Marathon Pundit: Perry: They called Reagan dumb too

Ohio, IL

"Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder." Ronald Reagan, Eureka College commencement address, 1982.

Now the media "experts" are peddling Texas Governor Rick Perry as dumb too.

From CBS News:

Perry, who has surged in the polls since he announced his candidacy just over two weeks ago, shrugged off the speculation that has become fodder for cable news.

"It's kind of the same old attacks that they made on President Reagan," he said. "The better we do down here in Texas, my bet is the more they're going to attack us and that's fine. I think my record is going to stand the scrutiny of time across the country."

Perry, who made many C's and D's as a student at Texas A&M, turned the attack on the Harvard-educated Barack Obama -- whose transcripts have not been released to the public.

"What's dumb is to oversee an economy that has lost that many millions of jobs, to put unemployment numbers - over his four years will stay probably at 9 percent, to downgrade the credit of this good country, to put fiscal policies in place that were a disaster back in the '30s and try them again in the 2000s -- that's what I consider to be the definition of dumb," he charged.