On the Rick Perry version of NPR's "Wait, wait ... don't tell me" :)

Like I do on most afternoons, I was listening to NPR during my drive back and was laughing away when I heard the following in the report on Rick Perry and his brain freeze:

It's rare that somebody actually gets worse every debate. Normally, they start bad and get better. He's kind of a trailblazer in that regard
watching the Texas governor tackle a complex policy question was like watching a chimp with a locked suitcase.
I can't imagine a worse debate night than he had last night, short of grabbing the microphone and beating somebody to death.

These were not comments from a Democratic operative or from comedians.  Nope. "Mike Murphy is a Republican political consultant"