Gov. Rick Perry Has Spurs that 'Jingle Jangle Jingle'

It wasn’t that long ago that news outlets everywhere were running headlines about how dull the 2012 GOP field was shaping up to be. The mainstream media had anointed McRomney as the candidate to beat, and the ebb of excitement was so low that people actually watched Jon McHuntsman give a speech announcing his entrance into the race.

But everything changed once Gov. Rick Perry threw his hat into the ring. He galloped in like the cowboy the left loves to hate, and he’s yet to apologize for it. In fact, as you watch his gestures and listen to his accent he’s as undeniably Texas as Dallas itself, and because of that, he’s not one to lie down and let the Republican establishment walk on him.

Heck, Perry might even have spurs that “jingle jangle jingle.”

I’m serious folks: Perry is Texas personified. He is bigger than life, and that’s why he’s shellacking his Republican competition in the polls.

Just think about it – there are videos circulating (via the Houston Chronicle’s Kathleen McKinley) that show Gov. Perry teaching her and other bloggers and reporters how to shoot a handgun. And I don’t mean the video shows him standing at a podium, talking them through it. Rather, it shows him standing beside them as they shoot, chambering a bullet in the gun for them, and telling them what to expect as far as recoil goes, etc. (You can see the video here.)

Folks, Gov. Perry has a handgun named in honor of him.

After he pulled a Ruger .380 LCP handgun and shot the now famous (but deceased) coyote during one of his morning jogs last year, Ruger Firearms issued a limited edition gun in honor the Governor. On one side of the gun are the words “Coyote Special” and on the other are the words “A True Texan”.

In addition to all this, he’s been out on the campaign trail referring to man-made global warming as “one contrived phony mess” and the left is going bonkers because he’s also saying he doesn’t believe in evolution.

But this is just another proof that he’s the real deal in my opinion. As a true Texan, he won’t let others tell him what he has to believe (or in the case of global warming and evolution, what he has to accept). Rather, he makes a principled decision based on his Christian faith and common sense.

In related news, McHuntsman quickly provided a response to Perry’s positions by tweeting: “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”

I’m going to take McHuntsman’s suggestion to heart and call him crazy, because he’s absolutely that if he thinks he has even the slightest chance of beating Gov. Perry in a primary competition.

Listen close everybody – “jingle jangle jingle.”