Rick Perry Melts Down

Rick Perry has had a hard time of it, as a GOP candidate. He entered the race with a leg up, and was instantly a rock star. But he quickly hit a middling note, and has now dropped to near insignificance. He's trying mightily at the moment to bring his star a little higher than the never-will-bes, Rick Santorum Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, and Newt Gingrich. But he's kind of a handsome lummox. He can't quite get there. And when he tries to be amiable, affable,  likable? He comes off like a freakish loon. Take a look.

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