Liberals called George W. Bush a simpleton, but as Michael Tomasky argues, he was deeply informed compared with Rick Perry, who seems to delight in demonstrating his ignorance… Perry declared that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by scientists greedy for grant money… [H]e told a New Hampshire school-age child that he’s “not sure anybody actually knows completely and absolutely” how old the Earth is… Perry will home in on the darkest corners of the Tea Party mind and work relentlessly to activate the demons that lurk there. It will all be right out in the open… Every few weeks, or days even, something happens that makes me ask myself how much more right-wing this party can get. 

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