Thanks Texokie, but it is really Mr. Ellis’s analysis not mine.
Here is a link to post at Red State discussing in some detail many of the arguments (and slurs) against Perry.
Now, this is a very Pro-Perry analysis, which is to be expected since Perry announced at the Red State “Gathering”.
As an aside: I really don’t understand why that aspect didn’t get more coverage. A major candidate (because let’s face it like him or not he was always going to be a major candidate, he’s the multiple term governor of the currently most successful and always one of the largest states in America) at a blogger’s convention and pretty much nobody took note of that fact.
Anyway, it is very pro-Perry and I think it overlooks what might be the most damning charges against him which are his tendency to crony-capitalism and accusations of his living high on the hog on the taxpayer’s dime.
But it is worth reading, nevertheless, because it explains what that Bilderberger thing is and to me it refuted all those conspiratorial accusations you hear about it.
Although, I suppose if I believed in that conspiracy theory I would think it just proved it right!
Of all the arguments against Perry, the Al Gore thing to me is moot.
So, he was a Democrat, so were many republicans, including Regan. So, when he was a Democrat he was State Chair for Al Gore’s presidential campaign. To me this just demonstrates that Perry has always been a successful politician. You can’t turn back time and it is very likely that whoever wins the nom. will be a successful politician.
Evidently the last non-pol to be President was Eisenhower and I’m not sure you could really say a military career like the one Ike had wasn’t a “poltical” experience.