[Cringing Negativism Network]

Did Perry ... prematurely announce?

Just saying.

Fair is fair.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

LOL!

[TonyInOhio]

"has Palin waited too long'

Too long for what?

[Winstons Julia]

What? Did you prematurely cringe about something?

Should I post the cat with pancake on head?

[grey_whiskers]

Perry=Hurricane Irene.

A lot of hot air and it gives you a warm wet feeling, to the delight of the Press, before being overcome by the North.

Cheers!

[ExtremeUnction]

Did Perry ... prematurely announce?

Nope. I think he must have some pretty astute handlers who are watching this sort of thing. Yeah, little mistakes will be made, by both sides. But Perry is in to win.

[cripplecreek]

With his record, he’s going to think the campaign trail is 20 years long.

Buy Malox futures.

[doc1019]

I have just recently started to look at Perry. He is recent on the scene, no way he has “peaked”, he just go here!

[Paladin2]

No, he needs to kick Zer0’s butt up and down the street for as many months as possible.

[Kazan]

Maybe he hasn't peaked yet.

[Steel Wolf]

I’m sure Mitt is hoping so.

[citizencon]

Yup, premature ejaculation...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He peaked last week.

It's all downhill from here.

[BobL]

Of course he peaked, even the Perry supporters know that.

Yes, they would LOVE the rest of the US to have an economy as good as Texas (although it has started slipping), but Perry had next to nothing to do with it (other than being in the right place at the right time and pretty much keeping hands off (which I still give him some credit for...but that approach sure as heck will not help the rest of the country - we need to reverse things).

...and is his bizarre (and grandiose) idea of having private companies build and essentially own a network of monopoly-protected toll roads (and expensive at that...starting at 30 cents per mile, easily), coupled with the possible conversion of freeways to toll roads (it wasn’t clear if they would be private or public) bordered on insanity, as it pretty much would have locked down about 80% of people in their own communities. It was (and still is) and absolute dream to liberals that “want to get people off the road” - Perry was a gift from heaven for them.

So as people get up to speed on him, they realize, just like Huckabee, that he is FAR, FAR from being their dream candidate. Yes, Texas may be their dream state, but Perry is far from being their dream candidate.

(and believe me, I could name another dozen issues, starting with immigration, that he has been terrible on)

[waterhill]

Hey, when we hit 40, alot of us have ED issues....

[freedomfiter2]

Perry seems better than we usually get, but he has enough negatives that will eat at his initial bounce.

[Neville72]

Has Perry peaked?

Yeah right. Dumbass question of the day.

[Jim Noble]

Has Palin waited too long?

If she doesn't announce by Labor Day, I'll be very concerned.

Labor Day, 2012, that is.

[Bigtigermike]

In all seriousness, the answer is “probably” yes and here’s why: Perry comes in with a lot of hype as the “Last Great Hope” for Republicans, someone who’s allegedly is conservative enough than a Mitt Romney but broader enough to be accepted from the Party as a whole. Now mind you this is before he has debated anyone or done a one on one interview with the national press. The polls reflect such an expectation this week with him surging ahead of Mitt and Bachmann, whom the expected Primary voters are not completely sold on this early. In essence, Perry has to maintain and meet his expectations put on him. The race though is a marathon not a sprint and most of those seriously paying attention to the Primaries this early is us political junkies and the media not most primary state voters or the general public. We notice that Bachmann has started to come down to earth from the hype of the Ames straw poll and appears to be struggling for the long haul since she isn’t use to state wide or national campaign outside of her district. Perry may suffer as well just from the expected hype. Sarah Palin on the other hand has enthused core supporter but is dismissed by the media, pundits and some voters as not going very far if she enters the race, thus she has low expectations put on her and is considered an underdog but Palin’s history of success always starts as underestimated and the only one other than Romney (somewhat of Ron Paul) that has been through many months of national campaigning, the primaries or general elections. She can only go up because of her low expectations and can be the wedge to win as it’s expecting for Mitt and Perry to battle it out against each other.

[Oceander]

No. There will, of course, be some tempering of the enthusiastic response he's received so far, which will level out the rise in his polling numbers. However, he's campaigned 4 times and won each time - once as Lt. Gov., and the other three as Governor - so he is definitely an experienced campaigner and he's good at it, so I doubt if he's running a sprint rather than a marathon, to use someone else's analogy.

As far as the timing goes, now was probably one of the better times to jump in. First, by not jumping in immediately he didn't come across as, shall we say, "desperate" to get the nomination, and desperation is always a turn-off, be it in dating or in politics. Second, by waiting he allowed the field to narrow itself without him having to participate in the winnowing; he comes in more rested and with fewer minor dings on his political reputation. Third, he hasn't become just another face in the crowd, just one more name to be rattled off and passed over as one lists all of the aspiring nominees; overexposure can make it difficult to get the public to focus on what you're saying. Finally, if he'd waited much longer it would have been too late; Romney was slowly but surely becoming the inevitable nominee solely by default, and if Perry had waited much longer, Romney would have cemented that impression in most peoples' minds and Perry would have a much harder time - and a lot less time available - to overcome that appearance of inevitability. If he had waited until Romney managed to get that appearance of inevitability, the big-money donors would have started to pony up for Romney because it would have looked like he was the only viable game in town; once that happens it would most likely be very difficult to get the big-money donors to drop Romney because that would require them to admit that they had been wrong with their first choice.

No, I think Perry picked a very good time to jump in (maybe not the perfect time, but certainly better than anyone else's timing) and I don't think his ratings will end up tanking. Leveling off a bit, yes, as he gets more and more vetted some of the sparkle and shine will wear off; however, the real substance underneath that sparkle and shine could very well appeal to other voters who were initially turned off by the sparkle and shine, so the net effect on his numbers most likely wouldn't be that negative, and could very well be positive.

[BunnySlippers]

Funny, funny, funny ...