managers. corey, let me that is something to tell 25% of the american people who are unemployed and underemployed and opt out of being productive members of the economy. the president s strongest advantage, any incumbent s strongest advantage is early. the challenger has room to grow there is clearly a big opportunity here for whichever republican, there is time, to take advantage of the fact that the president inherited i will grant you this a weak economy. he made it worse. he can t begin to make the claim he made it better because indicators themselves don t show it. eric: talk about one point. you talk about 15 months of job creation. a third of the jobs, 36.7% in texas. rick perry, a potential candidate. he did well in the straw perry. what do you think of rick perry, governor of texas pork tenially jumping in the race?