Ryan Streeter
The Texas Tribune reports that a majority of Texas insiders believe Rick Perry is running for President, despite his "I'm unequivocally not doing so" types of denials.
58% of those in the poll said they believe he is running. However, 70% said they don't think he should.
Perry is, in the words of the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes, "perhaps the most successful governor in the country," owing to the tremendous job growth Texas has experienced under his watch and the comparatively slight effects of the recession in the state over the past two years.
In many ways, Perry's stark, public resistance to the notion of running is what makes him even more appealing. He has emerged as the loudest gubernatorial embodiment of the tea party movement's sentiments at present. By essentially saying Washington is the nation's problem and that he wants nothing to do with the place, he becomes the kind of guy that tea partiers and movement sympathizers WANT to have in Washington.
Rick Perry, in my opinion, is not interested in being the President of the USA. He's interested in a higher and better position, President of the Republic of Texas.
Posted by: You Gotitright | December 12, 2010 at 01:03 PM