Rick Perry’s pathetic makeover: Conservatives, media fall for lame “comeback”

[DonViejo]

While media fawns over his "new" persona, he's still the same grotesque person from '12. But now he wears glasses!

SIMON MALOY

The Washington Post’s political blog/conventional wisdom extruder The Fix served up a smoking take Friday on a certain Texas governor who might run for president again: “Rick Perry. So hot right now.” Their case was, by their own admission, pretty weak: an Iowa poll of potential 2016 candidates that showed Perry taking seven (7) percent of the vote, and a Gallup poll showing Perry with the third-highest net favorability rating among the GOP 2016 wannabes. “None of this is to say that Perry should instantly be seen as a 2016 contender,” The Fix wrote in their post ostensibly about Perry’s hotness, “but never under-estimate the appeal of a political reclamation story.”

That appeal seems to be what Team Perry is banking on. There’s a big push happening right now by the Perry camp and the conservative media to take advantage of the absurdly low expectations Perry set with his shambolic 2012 presidential campaign and recast him as a serious and credible political figure. He’s still the same right-wing knucklehead who jogs with guns and compares homosexuality to alcoholism and takes grim delight in setting records for executing prisoners. But now he wears glasses and doesn’t stumble for words on stage. It’s a new Rick Perry!

Perry’s “transformation” is the subject of a long Weekly Standard piece by Fred Barnes, who writes that “Rick Perry is no longer dead. He is alive, well, and hyperactive as a national political figure.” Barnes, who is known for being absurdly sympathetic toward Republican politicians, was mightily impressed by everything Perry has done to reinvent himself, including the time Perry Googled some stuff while smart people talked to him:

This spring, Perry brought teams of advisers to Austin. Three economists from AEI — Kevin Hassett, Michael Strain, Stan Veuger — expected to meet with Perry’s staff, then with him. Perry showed up with his staff. As they talked, Perry checked on facts and issues online. The AEI group stayed for dinner. Perry gave them a personal tour of the governor’s mansion.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. His glasses works as blinders to reality. Still has the same distorted view he had

When he had his OOPS moment. He wants Obama to run to the border to view the kids and yet Perry has refused to except Medicaid expansion when Texas has the largest percent of uninsured citizens in the US. Obama should require Perry to meet with him to explain why.

[TlalocW]

2. I constantly refer to his specs

As fake glasses he's using to try and make himself look smarter. Drives my wingnut friends insane.

TlalocW

[Gothmog]

3. Goodhair is a very stupid person and can not hide his stupidity for long