Interestingly, there's another campaign that may be gobbling up anti-Perry domains as well: President Obama's. The Post reports that sites such as americansagainstperry.com, christiansagainstperry.com and therealrickperry.net were also purchased. "On Aug. 15, two days after Perry launched his campaign, Obama’s campaign spent $3,958 at Go­Daddy.com. At least 70 domains containing Perry’s name were bought on the same date."

The Internet has not necessarily been kind to Perry in his years of political campaigning. Many will recall his bruising gubernatorial battle against Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, in which Hutchison's campaign website was juiced with the possible intent of spreading rumors about Perry being gay. Within the site's juicing program were 2,200 hidden phrases, one of which was "rick perry gay." When this was discovered, the Hutchison campaign promptly removed them and issued a somewhat crafty statement. "We did not know these offensive word associations were being searched for by hundreds of thousands of Texans everyday nor do we condone the computer-generated existence on our Web site. They will be removed promptly."

Meanwhile, Perry is going positive today with a new web video promoting his jobs record and experience with energy companies. How quaint! What's a matter, Perry? Afraid to get in the dirt?

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