Rick Perry: A Real American!

This campaign for the Republican nomination is starting to feel like the limbo (aka, how low can you go)? Ricky Perry is certainly challenging for the title at the moment. See his latest ad: Talking Points Memo. The slick ad includes a series of quick jump cuts from one scene to the next -- first we get the Obama scare tactic together with a record of his failure (with no mention of the Republican Congress that has blocked him at every turn) and then a series of exciting images of New York City and the "real America" reminding us that Perry is a "Real American" who can boldly lead us into the new world. Just as a reminder of how he is going to do this (which isn't included in the ad at all): end social security, elect Senators by fiat, reduce government spending on healthcare, cut corporate and individual taxes, maybe increase federal executions (since he is so fond of them in Texas) and make America a Christian nation again ...