Rick Perry has been blasting Texas congressman Ron Paul — along with other Washington political veterans — as out-of-touch DC insiders.

But the Texas governor, at a campaign stop in Anderson, S.C., said there was a job he had in mind for Paul.

“Congressman Paul would be an ideal person to head up the Fed, and put a little fear in their heart,” Perry suggested in response to a question, according to NBC’s Carrie Dann.

Paul, a Houston-area lawmaker, has been a longtime critic of Federal Reserve policies and practices. He says the nation’s central bank is secretive and unaccountable to the American people. He blames Fed policies for devaluing the American dollar and causing the housing bubble that contributed to the Great Recession.

Perry has attacked Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policy, but he has embraced Paul’s Fed-bashing. According to the NBC blog post, Perry chuckled at the prospect of Paul serving as Federal Reserve chair.

The 76-year-old Texan would “probably scare all of those people to death,” Perry smiled.