Is Rick Perry a Person?By: Glenn W. Smith - FDL
Sunday August 14, 2011 9:30 am
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Rick Perry and I go back a ways. As a reporter in the 1980s, I covered his undistinguished years in the Texas House. As a staffer to a Democratic lieutenant governor, I sat in meetings with him and watched him getting teased by his colleagues for his vanity. He clearly loves him some Rick Perry. He’s reported to shave his legs. Something about jogging speed. It’s earned him the name, “Nair Do Well,” but maybe shaved legs are de rigueur among the coyote-whacking-while-jogging set.
Here’s an odd fact: Rick Perry loves to criticize the federal stimulus package. He did it again yesterday. But without the billions in federal money Texas received in 2009, Perry would have had to raise taxes to cover Texas’ budget deficit. Had he raised taxes, he would now be dead in the water in the GOP primary. President Obama, in a sense, paid for the campaign viability of his most likely 2012 opponent.
Still, if Rick Perry can be president, I can play center field for the New York Yankees. But I try to reassure myself. The universe simply can’t be this upside down. Nonetheless, Perry is likely to win the Republican nomination for president.
The Perry candidacy would pit a secessionist Southern governor against the nation’s first African-American president. Just pause and think about that a moment.<snip>
Much More (plus bonus Video):
http://firedoglake.com/2011/08/14/is-rick-perry-a-person/Cross-Posted Video Here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x609419:kick:
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