Could Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), who has campaigned in the past on his disgust with Washington, be testing out the idea of running for president?
Robert Bryce at National Review reports: “Political operatives in Austin tell me that Perry’s campaign team has been quietly polling voters outside of the Lone Star State to gauge his chances on the national stage.”
Perry also released a book recently, Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America From Washington, in which he declared: “It is not America that is broken; it is Washington that is broken.”
Let’s not be too quick to jump to conclusions, though. For all we know, Perry might just be trying to measure the feasibility of secession, after his flap about the subject in Spring 2009.
Late Update: Perry adviser Dave Carney strongly denied the report, telling Politico: “We have done no polling in any state other than Texas, period. Nor have we seen any polling that anyone or entity did in any other state. Unequivocally.”
