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I like Perry as the candidate most likely to tear down the welfare state. Or make a good attempt at it. However, I shuddered when I read his comments attacking Romney about Bain capital. Gingrich backpedaled after his attack on Romney concerning Bain. I don’t know if Perry has. Lowered him in my estimation.

Gov. Perry is the JOBS candidate. He's 100% Capitalism. He's been pealing government regulations off free enterprise and installing tort reform -- stopping over-litigation on businesses. He's fought against the EPA dictates that Romney has embraced. He's fought the intrusion on our freedoms that Romney has signed into law. Perry should have something to say about what Romney has done - Obama sure will. And it is extremely telling that Romney refuses to release his tax returns.

January 14, 2012: Jobs, jobs, jobs lure Perry backer

10/25/11 Perry calls on Romney to release tax returns

12/22/11 Romney says he won’t release tax returns

1/11/12 Palin urges Romney to Release Tax Returns, Provide Proof he Created 100,000 Jobs at Bain Capital

I shuddered when I read his comments attacking Romney about Bain capital.

Actually, Perry's comments were fair game, and so is Romney's involvement in Bain. If Romney has a good answer, let him bring it.

Is Bain a venture-capital firm bursting with turnaround expertise ..... or are they a vulture fund, asset-strippers and economic termites who cheat creditors and retirees of their due, and shareholders of their equity?

It's a fair question. I don't know what the answer is, but I think Rush, Hannity, and other conservatives who attacked Perry for raising the charge on largely top-down theoretical grounds ("we DO NOT as Republican conservatives EVER EVER EVER criticize anything businessmen do to put money in their pockets" seemed to be what Hannity was saying) is a huge strategic error. You cannot win at politics, defending maggots like Michael Milken, Boone Pickens, Ken Lay, and other access-capitalists, greenmailers, and asset-stripping, self-dealing chiselers.