Rick Perry

My opinion of the candidacy of Rick Perry for the GOP nomination: great SNL fodder. Seriously, if you haven't seen their spoof of Perry's "oops" moment, go watch it right now, it's hysterical.  That's about all I have to say.  I can't take this guy seriously anymore, and I don't think anyone else outside of Texas does either.  As for one specific reason why he could win the election: if Romney, Cain, and Gingrinch all die, drop out of the race, or are otherwise incapacitated, then I think Perry would have a decent chance.  Until that day, he's not even a factor in the GOP really.  One specific reason why he could lose: ummmmm. Forgot it. What was it? The EPA? Yes, that was it.  No, wait, no it wasn't.  Ummmm.  Oops.  Sorry, Stroud.  At least we know I'm qualified to be a Republican Presidential candidate now.

P.S.  Please tell me the next question of the week isn't about Libya (it's not my job to know about foreign policy - I leave that up to the generals).

Cartoon #1

Here we have a lovely cartoon by Mike Lukovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. We have Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrinch in balloon form holding a sack of cash from Freddie Mac.  Gingrinch landed a consultant contract with the troubled financial giant (which needed a tax payer bailout to stay afloat) worth millions of dollars.  Despite this, he came out swinging against the passage of TARP.  The cartoon implies (rather bluntly) that Newt is a hypocrite and is full of hot air.  Lukovich is clearly a liberal (as anyone who is familar with his work knows), and that's probably a lot of the reason that I enjoy his work so much.