Rick Perry is not running for president in 2012

After months of dancing around the subject, Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry has finally issued a firm "no" on the question of whether he'll run for president in 2012.

"I don't want to be president of the United States. I'm not going to run for the presidency of the United States," Perry said in an interview with Reuters' Ed Stoddard and Chris Baltimore.

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