Texas Governor Rick Perry does not try to resist parody. If anything, he embraces the tendency of journalists to portray him a political extremist and a boob. His refusal to respond, earlier this week, to a reporter's question about whether he was, at that moment, carrying a concealed weapon – "that's why it's called 'concealed'" – is the kind of banter that one expects from Saturday Night Live skits, not the evening news.
Perry is George Bush without the charm. There is no compassion to his conservatism.
Eliminating "all regulations" would, of course, put an end to, among other things, the safety testing of food and drugs, government oversight of transportation and even the ban of medical experiments on animal-human hybrids! A Perry regulation moratorium would add an element of risk to going to the grocery store, getting on a plane, even stepping out of the house, though it could provide lifetime employment for mad scientists and the like. It would be total anarchy: Mad Max meets Dr Moreau.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/18/rick-perry-presidency
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