And Jennifer Rubin takes him to task after a Wednesday appearance at the nation's biggest evangelical university:
Perry, apparently deciding to make ads for the Obama campaign, came out with a series of "See how dumb I am?" one-liners. He observed that he needed to pull out a dictionary to see what "convocation" meant … And then the real howler: He was in the top 10 in a high school class of 13. …[W]hat Perry is doing here is telling moderate Republicans and those voters genuinely concerned about his electability to buzz off. He doesn’t need them, and he doesn’t intend to make it easy for them to vote for him. He’s telling them he is happily impervious to mainstream sensibilities. It’s the sort of thing that a Texas pol, not a presidential candidate, would do.
I can't see him winning a general election, but he's doing just fine with Virginia Republicans.
The Dish 