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My Good Fellow, the facts are as follows (from the article):

Dave Carney is, without question, the most important person in Perry's presidential quest outside of the candidate himself.

Carney originally had cast his lot in this year's Republican primary with Newt Gingrich

Carney's client list: Sununu, President George H.W., Sen. Bob Dole, Sen. Phil Gramm, & Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison

Carney and Rove found themselves at odds a year later...Carney insisted Perry go negative, despite Rove's insistence that negative campaigning would depress voter turnout and undercut the Bush portrait he was crafting of a “compassionate conservative.”

Carney got his way and Perry won, barely, but the Carney-Rove working relationship didn't. The estrangement has only gotten worse.

So the fight between Carney/Perry and Rove/Bush occurred not because of a conservative v. RINO split, but over campaign policy, strategy and tactics. Now that's all from the article.

Carney goes on to run a very efficient and effective campaign for Perry, albeit in a strongly GOP state. He went on to crush Bush-pet Hutchison, all well and good. But, here's the kicker:Carney never endorsed Bush during the 2000 GOP primary and 10 years later dismissed Hutchison and her Bush-family supporters as “country-club Republicans.”

Now in Illinois we've learned to watch what our politicians and their cronies do, not what they say. So in 2010 Carney publicly states that Hutchison and the Bush's are 'country-club Republicans'. What took him so long to figure it out?

Furthermore, Perry's had his RINO moments. Nothing in this article indicates that either Perry or the man closest to him aren't RINOs either, just that they don't get along with the Bush factions of the Texas RINOs. Capiche?

Please don't write me back with more dribble. Read the article again and agian, Erik. It sums up the same each time.

So the fight between Carney/Perry and Rove/Bush occurred not because of a conservative v. RINO split, but over campaign policy, strategy and tactics.

First, nobody knows what really caused the split and what is in Carney's mind. YOU are making an assumption based on a San Antonio journalist's opinion.

Second, I think the rift is deeper if Carney is calling Bush/Rove "Country-Club Republicans".....but that is my opinion.

Either way, it tells us nothing about Perry.

Now you purport that Perry has had his RINO moments. That is fine because it is nothing more than your opinion (which I agree with), but you cannot use Carney for that end.....which is the point of my original post.

Lastly, name one realistic contender who has not had a RINO moment?