"Retail Politics"

The phrase of the day on Hardball is "retail politics," and the reason that is important seems to be that Rick Perry excels at it. He is, apparently, even better at talking about pigs and college football than George W. Bush was,
a quality which is going to carry him to an easy win of the Republican nomination, and possibly even the White House itself.

So now we know what the problem with this nation is; we have a president who cannot talk with sufficient expertise about pigs and college football.