re: #58 SpaceJesus

Has this Perry guy always been that way, or is he exploiting something in popular culture that is a bit more recent?

Both. He’s been this way for ages, but he’s using the Tea Party idiots and fundamentalist nutjobs to his advantage by pandering to them.

I only ask because I could see Bush doing the exact same thing right now had he not been our last president.

Bush had one huge advantage that Perry never will — Daddy was POTUS first. He was able to play on that and on Clinton fatigue to get elected.

He’d do much the same now — use his connections to the GOP establishment along with raising just enough questions about Obama to get elected. He wouldn’t have to pander to the teabaggers to the same extent that the current GOP candidates have to .