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The bad news?  God has told Rick Perry to run for President.  The other bad news?  Unlike Rick, God doesn’t speak to me personally so I cannot dispute that.

The folks at the Texas Tribune seem as baffled as I am.

Days after the Houston Chronicle quoted Perry saying he believed “with all my heart that God has put me in this place at this time to do his will,” the governor, speaking to The Des Moines Register, put his hypothetical candidacy in even grander terms.

“I’m not ready to tell you that I’m ready to announce that I’m in,” Perry said. “But I’m getting more and more comfortable every day that this is what I’ve been called to do.”

“This is what America needs,” he added.

But, apparently, God has given Rick Perry a special dispensation on the 9th Commandment because Rick’s buying the Presidential accessories.  And as we fashion mavens know, one does not buy a prom dress until one has an invitation.

This was in the Dallas newspaper on Friday.

And since there’s no Governor’s race in 2012, and I’d be willing to lay bets that he’s not going to run for county commissioner in Travis County, I’d say odds are pretty good that he’s gonna take on Mitt Romney for the honor of getting his butt whipped by President Obama.

Thanks to David for the newspaper scan.