“Niggerhead”

I'm sorry to say I can't see any kind of smoking bigotry in Rick Perry's heart from the story in the Post yesterday, although the details of the story were really fascinating. Money quote:

The cowboys, when they were gathering cattle, they'd say they're going to the Matthews or Niggerhead or the Nail" pastures, said Bill Reed, a distributor for Coors beer in nearby Abilene who used to lease a hunting parcel adjacent to the Perrys'. "Those were all names. Nobody thought anything about it…"

You know, Texas is a little different — you go where it's comfortable," Reed said. ". . . It would have been one thing if they had named it, but they didn't. So, it's basically a figure of speech as far as most people are concerned. No one thought anything about it."

Not a racist thought in their heads. I'm with TNC on this one:

In all seriousness, I think this says very little about Rick Perry, and a lot more about the country he seeks to govern.

Tomasky sees a hint of hubris in Herman Cain's loud lurch toward victimology. Hey, it works for Palin, if you recall who she is or was.