Once upon a time, in Alternate Universe Earth, a liberal flip-flopper named Romney, who had once supported abortion, gun controls, something called Romneycare and had tried to be just as liberal as somebody called Ted Kennedy when running for Senator, decided to run for President.
An extremely liberal, some would say Marxist, President was already in office so the road to the Presidency was through a Party called the GOP whose base was very conservative.
The polling leader in the GOP nomination race was a Governor of a state called Texas who, must be admitted, was overconfident, a poor debater and had foolishly decided not to practice very much for the debates. Romney a skilled debater, decided that he would set a trap by making Murderers and Rapists an issue.
Some politicians had advocated spending Billions of dollars building a Wall around every city to keep out Murderers and Rapists. That sounded like a very impractical idea to Perry since Murderers and Rapists would simply jump over, cut through or dig under the Walls with ease. Perry said that more Police "boots on the ground" were needed to stop the Murderers and Rapists.
The day of the third debate, Romney was joined in his plan by many of the other so-called "dwarves" that did not have much of a chance. The poorly prepared Perry was a pork chop in a pit bull kennel.
All night long, the cry ran out, "Build Walls! Build Walls around every city to keep out Murderers and Rapists!"
All night long, Perry said that building Walls was a waste of money since any Murderer and Rapist faced with a 20 foot Wall could simply rent a 21 foot ladder. What was needed was more "boots on the ground".
All to no avail. Romney's plan was working.
"If Perry is against The Walls, then Perry is FOR Murderers and Rapists!"
Then came the clincher: In Alternate Universe Texas, the children of convicted Rapists and even Murderers on Death Row paid in-state tuition rates if those children had grown up in Texas during their high school years. (That is even true on our own Earth.) Alternate Universe Texas did not believe in punishing innocent children for the Sins of the Father. The conservative Texas Legislature had even voted 98%, 177 to 4, to keep things that way.
But, Romney pushed his point during the debate: If Perry agrees with 98% of the conservative Texas Legislature that the sons and daughters of Rapists and Murderers who grew up in Texas during their high school years should be charged in-state tuition rates, then Perry was FOR Rapists and Murderers.
At one point, the poorly prepared Perry (his mother warned him that he should have practiced for the debates) was so frustrated that he blurted out, "If you say that we should not educate children who have grown up our state for no other reason than what their fathers did by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart."
The next morning, the headlines read: "Perry says that those who oppose Murderers and Rapists have no heart."
The plan worked.
Perry was attacked on all sides and his polls sank while Romney soared to the top of the polls in the GOP nomination race.
Then, in January 2013, a man was sworn in as President of a country called the United States. At best, that man was liberal Romney and, at worst, that man was a Marxist named Obama.
Which of the two men became President?
That is another story. This story only deals with how a liberal called Romney played conservatives like a cheap fiddle.