Rick Perry, Dunce

Get ready for this meme.   The MSM won't want to mention Perry's extensive experience as an executive and they'll belittle his consistent conservatism on the issues.   So they'll do what they always do with Republicans -- they'll say he's dumb.   Here's Hot Air noting the opening notes of what will be a symphony of condescension:

Doubts about Perry’s intellect have hounded him since he was first elected as a state legislator nearly three decades ago. In Austin, he’s been derided as a right-place, right-time pol who looks the part but isn’t so deep – “Gov. Goodhair.” Now, with the chatter picking back up among his enemies and taking flight in elite Republican circles, the rap threatens to follow him to the national stage.

“He’s like Bush only without the brains,” cracked one former Republican governor who knows Perry, repeating a joke that has made the rounds....

Perry has been governor for three terms and the latter part of Bush’s interrupted second term, more than 11 years in a high-profile office.  That leaves plenty of room to debate his record, but his rumored lack of brainpower has mysteriously not kept him from successfully running one of the largest, most populous, and most visible states in the Union.  Perry went through a high-profile primary fight in 2010 against US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison without the press discovering this supposed intellectual defect, but now that he’s running for President, we are supposed to believe that Perry has lost 30 IQ points?

Notice that these memes never get applied on the other side of the aisle, either.  Did any media question Obama’s intelligence when during the campaign when he made these whoppers?

• The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.


• Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.


• Afghans do not speak Arabic.


• Within 24 hours, Obama reversed his assertion that Iran did not pose a “serious threat” to the US to an assertion that the threat is “grave”.


• “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.”


• 57 states

No, they didn’t.  Why?  Because the media only uses the weird, scary, and idiot memes for Republican candidates, that’s why.

This is so old and tired it's hard to even get too worked up about it.   Does anyone really believe some jerk on MSNBC or some idiot in the New York Times when they start talking about how dumb the Governor of one of the biggest and easily the most successful states in the country supposedly is?  

Republicans should be demanding to see Barack Obama's transcripts every day from now until November 2012.   See if the country would want to re-elect our first affirmative action President.