I keep telling my friends from foreign states not to fret over Rick Perry becoming President.  He’s got more baggage than the Trailways Bus Station.

And more than a few skeletons in his closet.  At long last, it seems that the national media is finally bungling around and finding these wide-open secrets.

There are niche issues that could hurt Perry, like his support for the (never-created) Trans-Texas Corridor, a toll-road despised by small-government types that would have meant the appropriation of an estimated 81,000 acres of rural land. Or the executive order he signed in 2007 requiring that Texas sixth-grade girls be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus, a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer. (The order was ultimately blocked, but the order outraged many conservatives.)

Now, they forgot the part about the drug Gardasil making a rump load of money for Rick Perry’s friends.  Or the part where the Trans-Texas Corridor was going to be built by a company in France.  Yeah, yeah, like Paris, France.

And, since Perry took office in 2001, the Texas’ debt has grown at a faster rate than that of the U.S. government.

In short, he’s George Bush minus all that pesky book-learning stuff.

See that rug Rick is standing on?  It’s fixing to come out from under him once he starts threatening to enter the race.  And it won’t be Democrats who do it.  Republicans eat their own.  Kay Bailey Hutchison was too nice to do it, but Michelle Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich aren’t.

Who wants the popcorn concession.