After committing political suicide this past week, we now hear that Rick Perry doesn't have an ambition to seek any office higher than governor.

Gov. Rick Perry has no interest in national politics and may seek re-election in 2010, his chief political consultant said Friday.

Dave Carney said speculation that recent decisions by Perry, including his mandate that middle-school girls be inoculated against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer, are designed to raise the governor's profile nationally is "one of the most retarded things about the political observers in Texas."

"He hates Washington. He doesn't like to go there," Carney continued.

Perry also isn't worried about his legacy, Carney added. The 56-year-old governor, who has served since 2001, is on track to be the longest-serving governor in Texas history.

"He's one of the few politicians in the world who doesn't care about what people write, what editorials say. That's why he's been so successful. He doesn't put his personal ego and reputation ahead of doing the right thing," Carney said.

Well, Rich Perry has done the wrong thing time and again over the last few years, and a lot of us would be happy to see him gone. If he runs for reelection in 2010, it had better be as an independent, because most of us will not support him then (and for the record, I didn't vote for him in 2006).

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