If it's true...

...it's probably more predictive than any poll at this point. Via Political Wire...

Rick Perry has signed up 1,500 precinct leaders in Iowa, a source inside the campaign tells CNN. There are a total 1,774 Republican caucus precincts around the state, about 900 of which are combined.

Only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have put in similar efforts to build a ground operation for the caucuses on Tuesday.

Oops.

Think Progress...

Rick Perry Draws A Blank On Key Supreme Court Case Overturning Texas’ Anti-Gay Laws He Defended

It's really no fun when they just fall over.

From the "Credit where it's due" file.

When she's right, she's right...

Michele Bachmann tried Saturday to peel away support from Ron Paul by repeatedly warning voters across northwestern Iowa that he would be “a very dangerous president.”

No doubt.

Why, a President Paul would be every bit as dangerous as a President Bachmann, or Gingrich, or Romney, or Santorum, or Perry.

Or Huntsman, for that matter.

Which would be very dangerous, indeed.

Sunday Funny

Via Bluegal...

From the "Meaningful miscellany" file.

Stuff that I meant to expand on but haven't and probably won't, but want to share anyway…

LA Times, via Gordon...

There is a reason theocracies are found at the bottom of the world's economic and opportunity ladder. Successful public policy cannot be based purely on doctrines established before we knew the Earth orbited the sun.

John Aravosis...

If Perry is such a supporter of Israel, ask him if Jews are going to hell. Then we'll talk.

Roy Edroso…

I'm not averse to bread and circuses, but the bread is running out and our circuses really suck.

I didn't have to watch tonight to say…

…what digby said.

Ok, I've seen enough of Rick Perry to know that he's a uniquely vicious and ignorant piece of work who cannot be trusted with the executive branch.

Heck, I didn't have to see him twice to say that.

Signs of the times.

Via Gordon...

Republican Round-Up

Bachmann's mean.

Cantor? Maybe meaner.

Paul could be the meanest of all.

Rick Perry - stupid or liar? Or stupid liar?

Should I care about John Huntsman? Why?

So, just how crazy is Rick Perry?

Rick Perry is so crazy that even his own spokesman doesn't think he could possibly be that crazy.

Pretty crazy, huh?

Don't know much biology...

Rick Perry fact of the day, via PZ Meyers...

Perry is the guy who has appointed three creationists in a row to head the Texas Board of Education.

Probably not coincidentally...

From the "Not exactly news" file.

Rick Perry doesn't know what he's talking about.

Even when he's talking about Texas.

Scott? Not so great.

Romney? Yeah, creepy.

Newt's campaign approach? No campaign.

Rick Perry…

…idiot or thug?

This guy is their Great White Hope?

Well, OK…

…whatever you say, Rich...

Let the Perry Hatred Begin

I'm, as they say, "in."

From the "Rules of thumb" file.

Via Matt Browner Hamlin...

Things that aren't "almost treasonous": the chairman of the Federal Reserve printing money.

Things that are "almost treasonous": threatening secession from the Union.

From the "Me too" file.

Roy Edroso...

...I doubt things will be improved by President Rick Perry, who will upon inauguration give the last $32.98 in the Treasury to Thurston Howell III and ask America to pray for money.

Me too.

From the "Sad but true…" file.

Well, not that sad, from a Democratic perspective. Pretty sorry, though, and probably true. Texas Gov. Rick Perry on his Alaskan counterpart's support…

"If there's a bigger endorsement in the Republican universe, I don't know who it is than Sarah."