Will Perry face Texas fatigue or Obama fatigue

Houston Chronicle:

As Rick Perry decides whether to seek the presidency in 2012, one of the challenges his nascent campaign faces is to define the relationship between himself and the other Texas Republican who dominated the U.S. political stage for the first decade of the 21st century.

The potential problem for Perry is not their shared West Texas roots. It's the Bush baggage.
Bush left office as the least popular president since Richard Nixon resigned, polling showed. The economy was in its steepest collapse since the Great Depression. And most Americans had grown tired of the nation's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the latter the longest conflict in U.S. history.

While Perry is well-known in Texas, where his 10-year record as governor stands on its own, he will have to define himself before voters can decide whether Bush's former lieutenant governor is a chip off the Bush block or his own man.

"I don't know him well enough," said Ovide Lamontagne, a prominent New Hampshire conservative and former Republican gubernatorial nominee. "It will depend on how he presents himself. Until he gets here, it will be difficult to know."

That presentation could prove pivotal to the launch of Perry's possible presidential campaign.
"It's hard to shake loose of these things once they take hold," said Chris Edelson, a government professor at American University. "People hear these things over and over, and if you're pigeonholed in these sorts of things, it's distracting."

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The Democrats might like to think they are running against Bush again, but that would be a huge mistake on their part. As Governor, their records are very different, particularly on spending where Perry has become a Tea Party star. There is also the Obama fatigue problem. Regardless of how the debt ceiling discussions work out in the coming weeks, Obama's big spending ways and his health care fiasco have destroyed the countries credit rating and the rationed health care plan is despised by over half the population. Perry, is a master of taking issues like that and putting his opponent on the defensive. He will have many other issues to hammer Obama on too.

I think voters will be suffering more Obama fatigue than Texas fatigue. If I were working on the Perry campaign that would be one of my primary focuses. Put Obama on the defensive early and often.

I also suspect that after four years of Obama, many people like me are missing Bush.