Rick Perry's Un-Campaign for President

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-presidential-election/rick-perrys-un-campaign-for-president/

It’s Rick Perry versus the nincompoops. That’s not a slap at the rest of the Republican field, but at the political chatterers who just can’t or won’t believe the Texas governor when he says he doesn’t want to run for president.

Nobody believes him, which makes it easier for some to contend that he is making a grab at the highest political office in the land.

It’s not that Perry is lying. It’s that politicians so regularly lie about prospective campaigns that his actual words don’t matter. What matters is the sense of things and perception.

The governor is in a great position. His name is in the conversation, but he doesn’t have to trek to Iowa and New Hampshire and he doesn’t have to open a federal campaign account and he doesn’t have to fend off attacks from declared candidates. He’s in place if there’s a draft, but not at risk of an embarrassing loss. How can you lose a race you’re not running?

The current field of Republican presidential candidates is about as inspiring as the soup aisle at the grocery store. There’s a distinct thrill deficit here, and Republican voters are still looking for someone who does for them what Barack Obama did for Democrats in 2008.

[sonias]

1. It may be the only thing that saves us from Perry

His ego will absolutely explode from the national winger call. Please, please make it so.

I'm sure we have to gear up for digging up the Perry dirt and making sure the whole rest of the country as a whole sees his insanity. Yes he will connect with the tea bag and Reich wing base, but we can't have independents falling for his bullshit.

We especially have to pin him on his newly minted anti-Latino colors.

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