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Will Rick Perry's Extreme Views Make Him Unelectable? What
History Shows  Posted: 09/26/2011 10:20 pm  Back in the middle
of August, just after Rick Perry tossed his cowboy hat into the
ring, anonymous White House and Obama campaign aides were quoted
saying that they welcomed the Texas governor into the race
because they assumed that, given his radical positions, he would
be easier to beat. As Reuters' Eric Johnson put it at the time,
"senior activists and influential Chicagoans close to the
president say Perry's more polarizing views make him a bigger
target for the Democrat in a general election." Said a former
White House aide involved with the campaign: "I was praying
Perry would get in the race."     We know he believes evolution
is merely "a theory that is out there," and derides worries
about climate change, saying climates have "been changing ever
since the earth was formed." (When pressed on when, exactly,
that occurred, he only says that