If he spun any faster, Rick Perry would turn into Wonder Woman

Perry, second from left, praying, "Oh God, please don't let me commit any more foxpaws."

The Energy Secretary is being energetic on his spinning of the *resident's campaign trip to Texas:

Perry said he was among the advisers counseling Trump to make his first visit to Corpus Christi, San Antonio or Austin, to avoid pulling resources away from search and rescue opertions. 

"He wanted to go Monday. And he really wanted to be where there were citizens being affected," Perry said. "He literally and figuratively waved the flag. The American citizens and Texans know he cares, he's paying attention."

It's an old, tried-and-true Republican trope. President Bush I- another great TelePrompTer reader- used it to great effect in the 1992 New Hampshire primary. As Maureen Dowd recalled,

Necessity being the mother of political invention, the President put aside his statesman's mien and presented himself as down-home, domestic George Bush, a candidate who understands the pain of a state that has plunged from prosperity to austerity since 1988.
"Message: I care," he told an audience at the Exeter Town Hall.