If It Looks Like a Crook and Sounds Like a Crook...

Then it must be a fucking crook, America!

I'm wholeheartedly disconcerted over the fact that Rick Perry has gained so much ground in the polls since announcing his run for the Presidency. This guy has swindled his own state in so many ways it's pathetic, yet here we are--actually wondering what a country run by Rick Perry would be like. I can tell you. Done. We'll be done. Let's take an eye-opening look at his track record:

• When Obama offered states federal stimulus money, Texan Governor Rick Perry shouted loudly about the inherent wrongness of accepting it and vowed his state would never do so....He made these statements AFTER he accepted $6 billion dollars to help balance the over $6 billion deficit in Texas' budget.
• Taxes in Texas disproportionately target lower income families. 
• When facing reelection, Perry was given clear evidence from a number of forensic science experts that Cameron Todd Willingham, who was about to be executed, was innocent. Perry stated that Willingham wasn't the kind of guy whose innocence mattered. To Perry, it doesn't matter if you didn't commit the crime you were charged with...all that matters is whether or not you donated money to support his campaign. (Oh and part of the state's evidence against Willingham were "satanic" posters in his bedroom. They were Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin posters.)
• Perry, like Bush before him, is known for executions. He is also known for his anti-spending rhetoric. Those two characteristics don't jive, so to speak. For every death sentence in Texas, enough money is spent to keep a public school afloat. In fact, funding for these death sentences are taken away from other areas of government. That means prison budgets and education budgets are slashed. Ultimately, you're left with an education issue and a crime issue. Instead of looking at his state and realizing that execution after execution after execution has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to reduce the murder rates in Texas, Perry pushes forward. He's a Jesus lovin' eye-for-an-eye kind of fella, after all. There's always room in the budget for a lynchin'! Ya'll don't worry yer purty lil' heads none 'bout that. We'll charge the poor folks an outrageous yearly fee for lettin' their young 'uns ride the school bus.