The Politico headline was definitely eye-catching: "Is Rick Perry Dumb?" Twelve years ago if Politico had been around then, it might have asked the same about another Texas governor who became president, George W. Bush. And that, of course, is one of the uncanny things about Perry's ascendancy to frontrunner among Republicans vying to become their party's presidential nominee.

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