When Perry sought the GOP nomination in 2012, it was one of three departments he sought to abolish, but infamously couldn't remember its name at the worst possible time - a GOP presidential debate.
No doubt this has to be very satisfying for Perry. Perceived, probably unfairly, as a laughingstock he now has a second act while his former rival Mitt Romney is left out in the cold.
But what bothers me about Perry being in Trump's cabinet is he went from calling the President-Elect "a cancer on conservatism" to being willing to be his running mate. All of this happened in the space of 10 months. Of course, politicians will say and do about anything. Rick Perry isn't the first and he won't be the last. But I think it is fair to say that Trump was indeed a cancer on conservatism and that it quickly spread to Rick Perry and millions of other conservatives who fell for snake oil.
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