Rick Perry is lawyering up

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17. Welcome to DU, genwah!

Glad you're here! When I look at rick perry, all I see is an adult-size five-year-old boy with his daddy's cowboy boots and hat on and his little plastic pop gun and vinyl holster, swaggering around the playground playing tough-guy. I saw dubya that way, too. But dubya always looked, sounded, and acted drunk as a skunk. perry just sounds stupid.

But yet again, I have to look at the voters who saw fit to install him, and the accursed george w bush, in the governor's chair. Easily led? Easily fooled? Gullible as hell? Romanced by and misty-eyed over the old Wild West/Marshall Dillon/cowboy thing? Grown men wanting to slough off the adult world and go play cowboys and indians again, longing for the "good ol' days"?

I don't get it. I don't vote for aging children who long to go play cowboy. I don't find anything appealing in that. If they had appealing ideas and an appealing agenda that speaks to me, that's one thing. They can dress up as the Horton that Hears a Who for all I care. But I've noticed an increasingly profound yen to play cowboy in many of these so-called men, and the mentality that tends to go with it, and it's a real turn-off. And the more they swagger and snicker and drawl, the less I like 'em. It doesn't make them look tough and macho - at least to me. To me, it makes them look like jokes and clowns and cartoons. Not statehouse material and certainly NOT presidential material!!!!!!