It has been less than a week since Texas Gov. Perry has announced his intention to win the nomination of the GOP and earn him a chance to run against Pres. Obama in 2012…..and already I am weary of his extreme and factually challenged campaign…..but put my opinion aside……he IS the perfect candidate for the radical right…..

Allow me to explain my reasoning……the Week website had a couple reason in a post recently…..

1. Calls Bernanke “treasonous”
The controversy: At an Iowa campaign event Aug. 15, Perry answered a question about the Fed and Bernanke: “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous, or treasonous, in my opinion.”

2. Floats idea of Texas secession
The controversy: In 2009, as he was fending off a GOP primary challenge from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R), Perry suggested to a group of tech bloggers that Texas could secede from the United States: “When we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation. And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. So we’re kind of thinking about that again.” (Listen to Perry’s comments) A month later, Perry told reportersat a Tea Party Rally: “If Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that… Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”

4. Hosts prayers for rain, and the economy
The controversy: As Texas endured rampant wildfires and drought this year, Perry declared April 22-24 “Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas.” On Aug. 2, the governor led a national evangelical Christian fasting and prayer rally in Houston, called “The Response,” in which he asked God for forgiveness for the “fear in the marketplace” and “anger in the halls of government,” among other things. As many as 30,000 people attended.

6. BP oil spill may be an “act of God”
The controversy: During the record 2010 BP oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Perry warned against halting oil drilling, saying that it was unclear what had triggered the massive oil leak. “And until we know that, I hope we don’t see a knee-jerk reaction across this country that says we’re going to shut down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico… From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.”

Those were a couple of the reason that I think Perry is the perfect candidate…….(pause here for effect)……He is the perfect candidate for the low information voter……the perfect candidate for the terminally stupid……with all that said….the perfect candidate for the Tea Party, which as we all know does not let facts get in the way of a good political lie….

I am sure we will hear more and more about this arrogant, self-centered Prick….oh my bad…that was suppose to be….Rick….as the campaign moves on…like his exaggeration about jobs, his denial of all climate change research, setting him self up as a demi-god in the Texas political sphere….but for now…he is the darling of the media and the savior of the Tea Party……He is…..the Perfect Candidate.

P.S.  After publishing this post I found this piece on Political Wire….

Salon reports that a Texas supporter of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) has taken out a full-page ad in an Austin alternative weekly newspaper publicly seeking women (or men) who have slept with Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

“Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry? Are you a stripper, an escort, or just a ‘young hottie’ impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas? … we will help you publicize your direct dealings with a Christian-buzzwords-spouting, ‘family values’ hypocrite and fraud.”