I'm sure James C. Moore would like to forget it, but here's his horrifying prediction of last summer, in "Why Rick Perry is headed to the White House":
America is beginning the process of electing another Texan to be president....
His Saturday speech in South Carolina will make clear that he is entering the race for the White House and will spawn the ugliest and most expensive presidential race in U.S. history, and he will win.
Some on the left went into apoplectic despair at this silliness, straight from the respected co-author of Bush's Brain. Yet Moore had only demonstrated two proofs: 1) political predictions, especially more than a year out, are usually worthless, and 2) predictors who get too close to their observed subjects begin seeing the latter through a distorted lens.
Moore laid on his geopolitical, Tex-centric distortion -- hubristically thick:
The big brains gathered east of the Hudson and Potomac Rivers believe that Mitt Romney is the candidate to beat. But they are unable to hear what Rick Perry is saying.
Oh, they heard Perry all right. Boy, did they hear him. And now, we've all heard the last of him.