Markos Moulitsas: The GOP Search for a Savior Continues

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Pity Rick Perry. He was fêted for weeks as the GOP’s presidential savior, the guy who would rescue the Republican field from crazy Bachmann, the boring guy, Romneycare, and the rest of the guys who don’t matter. He jumped in to triumphant applause from the Beltway media, but then a funny thing happened—he may call himself a prophet, but he was looking decidedly non-messianic. The cultural right was miffed that he didn’t want to beat the shit out of brown kids, having signed the Texas version of the DREAM Act into law. The Wall Street right, thinking they had their guy, recoiled in horror as Perry boasted of beating the shit out of Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke if he made his way down to Texas

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