Right now because he isn’t Romney or Huntsman and Palin hasn’t declared (or withdrawn).
I guess Jack was too busy choking chickens to see Perry’s announcement speech and follow up addresses where he has repeatedly laid out his plan for economic recovery.
Perry has jumped to the top of the GOP polls for the same reason he has jumped to the top of the liberal media wrath, he can win.
I think it’d a hard sell to say that the sitting Govenor of the third largest population State “came out of nowhere”. I also think it’s way over the top to say he is the Republicans’ new “messiah”.
But Jack Cafferty is all about trying to influence people to worship his own messiah, President Obama.
Idol worship.
Corporate funding.
That’s easy: After watching the press rape candidate after candidate, there are some in the GOP who think maybe this will be the guy the press allows to win the nomination.
Talks as plain and tough as Trump,
holds major elective executive office as an R.
The media needs to STOP using the word *messiah* in describing ANY candidate. Period. It is blasphemous and vulgar.
Because he makes a mean glass of Kool-Aid?
Because he actually had the balls to jump in.
I don’t know if he is a “darling” but he is the only Republican candidate that at least appears competent hence interesting, hence electable! Time will tell.
I don't think the left really minds if Perry is the Republican nominee. By some polling, the majority of Americans still blame Bush for the economy (If you say, "I inherited it" enough times people will start to believe you. So the electorate may not be in the mood for another plain-spoken Texas governor, especially after the media makes the cowboy label stick.
Being painted as Bush 2.0 could be Perry's downfall.
In this case "rich" is probably defined as having a job good enough to be able to pay taxes (or to be able to get back to working if they've lost their job).
[ (How Conservative) X (yrs. as top exec owning consequences) ]
- [(number of mistakes) X (magnitude of mistakes)]
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Popularity with GOP Electorate
[( Popularity with GOP Electorate) X (% eager to vote for GOP)]
+ [(% non-GOP but hating DEM) X (% eager for effective exec)]
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% of poplar vote
Perry isn't the most conservative, and he has made mistakes, but that ten years in office while Texas has doing better than liberal states makes him hard to beat.
He's state-run media's dream candidate.
ABP.
Anybody but Palin.
Which is exactly why she must be the candidate.
Hmmm... say Perry is elected and it’s March, 2013.
I wonder about some purely hypothetical questions...
Would he sign a deal to increase the debt ceiling another $2 trillion in exchange for $2 trillion in reductions to planned increases in spending over the next 10 years ? Sure.
Would he be ok with a “quantitative easing” program by the Federal Reserve ? Sure.
Would he go for an increase in Federal aid to the States to be used for “education” ? Sure.
Would he be sign a law requiring all American schoolchildren to be required to get a new vaccine to “protect” them from STDs ? Sure.
Would he sign a compromise bill that required more stringent Federal gun ownership laws in exchange for tougher penalties for illegal aliens ? Maybe.
Not that any of these questions will come up in the way I describe them.
IMHO, his record doesn’t show that he’s uncompromising. IMHO, compromise with the left and with the islamic invasion is leading us towards real ugly consequences, which makes me more comfortable with someone the Republican machine is not comfortable with but who is also pro-small business, pro-Christian, pro-Israel, pro-life, etc. Perry seems to be too politically smooth; makes me think he’s going to compromise us farther down the hole we’re in.
I think Perry has jumped to the talk due to the fact he's talking about the economy and he has the presence of a leader
I'm ambivalent towards him at the moment and think I would have an easier time voting for him than I did for McLame.
I also think he scores well with the ladies for obvious reasons. Call it the Clinton factor.
This column can be summarized as: Perry is a stupid, Bush-like cowboy. Someone—anyone—please help me understand why so many people like him.
Jack gets paid to write this crap.
There’s just one word’s difference between Mr. Right and Mr. Right Now...but what a difference.
It’s the TpCaucus that’ll make the difference in the republican primary’s.. for president..
The TPC is for Bachmann NOT Perry/Romney..