[cripplecreek]

Personally I don’t know why Perry would waste his time in Mackinaw. That’s a Romney crowd at a genetic level.

[nhwingut]

And it will soon be over for Mittens too...

[MestaMachine]

I think they are BOTH toast. Burned to a crisp...by themselves.

[BarnacleCenturion]

Perry is toast but others will rise to replace him.

This is not over.

[hershey]

Every time Perry opens his mouth you have to wonder if he’s going to sound drunk or delusional. Not a good thing, especially when CNN et al have the goods on his lie about Gardisal and exactly when he was lobbied by the woman who eventually died. (Perry says ‘What, you think I can be bribed with a mere 5 grand?’ And anyone listening thinks, well, maybe you really needed the money. )The MSM discusses this with barely controlled satisfaction. ‘Can you trust him, he lied about this...what else is he lying about?’

I don’t see how he can recover.

[Erik Latranyi]

Meet the man who won by more than both Romney and Perry COMBINED!!!!!

[leprechaun9]

Mitts own words:

“I just don’t think .... ,” the former Massachusetts governor said.

[raccoonradio]

Milquetoast v Texas Toast?

[Diogenesis]

Is Team Romney already Ramping 'Dirty Tricks', again.

2011:

“As it became increasingly clear that Perry was
faltering, a prominent Perry supporter, state Rep.
Matt Gaetz, claimed in a Twitter post that
Romney’s campaign had been encouraging its
backers to vote for Cain. A competing rumor,
hours earlier, had the Romney camp secretly
supporting Ron Paul.“ [post 193]

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Romney Ramps up Romney Dirty Tricks

2008:

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

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"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

[blueunicorn6]

Gosh it’s good to see the Democrats fighting with each other. 40% of the voters in this country believe that they can control the Democrat party and use them to take money from the other 60% of the voters. All they have to do is have the Republicans fight among themselves. Dear Republican candidates; run on your record. If your record isn’t so good, tell people you’ve changed. Quit pointing out the splinter in the other candidate’s eye when you’ve got a log sticking out of your own eye.

[Bedford Forrest]

Let's see, Herman Cain beats The Willard like a rented mule and does the Willard respond directly? No, because he is so far up the Romney/ObamaCare tree he can't climb down. But Herman Cain, God bless him, showed once for all that The Willard can't get the nomination. Moreover, even if the Rino wing, in its death throes, somehow manages to force The Willard's nomination, they will have re-elected the undocumented chimpanzee and doomed the country club wing of the Republican party - umm - no great loss.

And all Real Americans must now pray that Sarah Palin and Herman Cain are working from the same page.

[Darkwolf377]

You know what this article reminds me of? One day back in 2004 I walked by a local lib weekly with the cover story “How Kerry Can Still Win the Nomination,” and I laughed at how clueless that paper was. Everyone, and I mean everyone, knew there was no way Kerry would be the Dem nominee.

[mo]

The same minds that made the problems we face..are not capable of the solutions. That tosses out the two putative “front runners” right there. That’s called a dose of reality.

What other minds may rise to the top? That’s what the 2012 Republican Primary season is about. So far of all the runners...as far as I can tell, Cain is the freshest mind out there.

[Anti-Bubba182]

If Perry does not improve radically in the next debate he is toast.

[Antoninus]

Hey Mitty--you looked pretty weak there in Florida yourself.

If you get the GOP nod, there will be a conservative third party contender in November 2012. And I will vote for that candidate.

[FrankR]

[shield]

Stating Perry's demise is a bit too soon...

Rick Perry won the Wakulla Republican Club’s straw poll, held on its website on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

The votes were:

Rick Perry – 42.86%
Mitt Romney - 28.57 %
Herman Cain – 19.05%
Jon Huntsman – 9.52%

The remaining candidates – Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum received no votes.

Gordon McCleary, the Wakulla Republican Club’s President said, “It will be interesting to see how this vote matches up with Presidency 5. Wakulla mirrors the makeup of the Sunshine State so I believe the results are representative of Republicans as a whole.”

[kenmcg]

The “Fat Man”.....is he busting out of the closet??? Where’s Sarah?????.....she’s been quiet lately.