“... Perry may be the perfect candidate for those Republicans who viewed George W. Bush as just a little too cerebral.”

Houston Chronicle...

Will he or won’t he?

Ever since Gov. Rick Perry revealed last week that he was mulling a possible presidential campaign, that’s been the question on the minds of Texans, Republicans across the country and the political pundit elite.

Political swamis from Austin to Concord, N.H., are trying to divine through the words and actions of the Texas governor whether he’s going to enter the 2012 GOP White House sweepstakes — or is simply basking in the spotlight thrust upon him by conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham, who have implored him to run.

“He’s sort of caught in a whirlwind,” said Mark P. Jones, a Rice University political science professor. “At the beginning of May, running for president was not on his radar screen. But then things changed.”

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