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Did Rick Perry's new tax plan include a provision about the president's birth certificate and his college grades? Actually not, I assume, but Perry's bungling of his tax announcement made him look like a buffoon and illustrates the crisis of conservatives in the 2012 campaign. Only Ron Paul is a serious conservative with serious ideas. Trump, Gingrich, Perry, and Herman ("I was pro-choice on Friday and pro-life on Saturday") Cain look like revolving-door class clowns.

It is torture time for conservatives in the presidential campaign. They do not have one serious candidate on the conservative side except for Paul, whom the rest of them, in truth, have contempt for and find threatening.

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