Well, that could change.
Rick Perry knows how to campaign.
The press like to pick their favorite ‘safety’ candidate for the GOP nomination. Then they trash him like anything when he’s up against their first choice, which is whomever the Dems have running.
“It isn’t hard to decipher who the establishment is pushing. No stories of how Perry can’t win. No polls saying Perry shouldn’t enter. No political pundits talking down his lack of education (non Ivy League School) or questioning his qualifications. All looks good, just like the favorable press John McCain received, until the campaign for the General Election began.”
Boy, did you ever nail that. Especially no comments about how shifty Perry’s soon-to-be staff is for leaving Gingrich en masse just before the caucus process was gearing up. Money in the bank that was set up to torpedo Newt, who has been touted as the owner of the best campaign staff connections in the 2012 race. Why not have your guy go get wired into that and then dump the candidate? Not that I wouldn’t throw Newt under a bus given the chance, but I sure wouldn’t do it to go work for Slick Rick, who’s almost as demonstrably conservative as Newt is. At least Newt attempted to make government more conservative—I can’t see where Perry has ever done so without simply following others’ leads.