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No one serves up red meat quite like Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

TX. GOV. RICK PERRY: “Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history, is almost treacherous treasonous in my opinion.” (THINK PROGRESS VIDEO)

PERRY: “The issue of global warming has been politicized. I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data.” (CBS VIDEO)

But is the GOP’s newest 2012 contender -- too extreme to win? It seems -- even a few fellow Republican candidates think so.

On ABC’s “This Week” -- former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman took aim at Perry’s suggestion global warming is a hoax.

HUNTSMAN: "When we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists have said, what the National Academy of Science has said about what is causing climate change and man's contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing position."

So -- too fringe? San Antonio Express News’ Scott Stroud says -- definitely.  

“His campaign strategy, as best I understand it, is to open up roughly one can of crazy per day. … If Republican voters want to win in 2012, they'll channel their anger ... toward Obama's presidency and finding a candidate who can actually beat him. And if Perry keeps going at the current pace, he'll disqualify himself from higher office permanently by Labor Day.”

But a Rasmussen poll of likely Republican voters gives Perry a double-digit lead over his rivals.

Financial Times’ Clive Crook argues -- Perry’s exactly what the GOP base is looking for. Still -- he’ll have to win over independents. And that -- Crook writes...

“...will be hard. I doubt he can do it. Arresting as the parallel may seem, Mr Perry cannot be Ronald Reagan to Mr Obama’s Jimmy Carter.”
 

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