Have to add the latest stupid thing Rick Perry did this last week- mispresented Abraham Lincoln. Of ALL the things for Secessionist Rick to get wrong, this takes the cake. Politico

Here's Rick Perry

In footage released by American Bridge, the progressive super PAC that seems always to know in advance when a Republican candidate is about to trip over himself, Perry told the party faithful that “Abraham Lincoln read the Constitution, and he also read the Bill of Rights, and he got down to the Tenth Amendment, and he liked it. That Tenth Amendment that talks about these states, these laboratories of democracy. … The Tenth Amendment that the federal government is limited, its powers are limited by the Constitution.”

Er...
 

BUT Lincoln was the one that expanded the power of the federal government.

As president, Lincoln vastly expanded the federal government’s role. In part, he did so out of necessity. When he imprisoned Maryland state legislators on the eve of a potential secession vote and suspended the writ of habeas corpus throughout parts of the Midwest, he did so in the firm belief that such measures were necessary in preserving the Union. When he signed the most sweeping tax bill in American history, sanctioned the creation of national paper currency and issued unprecedented amounts of federal debt, he did so of strict necessity. When Democratic majorities in the Indiana legislature refused to fund their state government, Lincoln diverted federal money to Republican Gov. Oliver Morton, thus keeping the state afloat and ensuring its ability to continue raising troops. When he signed and enforced two Confiscation Acts and the Emancipation Proclamation, which together expropriated trillions of dollars (in present-day money) of land and slave “property” (even as Lincoln insisted that the southern states remained in the Union), he did so as a war measure.

But in many ways unrelated to wartime exigencies, Lincoln furthered his Whig dream of a stronger federal government. Lincoln signed into law landmark bills opening federal land to homesteaders and funding the construction of a cross-continental railroad and federal land-grant universities. Historians disagree whether the Civil War era catalyzed the emergence of the modern state, but few disagree that Lincoln broadly (if perhaps temporarily) expanded the purview of Washington, D.C.

Well, nobody said Rick Perry is smart. Texans know this, and, heck, after Perry ran 4 years ago, doesn't EVERYONE????