I really wasn’t talking about the finer points of Perry per se. Just a general axiom that seems to fit most Republican contenders.
It sure seems like the Dems weaponizes stupid alright. I’ll definitely agree there. But it really comes down to the base bing willing to overlook all the obvious warning signs just to ‘win’.
Once they ‘win’ as our fellow poster above is rooting for, they revert to form until the next election when they become the staunchest conservative to ever hoist a musket at a pep rally.
The base, fearing a loss and susceptible to the age old lie that the Dem is worse (despite their guy voting with the dems on all the things that matter), forgets all the damage they did during their term and reelects their problem,
Rinse/repeat.
In short, we do it to ourselves. The GOP is smart enough to take advantage of it.