So..Can a Secessionist be Prez?? F'n Perry considering....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05/17/rick_perry_presidential_push_quietly_gains_steam_109894.html

Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam
By Erin McPike and Scott Conroy

As many grass-roots Republicans remain in search of a conservative candidate with the pizazz to go toe-to-toe against President Obama, a man from deep in the heart of Texas who was tea party before the tea party was cool appears to be giving the presidential race some thought.

Gov. Rick Perry has insisted on multiple occasions that he has no interest in the presidency, but RCP has learned that political associates have begun to nose around quietly on Perry's behalf.

A Texas pol who is close to Perry has been telling a few key strategists that the nation's longest-serving governor sees a vacuum and is waiting to be summoned into the race. This source believes that could happen by late summer. Without fellow Southerners Haley Barbour or Mike Huckabee in the race -- and with Newt Gingrich's early troubles raising further doubts about the current lineup -- there could be a glaring niche for Perry to fill.

According to another well-connected Republican, at least one Perry confidant has been very quietly making inquiries about the political terrain in the nation's first voting state of Iowa. A third Perry associate, RCP has learned, has been heralding a small contingent of Iowans with the time-tested line that is often used by would-be candidates who are leaving their options open: "Keep your powder dry."

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[DJ13]

1. How would that work

He wins, then leaves himself?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. hopefully he'll remove TX from the US and before he runs - so

he can't get those electoral votes

[AndiMer]

7. Well, it IS National Masturbation Week

;P

[my2sense]

2. This is going to be interesting n/t

[Rick Myers]

3. Talk about the bottom of the barrel...

The GOP might as well run the dead corpse of Reagan!!!

[silenttigersong]

5. oh boy $araha the Palin

will be so excited,fantasizing, about gettin in the white house one way or another.This GOP thing is better then the circus.:applause:

[Arugula Latte]

6. His running mate will be his own hair. nt