re: #191 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Perry wouldn’t have a chance. He’d say “Cutting taxes builds economies!,” and Obama would retort “Like they’ve done in Texas?”

You’ve never seen him on the stump. He’s one hell of a candidate. There’s a reason he has never lost an election. And Texas is in a lot better shape than many other States because A) most of the workers in industries that have turned south since 2007 were populated by “guest workers” who don’t show up in unemployment numbers and B) he has a bunch of idiots in the Legislature who have kicked the structural deficit down the road for two years with a combination of cuts, smoke, and mirrors without touching the $6 billion left in the Rainy Day Fund.

He is a very calculating Pol, and you underestimate him at your peril.