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Although I agree with Perry on just about everything, I think he is a loose cannon who has provided Axelrod and Plouffe more than enough ammo to sink his campaign.....

Karl Rove ran Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's 2010 primary challenge against Gov. Rick Perry and lost.

Axerold ran John Sharp's 1998 Lt. Gov. race against Rick Perry (at the same time Karl Rove was running GW Bush's re-election for Texas Gov race and telling Perry to go easy against Sharp -- (Perry refused to take Rove's suggestion) -- so Bush's base would broaden for his 2000 WH run).

John Sharp (Axelrod) lost to Rick Perry and Perry became the first Republican Lt. Governor of Texas since Reconstruction.

If Perry had done things the way Rove requested, Perry knew that the Democrat voters would vote for Bush then cross back to vote for the popular Democrat, John Sharp for Lt. Gov.

In effect, Rick Perry was running a campaign against Rove and Axelrod at the same time.

And Perry won.

After 11 years with Gov. Rick Perry at the helm, Texas Republicans hold a super majority.

Rick Perry's fight back in 1998 - his understanding of how to win, has had much to do with how Texas is faring today....and how the country will fare under a President Perry.

BTW, John Sharp and Rick Perry are friends. Recently, Gov. Rick Perry gave an approving nod to John Sharp's nomination as Chancellor of Texas A&M (where they first started out together -- Rick Perry ran John Sharp's campaign for student body president and Sharp ran Perry's campaign for Yell Leader (they both won)

John Sharp:"When you're running against Perry, you better bring your lunch.

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Rick Perry started as a Democrat in West Texas (essentially THE only party). He served in the Texas legislature - was known as one of the "pit bulls," conservative members who sat in the lower pit of the House Appropriations Committee and bitterly fought spending increases.

Perry changed parties in 1989, joining Phil Gramm and other conservative Texas Democrats, who now had a true ideological party with a burgeoning Texas GOP.

When Perry campaigned for Lt. Gov. [1998], he and his campaign staff were in it to win and his hard-nosed style was against the "friendly" advice and request of GWB [in re-election bid for Texas Gov] and Rove to run easy against Sharp, a popular democrat (and Aggie friend of Perry's from their A&M years together). Rove wanted to broaden Bush's base for his upcoming White House run. Perry told them where to stick their advice, because he knew the voters would vote for Bush for Gov. and then cross back over and vote for Sharp (D) for Lt. Gov, if he just walked through the motions like the Bush-Rove team asked him to do.

Perry won the seat for Lt. Gov. -- the first Republican elected to that office since Reconstruction. Now 13 years later and into his 3rd term as Texas governor, the GOP holds a super majority. So Perry has earned his conservative spurs -- fighting both parties!

[The Bushes and Rove supported Kay Bailey Hutchison's primary challenge against Gov. Perry in the 2010 election too]

Perry plays well in Texas. No one knows how well will do outside of that state.

No matter what we here on this website happen to think of Social Security and Medicare, both of those entitlement programs remain ENORMOUSLY popular with the public in general. Most people feel they’ve worked and paid into the system most of their lives and they are entitled to collect back from it.

I think the GOP nominee would be better served going after Obamacare.

The only way BHO can win is to destroy his opponent and raising huge doubts. The things Perry has said about Social Security give plenty of ammo to the Dems. Senior citizens are the fastest growing segment of the population and the highest propensity voters.