I think Perry is a HUGE threat to the Democrats!! Not ONE good word for him from them like Christie and the others get......they DESPISE him which is good enough for me!!
Explain why Axelrod said anything at all.
Based on the theory that he said something because he’s concluded Perry isn’t viable for 2016, why would he bother? Better to ignore it like Perry didn’t even exist.
Otherwise we are supposed to make Axelrod our weather vane for GOP political candidates’ viability?
I don’t care whether Axelrod thinks Perry is viable or not viable for 2016. I take absolutely nothing from his odd yappings - one way or the other.
If he is signaling something about Perry it’s irrelevant.
If he’s just yapping to be yapping, who cares?
It could just be simply that the local TX Democrats over-reached badly, and Axelrod wants to keep the national level clear of this one.
Contrasting to the DeLay indictment: the fact is that there was enough going on to make things look bad for DeLay, even if none of it was illegal, it certainly looked to an outsider like secretive and shady dealings. If he was cleared (as he eventually was), you could shrug it off on a technicality.
The Perry indictment, however, makes Swiss cheese look like the model of structural integrity. Perry was very public about what he was doing and why he was doing it. He also has complete legal authority as governor to use the line item veto for any reason whatsoever. Furthermore, Perry’s action was popular. The legal gymnastics the prosecutor has to go through to get this indictment in the first place will get the whole thing dismissed in near record time. If anything, the prosecutor himself might face charges of abuse of office and malicious prosecution.
No, I think Axelrod just wants to be as far away from this train wreck as possible. No ulterior motives are needed beyond that.
I don't know, just my two cents worth, I wish Shakespeare would have added political consultants to his statement about lawyers.
Yes,that's one plausible explanation.But another equally plausible one is that he recognizes that the Rat Party is at least as vulnerable,if not more,to such underhanded tactics.He might even have one or two specific fellow travelers in mind regarding that vulnerability.
(For those who are old enough to remember, the Rathergate debacle started more or less here in Travis County.)
Or he thinks that Texas Democrats from places like Travis County are so around-the-bend bat-dung looney they can only do harm at a broader level.
Unless he was demonstrably trying to scrap the ethics unit for other than his stated reason, Perry indictment seems pretty sketchy. — David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) August 16, 2014
Axelrod showed his hand with a soft implication in that tweet. This indictment is more about Texas Dems attacking Greg Abbot than bringing down Perry. Abortion Barbie has already attacked Abbot back in May over the PIU investigation and claims of his negligence in oversight with regards to the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). The DA affair involving Perry witholding funding of the PIU is merely the opening shot of Austin lefty mud slinging. Anyone who thinks Axelrod is defending Perry on this is smoking commo wire. This is classic leftist rope a dope tactics and Abbot is the main target.