Dur­ing Tues­day’s de­bate frenzy, the cam­paign of Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas — one of the front-run­ners for the 2012 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion’s re­pub­li­can ticket — de­cided to do a lit­tle frat hop­ping to pro­mote the gov­er­nor. While he didn’t com­plete a cir­cuit dur­ing his stay at Dart­mouth, Perry’s 28-year-old son Grif­fin did make a pit stop at Sigma Alpha Ep­silon fra­ter­nity on Tues­day af­ter­noon at a ca­sual mixer to dis­cuss pol­i­tics and his fa­ther’s cam­paign. “It’s al­ways nice to see girls at a frat house dur­ing the day,” Grif­fin quipped dur­ing his in­tro­duc­tion. The Texan gov­er­nor’s son de­liv­ered a brief pre­sen­ta­tion very catered to his col­lege au­di­ence, prais­ing the stu­dents in at­ten­dance for their in­volve­ment in the po­lit­i­cal process. “That means you’re think­ing about your fu­ture,” he said. Re­gard­ing his fa­ther’s cam­paign plat­form, Grif­fin Perry said his fa­ther is not a be­liever in gov­ern­ment-cre­ated jobs, but that en­tre­pre­neurs can help cre­ate jobs as a so­lu­tion to the na­tional issue of un­em­ploy­ment. He added, how­ever, he could not “go into the full de­tail today.” In re­sponse to a stu­dent’s ques­tion about the spe­cific is­sues with which Perry’s com­pe­ti­tion must con­tend dur­ing the de­bate, Grif­fin Perry sug­gested that for­mer Gov. Mitt Rom­ney, R-Mass.,… Read more »