While we’re talking presidential politics, have a few random Rick Perry notes:

Just so we’re clear, though: this does not constitute a TrogloEndorsement. I haven’t chosen a candidate yet, although Perry/Bachmann is looking awfully good right now.

First, via VodkaPundit, this adorable little bit of MSM silliness:

But some economists as well as Perry skeptics suggest that Mr. Perry stumbled into the Texas miracle. They say that the governor has essentially put Texas on autopilot for 11 years, and it was the state’s oil and gas boom — not his political leadership — that kept the state afloat.

Translation: he didn’t let the government meddle, and existing industry did its thing. Go figure.

While we’re at it, here’s another one. Steven Rattner, also in the NY Times:

…the leading Republican presidential candidates have begun to fill in the shadowy outlines of their positions on major economic issues.
And what a picture it is, a philosophy oriented around shrinking the role of the federal government in every imaginable way, by slashing spending, cutting taxes and halting or rescinding regulations. Their mantra is repeal and retrenchment, devoid of new initiatives or a positive agenda.

Hey! Steve! “Slashing spending,” “cutting taxes,” and “halting or rescinding regulations” is a “positive agenda!”

Doofus.

Second: how can you not love this line in Perry’s Wikipedia page:

Perry was a prankster in college. He once placed chickens in the closet of an upperclassman over Christmas, and also utilized M-80 firecrackers and knowledge of plumbing to frighten students on the toilet.

I guess there were a lot of budding plumbers in my elementary school, too.

And finally, from the “Where’s Perry” meme:

Stacy McCain and Da Tech Guy will be on board any second now!