Perry is pulling into First!

The Iowa Straw Poll is barely over and we still have several months before the primary season really kicks off, but it looks like Rick Perry is already taking a commanding lead in the race for the Republican nomination.  He has already firmly overtaken Michele Bachmann, and in several polls he has overtaken the frontrunner Mitt Romney.  Just to stipulate, the primaries havent even begun yet and there is a lot of time between now and then.  Anything could happen.  Thats why we have a primary season; to weed out and vet a candidate before a national audience.  This is how we see if that candidate can stand up to that level of scrutiny and attention.  But at this point, it really looks like things are running in Rick's direction.   I wouldn't be suprised next year at this time to see a ticket of Rick Perry and Marco Rubio soundly kicking Obama's butt.