Everyone on the Texas board calls him that. We take turns. Molly Ivins called him that, and it stuck because he's just like Glen Campbell in True Grit, who "cultivated his hair like a head of lettuce".
The beeves Texans have with Rick Perry are many and honest. He got 40% of the statewide vote in 2006 and returned to office with a mere plurality. People who had options, didn't knock down any turnstiles fighting their way into the voting booths to vote for him.
He also has crummy friends: very rich uber-billionaires who employ tons of illegal aliens.
Read all about it, any newsstand is your friend.
Why would any self-respecting conservative quote Molly Ivins? That woman was so wacked-out in her politics and so mean-spirited, she made Ann Richards look like a cuddly, little puppy.