Gosh, I hope I remembered to add the caveat “if he’s any good at this stuff” to any post suggesting Rick Perry could or should be a GOP front-runner. Because his campaign ended last night. Here he is failing to remember what parts of the federal government he’d axe:
Of course, scrapping the departments of education and commerce or at least sharply reducing their remits is not a bad idea. Nevertheless, “Ooops” is not the stuff of which Presidential campaigns are made. You can stick a fork in him, he’s done.
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