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Perry's brain is obviously missing. I never thought I'd say this under any circumstances but it's reallycome to the point where I'm thinking even Sara Palin would be better than Perry. The man is mentally ill

BBB said it best -- Perry's brain is obviously missing. I never thought I'd say this under any circumstances but it's reallycome to the point where I'm thinking even Sara Palin would be better than Perry. The man is mentally ill.

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Perry's brain is obviously missing. I never thought I'd say this under any circumstances but it's reallycome to the point where I'm thinking even Sara Palin would be better than Perry. The man is mentally ill

So you are talking smack about Texans, who have been electing Perry since 1984, three times as gov, as well as about REPUB Gov's who have elected him twice to lead them.......But hey, I am sure you must be right *sarcasm*

I wonder if hawk knows these genius Texans elected Bush their governor. Like I said A Texan politician cant have a brain to run for office. It seems that the electoriate in Texas vote for their counterparts.

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Perry's brain is obviously missing. I never thought I'd say this under any circumstances but it's reallycome to the point where I'm thinking even Sara Palin would be better than Perry. The man is mentally ill

So you are talking smack about Texans, who have been electing Perry since 1984, three times as gov, as well as about REPUB Gov's who have elected him twice to lead them.......But hey, I am sure you must be right *sarcasm*

Do you have a point?
Just axin'.

What do you expect. He is a Texan politician. Lack of a brain is a necessity.

I mean to cast aspersions upon the judgment of folk who voted for him.

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With big-time political figures like Perry, I think it's necessary to distinguish between wonky policy smarts and calculated political savvy. Perry is obviously less of a wonk than your average Congressional Budget Office director (although he's apparently familiar enough with budgeting gimmicks to game the system fairly well). But when it comes to political smarts, there seems to be a good case that he's a reasonably effective operator—perhaps by calculated design, perhaps by natural instinct—who not only knows what his base wants done, but what it wants to hear. And that, I suspect, helps explain the "superficial extremism" I wrote about in my column this morning: Perry's "genius for sensing where his base is" has led him to stake out a number of fiery rhetorical positions, but also to follow-through with substantially less radical governance