"Currently, no other leading candidate (not Mitt Romney, Ron Paul or Michele Bachmann) in the Republican field comes across as more macho than Perry." LOL, except, of course, for Sarah Palin. Of course, she's not an "annunced" candidate, but I suspect she could take Perry to the woodshed if need be.
I imagine Mrs. Perry took Rick to the woodshed a few times.
Amelia Perry(right), mother of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, shows her quilts at a meeting of the Buffalo Gap Republican Woman's Club at Perini Ranch Steakhouse Friday.
Perry called this quilt her "Scarlet O'Hara" quilt, because she made it out of a curtain during a time she was getting cancer treatments and spending most of her time at home.