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Washington Texas Gov. Rick Perry took back a tweet on Sunday. Why did he bother?

We ask that because the disparaging tweet at issue kind of sums up his political strategy for the moment.

First, the background: On Sunday night Governor Perrys verified Twitter account posted an image of Rosemary Lehmberg, the Democratic prosecutor at the heart of Perrys recent indictment on charges of public corruption.

The (doctored) image of Ms. Lehmberg was unflattering. I dont always drive drunk at 3X the legal alcohol limit ... but when I do, I indict Gov. Perry for calling me out about it. I am the most drunk Democrat in Texas.

As Chris Cillizza notes at The Fix, this was a Twitter oops.

The tweet did not represent an accurate account of the indictment. Lehmberg did indeed drive while very inebriated, and was arrested, convicted, and served time for it. Perry publicly demanded she resign from the Public Integrity Unit in Travis County, Texas, which investigates corruption among Texas politicians statewide.

She refused to resign, in part because Perry could have appointed a Republican in her place. In turn, Perry said hed veto funding for her unit is she did not step down. She did not, he vetoed the money, and there we are. A special prosecutor appointed by a Republican judge concluded that the Perrys threat was an illegal coercion of a public official, and brought the case.

Anyway, after the mock photo of Lehmberg went into the twittersphere under Perrys name, he apparently thought better of it. Or most likely, he saw it after an underling had already put it out. So he ordered it deleted.

A tweet just went out from my account that was unauthorized. I do not condone the tweet and I have taken it down, read a followup tweet.

Perry must have decided that inserting Lehmberg into a photo with a beer bottle was too harsh. But is it really worse than the mug shot T-shirts Perrys campaign is selling?

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