Pondering the Perry Possibility

You'll get reaction when you mention Rick Perry. That's the way political argument goes in America these day. There isn't much nuance or even fact required. All you need to do is dump a sound-bite or a factoid on the table and the argument is considered ended.

From the left you'll get:

1. He actually suggested secession
2. He wants to fill Texas with toll roads
3. He sought a land grab of billions of acres for the Trans-Texas Corridor
4. He's fleecing the taxpayers for a $9000/month house while the burned out governor's mansion is rebuilt

From the right you'll get:

1. He wanted to vaccinate my daughter against HPV and tell her sex was OK now
2. He caters to lobbyists and special interests
3. His hair is too neat

But, those can all be dismantled with a knowledge of what the actual events were and why things happened. So far, there is no shock therapy in the background; no incriminating tidy-whitey pics on Twitter; no bulging bankbook corruption scandal. He comes off as a pretty competent chief executive of a mega-state that has beaten the rest of the nation soundly for the last twelve years. Not a bad resume. 

That's why the Wall St. Journal spends some time with this:

Perry on the Precipice

The very worst that could happen is that he would restore Texan pride in the event Ron Paul's candidacy begins to get attention.

UPDATE: This little tidbit adds some interesting fuel to the fire:

Gingrich Campaign Staff Exits--Including Some Notables

That's right. Down at the end of the piece we find a linkage of those departures to the percolating Perry prognostications.