{"id":5321,"date":"2014-04-20T23:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T23:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2014-04-20T23:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T23:55:10","slug":"rick-perry-needs-a-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5321","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry needs a makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Politico.com reports that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has embarked on an extreme makeover to make erase memories of a disastrous — and short-lived — run for the presidency last time around.<\/p>\n

He’ll need it, badly.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/04\/rick-perry-extreme-makeover-105843.html?hp=t1<\/p>\n

Perry reportedly is more relaxed and confident sounding these days, Politico reports. That’s as it should be, given that he’s a lame-duck governor. He’s held the office seemingly since The Flood and is now heading for some other mission in life.<\/p>\n

He wants to be president, or vice president perhaps.<\/p>\n

My own feeling is that he’s got a long way to go before he achieves either office.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine — a former Republican state legislator who is no<\/em> friend or fan of Perry — thinks the governor actually wants a No. 2 spot on the next GOP presidential ticket. He believes Perry knows his brand as a Republican presidential nominee has been damaged beyond repair, so he’s willing to settle for running as the GOP veep nominee in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere I have noticed it profoundly is in the last few weeks, the national TV appearances, whether he\u2019s been on a number of Fox shows or Jimmy Kimmel and some of the others, he just seems like a very confident, upbeat and articulate spokesman for conservative policy and values,\u201d former Perry aide Ray Sullivan told Politico.<\/p>\n

Perry’s brand is well-established in his home state of Texas, where his unique brand of good-ol’-boy conservatism plays well. It hasn’t yet taken hold in the rest of the country, let alone in the rest of the Republican Party, which is full of tea-party conservatives who so far have done a better job of selling themselves to a willing party base.<\/p>\n

Let us not forget that those infamous pre-2012 GOP primary gaffes — namely the “oops” blunder in which he couldn’t name the third agency he would dismantle were he elected president — will be on the record … forever.<\/em><\/p>\n

Good luck with your makeover, governor. You’ll need to be unrecognizable from what you’ve shown us so far.<\/p>\n\n

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