So Rick Perry
has finally admitted he's considering a 2012 presidential campaign:
Gov. Rick Perry today gave his strongest indication yet that he may run for president.
“I’m going to think about it” after the legislative session ends Monday, Perry said.
For years, Perry has said that he would not run for president and that he had no interest. He has often said something along the lines of “I don’t know how many times I have to say no.”
But he and his advisers have inched closer to saying he may run all week, following the announcement that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels would not enter the GOP field. Today was the most distance he’s put between himself and his past declarations that he wouldn’t run.
Who knows what this means for Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, and the others aboard the GOP's Ship of Fools, but at least one thing is probably for sure: Texas is unlikely to secede anytime before 2012.
But unless he's flip-flopped, Perry still believes that Texas has the right to secede whenever it wants.