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The brouhaha of Rick Perry's minor and uncritical lapse in the Michigan debate is not the end of Rick Perry's campaign for the nomination. The Perry campaign has the money and the talent it can lease to continue into January and February with the organization and ads in the primary states to score well. The noise about the debate error in Michigan is mostly about the registration of group disappointment by the GOP conservative base that Rick Perry is not working as the anti-Romney. Rick Perry is mortal and has much to learn about national campaigning. Training on the job...

The clown's mask drops to reveal the clown's mask named Donald Trump, and, while it lasts, this display of vanity, loopiness, garrulousness, and aimlessness is what little entertainment is left in modern politics. Trump is no more serious a candidate than his hairstyle. What continues to puzzle is whether this favors the Democrats, the Republicans, or the so-called TV news media. John Fund tells me that Trump registered as aa member of Ross Perot's Reform Party in 1999, then became a Democrat in 2001, then became a Republican in 2009. In sum, Trump is a simpleton about Party discipline. There...