The unelectable appeal of Rick Perry

Financial Times ^ | August 21, 2011 | Clive Crook

[Cincinatus' Wife]

-QUALITY TIME -

[Keith in Iowa]

More PPDDS* bait. Oh goody.

PPDS: Perry/Palin Deification/Derangement Syndromes

[humblegunner]

You seem to be trying to make a point.

What might it be?

[o2bfree]

The liberals in the Mainstream media and the liberals on Free Republic are working overtime to defeat Perry.

They are scared silly of the Texas Governor : -)

[cranked]

We all know that the lamestream wants RomneyRINO.... =.=

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Descent into the Maelstrom (1980 New Hampshire Primary) Ronald Reagan: “How do you tell the Polish one at a cockfight? He’s the one with the duck. How do you tell the Italian? He’s the one who bets on the duck. How do you tell when the mafia is there? The duck wins.”

[Keith in Iowa]

I’d explain it to you, but you’d accuse me of blog pimping.

[Brilliant]

Almost as unelectable as Obama.

[humblegunner]

Just post it in full, I grant you immunity.

[DaxtonBrown]

Clive Crook is a Brit moron, I’ve read his claptrap before. worthless drivel.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Ziegler (the guy who did the video on Palin) has a similar article on The American Thinker.

I guess “unelectable” and “unserious” are the memes of the day for the handwringers.

Standing by for “gravitas.”

[no dems]

I wish you could have posted the entire article. You have to register and jump through hoops to read an article from Financial Times

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Arrrggh. Ishould have done more than skim the article before I posted.

Ziegle is actually trying to sell the notion that only Romney can beat Obama.

Sorry.

[Keith in Iowa]

I don’t have a blog. That was a joke...

The Pro-Palin/Perry folks will all be along to bash the Con Perry/Palin folks in one giant deranged circle-jerk firing squad. I’m tired of all the flying dung being flung about from all sides.

[The Bronze Titan]

-"“I’ll work every day to make Washington DC as inconsequential in your life as I can.”

The 'dumbing down' of the Reagan legacy.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I wish you could have posted the entire article. You have to register and jump through hoops to read an article from Financial Times

I see it won't go to the article now. [?] Try this: Google the title and then click on the 1st linked reference to it. Usually that will pull up a blocked article.

[AAABEST]

So according to the author, he's charismatic, he's done a great job running Texas, he's a brilliant politician, he's everything the GOP is looking for, therefore he'll LOSE.

Watching these people try to talk themselves out of reality (reality being Perry is an extremely formidable candidate) is, seriously, the most fun I've had in a long time.

I'm going to ping you to a post I'm fixin' to put up soon - you should get a laugh out of that one too.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Seems like most folks with a minimum understanding of the English language could understand "“I’ll work every day to make Washington DC as inconsequential in your life as I can.”

[Gena Bukin]

They are scared silly of the Texas Governor : -)

People are getting upset that Perry just might be stealing the thunder away from Palin's "Maybe I'll run. Maybe I won't. Stay tuned and find out." presidential campaign.

Pardon me if I think it might be time to throw my support behind someone who's actually running for President.

[humblegunner]

I would actually agree with you about all of that.

If I’m understanding it correctly.