And btw, perry is not my candidate. He’s just a candidate who could beat Romney, who shot to the top of the polls, who was blessed by Sarah Palin as being conservative, and who seemed to bring together all the parts of our party, which would help us beat Obama.
So I had some hope he would solve the problem that Sarah Palin wasn’t solving because she wasn’t entering the race.
I guess he still could, but he is going to have to learn how to handle a debate. He clearly is not used to being attacked from the right. Maybe his back problems are making it hard for him to concentrate — not that this would be a good excuse, because as President he’s going to have to be in the game, back or no back.
It’s just weird because I watch his speeches and he’s a decent communicator, I watched his town hall meeting and he took questions and answered them in excellent fashion.
I just think he sucks at debating people in sound bites. And clearly he has no idea how to pick sound bites — most of his “sound bites” end up killing him. He’s not a sound bite person, he needs full paragraphs to explain what he means.
But even if I never support him, I think your argument about mandates is silly, and doesn’t actually match a conservative position on the subject in general.
Essentially what you are saying is that Perry isn’t ready for prime time. His national stage presence is not the same as his Texas stage presence where he appears invincible. If he can’t hack it, it’s on him. No one was more anticipated than rick perry...except maybe Sarah. he had everything in his favor. he blew it and no one else.