| So Rick Perry said some interesting things at the Republican Governors' Association this week. He said some things that remind me just how ready I am for him to get out of office. Heck, I'd prefer that we didn't have to fight against Kay Bailey Hutchison, but this guy is ridiculous.
And he knows that his fight against Kay Bailey is going to be just as hard as ours will be, assuming our senior Senator prevails in a Republican primary.
First, on Barack Obama: We may have elected a president based on some pretty prose, but we all know it takes more than pretty words to govern.
All I have to say is: pretty hair is more helpful to govern? Seriously, Barack Obama is a smart guy who also happens to be surrounded by a bunch of men and women who have helped run this country before. Rick Perry knows, though, that his hard-core Republican base just abhors the President-elect, and Mr. Perry is doing everything he can to exploit that.
More wild, though, is what Governor Perry said about Sarah Palin. It's a lot easier for a guy to miss competence on the part of Mr. Obama or any other politician, but he should have seen Mrs. Palin's incompetence, at least during this past campaign, magnified right in front of him.
Here's the report on his Palin praises:
He praised Palin. "We saw the impact" Palin had "when she joined the national ticket."
She represented the working man, Perry said.
"And Sarah, I want to say to you," he began, "I would rather be addressing you as vice-president-elect, but I am proud to call you my friend and proud to have you on our team. Thank you for the work you did."
I saw the impact she had on the national ticket, too. John McCain's campaign might have been in trouble before she joined in, but she literally tanked that ticket. The fact, though, that he would really want to be addressing this lady as vice-president-elect has to point towards his own inability in judgment.
That is, unless every ounce of his judgment is simply political. I've already explained why he'd want to bash our next president, and it seems he's taking an election bet here, too. Instead of campaigning for a swing state, Sarah Palin came to Texas immediately following her debate with Senator Biden. She attended sold-out fundraisers in San Antonio and Dallas, and she might have gotten her ticket even more money if a horrible hurricane had not derailed her plans for Houston. So maybe, just maybe, there's enough staunch conservatives in this state that support Palin to propel victory in a Republican primary.
Maybe. I am absolutely sure that the general population of Texans will receive Perry's political swindling as a move that doesn't favor their common good. But there's that slim possibility that, barring some excellent offensive campaigning and bad defensive play by Senator Hutchison, that this Hail Mary might work. And if it does, that should only give us more reason to fight against the Texas Republican Juggernaut: it's still kinda ridiculous. |
