In an era when there’s exponentially more money in politics than we’ve ever seen before, Perry is the candidate who is exponentially more willing than we’ve ever seen before to whore himself out for that money. Even scarier, the religious community around which he has chosen to pull his human chameleon act features some of the most extreme end-is-nigh nutcases in America, the last people you want influencing the man with the nuclear football. Perry is a human price tag — “Being There” meets “Left Behind.” And sometimes there’s nothing more dangerous than nothing at all.
— Matt Taibbi, writing in Rolling Stone, noting that Rick Perry’s track record as Texas governor reveals his only real passion: selling off government to the highest bidder.
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