Man, I spent most of the late winter through the summer flogging the Perry candidacy as a perfect mixture of the man, the moment and the movement. Now he'll be gone before the frost is on the pumpkin.
We have two stories.
In the first one, Perry wants to invade Mexico to kill drug dealers. Now some of this seems like a way to cover his tremendous gaffe of saying that we should not punish children for the sin of their parents. I know that was in the Bible and stuff, but it was the hippy part of the Bible and therefore non-operational.
The second one is... Well... Go read it.
Now, in the "This is good news for John McCain" view of the news - in which anything that happens is good for the conservatives - there might be a silver lining for Perry.
His campaign has unraveled in three strands:
First, he's a lousy debater.
Second, he tried to keep girls from getting cancer from sex and sex is icky so...
Third, he insufficiently hated on brown people.
Invading Mexico and killing drug dealers might be a disaster in terms of policy, but it certainly shores up weakness number three.
Having a ranch called "Niggerhead" might help him rally those conservatives for whom sticking a finger in the eye of political correctness is the reason to get out of bed in the morning. That might help erase weakness number two.
As for number one, I suggest some sort of ventriloquist.
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