Shorter Rick Perry: “I never actually used the word ‘secede’.”
Fine, whatever. The judge grants your motion to dismiss on the technicality. But we all know that you’ve raised your national profile while gaining ground in the polls, because the voters you’ve been so assiduously courting like the secession talk just fine, whether you’ve been doing it explicitly or just making with the winks and the nudges. It’s been more than a month since the teabagging parties, at which the Governor didn’t quite say the word “secession” while addressing a crowd that clearly loved the idea, and he’s just now writing a letter to the editor to set the record straight? That’s some kind of decisive action right there.