on Monday.

Perry didn't accuse Bernanke of treason.

No, Perry DID NOT call Barnanke a traitor or accuse him of treason. Anyway, I’m glad Perry is bringing this to the nation’s attention. Maybe now the Fed will stop the printing press, and when massive inflation occurs, voters will know who to blame.

It’s not even the first time he’s said it, and Rove knows it.

Those who are making something treacherous out of ". . . treat(ing) him pretty ugly" might need to heed Herman Cain's advice and get "a sense of humor."

While it might not be the most presidential-sounding statement, it will do more to get the attention of ordinary citizens focused on the Federal Reserve than some scholarly statement from Gingrich, or one of Ron Paul's many observations on the Fed.

Printing money always has been a problem for leaders who prized individual liberty and opportunity for citizens.

The following a just a few statements on the subject which indicate that Perry has history and facts on his side, if the public wishes to study the "paper money" subject. These quotes are a few on the subject from "Our Ageless Constitution". Dr. Edwin Vieira has written extensively on the Founders' protections for liberty through their provisions for a sound money system. A search of his writings might enlighten those who do not understand the following statements.

Thomas Jefferson: "Paper is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted."

". . . although the other nations of Europe have tried and trodden every path of force or folly in fruitless quest of the same object, yet we still expect to find in juggling tricks and banking dreams, that money can be made out of nothing. . . The misfortune is. . . we shall plunge ourselves in unextinguishable debt, and entail on our posterity an inheritance of external taxes, which will bring our government and people into the condition of those of England, an nation of pikes and gudgeons, the latter bred merely as food for the former."

"Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system [paper money] are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands, and by other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen."

Then there is John Maynard Keynes observation in "The Economic Consequences of the Peace - 1920":

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. . . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. . . . (It) does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose. . . ."