That said, Rick Perry, with all his folksy gut-speak and straight-from-the-nutsack attitude, slathered heavily with wretch-inducingly saccharine religious pandering, might be precisely the man that the hyperpolarized Republican party is looking for. If so, and circumstances work against Obama, we might end up with a Rick Perry presidency. Shudder! But follow along...

I think we can all agree that such a presidency would be a disaster. Whether it would be as big of a disaster as the George W. Bush presidency is hard to predict, but we've all seen the harm and waste that a bad presidency can inflict.

But even a Rick Perry presidency would come with a silver lining. Given the extent to which he has surrounded himself with the craziest of the crazies in the religious right, his new-found religious piety is starting to make GW Bush's religious zeal look like Yankee Methodism.