Perrywinkle
February 25th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Recent talk about Gov. Goodhair trying to score a position on the GOP ticket as a vice presidential candidate never made much sense to us. The nation surely has Texas fatigue when it comes to the White House at this point. Texas is probably one of the only states that the GOP can count on, so Perry wouldn’t add much to the ticket. Current frontrunners like John McCain and Mitt Romney would need Perry’s conservative bonafides in a primary but not particularly in a general. Then of course, after the 2006 election, Perry’s 39-percent win showed how unpopular he is in his own state.
Today on Fox News Sunday, the governor put an end to the speculation.
“Absolutely no,” he responded to Chris Wallace’s question on his intentions. “I have the best job in the world, ask President Bush,” Perry quipped at the Current Occupant’s expense.
Asked about global warming, Perry perhaps realized that pretending there is still a debate on whether global warming is a reality might work at home but doesn’t play as well for a national audience. He sidestepped it with the ridiculous answer: “I don’t know what the science is,” before pirouetting into a performance on the wonders of alternative fuels for Texas’ economic growth.
Perry also defended his executive order to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for young girls. Oddly enough, the other guest on the show, Pennsylvania’s Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell, thinks a smarter policy would be to allow parents to opt into a vaccine program rather than the state forcing it on their children.
It really is a topsy-turvy world.
