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There were a lot of interesting speeches and political talk coming out of this year’s Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans this past weekend, but the one everyone seems to keep mentioning is Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

The Lone Star State chief executive proved he knows a thing or two about states’ rights, the 10th Amendment and the confiscatory nature of the federal government. The Tea Party faithful will like that. Yet the governor has also shown that he can execute. During some lean years around the country, when unemployment hovers in the high 9s, Texas posted a May unemployment rate of a steady 8 percent. Prior to the Great Recession, Texas counted itself as one of the strongest job creators in the private sector, many of whose leading lights laid the credit at Perry’s feet.

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