Or, not so fast... ?
"... The good news is that it has taken less than a week for Perry's extreme views on a range of subjects to take hold in the public consciousness, even with Republican voters — helped in no small part by Perry himself.
His campaign strategy, as best I understand it, is to open up roughly one can of crazy per day....
...Among other gems, the governor has suggested that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, a Bush appointee, would be committing treason if he attempted to jump-start the economy again by infusing it with more paper money. He also breezily dimissed the science behind global warming. And he told a little kid in New Hampshire that we teach creationism in Texas public schools, even though it's unconstitutional to do so.
The fear now is that Perry may soon run out of topics on which to sound crazy....
...If he keeps going at the current pace, Perry will save reporters at the national level the trouble of reading his book, “Fed Up!” which contains more outlandish ideas. But there remains enough infatuation with Perry's superficial charms to make reading the book necessary.
If Republican voters are smart, that'll be enough to abort Perry's presidential ambitions. When elderly voters turn to page 62 and realize that he thinks Social Security has been a failure “by any measure,” they might become a good deal less infatuated with how he looks in cowboy boots and jeans...."
Sounds fuckin' ridiculous.
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