Perry has been such a disappointment. If he didn’t shoot himself in the foot multiple times, he’d be cruising to the nomination right now. I was very excited about his candidacy when he jumped in and gave him the benefit of the doubt when he made his first couple of gaffes, but then he kept making them over and over and over. I guess I’m still relucantly for him — he’s the only one with a national organizaton other than Mitt; Gingrich and Cain don’t have one — but it appears his traction is gone and a lot of people have written him off.
Think back to the first couple of debates where he really stumbled. He was in campaign mode, introducing himself to America and he got gobsmacked right upside the head at that first debate...second one too. It was Rick Perry vs the modrators and all the other candidates in those first coupole of debates. And Santorum and Bachmann were vicious and not overly concerned with the truth, fairness or decency. Obama and Romney were never criticized it was an all out frontal attack on Perry. No wonder he stumbled and came off unbalanced. But in all fairness you have to say he’s done MUCH better of late and he’s an awesome retail politicker.