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Today's 'Draft Perry' Update

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Now that Mitch Daniels is awaiting his all-but-certain appointment to whatever blue-ribbon committee gets named to sort out our eventual national bankruptcy, who's your favorite fiscally sober Republican governor from the South/West? Mark McKinnon of The Daily Beast has a suggestion.
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Meanwhile, Commentary gently observes: "Daniels's departure opens a lane for Texas governor Rick Perry. With no other Southern governor interested in the office—now that Haley Barbour and Mike Huckabee are out—Perry is well-positioned for a presidential run. He is chairman of the Republican Governors Association. He governs a state that will gain four more electoral votes in the next election. His record in Texas, especially on the economy, stacks up favorably with Daniels's in Indiana. Moreover, the lack of ego that Linda admires in Daniels (perhaps the burning ambition too) is not a lack with Perry."

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