Advice to the out of staters writing about Gov. Perry

Paul Burka of Texas Monthly has eight points for those looking for a background story on Gov. Perry.  I think he is mostly right.  I have known Paul Burka since we worked on the Daily Texan in the mid sixties.  He was in law school and decided he would rather be a writer.  I was a journalism undergraduate student who wound up going to law school and becoming a corporate lawyer.

I would add a work or two about his last point that Perry is lucky.  It has been my experience that smart people are more lucky than the not so smart.  When racing sailboats, the best sailors were always "lucky" enough to get inside a wind shift that gave them a major advantage.  The same is true of business and politics.  Perry has a knack for being ahead of others which is why he was on the right side of the Tea Party before any other major politician.  He also has a knack for taking an opponents strengths and turning it against them.

Some out of state writers have already started suggesting that Perry is lucky to be Governor of a state with a strong energy business, but Obama's bad luck has been caused by his opposition to the energy business in the Gulf and elsewhere.  Expect Perry to take note of that.

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