Just a good ol'boy never meaning no harm....

So, I was totally thinking of putting up a post about Governor Rick Perry and the whole birther and speculating about a flat tax thing, but last night I had a big old case of the "fuckitalls" and said, "You know what--I'll wait.  Let me just see where he's heading with the flat tax and the birther stuff and then I'll put a post up."

Right I was.

See, I am not overly impressed with Rick Perry as a candidate. Nope. The ringing chimes of right-wing wonderment at his entree into the race were thunderous, but he never brought the lightning (because lightning is bright! Draw your own conclusions!)  Rick Perry came off his Response Jesuspallooza entering the primary and expecting to be the front-runner and he got it, but then squandered his lead with botched debate responses. Suddenly, "Rick Perry" became 2012's version of Fred Thompson 2008 (I don't know who first said that--TBogg? Charles Pierce? Anyway, I argee and am stealing it--he's Fred Thompson with bells on.)   The beneficiary of his stupidity was Herman Cain, whose great gimmick was his 9-9-9 flat tax plan. (Now available for 9-0-9 in limited areas!)

The normal response of any good politician would be to savage the 9-9-9 plan and explain how it would be disastrous and stupid and would never work. This was sort of the response at the last debate, though hardly enough. Rick Perry's response to this stupid, gimmicky flat tax is: "I got to get me one of them."



And so he did. It 's not flat, it;s not really about taxes, and it's hardly a plan., but he's trying. But you know what? If he was really trying, he'd have had a fucking plan before he entered the race, instead of biting off a former-CEO-radio personality who's only in the race to sell books and move the Overton window to the right. So nice try--but--that's stupid.

Also stupid--oh right--birther. He was going birther a couple days back when he said:



Hmm. Did it distract you from remembering Niggerhead Ranch? Is he changing that to Barackhead Ranch, now? See, he met with Donald Trump, and then decided he wanted a "Big Tent" approach. He already had a good fix on the ex-Bachmann Christianist votes, but he wanted the birthers, too. And how do you get them? Pretend they aren't totally nuts.  It's just good fun.

So wait--it's "just fun" to downgrade a person's citizenship on the basis of his race? And it's "just fun" to question acheivements like his report cards? Because Barack Obama is ?   That's not fun--that shit is actually just racist! Also--see summa cum laude, Harvard, Obama and got Bin Laden, him, and not somebody else.

So, Rick Perry is revealed to know shit about economics and is possibly a racist--what else?

 Oh, yeah, he's going to probably end up going negative against his GOP opposition. Not very much like the Reaganesque "Never speak badly of a fellow Republican".

Oh hell no. He'll do Obama's oppo for him--maybe. If he's that dumb. And he seems to be. Yay--Rick Perry! Glad you're working for us, apparently. Because--so dumb. So very, very dumb.