Well, that’s about the best you can say.

Perry also went on Letterman last night and did a top 10 list of excuses for the brain fart in that last debate…

Number 9 was the funniest one.

He needs to just be the goofy guy who’s had success in Texas, offering up good policy and not trying to pretend he’s the next Reagan. He needs to present himself as a flawed guy who can run a great nation, in contrast to Obama who thinks he’s a perfect man who can’t run a flawed nation.

Will it work? Well, trying to be Mitt Romney sure hasn’t.