The only person who can stop Rick Perry is Rick Perry
John Ellis, who among many other things is a Republican political analyst, a blogger and a cousin to former President George W. Bush, nails the state of the GOP presidential race in a Business Insider column:
The Republican “establishment,” such as it is, is quickly coming to the realization that the 2012 GOP presidential nomination is Texas Governor Rick Perry’s to lose.
That establishment would prefer someone more electable, someone more like, say, Mitt Romney. But as Ellis points out, Romney is the guy that most Republican voters will choose only if they have no other viable choice:
“Romney’s problem is four-fold: he’s politically “fungible” (to put it politely), he’s from the wrong region of the country (New England), he’s of the wrong religion (Mormonism) and he’s too closely identified with Wall Street (Bain Capital). The Republican base would prefer to nominate a strong conservative, evangelical Christian from the Sunbelt who, at the least, shares their disdain for Wall Street’s reckless stewardship of the nation’s financial system.”
Know anybody like that?
Ellis predicts that after Labor Day, the GOP establishment will launch “a sustained negative campaign to destroy Perry with the party’s base.” We’ve already seen hints of that from Karl Rove, among others. Absent some major revelation, however, that effort isn’t likely to work. Perry’s persona and background align so closely with the desires of the GOP base that it will be very difficult to drive a wedge between them. If Perry can prove that he can perform on the national stage, the nomination is all but his and there’s nothing Romney can do about it.
And as Ellis points out, Perry will get that opportunity very quickly.
“Once Labor Day has passed, there will be five debates, in quick succession, on the GOP presidential candidates’ calendars. These will be important tests for Perry. If at the end of two or three, it’s clear that he’s every bit the equal of Mitt Romney on matters of policy and politics, then the Perry juggernaut becomes all but unstoppable. Romney’s “I’m the only electable one” argument will vanish and the party’s base will nominate one of their own. If Perry stumbles badly in the debates, Romney’s campaign gets a second wind.”
I agree wholeheartedly. The only person who can snatch the nomination out of Rick Perry’s hands is Rick Perry himself.
– Jay Bookman
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Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:19 pm
getalife
A little homophobic there, doglover.
Mick
August 30th, 2011
9:19 pm
**The unions smell of crime and thuggery. Some of them are good and get things done but most are just plain crap.**
See, it’s that kind of all encompassing rhetoric that strains your credibility. What about the good ole boy network in the south? Are you naive enough to think they didn’t have pay to play? Of course it depends on where you were or who you know. In the end its business, not personal and there are many honest players out there who have to deal with the stereotypes…
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:21 pm
Am vet I won’t defend Cheney against u
U served in the military and he didn’t and so you can say whatever you want
But I’ll stick to my position that he’s an honest hard working intelligent and ramrod strong backbone American
But have at him if u want
Kamchak
August 30th, 2011
9:21 pm
I had a little thug chew me out in The Garden for doing exactly the same thing.
Drain the Swamp told that same story.
As did Nothing is Free.
Repeating your stories under different sock-puppets.
Another of your tells, Pal.
Dusty
August 30th, 2011
9:24 pm
Well, I’m back and seems the Braves are having a little problem. They might overcome 6 to 1 but they better hurry.
As to the lil poo poo with Bosch. Read the achives again. He was talking about the care of his own family members. Dirty diaper cleanups an all. That is what I did not like because I thought it lacked respect to make that public.
He can keep on preaching. It is wrong to disgrace older people with unneeded graphic info. He did not say he did not like it. He gave us the graphics. That was way too much.
—-
This is indeed forgetable. But folks, please care enough about your old parents or grandparents to refrain from describing their personal care and hygiene. If you love them, you won’t do that.
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:26 pm
I guess that there is thuggary everywhere in labor. And there is no doubt that you have to be connected where ever you try to work, but NY is head and shjoulders above (or below) all the rest.
LA is about as bad if you are not an ASC member. I’ve had a few confrontations at the World Congress Center about needing a union guy to do this or that, but I own all my own gear so there in Georgia, I can tell them where to stick it.
Granny Godzilla
August 30th, 2011
9:26 pm
I don’t even want to think of Bill O’s falafel.
The concern is alleged retribution.
I will have to do penance for the silly partisan humor I will be engaging in.
Mea culpa. Mea Culpa. Mea Maxima Culpa.
Falafel indeed. I’m a Friday night steak girl myself.
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:28 pm
Kamchak
Well, Pal. Let’s see it.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:29 pm
Unions are what have screwed up the Atlanta budget
That and hapless (Shirley) and crooked (Campbell) politicians
r an opportunity
But it only takes one idiot pol to screw things up permanently since the greedy thugs are always there looking fo
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:31 pm
Are you libs actually enjoying a chance that someone is having marital problems? You do know that political differences should not cancel out common human decency. There’s a lot of liberals that I don’t like, but I wouldn’t wish that kind of pain on anyone.
Granny Godzilla
August 30th, 2011
9:31 pm
Dealing with end of life experiences needs to be open and forthright.
Bosch helped us through Mimi’s long illness and loss by telling the truth.
If you love your old folks, get all the help and advice you can get. Our shared common experiences make us stronger.
Mick
August 30th, 2011
9:32 pm
Talking about pay to play and the good ole boy network, rick perry career politician becomes a millionaire while his state has a 9 billion deficit hmmmmm something smells fishy in the lone star state..
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:34 pm
GLL I gotta say it’s fair game
He’s a public figure
I think we can all remember Clinton and plenty of other more recent political philandering
Some guy named wiener
getalife
August 30th, 2011
9:35 pm
Who are you to judge dusty?
You want to end their Medicare and toss them on the street.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:35 pm
Mick 9:32 I agree
Not a fan of perry at all
I think the guy is just a self promoter
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 30th, 2011
9:36 pm
Well, I hate unions because they make the rest of us that work for peanuts look dumb. Get rid of them so everybody can work for low pay. Except the big boys, of course. They got to have a few million and a golden parachute or else there’ll be real hard times.
I’m sorry to learn about my hero Bill O’Reilly at Fox News. I bet his wife never took kindly to him wanting one of his women producers to stuff a towel into his butt and pull it out. That’s women for you. They just got to hold a grudge over petty things. Somebody showed me a poem one time by a guy named Ogden Nash that kind of says it all:
Hogamus, higamus,
Man is polygamous
Higamus, hogamus
Woman’s monogamous
Anyhow, another marriage down the toilet. If they keep this stuff up these New Yorker’s will beat us Southreners in the number of divorces.
Have a good night everybody.
Granny Godzilla
August 30th, 2011
9:37 pm
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:31 pm
Are you libs actually enjoying a chance that someone is having marital problems?
yep
being a world reknowned compassionate non-conservative, i have to admit I get a kick out of watching a windbag get poked
mea culpa
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:40 pm
Unions really are thugs and just legal mobs
Granny Godzilla
August 30th, 2011
9:40 pm
Redneck Convert
I find a hot water wash and some plutonium make that towel white as snow again!
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:41 pm
Scott walker: death threats against wife and all his kids
Classy liberals
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:41 pm
Jm
I think the difference is this. The people you mentioned did the deed and we all felt sorry for the spouse, as we should. That’s some painful stuff. If O’Rielly’s wife is doing that to him, why should we enjoy watching his pain?
I Michelle was boinking a Secret Serviec agent, I just couldn’t bring myself to celebrate Obama’s pain. Just a different point of view, I guess.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:42 pm
Liberals are disgusting
@@
August 30th, 2011
9:42 pm
The galloping gossips.
There’ll probably be a lot of men who empathize with O’Reilly.
None of my business what goes on between him and his wife.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:43 pm
GLL I hear u but don’t expect libs to pull punches
Dusty
August 30th, 2011
9:43 pm
No getalife,
We expect our family to take care of love ones. They have been doing that long before someone thought up medicare.
Granny,
There is a limit described as “too much information”. Dirty diaper description is one of them.
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:43 pm
Granny Godzilla
Ann Coulter talks a lot about how heartless liberals are toward anyone who doesn’t think like them. She is almost always right.
Granny Godzilla
August 30th, 2011
9:43 pm
Shots fired at Democratic Congressmans office in Houston.
No matter who is doing the tinkling, nobody wins that contest.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
9:44 pm
Disgusting is bringing the First Lady up in your sick deflection..
Mick
August 30th, 2011
9:44 pm
**Unions really are thugs and just legal mobs**
I guess the corollary to that is:
Corporations are really greedy basturds legally protected by the payoffs to congress…
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:44 pm
Jm
Have you read Demonic? If you haven’t you need to pick it up.
Granny Godzilla
August 30th, 2011
9:44 pm
GLL
Right is correct. Correct she is not.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:44 pm
Seems to me he should ditch his wife
Probably doesn’t want to lose so much$ in the settlement
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:46 pm
Mick 9:44 some truth in that
getalife
August 30th, 2011
9:47 pm
Sure, you cons will take care of your parents after your party steals their SS and Medicare.
Toss them over a cliff.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:48 pm
Governor walker is an ok guy
Mick
August 30th, 2011
9:48 pm
**Have you read Demonic? If you haven’t you need to pick it up.**
While you’re at it, pick up the exorcist, a truly great work of fiction.
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:49 pm
Jm
“GLL I hear u but don’t expect libs to pull punches”
Hey my personal standards are nowhere near the standards of liberals. I’ll go toe to toe with anyone here and that tends to “endear me” to the likes of Kamchak, Amvet and Keep Up, but doing that and kicking someone when they are at their loest point is a totally different thing.
As I’ve said before, that Karma thing is scary.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:51 pm
Getalife as ridiculous as u r, I wouldn’t even toss u over the cliff
Much less my own relatives or the destitute
Republicans don’t want to screw the poor
They just want to rightsize the government and dial back entitle,nets cornetist who don’t need them (ie the rich)
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:51 pm
Mick
Let me guess. You haven’t read it. About a fourth of the book is detailed references. That’s what makes the book great.
@@
August 30th, 2011
9:51 pm
They don’t call it Gawker without good reasons. There are plenty of ‘em on jay’s team.
schnirt
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:52 pm
GLL haven’t read the book
Got a few others I need to get thru first
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:52 pm
Granny Godzilla
I’ll bet you haven’t read the book either.
oldguy
August 30th, 2011
9:53 pm
you need an example of Union greed? Just look at NYC this weekend. The subway system was shut down due to the flooding. The system needed to be inspected prior to reopening for business Monday. What happened? The Unions do not work on Sundays so the system could not be reopened until Monday night (union rules!). i.e. millions unable to get to work and millions of hours of work lost……..the cause? “union rules!”
Dusty
August 30th, 2011
9:53 pm
getalife,
Are taxpayers paying your health care bills? Why? You seem quite able to pay your own.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
9:54 pm
Jm,
Yeah right.
You slobber all over a party that voted to end Medicare and allow them to get their corrupt hands on that money.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:54 pm
I think jay was really PO’d when dems lost Wisconsin
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
9:55 pm
Jm
I bought a Kindle and I’m going through books like water. I’m reading Juan’s book now. I loved Enough.
Remember, when the democrats start going all out and having book burnings, you can hide a kindle.
out of the blue
August 30th, 2011
9:55 pm
jm….You can’t be serious about Cheney? He was, and is a total scumbag. In his recent book, he threw Bush, Powell, Rice and most of the rest of that administration under the bus than backed over them! He still believes water torture has a place in interrogations (Jesse Ventura; said give me a damp hankie, and I’ll have Cheney admitting to the murder of Sharon Tate)
And, I can’t wait til this monster falls over DEAD!
Mick
August 30th, 2011
9:55 pm
gll
Why would I give anything to coulter? I give to st. jude. She is an over the top joke huckster, you’ve been hustled…
@@
August 30th, 2011
9:56 pm
gawker: noun a spectator who stares stupidly without intelligent awareness
Oh my!
SCHNIRT!!!!!
getalife
August 30th, 2011
9:57 pm
dusty,
Weak deflection to me.
You cons are so predictable.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:57 pm
Out of the blue u r sick
BRW
August 30th, 2011
9:58 pm
There’s no bigger coward on this good earth than Dick Cheney. If there is a hell, he will burn there.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
9:59 pm
Blue
Glad u take Ventura seriously, that says it all
getalife
August 30th, 2011
10:00 pm
Looks like the billo story struck a con nerve.
Karma for Clinton.
Bwa.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
10:01 pm
Brw whatever
U liberals are so filled with hate u can’t think straight
Hate at your own plight, hate for others, hate hate hate
You’re brainwashed Neanderthals
RAMZAD
August 30th, 2011
10:02 pm
@Good Little Liberal:
I said nothing about racists. Racist is your state of mind leaking out through a hole in your intellectual rust bucket. You can not climb out. You can not escape. Racism is the diction
of your youth, so I will forgive you.
On the other point- If you are talking about Muslims; please remember that America has more Muslims than some Muslim countries, so be careful how you spew your disrespect.
Rick Perry’s comments about Ben Bernanke- now that was racist. I am sure you are one of the many Republicans who would like to get Jews in Texas to treat them “ugly.” Is Perry your kind of hero?
BRW
August 30th, 2011
10:03 pm
Ann Coulter…..you must be joking. I’m sure she thinks Dick Cheney is a war hero, just like she thinks 9/11 widows are wefare queens. She’s just another stick in hell’s fire.
BRW
August 30th, 2011
10:03 pm
Jm…..equals….troll….no comment…..
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 30th, 2011
10:04 pm
Well, I was going to go to bed but when I checked my e-mail I found a message from a little old lady in Nigeria that’s come across half a million bucks but can’t get it out of the bank until she comes up with a $2,500 bank fee. She says she’s willing to split it with me if I’ll just send her the money to pay the fee. Now I got to set around worrying about if I should do it.
Have a good night everybody.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
10:04 pm
Hate filled liberals
So sad.
Hate twists the mind which would explain why they’re so muddle headed
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
10:04 pm
getalife
You keep saying that Republicans voted to end medicare, but that’s a bold faced lie. Nobody gives you any credibility because of your obvious problems with emotional control and a basic lack of an ability to tell the truth, but you usually don’t tell the same lie over and over. Why do you insist on telling this lie?
oldguy
August 30th, 2011
10:05 pm
Get,
I’ll not waste my time going over (for the inth time) the real truth about my SS and Medicare ……
Repeating a lie over and over does not bring it any closer to the truth!!
JKL2
August 30th, 2011
10:05 pm
getalife- You want to end their Medicare
That’s what obamacare is for.
RAMZAD
August 30th, 2011
10:06 pm
JM, you could help your brain power if you used complete words. That text speak is indicative
of people with low motivation to learn new things.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
10:06 pm
It’s on record lil lib.
There will be commercials on that vote and you party wanting to quit on the debt like a bunch of palin.
Americans don’t quit cons.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
10:07 pm
That’s your team jay
Hating a person so much they want him to die, and want to kill his family
I think this round I’m voting for the other team
Hopefully democrats will rediscover their compass one day
@@
August 30th, 2011
10:07 pm
I’m guessing the gawkers embarrassed themselves, ergo…
the names change.
Silly gawkers.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
10:08 pm
Ramzad nice troll
Not playing. My iq is 100x yours
theyeshaveit
August 30th, 2011
10:09 pm
Dubya 2 For Me And You!
Jm
August 30th, 2011
10:09 pm
A Cooper grilling Ron Paul
Good, he is silly and nutty
Uncle Jed
August 30th, 2011
10:09 pm
HATE REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 30th, 2011
7:23 pm
a texan is the reason the country is in the mess its in!!!PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA..4 MORE YEARS!!4 MORE YEARS!!!!!!REPUBLICANS HAVE RUINED OUR GREAT COUNTRY!!!!
+++++++++++++++++++
I told you to get up to you room; drink your Kool-Aid; and finish your homework. NOW!
Jm
August 30th, 2011
10:10 pm
W2? U mean Obama?
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
10:11 pm
RAMZAD
I don’t need your forgiveness. You rant and rave saying nothing that is even close to credible or true so I would rather that someone like you stay as far away from me as possible. Any kindness on your part toward me could be construed as some sort of commonality and there is just no such thing.
I didn’t say anything about Muslims, but if you are even approaching threatening me like some third world ignorant zealot, give it your best shot. Everybody’s a big man behind a computer screen.
You know nothing about me and my continued support of Israel, but please, keep spewing your ignorance. So far you are quite the comedian.
Thulsa Doom
August 30th, 2011
10:11 pm
Cons want to end Medicare- getalife.
And the liberal sheeple regurgitate “baaaa baaaa” like the well trained sheeple that they are.
Matti's critical eye
August 30th, 2011
10:12 pm
BRW,
I don’t know that I agree with you about Cheney burning in Hell. What makes you think he’ll burn?
I mean, can you burn the Overlord of Hell? Or does he just brush the soot off afterward like the Dragon girl on Game of Thrones? Remember when somebody tried to assassinate him in Afgh.? The bomb killed 20 people, but he just walked away, chuckling, without a scratch. I remember thinking, “You can’t kill Satan! Only God can kill Satan.”
RAMZAD
August 30th, 2011
10:12 pm
It is amazing how these Republican Tea Party people speak and operate in herds. The day I meet a Republican Tea Party person who is willing to think for his/herself is the day I take these people seriously. After George W. Bush and Richard Cheney I am really challenging myself, but I can
wait to hear a Republican that has an independent thought- a thought that is not the Party dosage.
Uncle Jed
August 30th, 2011
10:12 pm
Karma for Clinton
++++++++++++++++
Her, too! Damn, how many notches does Slick Willie need to cut?
Kamchak
August 30th, 2011
10:12 pm
Ann Coulter.
Too funny.
theyeshaveit
August 30th, 2011
10:12 pm
Jm,
Nah, I mean the fun guy down in Texas who’s got the same vocabulary and the same grades apparently as the original “Dubya”.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
10:13 pm
cons should pray there is no hell.
Dusty
August 30th, 2011
10:13 pm
Well, the BRAVES lost by a slight margin!! 9 to 2 —–oh well.
getalife, answer the question. Why are you so worried about Medicare? You seem to think it is a personal tragedy and it hasn’t even been changed yet. I don’t think you are broke.
Uncle Jed
August 30th, 2011
10:14 pm
Jm
August 30th, 2011
10:09 pm
A Cooper grilling Ron Paul
Good, he is silly and nutty
++++++++++++++++++++++
Can’t prove it by me, but I’d bet 360 is gay, too.
Joe the Plutocrat
August 30th, 2011
10:14 pm
jm, say what you want about Jesse Ventura, but unlike Deferment Dick Cheney, Ventura completed UDT training and served as a SEAL during the Vietnan. I don’t know if he actually served IN Vietnam, but only because he has never discussed his specific operational role, and many SEALs and Special Ops types served all over SE Asia, without ever stepping foot in Vietnam (Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, China). I have an idea, when Cheney dies they can name GITMO after him. The Richard Cheney Enhanced Interrogation Center. for the record, I am OK with torture; just not waterboarding; because apparently, it doesn’t work.
1811/0311
August 30th, 2011
10:14 pm
If this doesn’t show even so called “moderate” Muslims want special treatment I don’t know what does …………….. stand your ground Mr. “Prosecutor” !
“In meetings with Muslims, Chakravarty is unfailingly polite and solicitous. In court, he is the tough post-Sept. 11 prosecutor, endorsing tactics that are considered routine by law enforcement officials but have infuriated many Muslims, including the use of cooperating witnesses in their community.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/seeking-cooperation-but-also-after-convictions/2011/08/19/gIQA9tmMqJ_story.html?hpid=z2
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
10:15 pm
Kamchak
Come up with anything yet or were you just lying a little more?
Haven’t you figured it out yet? Everytime you come on here lying about me, I’m going to call you on it, and so far, you have slimed away with your tail between your legs, without offering anything to back up your lies.
Count on being confronted everytime you lie about me.
Joe the Plutocrat
August 30th, 2011
10:15 pm
Dusty, it wasn’t even that close (9-2). I think the Nats got tired of hitting HRs and running ’round the bases.
JKL2
August 30th, 2011
10:15 pm
getalife- Sure, you cons will take care of your parents after your party steals their SS and Medicare.
While the party of handouts will sit around wondering who will fix their problems for them.
You don’t have to worry about the Republicans stealing anything. With the dollar trying to catch the peso in value and the Demwit spending machine running 24/7, your ghost stories won’t mean anything if the used car salesman gets re-elected.
PS: Not meant to question the integrity of honest, hard working used car salesmen(who actually work instead of vacationing and playing golf all the time).
theyeshaveit
August 30th, 2011
10:15 pm
Ramzad,
Well, there is Ron Paul (another Texan), but then where is he in the polls now? Nine percent is it?
Thulsa Doom
August 30th, 2011
10:15 pm
“Racist is your state of mind leaking out through a hole in your intellectual rust bucket. You can not climb out. You can not escape. Racism is the diction
of your youth,”
The sheeple racism card. It never do get old. And the groupthink sheeple go baaa, baaa.
getalife
August 30th, 2011
10:16 pm
dusty,
Because I don’t want to toss Seniors over the cliff like you.
I have a huge empathy gene.
Jm
August 30th, 2011
10:16 pm
Eyes
Yeah but if u can fathom he’s potentially worse
I think he may just be a self interested self promoter
Public service isn’t a notion he understands, or the public good
Libs hate it but W was more of a centrist and good guy than they want to believe, perry not so much
He’s just a crook
RAMZAD
August 30th, 2011
10:16 pm
Good Little Liberal:
True the slop in your bucket could leak out on me, so no commonality is accurate.
Forgiveness does not mean fraternization.
No threats from this end. That is just your corrupt imagination talking too loudly to
you.
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
10:16 pm
getalife
Cons don’t consistantly lie about how Congress votes about medicare.
Good Little Liberal
August 30th, 2011
10:19 pm
RAMZAD
So you are backing down. No big surprise. I read what you thought was a Muslim reference. I was talking about Bill Ayers and the church was Wright’s church, both completely true statements. Try to avoid spewing your hate at anyone who can back up what they say.
So far, you look like a clown.
Uncle Jed
August 30th, 2011
10:19 pm
if the used car salesman gets re-elected.
+++++++++++++
He laid himself off with Cash for Clunkers
Kamchak
August 30th, 2011
10:19 pm
…and so far, you have slimed away with your tail between your legs, without offering anything to back up your lies.
Shelling peas right now, swampy nowhere man.
I’ll have time enough later.
Matti's critical eye
August 30th, 2011
10:20 pm
Fresh peas! Mmmmm….
JKL2
August 30th, 2011
10:20 pm
Mick- She is an over the top joke huckster
I’ll put her 40 page bibliographies up against anything written by any left winger in the last 20 years. I normally hate to hear her talk because she says inflamatory things to sell books, but to say she isn’t extremely smart is an understatement.
Thulsa Doom
August 30th, 2011
10:21 pm
And in unison the liberal sheeple rehearse their well worn lines;
Bush’s fault baa baa, cons lie baa baa, racists baa baa, tea party crazy baa baa, palin baa, bachman baa, Perry a Christian fanatic baa baa, Muslim terrorists good baa- Christians bad baa, rich are evil baa baa, corporations bad baa baa.