The intelligence question has always hung around Perry, and hearing the way he speaks will raise it for the vast majority of Americans outside of the South.
Obama would rather face Perry than Romney, and JM actually swats down the issue pretty well in Perry’s favor.
Obama is scared of Perry. Perry has a record of drawing in businesses and creating jobs. Perry balances the Texas budget without a state income tax. Obama can't balance a budget with record tax revenues coming in.
I guarantee the first thing Perry will do when he's elected is rewrite rules for the EPA that allow us to get our own natural resources and from that point on the economy will only get better.