It makes it clear that the Herald Examiner has an axe to grind with regard to Santorum. Santorum has never taken any farm subsidies, but the Herald Examiner finds it valid to take Santorum to task on the issue, even though Perry is the only person to get tens of thousands of farm subsidy dollars.
I imagine it is important to note that Rick Perry hails from a farming family, farmed himself and was TX AG Commissioner (and an Texas A&M graduate).
This background would make him especially sensitive and cognizant of how the government traps people with their handouts and why he is so 10th Amendment. All his views have been shaped with this knowledge — education, energy, commerce, border security etc.
Think about it.
Rick Perry won the AG seat from Jim Hightower by backing the farmers against the Left’s encroaching “EPA” type dictates and regulations - he has watched how the federal government has choked excellence, enterprise and innovation out of the American people and wants it to stop.
Think about it.
Try.