Even as a Floridian, I love most things that come out of Texas, including their calculators and politicians. Rick Perry in particular is one guy I am VERY interested in seeing run for president. Out of all the rumored contenders, he is the only one that I think both is likely to win and who I would enthusiastically support.

A book published right after the 2010 midterms seems like a strong indication of a run. Has he taken any other steps, any visits to New Hampshire or other indications?

Save us from the tyranny that is PolitiFactTexas. They have a special obligation to get it right, since they claim to be this ultimate arbiter of truth in the world, yet they get so many things absolutely wrong. It’s partisan editorializing with a left-wing worldview disguised as straight fact-checking. And they put it on the front page.

I have to drive around Austin and see their smug billboards everywhere. It is incredible how brazen their clear political motives been from the very beginning.

and almost as bad, the world isn’t breaking the way she wants it to.
She isn’t having as much fun as when Dick Cheney was in the hunting accident, and she dressed up as a hunter, but worse, as a man. She thought that was satire.
Democracy & elections are holy to little old liberal [?] women like Dana, but only when they win.
A normal person could have seen this coming, but maybe the girls of the media were counting on a bigger turnout from the dead and the illegals, or a miracle from Soros.
Oh well Dana, back to baking pies and more trips to the beauty parlor.

…whenever I read anything that twit writes.

. . .if the Olbermanns and Matthews of the world, and to a lesser degree the Milbanks, exist solely to annoy us. That were we to make a pact to ignore them and stop reacting in any way, would they have any real reason to draw a paycheck.

It is not as though they say anything of substance, or add anything to the national debate. Just the same tired picking of imaginary nits, such as the Perry/salt issue, or repetition of the day’s talking points. We are the hornets nest and they are the kid with a slingshot, seeing what he can get away with without being stung.

Or when you really want to see a liberal squeal when a policy decision or the public is against what his opinion happens to be.

Whether or not he technically committed treason, I know that he betrayed the USA in a way that cost the lives of American soldiers, each one of whom was a better man than him.

This is the character of the one nitpicking Perry’s book.

The PolitifactTexas folks don’t have much going on until the legislative session in January. I’ll wager that they buy the book and comb through every statement like the salt one (ie: Perry says Texas has no income tax, but the federal government levies one that we have to pay. We rate Perry’s statement “barely true”).

Perry has set up a website to rate excerpts and have open discussion on the book. Don’t be surprised if the “fact-checkers” go after blog comments on http://www.fedupthebook.com too! Truly laughable

“and that the members of the Supreme Court serve as the “Grand Ayatollah’s” of the Constitution”

You really expect Milbank to try to rebut this statement, Erick? There are some statements so heinous – they are not worth responding to. The above that the members of the Supreme Court serve as the “Grand Ayatollah’s” of the Constitution” is one of them.