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"Uh, Perry was just interviewed in WHO radio in DM regarding his Christian faith and his prayer event this weekend. This guy is going to have broad appeal."

Disagree. What he'd do is look to independents like an even more cronyist and hypocritical caricature of GWB - so much so that they might vote dem again to keep him out. Turning this election into another referendum on Bush is literally the only way for Obama to win. The DNC are absolutely salivating at the thought of being able to run against Perry.

As for the primaries, I'd be pretty amazed if he could beat Romney. Perry has very little support outside the old Confederacy. The only thing Perry really has going for him is his relative newness to the race. Once you start looking closely, he's a $200 haircut with not much going on beneath it. If he were to actually threaten an upset of Mitt, the beltway types will start airing all the snafus he's made in Texas through MSM outlets. His illegal immigration stances, and TTC would knock half his support out from under him overnight if they were more widely publicized.