What do they think about Texas in New York City? You don’t even need to read what the New Yorker scribe posted. (Though here’s a taste: “Yes, Perry wears more cowboy gear than a six-year-old boy on Halloween. Yes, he straps on his laser-sighted, hollow-point-bullet-loaded pistol whenever he goes jogging. Yes, he blew away a coyote that was supposedly ‘menacing his puppy’ and left the bloody carcass for other joggers to trip over. (No word on whether he scooped the puppy poop.) But however ‘colorful’ this sort of thing might appear from a Manhattan perspective, it is apparently normal, or nearly so, in the Lone Star State.”) Just look at the photo they chose of Rick Perry. [hanging head in shame]
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